Dr. Chari, an independent IT analyst and an authority on emerging technologies, has had more than twenty years' experience in information technology.
Prior to co-founding Cabot Partners Group, he was president and CEO of TurboWorx, Inc., a bioinformatics software company providing workflow solutions for grids and clusters.
Before that, he spent thirteen years at IBM, where his last position was as Program Director, Emerging Businesses, Corporate Strategy.
Dr. Chari has published extensively in professional journals and delivered many presentations to leading professional societies and conferences and IBM customers.
A graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology in mechanical engineering, he holds an MS in engineering and a Ph.D. in computational mechanics from the University of Texas, and an MBA with distinction in finance, management and international business from the Stern School of Business, New York University. In addition, he has completed Harvard Business School executive programs on strategy and leadership.
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Eleanor Haas, an authority on business model design and on launching and growing innovative businesses and technologies, has advised companies on new initiatives and growth issues for more than twenty years.
Prior to co-founding Cabot Partners Group, she was managing director of The Calyx Group, a strategic advisory consultancy, where clients included IT, marketing services, information services and financial services companies.
In 1999, she was a principal of eTechnologies Associates, a boutique investment bank focused on Internet and technology companies; before that, president of MarketQuest, a strategic advisory firm with clients that included Lucent, Sybase and Oracle. She also served as vice president-director of strategic in-store planning for The Howard Marlboro Group, an in-store marketing firm. Earlier, she headed The Haas Group, a business-to-business public relations firm with clients that included AT&T, Chase Manhattan Bank, Westinghouse Broadcasting & Cable and Crain's New York Business.
She has spoken at the New York Software Industry Association, MIT Enterprise Forum of NYC and Internet World, among others; taught as an adjunct at New York University; and developed and conducted corporate training workshops. She is a member of the MIT Enterprise Forum of NYC, New York Software Industry Association (NYSIA) and the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG).
She holds a BA in French from Smith College.
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