Company

Eventbee provides next generation, web-based Event Management software that enables maximum ticket sales to Event Managers, and maximum benefits of attending an event to Attendees. Eventbee embraces innovative collaboration and networking technologies along with traditional applications to deliver unprecedented ROI to its customers.

People

Bala Musrif
Founder & CEO
Bala founded Eventbee in 2003, along with Kumar Lanka. As CEO, Bala manages company operations in USA, is responsible for defining the company's strategic vision while delivering on-goal target solutions to the customer.

Prior to Eventbee, Bala worked at Sun Microsystems, IMAKE Software, Wipro Systems and Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).

Bala holds a Bachelors degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, India, a Diploma in Computer Science from Govt. Polytechnic, India, and a Marketing Management from UCSC, California.


Kumar Lanka
Founder & CTO
Kumar CO-founded Eventbee along with Bala in 2003. He holds a M.S. in Electrical Engineering, and has over 18 years of industrial experience (including 5 years at USA), working as consulting architect at prestigious clients such as Intel, Arthur Anderson and NICor. He shares the key vision with Bala to deliver much-needed integrated software solutions to the Events industry as a hosted service. In his role as CTO, Kumar is responsible for the design and delivery of company products. He also manages day-to-day operations in India.

Mr. Lanka was Chief Consulting Manager at GetMedia Inc. and was associated in the incorporation of the firm, development of streaming media proto type and played a crucial role in getting $10M in funding & over 500 radio stations as client base for the product. As Vice President of Engineering at GTC, Mr. Lanka was the chief architect of their e-commerce project and a key player in their corporate strategies. Mr. Lanka worked as Sr. Architect at BeVocal Inc. and was associated with patented technological innovations in voice portal applications.