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Ikens Solutions

Iken, a software product company specialized in intelligent business systems backed by hybrid AI (Artificial Intelligence) techniques (expert system, case-based reasoning, neural networks and genetic algorithms). It is an IIT Bombay research spin-off

Startup type: Company
Status: Active
Stage: Profitable
Publicity: Open to speaking to journalists.
Funding: Self-funded
Industries: Entertainment, Information Technology, Internet, Mobile
Location: Mumbai, India
Website: http://www.ikensolutions.com
More info: CrunchBase

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04 July 2009

Ikens Solutions updated their description and updated their logo

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03 July 2009

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03 July 2009

Antonio Peña joined the team.

Antonio has 10 years experience in the IT industry developing different companies in LATAM all with great success. Antonio heads and manages Ikens Solutions Americas strategy; he is in charge of developing the Americas rollup of the company.
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03 July 2009

Antonio Peña created the startup

ABOUT US


Siddharth Goel CEO
Siddharth CEO of iKen Solutions. Backed with a Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, he has also worked with Goldman Sachs and Diamond Cluster International in the United States. Siddharth saw the mobile phone as the platform for telecom, media, and technology convergence. India today is one of the fastest growing cellular markets in the world and it will play a strategic role in the global mobile data services industry. iKen Solutions is well positioned to take advantage of the tremendous growth opportunities which exist in India and beyond.

Aditya Goel CFO
A Bachelors in Business Administration with a minor in marketing and MIS from Purdue University, Aditya heads marketing and global sales.

He's been instrumental in forging global alliances and partnerships with leading mobile operators and top multinational companies.

Aditya has an eye for opportunity and has leveraged his market know how to build iKen´s global network. His other responsibilities include finance and client servicing.


Antonio Peña General Manager Americas
Antonio has 10 years experience in the IT industry developing different companies in Latam all with great success. Antonio heads and manages iKen Solutions strategy; he is in charge of developing the Americas rollup of the company. His experience includes the develop of Novacash the first non banking debit card system in Latin America for buying on internet, mobile phones and money send system. In 2001 Antonio started ITegra a technology businesses development company with HQ in Buenos Aires, were he developed different IT businesses in latam. Such as Mobile2biz a marketing and entertainment mobile company, merged with Netpeople International the bigger gateway and mobile content company in Latam. He also developed MundoMovil, a provider of electronic prepaid voucher solutions that after a successful rollup in Argentina was sold to Cargaya. Today Antonio is also co founder and Vicepresident of Mobile Monday Buenos Aires chapter.



Francisco R. Okecki Director
Francisco is leading the penetration to the Brazilian market and taking care of the overall business and corporate legal structure for iKen Solutions. Francisco is a lawyer graduated from the Argentina Catholic University (1997) with specialization in commercial law, media and broadcasting, mergers and acquisitions, corporate structuring and reorganization, intellectual property rights, telecommunications and technology and as an entrepreneur developing his own ventures with his partners in Itegra (www.itegra.com.ar) and in Altergaia (www.altergaia.com), this latter shareholder of Cellent Americas. As a lawyer Francisco acquired his experience in the top Argentine Law Firm M. & M. Bomchil (www.bomchil.com) and as an entrepreneur Francisco acquired his experience in (a) e-commerce (he founded Amarata.com former Pampashop.com, leaded the e-commerce department of PSINet in Argentina and Uruguay), (b) mobile entertainment (he founded Mobile2biz merged in 2006 with Net People International www.netpeople.com); (c) the mobile prepaid recharge industry (he founded MundoMovil sold to Cargaya www.cargaya.com), (d) the mobile payment industry (he founded TopKash International www.topkash.com) and (e) the mobile marketing and advertising industry (he founded M4biz www.m4biz.com) and Bueeno www.bueeno.com).

José F. Ugarte VP Commercial
José leads carrier and handset manufacturer relationship for iKen Solutions. José worked at CTI Móvil – www.cti.com.ar -(GTE, Verizon and actually hold by América Móvil) expanding international roaming agreements and launching SMS services and content business (1998-2000) in the Marketing department. During 2001 he joined Telefónica Movistar’s – www.movistar.com.ar -business development department in Argentina where he worked on the launching of new services, coordinating the development of the new company´s website, defining premium content strategy, managing commercial relationship with aggregators, national and international licensors. During 2003 he got elected for a Corporate exchange program with Movistar Spain – www.movistar.es -, where he joined the Spanish business development team. In 2006 José joined Itegra -www.itegra.com.ar- a technology business development company, with headquarters in Buenos Aires. Itegra developed different technology businesses in Argentina since 2001, such as Mobile2biz -www.mobile2biz.com and www.futmovil.com-, merged in 2006 with Netpeople International -www.net-people.com-, MundoMovil S.A which after a successful rollup in Argentina was sold to Cargaya S.A.-www.cargaya.com- and TopKash International -www.topkash.com- a mobile payment company.


Mario Zorz VP Technology and Operations
Mario is leading the deployment of revolutionary content platform Mooga for big content providers and mobile operators for iKen solutions.

Mario has more than 8 years of experience in mobile technologies, design, development and implementation of products and mobile solutions for different industries throughout Latin America. Always linked to telecommunications and development communities since his early days, his career takes a strong mobile orientation in year 2000 when joining Movilogic (www.movilogic.com), with several prizes won and mentioned in specialized press, particularly around the company handbanking product specially designed for BankBoston Brazil and MoviMap, the very first mobile navigation software made in LatAm launching it successfully with Renault Clio GPS limited series in Argentina and Mexico (Palm Excellence Award 2003). Mario was also the product head for salesforce automation solution, sold to many different industries.

In year 2004 Mario was hired by widely-known mobile operator Telefonica Moviles (www.movistar.com.ar), as VAS Senior Engineer, leading the WAP and PoC (PushToTalk Over Cellular) projects regionally. Remarkable experiences in Movistar are the RFP and design of CDS (Content Delivery System) repository, which is still one of the most renowned systems working on mobile operators today in the region; and the implementation of interoperability systems for PoC over CDMA and GSM in all Telefonica Moviles operations in Latin America, leading different teams of up to 70 people.

In year 2006 Mario was hired by Mobile2Biz a local content company later merged with NetPeople International (now ZED), as Southern Cone Regional IT Manager. Since year 2003 Mario helps in ZA Systems Development (www.zasysdev.com.ar), in the role of core R&D consultant.


Dr. Rajendra M. Sonar Director
Dr. Sonar is currently Associate Professor of Information Technology at SJM School of Management, IIT Bombay. At IIT Bombay, he teaches courses on Information systems and technology to aspiring and budding managers. He has earned bachelor and master’s degree in computer science and Ph.D. in Hybrid Artificial Intelligence from Pune University, India.

His research since last decade has been hybrid artificial intelligence whose out come has been a state-of-the-art hybrid AI-framework called iKen Studio: for on-the-fly, agile, adaptive and operational intelligence.

He has extensive software development experience on Microsoft plat-forms.

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  • Antonio Peña

    Antonio has 10 years experience in the IT industry developing different companies in LATAM all with great success. Antonio heads and manages Ikens Solutions Americas strategy; he is in charge of developing the Americas rollup of the company.