MediaFriendly's founding team has extensive expertise in the media market, software
development and distribution technologies, and business operations.

Benjamin A. Davis - CEO

  • 21 years experience in the media business including:
    • Interactive Editor-Producer at MSNBC.com where he developed a programming model for integrating Internet and television content
    • Executive Producer at National Public Radio
    • Reporter-in-Training at CBS News
    • Assignment Editor at Fox News Network, ABC News
    • Reported at WBTV Charlotte, one of the first local television stations to computerize the newsroom.
  • Awarded nearly every major journalism award including two prestigious du Pont-Columbia awards for reporting and producing.
  • Trained in business management at the University of Michigan Business School's Executive Training Center; studied at the University of Copenhagen and received his Master's Degree in Journalism from Columbia University, Adjunct professor at Rutgers University.

Suresh Chaudhari - Chief Technology Officer/ Vice President

  • Founded and sold a successful software company focused on developing customized business software applications such as retirement management, inventory tracking/distribution, employee self assessment, budget tracking, and web based surveys.
  • 12 years of experience providing software solutions to large corporations and advising on strategic and architectural direction for computing platforms, operating systems, databases, middleware, enterprise management, messaging and collaborative computing solutions.
  • Experience includes Member of the Technical Staff and Enterprise Application Architect at Bell Labs/Lucent, IBM, Morgan Stanley and AT&T.
  • Served on the executive technology council of Lexmark international, Hewlett-Packard, Canon, and Xerox
  • B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and a M.S. in Information Systems from Stevens Institute of Technology.

Pulkit Desai - Director, Software Development

  • 15 years experience in software development, spanning from early micro-computers, mainframes, client servers to Web and wireless technology.
  • Held variety of technical leadership roles to help assess directions of current technologies and their value with emerging technologies and markets. Well versed in implementation of software and issues in Finance, Sales/Marketing, Manufacturing, Spend Management and HRMS.
  • Marine Corporal, Desert Storm, supply chain management.
 

 

 
 

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