Srini comes with many years of experience in innovating new products, driving global R&D initiatives and building large scale organizations from scratch. Prior to joining SETU as a chairman, Srini was Microsoft Corporate Vice President and MD, Microsoft India Development Center.

Srini was involved in many strategic initiatives throughout his 21 years career at Microsoft. He worked in Redmond for 9 years as an R&D leader creating important technologies like COM, played leadership role in Office R&D group in developing Office 95 and Office 97, and holds several U.S. patents. Srini moved to India in 1998 to set up Microsoft India Development Center (MSIDC). Over the next 12 years Srini evolved MSIDC from a start-up to a major hub innovation where 1500 plus employees develop major products and technologies that impact millions of Microsoft customers across the world. While growing MSIDC to become Microsoft's largest product development center outside of US, Srini was personally involved in driving the incubation of RFID technologies and emerging market initiatives at MSIDC. Srini played a major role in driving Microsoft's global software development strategy partnering with leaders of China and Israel development centers and many MS senior executives. He created a strong brand for MSIDC and made it the primary destination for India's top talent!

After leaving Microsoft in October 2010, Srini started advising and investing in start-ups and has been playing a leadership role in Hyderabad Angel Network. He joined SETU in September 2011 to pursue his passion for nurturing the start-up ecosystem and contributing to the improvement of education in India.

Prasad has a rich technology background and is responsible for the development and productization of core SETU technologies. He brings more than 12 years of diverse experience in IT industry and immense research and technology strength.

Prior to co-founding SETU, Prasad focused on Indian Language Information Access technologies as part of his doctoral research where he built first commercial quality search engine for most of the Indian languages. Prasad is also an adjunct faculty at IIIT Hyderabad for the past 5 years. Earlier, he worked with two startups in the Silicon Valley to extract information from semi structured documents such as product catalogues. He realized this work requires deeper exploration and joined in a PhD program at IIIT Hyderabad with Vasu as an advisor. He led the teams participating in very prestigious contests hosted by organizations like NIST and CLEF and created technologies that are ranked world # 1 in the areas of summarization, question answering, etc.

Vasu brings scientific and business leadership to SETU with his unique background in start-ups, large corporations and academic institutions. He co-founded SETU in 2008 along with Prasad.

Vasu is also a faculty member at IIIT, Hyderabad where he is the head of Search & Information Extraction Lab (SIEL) and also the chair of Post Graduate Programs. His research interests include search (information retrieval), information extraction, information access, knowledge management, cloud computing and software engineering. He was visiting professor at UPV, Valencia, Spain (Summer 2007), UBO, Bretagne, France (Summer 2009) and Language Technologies Institute, CMU, Pittsburgh, USA (Summer 2010). He authored a book on Software Architecture: A Case based Approach under Pearson Publications and published over 120 international research papers and journals. After earning his PhD in Natural Language Processing, in 1996, from University of Hyderabad, Vasu worked in Citicorp, New York, as a Senior Consultant and then in two Silicon Valley based start-ups in executive management.