Gopi Ganapathy is Founder, President & CEO of Essentia, a product and services company focused on open source platforms, online customer experience and software as a service. He also serves as a partner in MNC Group, a diversified investment and technology incubation firm. A successful repeat entrepreneur and seasoned executive,  Gopi served as the President/CEO of CollabNet India and as its Vice President of Engineering leading early deployments of many well known open source projects like Open Office, Java and Subversion. He was a founder of Enlite Networks serving as it’s President and CEO from inception in 1999 until it’s acquisition in 2002. Gopi was also  Vice President of marketing at a billion dollar software company, served as CTO of a public company and held a variety of executive leadership and technical management roles in well known silicon valley companies including Cadence Design Systems [CDN], Silicon Valley Research [SVR] and AMD. Gopi has a Ph.D. from University of Texas at Austin with numerous patents and publications.