Our Team

Alap is the Chief Executive Officer at Sentieo, leveraging nearly a decade of experience as a professional investor to help design and build tools to enhance the finance professional's workflow. Most recently, Alap was an analyst in Citadel's Global Equities business, where he covered global consumer equities. Prior to this, he was an analyst at Viking Global Investors, where he also focused on global consumer equities. Alap received a BA in Economics with honors from Harvard University.

Naman is President and he also leads the product team at Sentieo, drawing on nearly 15 years of experience in technology entrepreneurship and organizational development. Prior to Sentieo, Naman launched and led multiple startups in the US and in India. Most notably, he co-founded Sarvajal, an award-winning clean water social enterprise that improves proprietary filtration hardware and microfinance-driven distribution. Naman holds a BS in Biology with honors from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

David Lichtblau serves as chief operating officer for Sentieo. He was previously chief executive officer for ETF.com, provider of news, data, analytics, and research on exchange-traded funds, which he led through the acquisition by Bats Global Markets (now CBOE). Prior to ETF.com, David led the next-generation product line for portfolio managers and analysts at Thomson Reuters. He joined Thomson Reuters via the acquisition of StarMine, a startup that offered equity analytics and research tools for professional investors. As the first executive hire, David founded the product management, marketing and media relations teams. David earned his B.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

Rajdeep leads technology at Sentieo, with nearly a decade of experience in developing high performance and low latency technology stacks. Prior to Sentieo, Rajdeep worked in various tech roles at Texas Instruments and Hindustan Times. He plunged into startup world with his own social startup Anahat and has since worked or consulted almost half a dozen startups in education, healthcare, finance and social. Rajdeep holds BE in Electronics & Communication from NSIT and management program from IIM C.

Paul brings 20 years of making things happen for organizations through marketing. He has helped scale the performance of businesses large and small, including Microsoft’s data center management portfolio, Alteryx’s data blending and analytics, and Business Objects business intelligence. He has a passion for disrupting established business models.

James leads all sales functions at Sentieo. Prior to Sentieo, James was a Corporate Account Executive at PernixData (acquired by Nutanix). At PernixData, he joined pre-revenue and was part of the sales team that scaled revenues from 0 - 500 customers and revenues of 20M. Before that, James started his career in Business Sales at Apple. James holds a BA in Economics from UC Berkeley.