Ashok Rao

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The TiE Global Board of Trustees reelected Ashok Rao as its Chairman for a second two-year term starting January 1, 2013. Two years ago, Ashok replaced Arjun Malhotra who completed his two-year term as the Chairman during 2009-10. Ashok is the former President of TiE Houston and has served on the Global Board of Trustees since January 2009. A successful serial entrepreneur, Ashok is currently on his fifth technology start up, as Chairman and CEO of Whodini Inc.- an enterprise software firm, developing cutting edge solutions for large enterprises, using state of the art artificial Intelligence, contextual search and sense-making. He was Chairman and co-founder of Opelin Inc, an on line data backup company, from 2004 till 2007, when it was sold to HP. He founded and served as CEO of Prime Wave Communications, a broadband wireless access technology company, from 2000-03. Ashok founded Trex Communications Corp. in December 1997 and grew it to $70 million in two years before selling

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