Murugan Pal is a serial entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley, Bay Area, USA.
Murugan is currently the co-founder & President of the CK-12 Foundation

CK-12 Foundation

CK-12 is a non-profit organization based in California founded with the mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market, both in the US and world-wide . They maintain the FlexBook open source tool for creating remixable texts, and as of July 2009 were developing 30...

, a non-profit organization launched in 2006, that aims to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12

K-12

K–12 is a designation for the sum of primary and secondary education. It is used in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand where P–12 is also commonly used...

 market both in the US and worldwide. Before joining CK-12 Foundation, Murugan was an EIR with Foundation Capital

Foundation capital

Foundation Capital is a venture capital firm located in Silicon Valley. The firm was founded in 1995, and manages over $2.4 billion in investment capital. It raised its seventh and largest fund of $750 million in April 2008...

. Previously, Murugan was the founder and CTO of SpikeSource

SpikeSource

SpikeSource specialized in automated software testing, and tested several business models to monetize that expertise. These included the popular testgen4web tool for scripted web site testing, offering open source software that had undergone regression testing, pre-integrated open-source software...

. Before founding SpikeSource, Pal was an entrepreneur-in-residence with venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers

Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers ' is a world-leading venture capital firm located on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley. The Wall Street Journal has called it one of the "largest and most established" venture capital firms in the world...

. Previously, he was a Founding Engineer of e-business software company Asera, Inc. Before Asera, Pal was a principal developer at Oracle Corporation

Oracle Corporation

Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...

 in the Application Server division and was part of the company's early XML initiatives. Prior to Oracle, he was one of the lead developers of Versant Corporation's Object Database. Pal has worked on real-time enterprise technologies, composite applications, service-oriented architecture runtimes, relational databases, object databases, and robotics and manufacturing automation.

Pal holds a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Thiagarajar College of Engineering

Thiagarajar College of Engineering

Thiagarajar College of Engineering , Madurai, is an ISO 9001:2008 certified Autonomous institution located in Madurai, Tamilnadu, India. It is affiliated to Anna University, Chennai. It is one of the several educational and philanthropic institutions founded by Philanthropist and Industrialist...

, affiliated to Madurai University in India, a Master's in Industrial Engineering from Arizona State University

Arizona State University

Arizona State University is a public research university located in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area of the State of Arizona...

, a Master's in Computer Science from Arizona State University, and was a Doctoral Candidate in Industrial Engineering at Arizona State University

Arizona State University

Arizona State University is a public research university located in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area of the State of Arizona...

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External links

• White Paper on Real Time Enterprises by Vinod Khosla
  Vinod Khosla
  Vinod Khosla is an Indian-born American venture capitalist and an influential personality in Silicon Valley....
  
  & Murugan Pal