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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, IMAKE, Wipro, Nortel
and NRSA. At Sun Bala played a key role in defining and delivering
Sun portal server, establishing partnerships with leading software
vendors. At IMAKE, Bala lead a team of engineers to deliver
media server. Bala played a key role in establishing Nortel
offshore development center in Wipro Bangalore facility. As
part of National Remote Sensing Agency R&D team (an autonomous
organization under the Department of Space, Govt. of India),
Bala was involved in delivering image processing and parallel
computing solutions. Bala started his career in 1990, as a computer
hardware engineer in OMC computers, Hyderabad, India.
Bala is committed to making Eventbee a leader in event management
software. Bala holds a Bachelors degree in Electronics and Telecommunications
from the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers,
India, a Diploma in Computer Engineering from Govt. Polytechnic,
AP, India, and a Certificate in Marketing 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.
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