Board of Directors & Strategic Advisors

Dayakar is a serial entrepreneur turned visionary investor, who launched one of the first tech-focused venture fund. Headquartered in post-telecom Dallas, the fund invested in several pioneering early stage startups in cloud, AI/ML and mobile technologies in Dallas, Silicon Valley, Seattle and India. His mantra of “Entrepreneur investing in other Entrepreneurs”, has led to the creation of a like-minded ecosystem of Investors, Advisors and Startups for mutual success. Besides playing a key role in Dallas Venture Capital (DVC), he is also Executive Chairman at Motivity Labs, GlobalOutlook and KeepTrax, Board Member at CoreStack, FelixHealthCare, Kore.ai, Altia Systems, SnapOne, and Viviota, Board Observer at Minetta Brook and an Advisory Board Member at Boxfish and Glympse.

Ez is the Founder and CEO of CoreStack. An Entrepreneur and accomplished Technology Executive with 22+ years’ experience in architecting and delivering sophisticated and revenue-generating software products and business solutions that satisfy diverse technology requirements across multiple industry segments. At CoreStack, Ez is responsible for overall vision, company strategy & road map, growth, investments, finance and general company administration. Prior to CoreStack, he held leadership, strategy and business ownership roles at Capgemini Group and Mindtree Ltd. He has been part of the Microsoft Azure Business group building Public Azure services for the world, in China and Australia. Ez has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering and Master’s in Business Administration.

Kk is one of the Co-founders and COO at CoreStack. A serial entrepreneur with over two decades of experience in building technology products. An early adopter and thought leader in the Cloud Infra Domain, he is responsible for Customer Success, helping customers get started with CoreStack Enterprise. Kk collaborates with customers across the globe to maximise the value they derive from the CoreStack Enterprise. He is also the Product Owner for CoreStack CLaaS, which is a solution built on top of CoreStack for technology education. Kk has an MBA in Finance from the Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies and a B.E in Mechanical Engineering from PSG College of Technology.

Jim led Microsoft in CIO and CISO roles. He was accountable for the company’s global security, IT infrastructure, collaboration and all business applications. In his role at Microsoft, he directed IT modernization through corporate growth, turnaround, acquisition integrations, and divestitures. He developed and delivered IT agile models globally, with a strong balance between financial value and creating effective processes and procedures to exceed business targets. Jim has been serving in board director, advisor, and senior leadership roles, shaping enterprise technology global vision, industry leadership positioning, and customer product and service delivery strategies. He has been instrumental in guiding IT and business transformation, corporate governance, customer-focused strategic product/service development, security, and risk management.