Udhay Shankar N is one of the pioneers in the online scene  in  India.
He has been a well-known voice in online circles since the early  90s,
having run the first and only multi-line BBS in  Bangalore,  Infomart;
and has been active on several of the other BBSes around the  country.
He has  also  written  extensively  about  the  internet  and  related
technologies in various technical and general journals, and is a noted
speaker at various industry events.

He currently  works  with  the  Market  Analytics  Solutions  group at
Symphony  Services, serving  as  the  sole interface between the sales
team in the US and the delivery teams in India.

He  has  also  played senior roles within the Yahoo! R&D operations in 
Bangalore; and Iponics, an incubator VC firm based in Bangalore, India, 
where he worked  with  various  early-stage companies to develop their  
product,  strategy  and  marketing roadmaps.

Prior to this, he was part of the core team at Unimobile,  helping  to
launch and popularise the  world's  first  consumer-oriented  wireless
internet  product.  He  ran  the  online  PR  program  for  Unimobile,
interfacing with media, analysts and other online opinion leaders.  He
also built and ran the consumer acquisition team at Unimobile and  led
it to over a million consumers.

He has been a consultant of note  in  the  past,  having  founded  the
internet strategy consultancy Arachnis, and also had  established  the
internet practice of Data-Core Systems (India). He was  also  part  of
the team that launched the SIFY family of portals in 1998.

As Regional Manager of the first web development  firm  in  Bangalore,
India in 1995-96, he interfaced between clients  and  the  development
team, and explained the advantages of  the  web  to  various  industry
leaders.

As Marketing Chief at Innovative Computer Labs, he helped  to  pioneer
the concepts of architectural CADD  and  multimedia  consulting.  Many
prominent architectural consultancies were among his clients.

He has been a leader in the online  community  scene  in  India  since
1993. He is a founder member of the Linux Users Group in Bangalore and
is the India co-ordinator of the Cypherpunks cryptography SIG. He  has
also been active in various forms  of  online  activism  --  see,  for
example, http://www.digeratus.com/articles/art-activism.html -- and is
currently co-ordinating the preparation of a position  paper  for  the
Government of India on some technical issues with their guidelines for
ISPs. He is also active in various other virtual communities  such  as
FoRK and the TBTF Irregulars.

Further   details   can   be   found   at   his   personal    website,
http://www.digeratus.com -- in particular, the online version  of  his
résumé is to be found at http://www.digeratus.com/udhay_detailed.html