Ullas is a Managing Director with Globespan and works out of the
firm's Palo Alto office. He serves on the boards of BladeLogic,
Certeon, Copan Systems, GlassHouse Technologies, Millennial Net,
Nantero, and Revivio. and was formerly on the board of Pirus Networks
(acquired by Sun Microsystems). Ullas is also actively involved with
Globespan's investments in Incipient, m-Qube, and Virtusa.
Prior
to Globespan, Ullas was a Managing Director in JAFCO Venture's Boston
office, where he was responsible for several of the firm's software and
infrastructure investments. Prior to JAFCO Ventures, Ullas was a Senior
Vice President in the Technology Research Group at FAC-Equities/First
Albany. At FAC-Equities, he led the public financings of companies
including IDT Corp. (IDTC), Critical Path (CPTH), Forrester Research
(FORR), Mainspring (MSPR - acquired by IBM), NaviSite (NAVI), and USWeb
(USWB - acquired by MarchFirst). During his tenure at FAC-Equities,
Ullas was rated by Fortune magazine as a Wall Street "All Star" and by
The Wall Street Journal as one the top technology analysts in the
country.
While at FAC-Equities, Ullas was an active angel
investor in leading technology companies including Arbinet (ARBX),
Critical Path (CPTH), Ecora, InterTrust (ITRU), iRobot and others. He
began his career as the founder and operator of a specialty chemicals
trading company in India. Ullas received an MBA from Bentley College
and a BS in Chemistry from Bombay University.
