Our Management
Sanjay Kamlani
Sanjay Kamlani is a co-founder and Co-CEO of
Pangea3. Prior to forming Pangea3, Sanjay was
the CFO & General Counsel of OfficeTiger
B.V., a multi-national professional support
services outsourcing company. In 2003, Sanjay
lived in Chennai, India managing OfficeTiger's
India facility. Prior to becoming a member of
the founding management team at OfficeTiger
in 2000, Sanjay was a Senior Manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers
in New York where he developed and managed the
US firm's India International Business Network
advising US and India-based multinationals on
structuring and implementing cross-border business
investments, acquisitions and operations in
India and the U.S. His major clients included
AT&T, Ford Motor Company, Hughes Electronics,
Lucent, Cognizant, NASDAQ-Software Solutions
International, Softbank and Syntel. Sanjay's
experience at OfficeTiger coupled with his experience
at PwC working with that firm's 2,000 plus professionals
to deliver cross border business solutions and
advisory services to U.S. clients amounts to
more than 10 years of experience in professional
services outsourcing from India. Sanjay holds
a BA, Cum Laude, Duke University; a JD from
the University of Pennsylvania Law School where
he served as an Associate Editor of the Law
Review; and an LLM, New York University Law
School. Sanjay is a Member of the New York and
New Jersey Bars.
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David Perla
David Perla is a co-founder
and Co-CEO of Pangea3. A business affairs executive
and a corporate transactional and operational
expert, as well as a seasoned corporate lawyer,
David was until July 2004 the Vice President
- Business & Legal Affairs for Monster,
the leading global online careers property,
with over 1,000 employees and over $500 million
in annual revenue. At Monster, David oversaw
all corporate transactions, including mergers
and acquisitions, strategic alliances, partnerships
and investments. David also built and managed
Monster's business affairs/legal department.
As head of business and legal affairs at Monster,
David oversaw Monster's facilities department,
served as a member of Monster's senior management
team, reporting to the COO of Monster Worldwide,
Inc., and oversaw a $6+ million P & L. Prior
to joining Monster Worldwide, David had a 4-1/2
year career at Katten Muchin Zavis & Rosenman,
a prestigious national law firm. At KMZR, David
specialized in mergers & acquisitions, corporate
financing and media and internet-related corporate
and international transactions, including financings,
joint ventures, strategic alliances and partnerships.
His major clients included Sony Music, Sony
Pictures, Sony Online Ventures and SFX Entertainment.
David graduated cum laude from the University
of Pennsylvania and later earned his law degree
from the University of Pennsylvania, where he
was the winner of the school's Keedy Cup Moot
Court Competition. David lectures and is quoted
frequently on legal and internet related issues,
and was profiled in a July 2002 cover story
in the National Law Journal entitled "Riding
the Wave." David is a Member of the New York
and Massachusetts Bars.
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S. Lata Setty
S. Lata Setty, a patent attorney
and scientist, brings more than ten years of
experience in intellectual property law and
management to her role as Vice President of
Intellectual Property at Pangea3. Lata has provided
a wide range of IP services, from enforcing
infringed patents to transforming intellectual
capital into innovation assets by maximizing
their economic value and generating strategically
innovative approaches to business growth, serving
at Fish & Neave, LLP, Kaye Scholer, LLP
and Robins Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, LLP.
Prior to joining Pangea3, Lata served as the
former General Counsel of Patent Café,
a patent-focused Internet start-up that developed
the first concept-based patent search engine
including a 6-Sigma quality database of over
21 million international patents and at The
View Group, a Venture Capital fund focusing
on India-oriented companies and technologies.
Lata received her law degree from the University
of Iowa, where she was an editor of the Law
Review and the recipient of a full-tuition merit
scholarship. She holds an M.Sc. from the Medical
College of Georgia, where she also had a full-tuition
scholarship, and a B.Sc. with honors from the
University of Georgia. She is a member of the
Bars of Minnesota, the American Bar Association
and American Intellectual Property Law Association.
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Daniel C. Savitt
Daniel C. Savitt joined Pangea3
in May 2005 as Vice President - Litigation.
