Management Team

Pawan Deshpande is the founder and CEO of HiveFire. Pawan is responsible for the company’s vision, management and product strategy, and leads the firm’s advanced development initiatives. Pawan has held software engineering positions at Microsoft and Google and was awarded patents in social media and search development markets. Pawan earned his B.S. and M. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Taariq Lewis is the Director of Sales and Marketing of HiveFire. Taariq is responsible for the implementation and execution of all of HiveFire’s sales, marketing, and business development strategies. Taariq has extensive online B2B sales experience from Compete and successful enterprise marketing execution at such SaaS startups as Demandware and Lucid Imagination. Taariq earned his BA in Economics and Philosophy from Columbia University and his MBA in “Entrepreneurship & Innovation” from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management.

Craig Blum, the Director of Client Success at HiveFire, is responsible for building and managing the company’s client and partner relationships. Craig joined HiveFire from Viximo, where he managed the company’s partner network. Prior to that, he performed a client services role at Matchmine and held key engineering positions at Constant Contact and edocs. Craig earned his B.S. in Management Science and Information Technology from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and his MBA from Babson College.

Nick Bogovich is the Director of Engineering at HiveFire and is responsible for leading the company's product development efforts. Prior to joining HiveFire, Nick co-founded and served as President of mStyle where he developed groundbreaking mobile messaging and content delivery applications adopted by Nokia, Delta Airlines, H&M, Museum of Fine Arts - Boston, Carlson Marketing and Obama for America '08. Nick's career also includes a number of critical engineering roles at Jenzabar, ZEFER, Nickelodeon and PlanetAll. Nick earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Board of Directors

Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande is the Chairman of HiveFire, A123 Systems (AONE), Sycamore Networks (SCMR), Tejas Networks, Sandstone Capital and Sparta Group LLC,. Dr. Deshpande is an influential technology entrepreneur and visionary whose companies and ideas often reshape entire industries. Prior to co-founding Sycamore Networks, Dr. Deshpande was founder and chairman of Cascade Communications Corp. Dr. Deshpande serves as a member of the MIT Corporation, and his generous donations have made possible MIT's Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation. Dr. Deshpande holds a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology - Madras, an M.E. in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Brunswick in Canada, and Ph.D. in Data Communications from Queens University in Canada

Eric Swanson is a serial entrepreneur and editor of OCT News. In addition to serving on the board of HiveFire, Mr. Swanson is currently involved in several high tech startup companies covering a wide range of technologies including: optical biomedical imaging, alternative energy, optical components, telecom, and Web 2.0. Mr. Swanson consults for several venture capital firms, is a research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and does a variety of volunteer activities. Mr. Swanson was a co-founder of three successful start-up companies. The most recent was Sycamore Networks, a company developing optical networking products. He served in various roles including Chief Scientist, Project Manager, and General Manager of the Transport Business Unit - where he managed product strategy, product marketing and management, development and engineering for Sycamore's transport products.

Featured Employees

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  Chirayu Patel Chirayu Patel is a Software Engineer at HiveFire. Chirayu co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of TaxSpanner, an online tax preparation and filing service. His career also includes a number of senior technical positions at Intel and Continuous Computing where he focused on designing distributed fault tolerance telecom systems. Chrayu is a graduate of the Pune Institute of Computer Technology, India.
  
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  Alex Boroda Alex Boroda, System Administrator, brings over 15 years of system administration and infrastructure management experience to HiveFire. Prior to joining the company, he held key roles in visionary start ups where he deployed and managed large scale infrastructure and utilized virtualization technology for server consolidation. Alex earned his degree in Computer Science from Pennsylvania State University.
  
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  Kevin Chevalier is a co-founder and Principal Software Engineer at HiveFire. He brings his unique mix of technical and language processing expertise to his role at HiveFire. Kevin earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and a Masters in Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  
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  Jack Diederich is a Senior Software Engineer at HiveFire. Jack has earned the respect and attention of the Python community for his intellectual leadership which he generously shares at industry conferences. He joined HiveFire from Psynchronous Communications, a company Jack co-founded to develop actionable web analytic tools for non-technical users. Prior to that, he held a key engineering position at CDNOW.com. Jack earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Lehigh University.
  
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  Miguel Sciaudone,

  Interactive Designer, is responsible for art direction and development of creative business website design services offered by HiveFire. An award winning designer, Miguel brings deep multimedia advertising and web development experience gained designing consumer, corporate and social networking websites. Prior to joining HiveFire, he served as the Creative Director at IdentityTruth. His career also includes key web design and development roles at Niteo Partners and Cohn Godley Norwood (CGN Interactive). Miguel attended the Berklee College of Music, Boston and the American School of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

  
  
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  Jason Lawrence, Software Engineer, brings his talent for innovation and deep technical knowledge to HiveFire’s development efforts. Jason comes to HiveFire from Leverage Point Innovations where he held strategic engineering roles and implemented changes that significantly enhanced operations. Jason earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.