Meet our Directors
B.V. Jagadeesh
Chairman of the Board, Netmagic Solutions
B.V. Jagadeesh, Chairman of the Board, Netmagic Solutions, is regarded as one of the pioneers of the Internet Infrastructure Industry and a technology industry visionary and veteran.
Jagadeesh is based in California and is also the President and CEO of 3Leafsystems, a premier provider of next-generation virtualization solutions for enterprise data centers.. He has served as president and CEO of NetScaler, Inc., a privately held leader in high-performance application networking that was acquired by Citrix Systems Inc in 2005. B.V.Jagadeesh was also the co-founder and CTO of Exodus Communications.
He also co-founded Fouress, Inc., a software consulting company specializing in networking technologies which eventually merged with Exodus in 1995.
He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Bangalore University and a master's degree in electrical engineering from University of Bombay, India.
Sharad Sanghi
Chief Executive Officer and MD, Netmagic Solutions
Sharad Sanghi is the CEO and founder of Netmagic Solutions Pvt Ltd. Mr. Sanghi founded Netmagic in July 1998. Sharad is an industry veteran and has been involved in setting up Internet backbones and provisioning Internet services in the industry from 1990. He is one of the few Indians to have worked as a backbone engineer of the first major backbone of the Internet - NSFNet in the US.
During his six-year stint in the US, Mr. Sanghi worked for the Unified Network Management Architecture Group at AT&T Bell Labs, the Backbone Engineering Group for the NSFNET (ANS) and the Router Systems Development Group for Advantis (IBM Global Network). Thereafter, he consulted with Merrill Lynch and Bankers Trust in designing and deploying wide area networks.
On his return to India, Mr. Sanghi provided technical consulting services for ISPs and large enterprises. Mr. Sanghi has a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay and a Masters from Columbia University, New York. Sharad is also member of the board of NIXI.
Raj Dugar
Senior MD, FIL Capital Advisors (India) Pvt. Ltd.
Raj is the Senior MD of FIL Capital Advisors (India) Pvt. Ltd. He has over ten years of leadership experience in the Indian private equity industry, and has made investments across multiple stages and industries. He currently serves on the boards of Netmagic Solutions, Coastal Projects and VMC.
During his private equity career, Raj has worked in The Carlyle Group and was earlier the co-founder and Managing Director of WestBridge Capital Partners (now Sequoia India). In addition to his current investments, his earlier investments include Punj Lloyd, FirstRing (acquired by Firstsource), Celetronix (acquired by Jabil Circuits) and July Systems.
Raj started his career as a management consultant with Booz Allen & Hamilton where he worked both in USA and India. He subsequently worked as an investment banker for Goldman Sachs where he was responsible for India coverage.
Raj holds an AB degree from Dartmouth College where he double majored in Engineering and Economics. He also has an MBA degree from MIT Sloan School of Management.
Sandeep Singhal
Co-founder and Managing Director, Nexus India Capital Advisors
Sandeep Singhal is co-founder and Managing Director at Nexus India Capital Advisors, India's leading venture capital firm with offices in Mumbai, India and Menlo Park, CA. Sandeep is on the Boards of Netmagic Solutions, Suminter India Organics, d.light Design, M2W and Games2Win.
Prior to Nexus, Sandeep was the Managing Director and Co-Founder of Medusind Solutions, one of the leading healthcare outsourcing companies in India. Sandeep was also Managing Director of eVentures India, which he co-founded in 1999. and where he invested in CustomerAsset, Mentorix Solutions and MakeMyTrip. Sandeep has earlier held senior roles at McKinsey, Digital Equipment and EDA Systems.
Sandeep has an MBA from The Wharton School with a dual Major in Finance and Marketing, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He is on the Board of Trustees of the Mumbai chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE).
Testimonials
For a business like ours, traffic is a little unpredictable. Hosting services is not our core competancy. Netmagic is a leader, specialized in data centers and hosting services...
VP - Seventy MM
Our association with Netmagic has been fruitful. The support we receive from the company is tremendous.Any request we submit is resolved at a much faster rate.
Sr. GM, Business Standard
We are assured of zero point failure after we signed on Netmagic, The single point of management for both the web and mail ensures that they are always up and running.
Sr. Mgr - IT & MIS, Cafe Coffeeday
Netmagic met our most stringent expectations and demands, and have completely justified our decision to outsource.
CEO & Founder, Indiainfoline.com
The SSE program has benefited us in a big way. We realized that the Sun solutions are more affordable and in fact cost less than assembled hardware. We also got introduced to Netmagic through the SSE .
VP-Technology, mKhoj
The support we receive from NetMagic is tremendous. Any request we submit is resolved in no time.
Technology Manager, MTV
We have a long standing relationship with Netmagic. Managing the technology and networks ourselves would have meant a huge capital expenditure for us.
Head, New Media, Nimbus Communications