Dan has over seven years of experience in complex
commercial litigations, including multi-party
reinsurance disputes, recoveries on export credit
insurance policies for foreign export-import
bank, asset sale contests in Chapter 11 bankruptcy
proceedings, investigations of fidelity of lenders,
directors and officers of insolvent public and
private companies, commercial Section 1983 claims,
securities brokers' compensation disputes and
multiple commercial real estate disputes. He
has also advised corporate clientele in federal
and state litigations, administrative hearings,
mediations and AAA and NASD arbitrations. As
an experienced litigator, Dan has independently
deposed and defended numerous witnesses, negotiated
settlement and related agreements, drafted briefs
and affidavits supporting and opposing dispositive
motions in federal and state courts and in arbitrations
and successfully argued procedural and substantive
motions in state and federal courts. He has
also supervised junior associates on research
assignments, large-scale document production,
and drafting briefs and discovery requests and
responses. Dan obtained his honors degree from
The Pennsylvania State University and then spent
a year as a compliance investigator with the
Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange. He subsequently
earned his law degree from Cornell Law School,
where he worked actively with the Cornell Death
Penalty Clinic. Before joining Pangea3, Dan
was with Arent Fox in its New York office and
prior to that was with Thelen Reid & Priest
in its New York office. Dan is a member of the
New York Bar and the Southern and Eastern Districts
of New York.
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Kevin Colangelo
Kevin Colangelo, Vice President,
U.S. Legal Services, arrived at Pangea3 in 2006
with more than ten years of experience in the
outsourcing industry. Prior to joining Pangea3,
he practiced corporate law at Shaw Pittman and
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel in New York
City, where he specialized in outsourcing and
technology transactions, including IT and business
process outsourcing agreements; application
development, implementation and distribution
agreements; software licensing and maintenance
agreements; e-commerce and other Internet-related
agreements; and technology acquisition and consulting
agreements. He has substantial experience representing
both outsourcing consumers and service providers,
with clients that include Pfizer, Lehman Brothers,
Universal Music Group, MetLife, TD Bank Financial
Group and OppenheimerFunds. Kevin has been recognized
in the outsourcing industry as a thought-leader
and expert negotiator who takes a business-first
approach to dealmaking. He regularly lectures
and writes on legal and business issues related
to the outsourcing industry.
Kevin received his J.D. degree from Vermont
Law School (cum laude) in 1994 and his B.A.
from Hamilton College in 1989. Kevin is a member
of the bars of New York and New Jersey, and
is admitted to practice in the United States
Court of International Trade and in the United
States District Court for the Southern District
of New York.
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Jonathan Goldstein
Jonathan Goldstein joined Pangea3 after a career
as an entrepreneur and attorney, bringing to Pangea3
more than 15 years of experience working with
attorneys and other knowledge professionals. Mr.
Goldstein was the founder and President of Urban
Technology Group, Inc., a technology services
company focused on improving collaboration in
the learned professions. According to the Philadelphia
Business Journal, Urban Technology Group, Inc.
was the fastest growing services company in Philadelphia
from 2000-2002. In 2002, Mr. Goldstein won the
Philadelphia Business Journal's 40 Under 40 award
as one of the most influential Philadelphians
under the age of 40. From 2002 to 2004, Mr. Goldstein
also served as an Adjunct Professor in Temple
University's Fox School of Business teaching entrepreneurship
and computer science to both undergraduates and
M.B.A. candidates. Mr. Goldstein received his
undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania
in 1993. He returned to the University of Pennsylvania
for law school, earning his J.D. in 2005 after
serving on Penn Law's Intellectual Property Moot
Court team and serving as a member of the Benjamin
Franklin Inn of Court. Mr. Goldstein is admitted
to practice law in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and
the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Prior to
joining Pangea3, he practiced law with Blank Rome
LLP in Philadelphia.
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Marilyn O. Primiano
Marilyn O. Primiano serves as Vice President - Legal Services, and works in Pangea3's Mumbai, India office. Marilyn brings several years of direct Indian legal and business experience to Pangea3, having served as a senior executive in the legal outsourcing division of another Indian outsourcing firm.
