Harbour Bridge Ventures Principals
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KIRAN CHHAGANLAL |
Mr. Chhaganlal is a Co-Founder and Principal of Harbour Bridge Ventures, Inc. (www.HBVinc.com). He is also the Founder and Managing Partner of Florida Technology Partners, LLP of Orlando, Florida, established in 2000. FTP has set up and manages a network of Angel investors funding early-stage technology companies. FTP also works with some of its portfolio companies in commercializing their technologies. FTP portfolio companies have raised over US $700 Million in funding between them. He is also Co-Founder, President and CEO and a Director of Ius Juris, LLC (www.IusJuris.com) a firm providing outsourced services to corporate and private practice attorneys. Mr. Chhaganlal arrived in USA in early 2000 from New Zealand, where he held a variety of Senior Executive roles in the telecommunications and wireless industries in New Zealand. With Telecom New Zealand, he played a key role in transforming it from a Government Department, into a private company, which was sold to Bell Atlantic and Ameritech, both of USA, for NZ$4.2 Billion (US$2.5 Billion). Telecom then had a successful IPO. With BellSouth New Zealand, Kiran helped start-up the company to build out a nation-wide GSM wireless telecommunications network. The company, owned by BellSouth of USA and Singapore Technologies of Singapore, was sold to Vodafone in UK for NZ$750 Million in 1998. Mr. Chhaganlal was a key player in the entire process of building up the company and in its sale. He stayed for almost a year with Vodafone New Zealand and Australasia after the sale, before deciding to come to USA. Mr. Chhaganlal graduated as a Barrister and Solicitor with law degrees from the London School of Economics and Grays’ Inn, both in London, England, as well as from Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. He has practiced law in England, Fiji, and New Zealand. His areas of specialty have been Corporate Law and Intellectual Property. Mr. Chhaganlal has over 18 years of Senior Executive experience in the telecommunications, wireless, and Internet industries. He has created and led Business Development, Commercial, Legal, Regulatory, and Corporate Communications departments in companies owned by American, British, and Singaporean multi-nationals. He has extensive operational experience in start-ups, IPO’s, and acquisitions, together with an in-depth background in international business development, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region as well as in USA. Mr. Chhaganlal has been elected National President of the New Zealand Corporate Lawyers Association. He also has been a Charter Member of Rotary International as a member of the Rotary Club of Auckland Harbourside. He is also a Co-Founder, Charter Member and President of TiE Florida, a Chapter of TiE, which is an organization focused on entrepreneurs. He has spent at least 8 years each in India, Fiji, England, and New Zealand, and now has been in USA for 9 years. |
