About: Shirish

Full Name
Shirish Nadkarni
Website
http://www.livemocha.com
Details
Shirish Nadkarni, Chief Roaster and Co-Founder, LiveMocha Shirish Nadkarni is a successful entrepreneur who is passionate about building great consumer services. As founder and CEO of TeamOn Systems , Shirish led a team that built a unique consumer wireless e-mail platform that is in use today by over 2 million BlackBerry users. TeamOn Systems was acquired by RIM in 2002 for its innovative work which formed the basis for RIM’s highly successful launch into the consumer space as the BlackBerry Internet E-mail service. Prior to RIM and TeamOn Systems, Shirish was a senior executive at MSN where he successfully drove the product and business strategy that catapulted MSN.com from ninth place to among the Web's top three portal sites. While at MSN, he personally orchestrated the acquisition of Hotmail and partnership with Inktomi Corporation to jump start Microsoft's entry into the two largest internet application categories - E-mail and Search respectively. Shirish holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BSE from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Besides work, Shirish loves to hold pancake breakfasts and barbeques for his co-workers and is known to have a wicked top spin in ping-pong.

Posts by Shirish: