Kaushik Gala brings over 10 years of technology and business experience to Venture Center. Prior to joining Venture Center as Business Development Manager in February 2009, he was co-founder and COO of Moneyoga, a capital market analytics and algorithmic trading venture - one of the earliest of its kind in India. At Moneyoga, Kaushik was involved in all key aspects of a technology startup, including company formation, business and financial planning, product development, fund-raising, market trials and exploring partnerships and exit opportunities with industry leaders.

Prior to founding Moneyoga, Kaushik was Manager of IP Operations at IPVALUE Management - a provider of strategic intellectual property advisory and transaction services, funded by marquee private equity firms. At IPVALUE (Bangalore), Kaushik held responsibilities for mining, evaluation and commercialization of patent portfolios of clients such as Xerox, Palo Alto labs and British Telecom. Kaushik was also involved in several time-sensitive patent portfolio valuation engagements, part of some of the largest private equity deals in the semiconductor technology industry.

Prior to IPVALUE, Kaushik spent several years at Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector (now an independent company - Freescale Semiconductor) in Austin, Texas. Kaushik held positions of increasing responsibility between 1999 and 2005, starting as part of a corporate R&D team focused on electronic design automation, followed by program management, and finally holding primary responsibility for mining and evaluation of Freescale's semiconductor patent portfolio.

Kaushik holds a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (Instrumentation) from the Government College of Engineering - Pune, a Master's Degree in Science (Electrical Engineering) from the University of Minnesota - Minneapolis and a Master's Degree in Business Administration from the University of Texas - Austin.

Kaushik resides in Pune, India with his family. He maintains a blog related to capital markets and technology startups. He is also a visiting faculty at SIBM-Pune, where he teaches MBA students topics related to entrepreneurship, financial markets and technology commercialization. He can be contacted at kaushik@venturecenter.co.in.