With 15 years experience in the IT industry, Mr. Batra has gathered a wide range of experience. Prior to co-founding Arcturus, Mr. Batra worked as an Architect with BEA Systems, Inc. In this capacity he led and managed various strategic initiatives at Fortune 500 companies and helped them craft enterprise solutions leveraging state of the art technologies. Prior to BEA, Mr. Batra provided independent IT Advisory services to various fortune 500 companies for many years. 

Early in his career, he also founded and successfully ran an Investment Brokerage firm in India. He has worked closely with customers and understands their requirements first hand. Mr. Batra holds a BS degree with honors in Systems Management.

Dr. Douglas Wood has 25 years of experience in architecture of large complex systems. He has developed systems for a wide range of different applications including data acquisition, geo-physical modeling, environmental monitoring, acoustic signal processing, orbital systems, image processing, geospatial analysis and general information dissemination on private networks. His emphasis has been on measurement and modeling of the performance characteristics of distributed SOA and Net Centric systems

Dr. Wood has a Ph.D. in Physics. He is also an advisor to the US Department Defense.

Ms. Phillips holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and has 25 years of sales and marketing experience. She founded and managed the Jordan-Phillips Group, a property management firm which operated ski area properties. She is also the founder and managing director of a non-profit organization in Raleigh, North Carolina.