Mahendra B. Vora, CEO and Founder of Vora Technology Park

Known as the Serial Entrepreneur, Mr. Vora is considered the high-tech poster child in the Midwest United States. He has helped co-found and sell multiple successful technology ventures to Fortune 500 companies in the past 20 years and has held senior management positions at large global organizations. Mr. Vora collaborated with Timothy Matthews to invest in and create one of the largest technology parks in the country and formally opened Vora Technology Park in March 2005. 

Mr. Vora has extensive experience in working with and developing information technology solutions for multi-billion dollar organizations across the world. Over the past 20 years, he has innovated sophisticated information technologies in the areas of distributed (client/server) and Internet-based computing, including advanced search and text-mining.
 

 Mr. Vora was a finalist for the 2000 "Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award" and a recipient of the 2001 "Entrepreneur of the Year" from the Association for Corporate Growth. Mr. Vora was named on INC. 500 (2004 and 2005) - the list of the nation’s 500 fastest growing privately held companies – as the Founder and Chairman of Intelliseek. For the past three years he has been in the ICIC 100 - list of the 100 fastest growing companies located in the inner cities of the United States. Mr. Vora has been in Cincinnati, USA area for over 19 years and he is known for his active involvement, contribution and commitment to the global community.

Professional Background

Recognized as a seasoned high-tech industry veteran, Mr. Vora brings nearly 20 years of experience as an information technology executive and dynamic motivator. Mr. Vora possesses a rare combination of skills: technology vision, marketing, and interpersonal leadership. Currently as the Founder and Managing Director of Vora Ventures, a unique private equity investment banking firm in Cincinnati region, Mr. Vora is involved in the following portfolio and serves as the:

  • Chairman - Vora Technology Park (www.voratechpark.com)
  • Chairman - Vinimaya Corporation (www.vinimaya.com)
    A Spend Management (Catalog Integration & Supplier Enablement) solutions provider in Shelton, CT, USA
  • Chairman – Ascendum Private Limited Worldwide (www.ascendum.com)
    Rapidly growing IT Outsourcing & eLearning company in Bangalore, India
  • Chairman – iCALL India (www.icallindia.net)
    A BPO company in Ahmadabad, India delivering customer service to domestic (Indian) telecom clients and financial (loan processing, title processing, accounting and equity research) outsourcing services to G2000 clients
  • Vice Chairman – Lucrum Incorporated (www.lucruminc.com)
    One of the largest IT services provider and a leading Business Intelligence Services companies in the mid-western United States (Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky)
  • Founder and Director – Nelsen Buzzmetrics (www.nielsenbuzzmetrics.com)
    World leader in Marketing Intelligence, in Cincinnati and New York, USA
  • Investor and Director –dbaDirect Incorporated (www.dbaDirect.com)
    The leading outsourced data management company in Kentucky, USA
  •  Investor and Director, 8e6 Technologies (www.8e6.com)
    Leading internet security and filtering company in southern California, USA

Mr. Vora (Vora Ventures) has invested in many other high tech companies worldwide. Mr. Vora founded Intelliseek in the late 1990’s as a smart search company which is a world leader in measurement of the Word of Mouth (WOM). Intelliseek was recently acquired by Buzzmetrics and the merged entity, with majority ownership by VNU (AC Nielsen), does business as the Nielsen Buzzmetrics.

Prior to founding Intelliseek, Mr. Vora was the Vice President and General Manager with Unisys Corporation where he headed the Unisys NT Software Business and was integral in forming strategic alliances between Unisys and Microsoft, Oracle, Computer Associates and BEA.

Prior to Unisys, Mr. Vora was Founder and Chairman of Pioneer Systems, which was acquired by Unisys in July 1997. While at Pioneer, he also co-founded SecureIT, which was merged with Verisign in 1999. Before that, Mr. Vora served as the Vice President of Development for Intercomputer Communication Corp. (ICC) and Digital Communication Associates (DCA, now Attachmate), where he co-authored the Universal Communication Architecture (UCA) to support heterogeneous network protocols with single API.

Community Involvement to Create Opportunities for Entrepreneurs

Mr. Vora moved to Michigan, USA, in 1984 at the age of 21 and has resided in Cincinnati, Ohio since 1988. He travels to India frequently and is actively involved in community affairs. He takes tremendous pride in creating unique global opportunities, creating high-tech jobs, funding the innovative high-tech burgeoning companies forming strategic partnerships with the G2000 companies (customers, partners) and leading Venture Capitalists and working with the local and state Government authorities on economic development initiatives. Some of his involvements include:

  • Hon. Foreign IT Advisor to the Chief Minister and IT Minister for the State of Gujarat (1999)
  • Member, Advisory Board for the University of Cincinnati, School of Management Information Systems (MIS)
  • Member, Advisory Committee of Northern Kentucky University, School of Management
  • Member, Citizens Advisory Council of Miami University, Hamilton
  • Member, CincyTechUSA Council
  • Active Supporter, Wright Center of Innovation (Third Frontier).
  • Active Member and Contributor, Main Street Ventures (MSV) / Circuit
  • Trustee, Cincinnati-Dayton Jain Temple
  • Member, United Way Tocqueville Society

Awards and Recognitions:

  • 2006 – Visionary for the Region (Hamilton, Ohio) – first non-American and first Indian to win the award and achieve such honor
  • 2004/2005 - INC. 500 ranked number 294 of the 500 Fastest Growing Companies in the USA (Intelliseek)
  • 2004 and 2005 – “Fast 50” –listed in fastest growing 50 companies in Tri-state (Intelliseek)
  • 2003 - ICIC 100 – number 25 of the 100 fastest growing companies in the United States Inner Cities (Intelliseek)
  • 2003 – Winner of the “Forty Under Forty” for Tri-state region
  • 2002/2003/2004 – eContent 100 and KMWorld 100 – 100 Best Companies in the Content Management World
  • 2002/2001 - Ernst and Young “Entrepreneur of the Year “ Finalist
  • 2000 "Entrepreneur Deal Maker of the Year” from the Association for Corporate Growth
  • Numerous technology and public speaking awards from 1990-2007

Academic Background:

Mr. Vora holds a bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communications from India, and a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Mr. Vora also teaches specialized business courses on entrepreneurship, real life transactions, and venture creation, to graduating MBA students at University of Cincinnati, Xavier University and Northern Kentucky University.

Contact:

Office phone: (513) 867-7272

Fax: (513) 895-2900