Nilanjana Bhowmik

Bio

Nilanjana joined Longworth in 2003 and focuses on infrastructure, software and mobile investments. Prior to joining Longworth, Nilanjana was a Vice President, Mergers & Acquisitions, at Broadview (now Jefferies), an investment banking firm where she led buy and sell side transactions for several hi-tech companies in software, services and digital media. Nilanjana began her career at Object Design Inc., an object-oriented database and B2B software vendor. At Object Design, she held several positions through the company's fast growth from a venture backed, Inc. #1 Private Company in 1994 to a successful IPO in 1996 and beyond, including running the professional services organization for the Americas, in which role she was in charge of delivering a third of the company's annual revenues. She currently serves on the boards of Cellufun (mobile social gaming network), Nimbusdb (cloud database), Symform (cloud storage), Viewfinity (cloud security) and VKernel (virtual server management). Her other investments and prior portfolio involvements include Scanbuy (mobile barcode imaging), Marathon Technologies (server high availability), Tizor (acquired by Netezza), Softricity (acquired by Microsoft) and Thor Technologies (acquired by Oracle). She is a charter member and serves on the board of the Boston chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE). She received a Bachelor in Engineering in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, an MS in Computer Science from the University of South Carolina, and an MBA from INSEAD.