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MonVia has built a team comprised of 42 world-class team members spanning the globe creating a 24-hour workday. MonVia's Romanian team is second to none in delivering top-notch creative design. MonVia's Sri Lankan team has built web businesses and applications being used by millions of consumers and hundreds of corporations. Together we are creating next generation business models and products to service the entrepreneurs and established businesses.
Leading this world-class team from our Mountain View headquarters is the founding MonVia team of:
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 Jorge Fernandes - Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Jorge Fernandes co-founded MonVia and serves as Managing Partner. A passionate entrepreneur, Jorge has founded four successful start-ups: Lazer-Tron
(Nasdaq: LZTN), BioLumin; EmployeeLife (an ICGE Company) and ViVOtech–and guided the latter three as chief executive. Jorge received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from San Diego State University and his
MBA from Santa Clara University. |
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Mani Kulasooriya - Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Mani Kulasooriya co-founded MonVia and serves as Managing Partner. Mani is an entrepreneur and executive with more than ten years of business experience. Before founding MonVia, he served as Senior Manager of Business Development at Yahoo!, Associate Vice President at Citigroup eCiti, and founded CrossFunds. He earned his B.S. in Engineering from Tulane and holds an MBA from Vanderbilt University. |
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Jim O’Connor - Managing Partner
Jim O’Connor is an executive with six years of Internet product management experience. Prior to joining MonVia as Managing Partner, Jim served as Director of Product Management for Yahoo! Finance and as an investment banker with Chase Manhattan and Rothschild North America. He earned his B.S. in Science, Technology, and International Affairs from Georgetown University |
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Jorn Wossner - Managing Partner
Jorn Wossner is an executive with nine years of Internet Sales and Marketing experience. Prior to joining MonVia as Managing Partner, Jorn was Senior Manager of Ad Solutions at
Yahoo! and led the monetization effort on Y! Finance's Investment Section, My Yahoo! and most recently Yahoo!'s Community Products. He holds a B.Sc. in Philosophy from the London School of Economics and has an MBA and M.Sc.
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Chetan Narsude - Managing Partner
Chetan Narsude is an entrepreneur and executive with nine years of Internet product development experience. Prior to joining MonVia as a Managing Partner, Chetan served as a Senior
Development Manager at Microsoft adCenter, Co-founder of Lets101 Inc., and as a Senior Development Manager at Yahoo! Finance. He earned his B.Tech in Computer Science and Engg from Indian Institute of Technology,
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Facilities |
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Mountain View, CA
MonVia's headquarters is an 8000 sq.ft. facility located in downtown Mountain View, California in the heart of Silicon Valley. This strategic location is ideal for informal networking with other local startups and our network of angel investors and like-minded entrepreneurs. In their spare time, the Mountain View team enjoys sampling the delicious fare at the collection of local restaurants and trying to figure out how to stream sport matches to their desktops. |
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Colombo, Sri Lanka
The core of Monvia's engineering team is located in Colombo, Sri Lanka. In the Colombo office, Monvia has 18 full-time employees and a network of over 60 contract engineers specializing in Java, PHP, and .NET development. All of our engineers come from leading universities in both Sri Lanka and abroad. During the precious few hours the team is not hard at work coding they are either watching or playing cricket. |
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Bucharest, Romania
Bucharest, Romania is home to our design team and web development. The design team currently consists of 8 full-time employees as well as a larger network of freelance specialists. The Bucharest team consists of talented designers, web devs, illustrators and animation artists. In their spare time, the team is deeply involved with the local fine art community. |
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Contact |
280 Hope Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
info@monvia.com
650.215.7777 ext 1002
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