Shirish Andhare

Shirish is passionate about conceiving and launching innovative applications at cusp of Web and Voice, and new business models that will deliver innovations faster to the end-user. In addition to leading Sylantro's marketing activities he personally drives key initiatives such as the Synapps Web Services program which evangelizes the value of open developer ecosystems to carriers and opens up the Sylantro platform to grass-roots developers and partners.

Prior to Sylantro, he was at Tellme Networks (now a part of Microsoft) where he conceived and led the creation of advanced hosted enterprise services leveraging the Internet, speech-recognition, and the phone. His product line was the cornerstone of Tellme's growth and recognition in the Fortune 100 market. Before Tellme, Shirish contributed to the hands-on development of voice mail networking, unified messaging, and directory applications at other pioneers in communications applications such as VMX (later Octel, Lucent, and now Avaya) and Vertical Networks.

Shirish holds a B.E. in Computer Sciences from the Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology in India, an M.S. in Computer Engineering fromthe University of Texas at Arlington, and an M.S in Management Sciences from Stanford.