Yellowdig hires former Goldman Sachs Technologist as VP Engineering

Date

8/30/2016 9:46:33 AM

(MENAFNEditorial) Strategic engineering hire at Yellowdig

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Philadelphia, August 30, 2016 Yellowdig, the leading Social learning SaaS platform for Higher Education, today announced the appointment of Shantanu Sharma Ph.D., as VP Engineering with leadership responsibilities for Yellowdigs technology infrastructure, software development and new data science initiatives.

Shantanu joins Yellowdig from Goldman Sachs where he was a Vice President in Goldman Sachs Technology Division, leading product development of scalable and regulation compliant software applications.

Dr. Sharma will report to Shaunak Roy, Yellowdigs Chief Executive Officer.

"We are delighted to welcome Shantanu to Yellowdig, further expanding the depth of our leadership team," said Mr. Roy. "Shantanu has a very impressive background and strong track record, with deep expertise in technology development, cloud computing and data science which are important topics for our customers. His hands on experience in academic research and teaching will be an asset to Yellowdig".

Prior to Goldman Sachs, Shantanu was a Lead Scientist at GE Global Research where he developed scalable data mining algorithms to discover actionable insights and trends in large scale datasets. He was an early employee at Mismi, a venture funded tech start-up, a Technology Vice President at Citigroup and a Quantitative Strategist at Tower Research Capital.

Dr. Sharma holds a PhD with Computational Biophysics emphasis from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Computer Science & Engineering bachelor degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He has taught courses to graduate and undergraduate level students and published over a dozen research articles having hundreds of citations in peer-reviewed journals and won multiple awards for his work.

PRESS AND SALES CONTACT
Scott Barnette, EVP Yellowdig
919-539-9206 | scott.barnetteyellowdig.com
www.yellowdig.com

About Yellowdig
Yellowdig is a mix between a social network and a course management tool. The Yellowdig platform helps establish knowledge communities, increase students knowledge of current affairs related to coursework, dramatically increase classroom participation and streamline communication.

Yellowdig was founded by Shaunak Roy, CEO of Yellowdig and completed pilots in several top universities, including Northwestern, UPenn, and Duke.

Learn more at www.yellowdig.com

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