Ravi Kulasekaran is a serial entrepreneur based out of Silicon Valley, California. With over 20 years of industry experience, he is passionate about building technology startup companies and motivated teams. Currently he is working in the capacity of founder and CEO of Colabus and Stridus. Other companies that he had founded and run include Adtvworld, Appshop and Simplify.

Ravi was the founder and CEO of Appshop (now part of AT&T) - the largest independent and highly successful ASP specializing in Oracle Applications. With over 250 employees worldwide, Appshop pioneered solutions to provide the highest quality in data center management for Enterprise Applications and set the gold standards for the delivery and management of Oracle Applications. He was instrumental in the successful acquisition of Appshop by US Internetworking.

Ravi worked at Oracle Corporation in the Oracle Services Group and Applications development group. He also served as an instructor for the Oracle Consulting boot camps. Prior to that, Ravi worked as a systems engineer for Valisys Corporation, specializing in CIM and concurrent engineering solutions for major aerospace, defense, and automotive companies.