Founders

Open Computing Institute is Founded by Dr. Sunit Gala and Saumil Chheda. They are both have advanced degrees from the United States and have combined experience of 30+ years in the open computing field. Below are brief biographical sketches of our founders.

Sunit Gala

Sunit Gala is the founder of Open Computing Institute and the CEO of Blisstering Solutions, an open source web development company with a focus on the LAMP stack and Drupal. Most recently, he was VP of Product Development at CareSeek, a Web 2.0 start-up in the Healhcare space. Prior to that he was at Oracle responsible for Pre-sales Enablement and Solutioning for all Business Intelligence product lines in the North American Sales organization, a $100 million business. Sunit was also at SAS Institute, responsible for setting up a high-tech sales practice. He has held technical and management positions at Oracle, Sybase and UniSQL. More details about him can be found at:

http://www.linkedin.com/in/sunitgala

Sunit has published over 20 academic articles on object-relational, distributed and semantic database systems. He earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville, and BE (Instrumentation) from BITS, Pilani.

Saumil Chheda

Saumil Chheda has 10+ years experience in Technology, out of which he spent 9 years in Silicon Valley. He co-founded Blisstering Solutions to address India’s mobile and digital entertainment market. He most recently managed the Professional Services group at Apptera - a leading Voice Advertising Network. He architected and implemented key portions of Apptera’s flagship product, including the their patent pending IVR Voice Ad Player. Prior to that, he has held engineering management and product management roles at Airnex Communications and NextFocus.


Saumil holds a M.S. in Software Engineering and a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering. More details about him can be found at:

http://www.linkedin.com/in/schheda