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| Forum role | Member since | Last activity | Topics created | Replies created |
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| Member | Mar 11, 2006 (20 years) |
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Bio
Raj Melville provides marketing and strategy consulting services to emerging social entrepreneurs. He founded and chaired the Forum for Social Entrepreneurs at Boston University held in 2007 and 2008. He has organized and moderated numerous panels and workshops on social entrepreneurship. He currently mentors several startups that are focused on addressing key social issues.
Raj has over 25 years of product management, marketing and consulting experience at four start-ups, and several larger organizations. Some of his previous responsibilities included managing the overall product strategy and features for nTAG Interactive, a spin off from the MIT Media Lab; marketing and product management direction at mobile software vendor Vaultus; directing product management at Be Free Inc. (now Valueclick), a market leading affiliate marketing e-commerce solution; and managing the launch of two high-end Internet server products at Electronic Book Technologies (later acquired by Inso). His early career included stints at Microsoft Corp., Digital Equipment Corporation, and Booz Allen & Hamilton.
He has been active member of TiE Boston, a volunteer non-profit encouraging entrepreneurship, where he chaired the Software SIG (Special Interest Group), founded the Social Entrepreneurship Group and later co-managed all the SIGs. Raj has an undergraduate engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, a M.S. and D.Sc. in Engineering from MIT, and a M.S. in Management from the Sloan School at MIT.