Jaz Banga is dual national, British-Canadian entrepreneur. He is an American resident who lives and works in San Francisco, California. He is the holder of more than 30 patents and is currently the CEO of ProximityWare, Inc. Banga is best known for delivering Google Wi-Fi in the city of San Francisco and offering the city free Wi-Fi as an effort of philanthropy – to this day thousands of bay area residents enjoy free broadband access in the Union Square neighborhood.

Education and early Career

Banga has in international resume and biography. He was born in the United Kingdom, to parents of Indian descent, and raised in Canada. In the 1990s he studied electrical engineering at the University of Calgary

University of Calgary

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. He was also a Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie

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 instructor of Effective Communications in the mid-1990s.

In 1997 Banga founded Cobalt Technology in Toronto, Canada. Cobalt worked with Excite@Home and was responsible for implementing the company’s broadband technology.

UnWireNow, Inc

Banga is known for his accomplishments in Wi-Fi. His company, was awarded the first Wi-Fi contracts in the city of San Francisco. UnwireNow partnered with Google to offer free Wi-Fi to hundreds of thousands of bay area residents throughout the city. He founded the company in 2002.

Feeva Technology, Inc.

In 2005 Feeva was founded by Banga at the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business Incubator under the guidance of the late Dr. John Freeman. Banga served as CTO and President of Feeva Technology. In 2008 Feeva was named as a runner-up for a Spiffy Award by the telecom council of Silicon Valley. Banga’s leadership led to Feeva announcing partnerships with several big players:

Cisco

Cisco

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– on February 12, 2009. Feeva announced that it had “integrated its addressable digital advertising application with the Cisco® 7600 Series Router to substantively improve performance for the entire online content and advertising value chain.”

Juniper

Juniper

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– February 14, 2010. Juniper announced several new partnerships (including Feeva) to develop “software and solutions for mobile operators to improve the experience and economics of their networks.”

Microsoft

Microsoft

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– February 23, 2010. Feeva announced that it was selected to joined the Microsoft BizSpark One program. This is an invitation-only program designed to accelerate the growth of high potential startups through a one-to-one relationship with Microsoft and a global community of advisors, investors and peers. Banga said in a press release, "Feeva is looking forward to participating in the BizSpark One community of top-tier start-ups.”

ProximityWare and Founders Den

As of January 2011 Jaz Banga is working on a new company, ProximityWare, Inc. at the Founder’s Den in San Francisco.

Patents

Jaz Banga has more than 30 patents listed with the USPTO.gov including:

A foundational patent by the United States Patent and Trademark office for “Directed media based on user preferences” patent number 7,657,594. Filed Aug. 30th, 2006.

Apparatus, System and Methods for Targeted Content Delivery. Aug. 30th, 2006

Personal life

Jaz Banga is married to Mira Veda. Banga has been a long time supporter of The Recording Academy's GRAMMY® Foundation

Grammy Award

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 and MusiCares

MusiCares

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® supporting musicians and artists in need. Banga enjoys photography, surfing and is known to be an Audi

Audi

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aficionado.

External links

• http://mobilemonopoly-reviewer.com/biggest-mobile-advertisments-network-in-world/coming-out-strong-feeva-ceo-nitin-shah-and-cto-jaz-banga-discuss-how-consumers-advertisers-and-providers-alike-can-benefit-from-their-mobileadvertising/Coming out strong, Feeva CEO, Nitin Shah, and CTO, Jaz Banga, discuss how consumers, advertisers, and providers alike can benefit from their targeted advertising solution so everyone wins.g-feeva-ceo-nitin-shah-and-cto-jaz-banga-discuss-how-consumers-advertisers-and-providers-alike-can-benefit-from-their-mobileadvertising/]
• Feeva Technology on YouTube. Interview with Rishad Tobaccowalla.