Dr. Ronjon Nag Discusses the Entrepreneurial Life and the Evolving Market at TiE’s January Networking Meeting
ARIZONA — January 5, 2001 — The IndUS Entrepreneurs (TiE), a global non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging and nurturing entrepreneurship, today announced that Dr. Ronjon Nag will be the featured speaker at its January Networking Dinner Meeting.
Dr. Nag is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Cellmania.com, a leading provider of mobile-commerce and location-commerce technologies.
The meeting is taking place Wednesday, January 10, 2000 at the Marriott Mountain Shadows from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., with dinner served at 7:00 p.m. Dr. Nag will discuss the entrepreneurial life in today's evolving market. The event will be free of charge for all TiE members who sign up early and $10 for those who sign-up at the door. Students, who enjoy membership free of charge with TiE, pay $10 to attend. The event is open to non-members at a fee of $25.00.
"Dr. Nag's entrepreneurial career will inspire all those attending this month's meeting," said Ganesh Moorthy, president of TiE-Arizona. "We are very excited to have someone of Dr. Nag's expertise open our 2001 speaker calendar."
Committed to helping entrepreneurs in the Valley gain knowledge about practices that can help them succeed, TiE hosts monthly events every second Wednesday of the month.
In some of these events prominent entrepreneurs, venture capitalists or business leaders are invited as guest speakers to discuss issues affecting the entrepreneurial community. Other events are designed around seminars and workshops on subjects that are important to entrepreneurs. All of the events provide unique networking opportunity for entrepreneurs and industry professionals. For more information about our activities and future speakers visit our Web site at www.tie-arizona.org.
About TiE-Arizona
Founded in July, 2000, TiE-Arizona's mission is to provide an uplifting positive leadership role model and to emphasize value-creation through informed entrepreneurship. TiE-Arizona is one of 10 US chapters of TiE, which is based in Silicon Valley. Entrepreneurs affiliated with TiE have created hundreds of new businesses with an estimated market value of $75 billion. TiE originated in the Indus culture and offers membership to everyone regardless of ethnicity and religious affiliation. To learn more about TiE, visit www.tie.org (TiE worldwide site) and www.tie-arizona.org (Arizona Chapter).
About Dr. Nag
Dr. Ronjon Nag is co-founder and CEO of Cellmania.com, a leading provider of mobile-commerce and location-commerce technologies.
Dr. Nag spent six years at Motorola as Vice President and General Manager responsible for technologies for smart mobile products developed in the Lexicus Division and Motorola Human Interface Laboratories. Products using technology developed by his teams include a pen-based stock market pager, a voice-recognition driven GSM tri-band phone and the recently announced Accompli "smart phones." Prior to Motorola, Ronjon was CEO and co-founder of Lexicus, a provider of speech and handwriting recognition technology, which was acquired by Motorola.
Ronjon holds a Ph.D. with research into speech recognition from Cambridge University, UK, an MBA from MIT and was a Harkness Fellow at Stanford University. He was also Motorola's board representative to Online Anywhere, which was recently acquired by Yahoo!, and now is the core of the Yahoo! wireless group.
About Cellmania.com
Cellmania is the first mobile ecosystem to offer integrated business solutions for every point in the wireless supply chain, including retailers, carriers, developers and enterprises.
Cellmania enables companies to create highly personalized mobile commerce, mobile content and location commerce applications, supported over multiple delivery channels such as wireless, voice and desktop Web. Cellmania licenses its technologies to enterprises such as retailers, manufacturers, distributors, telecommunication companies, and others.
Cellmania's customers include some of the wireless industry's top leaders including Motorola, Excite@Home, Circuit City and Office Depot. Founded in 1999, the Mountain View, California company also operates Cellmania.com — a leading mobile destination for wireless products and thousands of wireless Internet applications. For more information, visit www.cellmania.com.
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