Founding Donors

We are grateful to our friends who have contributed to further science and support dwarfism research. Below is a list of angel donors who have provided the initial  funding to start growingstronger.org.

Ali Ahmed and
Raana Ahmed 

Ali and Raana live in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ali is the founder and CTO of Bitzer Mobile 

Andy Rava and
Janice Rava 

Andy and Janice live in Florida. Andy is the VP Worldwide Sales at Cavium 

Anil Jain

Anil lives in San Francisco Bay Area. Anil is Corp VP IC Engineering at Cavium 

Awais Nemat and
Sheeba Awais

Awais and Sheeba live in the San Francisco Bay Area with their 3 kids. Awais is the CEO of Plum Grid 

Lin Jing 

Lin Jing lives in Beijing China. Lin was the VP of Core Engineering at Reuters 

Farhad Mighani 

Farhad lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Farhad is head of PureVu engineering at Cavium.  

Jahanzeb Khan and
Morgan Khan 

Jahanzeb and Morgan live in Vancouver Canada. 

Javed Khan and
Shaheena Khan 

Javed and Shaheena llive in the San Francisco Bay Area. Javed is the President of Safeeon  

John Jarve 

John lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. John is Managing Director  at Menlo Ventures 

Khaled Nasr

Khaled lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Khaled is Partner at InterWest Partners. 

Khalid Raza and Nabeela Sajjad 

Khalid and Nabeela live in the San Francisco Bay Area. Khalid is a Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett-Packard 

Lars Herlitz and
Annie Herlitz 

Lars and Annie live in the San Francisco Bay Area. Lars cofounder, CMO at Altia Systems. He was formerly the GM or Multimedia Group at Cavium and prior to Cavium he was the CEO of WWComs acquired by Cavium 

Mike Hodges and
Anh Hodges 

Mike and Anh live in the San Francisco Bay Area. Mike is Managing Director at ATA Ventures 

Mughees Minhas and
Uzma Minhas 

Mughees and Uzma live in the San Francisco Bay Area. Mughees is Senior Director Product Management at Oracle 

Naveed Sherwani and
Sabahat Rafiq 

Naveed and Sabahat live in the San Francisco Bay Area. Naveed is President, Cofounder and CEO of Open Silicon. Sabahat is a banking professional.  

Nersi Nazari 

Nersi lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Nersi is Executive Chairman at Vigilo Networks 

Raghib Husain and
Sadia Husain 

Raghib and Sadia live in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Raghib is Cofounder, CTO and VP Software at Cavium. 

Raj Singh and
Renata Anderson 

Raj and Renata live in the San Francisco Bay Area. Raj is GM Wireless Broadband Group at Cavium. Till recently Renata was Director sales  GliSODin Skin Nutrients. 

Rajiv Khemani and
Sarita Khemani 

Rajiv and Sarita live in the San Francisco Bay Area. Raghib is Chief Operating Officer at Cavium.  

Randy Pond 

Randy lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Randy is EVP, Operations, Processes, and Systems at Cisco Systems 

Arvind Purushotham and
Rohini Chakravarthy 

Arvind and Rohini live in the San Francisco Bay Area. Arvind is Managing Director, Venture Leader at Citi and Rohini is Partner at New Enterprise Associates 

Sanjay Raina 

Sanjay lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Sanjay is VP of Services at MontaVista Software. Sanjay was formerly the CEO of Celestial Systems acquired by Cavium. 

Shahzad Afzal and
Annie Afzal 

Shahz and Annie live in the Seattle Washington. Shahz is partner manager for cloud services at Microsoft. 

Syed Zaheer 

Syed Zaheer lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Syed Zaheer is VP of Operations at Cavium.