Company
Founded in 2007 by serial technology entrepreneur Murthy Chintalapati with his partner Atul Sharma, Ozonetel Systems is the pioneer of 'cloud telephony' technology in India. Ozonetel's flagship offering 'Kookoo' is India's first hosted telephony platform for entrepreneurs and businesses who want to develop their own apps which uses telephony channel. Kookoo enables existing web/e-commerce portals to use telephony as a channel to service customers in an innovative manner. Web programmers can easily develop applications using web technologies like PHP, JAVA without understanding the complexities of telephony and enable their customers to access services over telephone, with complete control on their data and its security. KooKoo allows thousands of entrepreneurs to leverage the platform with no upfront investment and launch innovative services over phone by developing new applications in familiar web technologies. In the short span of its launch since August 2010, Ozonetel boasts of more than 30 customers- developers and businesses who have built apps ranging from Mobile prepaid card recharge to accessing Mobile Social Networking Content over Telephony. Companies that have signed up to use kookoo include Trident Hyundai, Pratham Motors, Rural BPOs , Rocketalk to name a few.
Vision: "To be a market leader in providing Cloud Telephony Services for Enterprises in emerging economies"
Mission: "To provide scalable voice/speech enabled platform on cloud to business enterprises – small or big & entrepreneurs on OPEX/transaction basis and enable them to offer value added telephony services to customers on cloud"
Team
Murthy Chintalapati, Founder & CEO
Murthy Chintalapati, a serial technology entrepreneur is recognized by many Silicon Valley technopreneurs as someone who identifies industry pain points and builds successful business ventures that address the market need. Murthy started his first venture Intoto in 1997 at SanJose, California. Intoto developed security technologies that were licensed to OEMs like Nortel, Motorola, Redback and others. Murthy also set up Rocsys, an offshore development center to address the engineering needs of Intoto in India. He pioneered a training center at Rocsys way back in 1998 to impart rare skills in Embedded Systems, Real Time OS, Networking and security technologies to graduate engineers. In 2004, Murthy elevated Rocsys from a cost center to a profit center and launched new products and services addressing the BFSI and SME market segments. Intoto was acquired by Freescale Semiconductor in 2008 and Murthy moved on to establish Ozonetel as a subsidiary of Rocsys. A Masters in electrical engineering from IIT, Delhi (1985), Murthy had successful stints with ECIL Hyderabad, AT& T (US), and NEC, before venturing to become an entrepreneur.
Atul Sharma, Co-Founder & CTO
Atul who is a product architect and is the catalyst behind the KooKoo Enterprise platform, comes with 12+ years of experience in building solutions in enterprise telecom space. His stints in the US with Avaya, AT&T and Tellme meant immense exposure to and vast experience in handling Lucent, Avaya, CISCO, Nortel & other Telecom products. Atul brings his deep domain knowledge of self service applications & Customer Interaction Management space to bear on the solutions and services that Ozonetel delivers.
Chaitanya Chokkareddy, Principal Architect
A true techno geek, Chaitanya can cook up new frameworks in a jiffy. He has worked in various technologies with telecom being his new passion. Within telecom, he is focused on leveraging Internet to deliver telecom solutions. A Masters graduate from University of Florida in the US, Chaitanya brings years of diverse experience to his role at Ozonetel and is constantly looking at new ways to innovate.