Dr. Sirjang (Jugi) Lal Tandon
-Founder of Tandon Corporation and Celetronix International

Dr. Tandon was one of the earliest immigrants from India to Silicon Valley and was one of the pioneers in establishing India as global hi-tech manufacturing hub.

In 1975 he founded the Tandon Corporation, where he invented and patented the first double sided floppy disk drive. This was one of the key factors in the acceptance of the Personal Computer. Tandon disk drives were used in the first IBM Personal computer launched in 1978.

At Tandon Corporation, Dr. Tandon set up the first hard disk drive manufacturing plant in Singapore thus creating an Industry hub for technology manufacturing in Singapore. Tandon was later merged with the chip controller company Western Digital (NYSE WDC) which continues to be a leader in the Disk Drive Industry with annual sales of USD 3.6 Billion.

Dr. Tandon also founded Celetronix International which was the largest electronic manufacturing service provider in India and Southeast Asia. Celetronix was acquired by Jabil Circuits (NYSE JBL) in January of 2006. Prior to 1975, Dr. Tandon had worked at IBM, Memorex and Pertec. For his achievements in technology and business, he has been awarded an honorary doctorate degree from Howard University. Xavient is proud to have Dr. Tandon as one our esteemed advisory board members.
 

Michael T. Dugan
-Former President, CTO and COO of  Echostar Technologies

Mr. Dugan currently serves on the Board of Directors and is the Senior Technical Advisor of EchoStar Communications Corporation (EchoStar). He assumed this role after 16 years with EchoStar, most recently as Chief Technical Officer (CTO), a position he held since November 2005. As CTO he was responsible for all technical development and operations within EchoStar. Mr. Dugan has also served as Senior Advisor to EchoStar's Executive Management Team. Mr Dugan also serves on the the board of Citizen Communications.

Mr. Dugan joined EchoStar in January 1990 as Vice President of Engineering, and progressed to positions of increasing responsibility, including Senior Vice President, Communications Product Division; President, EchoStar Technologies; and President and Chief Operating Officer. His technical expertise and contributions resulted in EchoStar acknowledging Mr. Dugan as "chief architect of the technological foundation upon which the success of DISH Network was founded." Mr. Dugan's career also includes positions at Xerox Corporation, Tandon Corporation, Eastman Kodak and Award Software.

Xavient considers Mr. Dugan an invaluable member of our advisory board, helping Xavient successfully navigate the increasingly complex waters of the IT industry.