Karan Bavandi Email & Phone Number

Santa Monica, CA, US

US

At Optimal Access, we empower professionals and organizations to curate, manage, and share their research effortlessly with the world. Our suite of tools is designed to simplify content management, enabling seamless access, organization, and publishing of valuable insights.Kurator—our powerful browser extension—lets users save, annotate, and organize.

Los Angeles, California, US

Conversational Chatbots are the ideal interface for many business applications.With the help of conversational chatbots, you can understand how users are actively looking for information and match user requests with the appropriate response.Today, it is easily possible to build your own Alexa or Siri type interface to answer users' questions!There are two.

Webspectator offered a real-time messaging network capable of building bi-directional connections between the server and the client.This technology was used to build the first ad viewability solution, approved by MRC to measure and deliver ads based on time spent.I was responsible for setting up our DSP relationships, as well as working with ad agencies.

iVisit was a subsidiary of IPPlex and the developer of the first pee-peer unified communication solution.I joined the company to help the founder successfully raise financing from my network.In my short time there as business development manager, I helped introduce iVisit to the management at Verizon.iVisit was developing the first mobile multi-user video.

The vision behind Optimal Access was simple!Empower every user to curate and access information their way.The idea for Optimal Access came out of a need for managing IT resources.Optimal Desktop had over 500K users, was featured in Laptop magazine, bundled with Toshiba laptops, and was used by IT professionals and major corporations.Our current tools and.

• As an independent consultant I worked closely with the founder to raise capital and generate revenue for the company. Mastering Stress was a pioneer in online self help software.Selected Accomplishments:
• Prepared Business plan
• Business Development - Signed a 250K content deal with Healthgate an online health portal company

• As an independent Consultant I provided Market Research and Consulting services for a German based Software Company - with an Enterprise Resource Planning software (ERP).Selected Accomplishments
• ERP Market, product and feature analysis
• Identified potential acquisition partners

US

• As a founding officer of this independent testing company I was instrumental in helping the company grow from start up to multi million dollars in sales in a short time.Selected Accomplishments:
• Created pricing and sales process
• Hired and managed the sales team
• Grew Sales to 5 million dollars in 2 years
• Created and executed the beginning phases of KeyLabs product strategyKeyLabs split its testing and product devisions. KeyLabs was sold to Exodus Communications and the product company Altiris had a successful IPO in 2001

• As a sales and Business development executive I helped manage Diagsoft’s west coast operations. Diagsoft offered retail and OEM software diagnostic solutions.Selected Accomplishments:
• Managed OEM accounts
• Closed a multi-year OEM deal with Toshiba

• As the leading sales person and later head of sales I was instrumental in growing XXCAL’s testing business and creating a very successful marketing program that helped Advanced Micro Devices introduce its CPU’s to the.
• Number one sales person in testing division
• As National Sales Manager grew company sales by 350% in 18 months (to 7 million dollars
• Created first independent Software Certification program in the industry

Campbell, CA, US

• Phoenix technologies offered system level software and custom application solution.Selected Accomplishments:
• Software engineer: Programmed Video and Printer Drivers for Lotus corporation products.
• Test Engineer: worked on Phoenix Postscript team.

Ms, Computer Engineering

Bs, Electrical Engineering