Tanveer Patel
President & CEO
Tanveer Patel is Founder, President & CEO of CircleSource, Inc., a global provider of custom software development services. Under her leadership CircleSource accomplished ISO 9001 certification, US Small Disadvantaged Business (8a) designation, and Women’s enterprise business council certification. She was recognized as a finalist in Small Business Person of the Year 2007 , Nominated for AITA Entrepreneur of the year 2006 and 2007. She was selected to participate in the inaugural Entrepreneur Accelerator Program of the Birmingham Venture Club. She is also a co-founder of the Alabama-India TechVenture effort organized by TechBirmingham. Prior to CircleSource, she worked as a General Manager of Sales and Marketing at MicroLan Solutions. Ms. Patel serves on the Board of AITA and Vice Chairman of Tech Birmingham of the Board of Directors for TechBirmingham, the Birmingham Area Technology Leadership Alliance. She also serves on the Advisory board of Information Engineering Management program for UAB school of Engineering.

Maqbool Patel
C I O
Dr. Maqbool Patel obtained his Bachelors and Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, the most prestigious institute of higher learning in India. Got his PhD in Computer Engineering from Drexel University USA. He was a faculty at University of Minnesota, Radiology Department working on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) research. He has to his credit several peer reviewed publications in international journals and book chapters in prestigious publications like Academic Press and CRC Publications and has several patents. After 3 years at the U of MN, Dr. Patel joined GE Medical System as Lead Designer where he worked for nine years holding several positions of increasing responsibilities like architect, manager and director of engineering. For last four years he was with Emageon Inc, a fast growing publically traded medical Imaging company in Birmingham. He joined Emageon as Director of Platform Engineering and then moved on to become the Vice-President of Technology Integration. He recently joined CircleSource as CIO.

Abhishek Porwal
C T O
Abhishek had strong product development experience working for global companies like Infosys and Aditi technologies. His keen research focus on the latest technology trends has given CircleSource a much needed competitive edge.
Abhishek graduated with an engineering degree in Textile Technology from IIT Delhi.

Sanchit Jain
C O O
Sanchit has worked for technology hotbeds like Tata Consultancy Services and Aditi Technologies. Sanchit holds the overall responsibility for building the company’s global services capabilities.
Sanchit graduated with an engineering degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering from IIT Roorkee (erstwhile University of Roorkee).

Alston Noah
Investor
Alston Noah's extensive background includes 22 years in technology. Alston was Chairman and CEO for EVault (www.evault.com) delivering Data Protection and Recovery Solutions for the Small to Medium Businesses. During his tenure with EVault, he raised over $20 million in equity and grew revenue from $1.5 million to $20 million annually. Prior to joining EVault, he was Vice President of CSC Enterprise Solutions (www.csc.com). His overall responsibilities included sales and marketing, corporate development, and consulting services. Alston was directly involved in managing the consulting services for human resources, financial, manufacturing, and distribution. He was Practice Director for Enterprise Solutions consisting of SAP, Oracle, and PeopleSoft.

Alston co-founded The Pinnacle Group in 1989. Beginning as the only consultant within the company, he traveled to various organizations, implementing and customizing human resource applications developing offices in North America, France and the UK. The Pinnacle Group was selected for the Inc. 500 Ranking of the Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America in 1994, 1995, 1996 and 1997. CSC acquired the Pinnacle Group in 1997.
Alston earned a BS in Computer Science from The University of Alabama.