My work bio below, and for more of the professional stuff, you can see my LinkedIn page.
I can be reached at upendra [@] shardanand [.] com.
Upendra Shardanand is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Daylife, which helps publishers source, manage, and compose content into new forms of storytelling.
He co-founded his first venture, Firefly Network, as a spin-off of his work at the MIT Media Lab. (Upendra’s graduate thesis centered on collaborative filtering, the recommendation technology now commonplace on the web). Firefly Network was a pioneer in personalization and several web technologies, and was acquired by Microsoft in 1998.
At Microsoft, Upendra launched Microsoft Passport, and worked on Microsoft’s privacy initiatives, serving on industry bodies to further the cause of online privacy. Following Microsoft, Upendra was a founding partner of The Accelerator Group, a venture firm with offices in New York, Los Angeles, and London. He went on to serve as the Director of Technology at Time Warner Corporate.
Mr. Shardanand received in 1994 a Masters of Engineering (as well as his undergraduate degree) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Mr. Shardanand serves on the board of directors for BluMail and the board of advisors for Treehugger, BrandKarma, Help Remedies and Wee-Web. Previously, Mr. Shardanand has served on the board of advisors to the Better Business Bureau Online, PeoplePC (acquired by EarthLink), MediaCode (acquired by Yahoo), RealNames, and InsightFirst (acquired by 24/7 RealMedia).
