Sanjay Parekh
Sanjay is the founder of Startup Riot, a day-long conference and career fair event held in multiple cities, and a co-founding partner of Shotput Ventures, a seed stage investment firm.
Previously Sanjay was the founding CEO of Digital Envoy and the inventor of the company's patented NetAcuity IP intelligence technology. Digital Envoy was acquired by Landmark Communications in June 2007.
Prior to Digital Envoy, Sanjay was a founding employee of Arris Interactive, where he helped secure over $1 billion in client contracts in the U.S., Asia, and Europe.
Sanjay is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and holds an electrical engineering degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School.
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Patents:
- Systems and Methods for Determining Collecting and Using Geographic Location of Internet Users (U.S. Patent 6,757,740) [cited by 155 patents as of January 2012]
- Systems and Methods for Determining, Collecting, and Using Geographic Location of Internet Users (U.S. Patent 7,403,978) [cited by 10 patents as of January 2012]
- Systems and Methods for Determining, Collecting, and Using Geographic Location of Internet Users (U.S. Patent 7,451,233) [cited by 4 patents as of November 2011]
- Geo-intelligent traffic reporter (U.S. Patent 7,685,311) [cited by 1 patent as of November 2011]
- Systems and Methods for Determining, Collecting, and Using Geographic Location of Internet Users (U.S. Patent 7,698,377) [cited by 1 patent as of November 2011]
- Geo-intelligent traffic manager (U.S. Patent 7,844,729)
- Geo-intelligent traffic reporter (U.S. Patent 8,060,606)
- Geo-Intelligent Router (European Patent EP1699189)
- ten additional pending patent applications
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