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InfoZen names Raj Ananthanpillai CEO
By siliconindia
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Wednesday, 14 April 2004, 19:30 IST
InfoZen Inc., a portal technology application service provider, said it named Raj Ananthanpillai chief executive.
Ananthanpillai has been an InfoZen director since 2003. He was most recently a partner at the MIRA Group and has previously served in such positions as chief executive of ePlus, president and chief executive officer of NetBalance, vice president of strategy and marketing at I-NET, and vice president and general manager of one of I-NET's business units.
Ananthanpillai will retain his seat on the board. Also on InfoZen's board are founder and president Raghu Rao and investor Norman Willcox, founder and chairman of the National Fraud Center.
InfoZen customers include the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security, Justice, and Transportation, the General Services Administration, the U.S. Congress, PricewaterhouseCoopers/Sun Microsystems, Lexis-Nexis, IMA, eLawForum, and Boeing.
Willcox was appointed to the board in March 2001 and made an undisclosed equity investment in the company, making him InfoZen's first outside investor since its inception in 1995.
The Rockville, Md.-based company has been self-funded to date and will continue to be so for the time being, said Ananthanpillai. InfoZen, which builds software for vertical markets such as insurance and financial services, may consider raising a round in a year to launch its software product. InfoZen has developed a risk-management platform for public entities such as the Department of Homeland Security. Ananthanpillai said the company will tailor the product to the private sector in the coming summer.
InfoZen has 21 employees and is hiring broadly. Ananthanpillai anticipates doubling the work force by summer, with a total of 75 employees by the year's end.