Prior to her career in Indian legal services outsourcing, Marilyn practiced law for four years with the Philadelphia based law firm of Dilworth Paxson, LLP where her practice focused on complex litigation and bankruptcy. She received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and her J.D. from Villanova University School of Law. She is licensed to practice law in
Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
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Rita Ghosh
Rita Ghosh, Vice President, Patent Operations,
comes with more than ten years of experience
in patent law and management. Prior to joining
Pangea3, she practiced patent law at Kaye Scholer,
LLP in New York City and at Cooley Godward,
LLP in Northern California, where she specialized
in pharmaceutical, biotech and medical devices
patent practice, including brand name v. generic
drug (Hatch-Waxman) suits, patent extension,
patent listing, patent misuse and drug labeling,
and antitrust and licensing issues in the context
of patent matters. In addition, her experience
extends to pharmaceutical patent litigation
involving organic compounds, the active pharmaceutical
ingredient, pharmaceutical formulations and
technologies involving slow-release mechanisms,
pharmaceutical excipients and polymorphic forms.
Rita also has experience in patent drafting,
prosecution and opinion work in the biotech,
pharmaceutical and medical devices arenas.
In addition to her experience in patent practice,
Rita has expertise in statutory and regulatory
laws regarding the FDA application and approval
process for new and generic drugs, medical devices,
and non-patent exclusivities such as new chemical
entity, first-to-file generic drug, method of
treatment and new indications.
Prior to her legal career, Rita worked as a
research scientist in the areas of molecular
biology at Cornell University Graduate School
of Medical Sciences in New York City where she
earned her M.S. degree, and in clinical genetics
at The Rockefeller University and at Roche Biomedical
Laboratories.
Rita received her J.D. degree from New York
Law School (magna cum laude). In addition, she
also has a M.Sc. and B.Sc (Honors) from
Delhi University.
Rita is a member of the bars of California and
New York. She is also admitted to practice before
the United States Patent and Trademark Office
and in the United States District Courts for
the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.
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Antony Alex
Antony is the
Vice President of Legal Services at Pangea 3.
Prior to joining, Antony was a Partner at Kochhar
& Co. He is a general corporate and commercial
lawyer with a focus on banking and financing transactions.
Antony has considerable expertise in restructuring,
bankruptcy and insolvency matters as well as in
sale and purchase of stressed assets. He has worked
on financing transactions ranging from plain vanilla
lending to structured finance and securitization.
Financing and security documentation pertaining
to corporate financing is his forte. He also has
experience in advising private equity/venture
capital funds in their investments in India. He
has handled project finance transactions in the
power sector that are based on conventional and
non-conventional sources of energy. Further, he
has extensive general corporate law experience
that includes M&A, foreign investment, incorporation
of companies, drafting and negotiating agreements
including joint ventures, technology transfers,
etc. He has also served as a legal counsel for
a life insurance company.
Antony speaks regularly at international conferences
and recently presented a paper on “Payment
systems in e-commerce – India” at
an international conference in Seattle. He is
an active member of the Finance & Taxation
sub-committee of the Confederation of Indian Industry
(CII). He is also a member of the British Business
Group, Inter Pacific Bar Association and the Bar
Council of Maharashtra & Goa. Antony holds
an Honors Degree in Arts and Law from the National
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Mohan Ayyangar
Mohan Ayyangar, CTO (India):
Mohan joined Pangea3 from Solix Technologies,
a Silicon Valley based company focused on enterprise
software applications and services with an emphasis
Oracle Technologies. Mohan's expertise includes:
project and operations management; telecommunications
and IT enabled services infrastructures; implementation
of complex CRM solutions; solutions architect
for IP networks, databases, groupware, knowledge
management platforms, web application hosting
and development environments. Mohan's varied
roles at Solix have given him experience in
business case analysis, pre-sales, business
development, and general client relationship
management. Mohan's technical competencies include:
Suites/Tools: Oracle 11i eBusiness suite CRM
modules, Sema BSCS 6.0 and Targys;
Groupware: MS Exchange Server and Lotus Notes,
Microsoft Share Point Portal Server and Share
Point Team services;
Application/Web Servers: Apache Tomcat, IIS,
Oracle applications server;
Operating Environments: Windows and UNIX (Solaris);
Networks: Windows or UNIX based heterogeneous
TCP/IP networks;
IDEs: Oracle forms/reports;
Terminal Servers: Citrix, Microsoft Terminal
Services.
Mohan holds Bachelor of Science degree in Physics,
Bombay University
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