Lena Kannappan, Founder, President & CEO

Lena Kannappan brings 17 years of software industry experience including both senior technical and managerial roles in various segments including Digital Identity Management systems, Telecommunications Convergence services and applications, and E-Commerce applications.

Before founding FuGen Solutions, Lena was the Director for Identity and Messaging group at France Telecom R&D driving the efforts around Address Book, IM, Presence, SMS, Geo Location services and Social Networking looking at subscriber identity and privacy related issues. Lena chaired multiple industry standards committees including Liberty Alliance and Open Mobile Alliance in the areas of Federated Identity Management and Web Services Security. Prior to France Telecom, Lena was the Technology Strategist at Oblix (acquired by Oracle) where he worked with number of enterprise vendors to bring the architecture integration models including the first enterprise SSO integration for Siebel systems.

Lena has been an invited speaker and panelist at various Identity Management and Web Services related conferences, seminars and workshops including CA World, RSA, Mobile Finance summit, Porvoo EU eGov eID forum, Stanford University and CMU-CERT-Cylab. Lena Kannappan founded startup companies in the past in Silicon Valley including an ebusiness consulting firm and an enterprise software product company.

Lena holds a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Anna University, Chennai, India and Bachelors in Electronics and Instrumentation from Annamalai University, Chidambaram, India.

Robert de Monts, VP Marketing and Business Development

Robert brings over 20 years of senior-level executive experience in general management, sales and marketing, business development, and services at large public companies and start-ups based in Europe, Japan and the U.S, with the last seven years spent in the IT security space. Recently Robert was VP Worldwide Technical Services at Check Point, responsible for a $55M service business which he grew by 35% compared with a 10% revenue growth for products during the same period. He was also VP Marketing and Business Development with Imera, a secure enterprise collaboration vendor and CEO for Solsoft, a network security management company, where he nearly tripled worldwide revenues and achieved over 400 percent annual U.S. growth while raising $12M two months after September 11, 2001.

Robert was also COO of Boostworks, an Internet acceleration software company and held a variety of high-level product marketing, technical services and development management positions at Dassault Systems, Hitachi and IBM.

Robert holds a MS degree in Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a graduate of Ecole Centrale de Paris, France.

Vijay Simha, VP Infrastructure and Service Delivery

Vijay joins the FuGen Solutions with over 15 years of experience in Silicon Valley most recently coming from Hewlett-Packard (HP). While at HP, Vijay played a key role in helping HP break into the Identity & Access Management software business.

Prior to HP, Vijay spent over 6 years at Oblix (acquired by Oracle) holding a variety of senior level positions in the delivery and implementation team. As part of the Oblix delivery team, Vijay was responsible for the successful customer deployments of Oblix products at several Fortune 100 customers across the horizontal industry segments. His customers have included Ford, British Airways, AT&T Wireless, GMAC, Kaiser-Permanente, Best-Buys, Boeing, WaMu, GM, and others.

Vijay holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics & Communications from SJCE Mysore, India and an MSEE from Utah State University.