Quote - " … Saund defined a credible business model and a strategy to execute it … successfully collecting top endorsements, leveraging relationships with carriers, signing our first customer and expanding the pipeline … Saund has the versatility and talent to lead a team in adapting to market conditions for a company reaching first revenues, entering a new market segment, or in need of turnaround."
Tom Rice, Chairman, ActiveSky Inc.

Wireless * Networks
Advanced wireless video software: Fox Sports on Verizon Last-mile, fixed wireless rural telcos.
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Internet & Media
CyberCash as category leader in electronic funds for banking, internet and media industries
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Enterprise Software
Enterprise content software deployed by Wall Street & media industries to streamline mission critical processes.
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Marketing * Business Development for Wireless, Internet & Enterprise Software
WORLDWIDE LEADERSHIP

Bay Area, California

Saund has lived and worked up and down the west coast. Presently he lives in Mountain View in california near San Francisco. He started his career with a Xerox PARC division in El Segundo near Los Angeles and later moved to Palo Alto near San Francisco. Since 1996 he has helped start three companies with offices in and around the bay area.

Wall Street New York Market Development

Between 1994 and 2000 Saund developed a knack for building products in the west coast and sales and marketing to prominent Wall Street Customers. He developed channels and direct sales customers such as Morgan Stanley, Smith Barney, Bloomberg and others.

UK Deal Making

As worldwide VP of Sales & Marketing Saund developed relationships with channel partners and UK-based wireless telecommunication giant mmO2.

Stockholm Deal Making

Recruited Ericsson to becoming a sales strategic partner for wireless handheld video.

Helsinki & Tampere, Finland Deal Making

Closed deal with Nokia for distribution of the ActiveSky Media player.

Sydney & Queensland, Australia

Built worldwide marketing and sales strategy around engineering team based in Australia. Later company formed strategic relationshio with Telstra, largest AUS wireless operator.

Japan Deal Making

Deployed handheld video solution with DoCoMo and Dentsu. Later struck strategic ties with Qualcomm KK to create relations with KDDI. Finally, Itochu helped ActiveSky to launch a Japanese product on KDDI cell phones.

India Ventures and Markets

Generated interest for SkyPipes last mile wireless solution with Indian service providers including Sify, Reliance and others. Have been asked to speak at 13th Convergence India 2005 conference

 

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Business Dev * Strategic Alliances
Successfully delivered in excess of $200M in sales, alliances and venture funding. Forged profitable C-level strategic partnerships in wireless, software and Internet industries. Resume...

  Verizon Wireless, Sprint
  DoCoMo, Telstra, mmO2
  Microsoft, SUN, Oracle, Qualcomm
  Fox Sports, Yahoo, Disney

Marketing Highlights

eMarketing * Channel Development Recently, Saund's channel development and eMarketing helped sell Corvigo (antispam) for $41.5M six months after its $5M funding round by Sequoia Capital. More...

Strategic Marketing, kicking off his career at Xerox PARC, Saund led teams of business dev, product management and marketing to re-align and turnaround companies with revamped technology and business messaging. More...

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