mAmigo Team
Manoj Aggarwal –Founder CTO
Manoj brings more than 12 years of top notch expertise in the area of video analytics, computer vision, embedded systems & cutting edge video surveillance solutions. Manoj rapidly moved into leadership roles in Sarnoff in the US with revenues in excess of $100M. Manoj in his role as Technical Manager at Sarnoff was instrumental in booking millions of dollars of revenue with government and commercial customers. In his last 2 years at Sarnoff, Manoj was personally responsible for generating over $2 M in revenues. He was the driving force and key contributor to world’s most sophisticated video based detection and visualization technology that is deployed at critical infrastructure facilities around the globe. He has a B.S. from Indian Institute of Technology & a PhD in Computer Vision from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was awarded 2001 Ross J. Martin award for outstanding research by a graduate student in University of Illinois.
Christopher Lautz - Vice President, Operations
Christopher Lautz, has over 20-years of experience managing information technology programs and projects. His past experience includes IT Division Director at Natek Inc. where he was responsible for 125 employees and profit and loss for an operation valued at over $125M. He was also Director of Technology for L-3 Communications where he managed the product development for software supporting video business applications either developed in-house or purchased from research and development venture companies. These products are currently deployed and represent a large segment of L-3 Communications product base. Mr. Lautz has a bachelor's degree from the University of Washington; continuing education in telecommunications engineering from the State University of New York; and certificate in network engineering from the University of Washington.
Akhil Kumar- Chief Architect
Akhil is a guru in software product development including multimedia, internet, mobile and embedded technologies, with over 12 years of top notch experience. He was Senior Architect with IBM in India before joining Mamigo. He has led several software product development efforts from concept to delivery. He combines the design and architecture skills required to build large, complex and scalable software systems with extreme and agile programming methodologies required for rapid feature delivery to end users. He holds an MS from Indian Institute of Science – India’s top research institute. During his last 18 months, at IBM, he was evangelizing the usage of 3D virtual worlds in business applications with a focus on next generation visualization technologies.