We're just like yall. A bunch of QA Engineers and Developers who have lived through multiple years of bringing products and systems to life, churning through a million releases, cursing software that could have been better but wasn't and generally doing all the classic real-world things one has to do in building, testing and releasing good software.
 
We are a young company but on a tear to build the smartest and most useful Test Management System in the market. We want to stick to our 3 tenets: it must be slick, it must be feature rich and it must be very affordable. We'll take it very personally if we fail on any one of these.
 
We've assembled a fantastic team of Architects, Designers, Developers and QA Engineers to pool their collective experience, scoured the software stomping grounds to find the coolest technologies, devised a fantastic architecture, injected it with realistic scenarios that Test Departments are subject to on a daily basis and the result is Zephyr.
 
We believe in refreshing new software, rich and engaging user interfaces, solving real problems, Quality Street chocolates and good, strong coffee.

Management Team

Samir Shah, CEO 
Samir Shah is a seasoned QA Executive with over 16 years of direct test management experience ranging from startups in the Silicon Valley to global Fortune 50. Most recently, he was Vice President of QA Practice at Patni Computers (NYSE: PTI) where over a period of 6 years, founded, built and managed a 300+ person Global QA Practice generating $75 million in testing revenue. His broad experience includes various Engineering roles at Wollongong, Attachmate, and PointCast, helping customers such as AT&T, Virgin Mobile, Disney Mobile, Du, Good Technologies, Vodafone, WhitePajama, Bulldog, Grand Central, RCC, Visage Mobile, KnowNow and others.
 
Samir holds a Bachelor Degree in Electronics from Bangalore University and a Masters in Electrical Engineering from The University of Alabama. Having been on the “other side” and perpetually unsatisfied about the quality, pricing and user experience of existing Test Management tools, Samir founded D Software and Zephyr to take on the challenge of bringing to market a refreshing new way of managing test teams. Read his blog here.
 
Vivek Raghavan, CTO
Vivek Raghavan brings over 12 years of technology, hands-on software development and engineering management experience. Vivek has done pioneering work, and holds patents in the areas of relevant search and mobile platform infrastructures. Most recently, Vivek functioned as the V.P. Of Technology at Visage Mobile and led the engineering team to build and successfully launch multiple mobile operators including Disney Mobile, MobileESPN and Embarq (Formerly the Sprint local company).
 
Prior to that he spent 3 years as V.P of Integration at Patni Computers (NYSE:PTI) where he built a Business Integration Practice and generated over $50 million in customer revenue. At Patni he was also hands‐on at multiple client engagements including running the integration engineering team that launched “Three” (HKG:0013) across 7 different countries. His experience also includes various engineering roles at Standard Charted Bank HK, Cable & Wireless & Time Warner and as a Research Scientist at SRI (Stanford Research Institute). Vivek holds a Bachelor Degree in Computer Science from the University of Kentucky and a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Arizona. Read his blog here.
 
Issam Bandak, VP of Operations
Issam Bandak’s focus for the last 14 years has been in product and services QA, building, leading and managing test and engineering teams of varying sizes for startups, SMB and large companies. Issam has worked with companies such as Virgin Mobile, PointCast, Cingular, Wollongong, KnowNow, Grand Central, Carphone Warehouse, WhitePajama among others.
 
He has run large community and software delivery sites in the early days of the Internet including the wildly popular Papa Winsock-L site. Issam holds a Bachelor Degree in Information Technology from the Indiana State University. Read his blog here.
 
Advisors
 
Preetish Nijhawan
Preetish is CFO at JME Software, where they are creating the next-generation of services and software for the enterprise. Most recently, Preetish was Vice President of Strategic Alliances at NeoEdge Networks, a video game advertising company. Preetish was also Vice President, Portfolio and Program Management for BMC Software, Inc.. Prior to BMC, he was Vice President, Operations of iVita Corporation, a Houston-based asset management software startup he helped found.
 
Preetish has also counseled senior executives on hardware, software and telecommunications industries for McKinsey and Company, a leading consulting firm. He co-founded Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM) in 1998, He also worked for nearly six years in the Electronic Design Automation Division at Intel in various engineering related capacities.Preetish earned a bachelor's of engineering degree in electrical and electronics engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India, a master's of science in computer engineering from The University of Southern California, and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.
 
Steve Gross
Steve has spent over 20 years leading business development and strategic partnering initiatives with early and mid-staged enterprise software companies. Today, he provides corporate and business development consulting services to emerging and established technology companies.
 
Most recently, Steve served as Vice President of Corporate Business Development for Mercury Interactive (acquired by HP). Previously, he joined Asera, a Kleiner Perkins created company focused on collaborative business processes, as employee #21, leading business development efforts for them.
 
Prior to Asera, Steve led the North America launch efforts of Mercado Software, an Israel-based developer of catalog search technologies as vice president of business development. He has also led business development for New Moon Software, a developer of thin-client technologies, and Sqribe Technologies (acquired by Brio), a leading provider of production reporting solutions.
 
Steve began his career with Infinium Software (formerly Software 2000), a leader in financial, human resources and manufacturing applications, where he spent nine years in a variety of sales, marketing and strategic partner management positions.