Sanjay Parekh

Sanjay is a partner at Shotput Ventures, the founder and organizer of Startup Riot, and also serves on the board of directors or advisers of a number of startups. Previously Sanjay was a founder of Digital Envoy where he was the CEO and later the Chief Strategy Officer. Sanjay is the inventor of Digital Envoy's patented NetAcuity IP intelligence technology. Digital Envoy was acquired by Landmark Communications in June 2007. Prior to founding Digital Envoy, Sanjay was a founding employee of Arris Interactive, where he played a pivotal role in various markets throughout the U.S., Asia, and Europe for product deployment. His efforts helped secure over $1 billion in client contracts at Arris Interactive. Sanjay has served as a technology and strategy consultant for numerous startups, corporations, and organizations and has served as an expert witness for the Department of Justice (U.S. versus Extreme Associates). In 2004, Sanjay was named one of ten Outstanding Young Atlantans by Outstanding Atlanta, one of the "Top 40 Under 40 Georgians by Georgia Trend magazine, and a 2004 American Marshall Memorial Fellow with the German Marshall Fund of the United States. In 2003, Sanjay was named to MIT's Technology Review TR100 list as one of the top 100 young innovators of 2003 and one of the "Top 50 Entrepreneurs" in Atlanta by Catalyst Magazine. Sanjay was also named a Technology Pioneer with the World Economic Forum in 2002 and 2003. Sanjay is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Sanjay has an electrical engineering degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from Emory University's Goizueta Business School.