Meet the Team
Scott Ryan
President and CEO
Scott has over 18 years of experience in the networking and Internet industries, during which he has led organizations in networking and communications companies including Nortel Networks and DSC Communications, as well as startup ventures Incanta and Elastic Networks. His specific expertise is in startup business formation, business and marketing strategy, new product introduction, and product management.
Prior to Asankya, Scott was at The North Highland Company, a management and technology consulting company, where he led the Infrastructure and Security practice and was the national Communications Industry Lead. Scott was co-founder and CEO of Incanta, a pioneer in personalized streaming radio, and broadband application provider to telecommunications and cable companies. While at Incanta, he raised $20 million, $17 after the bubble burst, and established the company's first revenues.
Scott was hired into the Leadership Program at Nortel Networks, where he worked in increasing levels of responsibility, eventually starting and spinning out a DSL systems company, Elastic Networks (ELAS), leading to an IPO in 2000. Scott has spoken at many industry events, including Digital Hollywood, Broadband Home, Streaming Media West, and SCTE Broadband.
Scott holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Theatre from Vanderbilt University, and a M.B.A in Marketing and Information Systems from the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt. Scott lives in Atlanta with his wife and two children. In addition to his work at Asankya, he serves on the Board of Trust at Georgia Shakespeare, and occasionally can be found coaching his children in soccer and basketball.
Dr. Raghupathy Sivakumar
Founder and CTO
Dr. Raghupathy Sivakumar (Siva) is the founder of Asankya and leads the entire engineering organization including research, development and operations. Prior to founding Asankya, Siva served as Senior Technologist at EG Technology, Inc., where he led the technical team on protocols for multimedia technologies. In addition to his role at Asankya, Siva is a fully-tenured Associate Professor at Georgia Tech. His primary research interests are in the areas of Network QoS, Mobile Computing and Wireless Networks. He has authored over 100 publications in related conferences, journals, and books.
Siva has won several awards for his research, including the ACM MobiCom Best Paper Award (2003), the IEEE ICNP Best Paper Award (2005), and the IEEE SECON Best Paper Award (2005). He was also recognized with the Outstanding Young Faculty Award at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech in 2004.
Siva received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he won several research awards, including the David J. Kuck Awards for the Best Doctoral Dissertation, and Best Masters Thesis, respectively. He received his B.E. degree in Computer Science from Anna University, Chennai, India, where he won the University Gold Medal.
Siva has actively served in the research community by leading conferences through varied chairmanships. This includes positions such as General Co-chair of the IFIP Networking Conference 2007, and Technical Program Co-chair of the ACM MobiHoc Conference 2006, as well as the IEEE/CreateNet Broadnets 2006 Wireless Symposium. He also serves on the editorial boards of varied IEEE and ACM journals.