Soujanya is CEO and co-founder of Cooliris, which is creating the world's best experience for the navigation and discovery of content. Cooliris is Soujanya's third start-up. Soujanya is passionate about building great teams to create products that contribute awesomeness to the world.

Prior to Cooliris, Soujanya co-founded Vazu, which was in the business of messaging from desktops to mobile phones. Soujanya also co-founded Tamarind, a profitable company in the business of human performance evaluation. Tamarinds' key premise is that "your opinion about someone else's performance is proportional to your own performance". Before Tamarind, Soujanya led business at Panopticon, solving the challenge of online, real-time, intelligent merchandizing. Soujanya and the team grew the business and led the company's integration into Kana post $108M acquisition.

Soujanya completed his MBA from the University of Chicago after working in the consumer food industry with Pioneer Foods and Nestle. Soujanya has a masters degree in Chemical Engineering and takes special effort to stay extremely close to family and friends.

Austin is CTO and co-founder of Cooliris. Austin was a masters degree student in Computer Science at Stanford University specializing in artificial intelligence, and stepped out to lead technology and product development for the Cooliris platform. Austin is fluent in Spanish and Mandarin Chinese.

Prior to his involvement with Cooliris, Austin worked at Apple Computer for seven years, contributing to product development efforts in several divisions. In 1995, Austin began testing pre-release software and hardware for the company on a voluntary basis. In 1999, Austin joined Apple as a software intern in the HR division, and subsequently moved to the Mac OS X engineering team in 2001, where he worked with the Human Interface group to develop several user interface prototypes that substantially influenced product design over the years. Austin was an engineer on the team that created iPhoto, Apple's consumer digital photography solution, and later wrote the timeline and clip shelf UI for iMovie, Apple's consumer video editing software. Austin rejoined the operating system team in 2004 to work on Spotlight, the desktop search engine built into Mac OS X 10.4.

Before working at Apple, Austin co-founded a dial-up Internet service provider that grew to span the west coast of Florida. The company, NetLine Communications, was sold in 1996 to Comcast Cable.

As an undergraduate, Austin competed on the rowing team, an endeavor that culminated in racing as part of the boat that won Stanford's first rowing national championship in 2005.

Sebastian is the VP of Business Development at Cooliris. He joined the company from T-Venture, the venture capital arm of Deutsche Telekom, where he served as Managing Director in their Silicon Valley office. As part of this role, Sebastian fundamentally drove partnerships between startup companies and Deutsche Telekom throughout Europe and the US. Prior T-Ventures, Sebastian worked in Sales and Marketing for Unilever, Germany.

Sebastian holds an MBA from NIMBAS Bradford Graduate School of Management, Utrecht, Netherlands, and a BA in business from Berufsakademie Stuttgart.