Executive Team

Peter Relan is co-founder and Executive Chairman at Agawi. He is also the founder of YouWeb, the incubator responsible for creating OpenFeint and Crowdstar. Peter was a founding VP of Oracle=92s Internet Division in 1994, and served as principal Architect of OpenView at Hewlett Packard from 1988 - 1994. Peter was founding CTO for two years at Webvan Group, which filed for the largest IPO in Silicon Valley in 1999 ($8B). Before founding YouWeb, Peter was founder and CEO of Business Signatures. Peter holds a BS from UCLA and a MS from Stanford University.

Rajat Gupta is co-founder and head of product at Agawi. He has over 11 years of experience in engineering and business roles in datacenter technology space. Prior to founding Agawi, he was a Product Management and Marketing executive at Symantec, where he was responsible for driving strategic go-to-market product as well as sales enablement for Telco and South-East. Before that, he spent a number of years in engineering roles at EMC² and storage startup Intransa. Rajat has a B.S. in Computer Science from India, an MS in Computer Science from Virginia Tech and an MBA from Wharton.

Rohan Relan joined YouWeb Incubator as its CTO, where he developed the core technology for the Agawi platform before co-founding Agawi. Prior to joining YouWeb, Rohan worked on advanced computer models in Goldman Sachs' Quantitative Strategies division in New York. He graduated from UC-Berkeley with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Krishna Hegde is the VP of Solutions at Agawi and is responsible for cross-functional aspects of the business including delivery of products and solutions. He is a Silicon Valley veteran with over 22 years of experience in the industry including a decade at Cisco and HP, VP of Solutions at Webvan, VP of Solutions at Business Signatures and prior to Agawi was the SVP of Partnerships and Channels at OpenFeint. He holds a MS in Technology Management from Stanford.

Jim Battaglia is VP of Business Development at Agawi bringing over 25 years of experience in digital media, consumer electronics, and gaming. Jim has served as CEO of Digital Home, a home electronics startup; co-founded SyncTV, a b2b content delivery service; and was VP of Business Operations at Panasonic Cloud Entertainment Company. While at Pioneer, he led an advance development group that launched the industry's first IP-networked TV. Jim has led strategic relationships with key business partners and fostered industry-wide initiatives in home entertainment, CE, and gaming. He holds engineering degrees from Penn and Berkeley, and an MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Management.