Pandesa

Pandesa Advisors

Jnan Dash
Jnan is a key technical and strategic advisor to the company and serves on the board of directors. He is 25 year veteran of IBM and Oracle and is widely-regarded as a visionary leader in enterprise information technology. Jnan's extensive experience in massively scalable systems and real-time event driven architecture is instrumental to the company's solution strategy. At Oracle, he was responsible for the core database and application server product strategies as well as working closely with top customers worldwide to define the product roadmap. During his 16 years at IBM, prior to joining Oracle, Jnan was a founding member of the company's flagship DB2 database team. He has a Bachelor's degree in Engineering and a Master's degree in Systems Design from the University of Waterloo, Canada.

John Herr
John is a key strategic advisor to the company and board member. In this capacity, he works with the management team on various business development and strategic initiatives. John is a seasoned executive in the internet and technology marketplace. Over the last 6 years, he held a series of general management roles within eBay, including executive roles at PayPal, eBay US, and eBay International. During his time at eBay, revenue grew from $400 million to over $7 billion. Prior to that, John was SVP / GM at Buy.com, and the company grew from start-up to over $500 million in revenue. He worked for a number of years at Ziff Davis Publishing in senior executive roles in sales, marketing, general management, and international. John also worked in consumer marketing as a brand manager at Johnson & Johnson, and as a strategy consultant at Bain & Company. He enjoys working as a senior advisor to promising early-stage, technology companies. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Harvard University, and earned his MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Michael Bates
Michael advises the company on strategies for creating solutions for CFOs as well as working with us on financial forcasting and refinement of our business model. Michael has more than 25 years of experience in corporate financial management. Most recently Michael was Chief Financial Officer for St. Francis Medical Technologies, acquired by Kyphon Inc. in January 2007 for approximately $725 million. In addition to the St. Francis success, Michael has contributed to successful investor outcomes in his three previous companies. He served as Vice President of Finance and Administration & CFO for Silicon Genetics, acquired by Agilent Technologies; Collagen Aesthetics, Inc., acquired by Inamed Corporation; and Penederm Incorporated, a publicly-traded specialty pharmaceutical company, acquired by Mylan Laboratories. Michael is a certified public accountant, having begun his career at Deloitte and Touche LLP. He is a graduate of California State University at Hayward and received an MBA in Finance from the University of California at Berkeley.

Jeff Halden
Jeff is a long time board member and advisor to Pandesa, having worked with the company since its inception. He has been an advisor to many businesses as an independent consulting executive, Vice President of Capgemini and as Partner of Ernst & Young. Jeff is a CPA and holds MBA and MHA post graduate degrees.