about me

Short Bio
Miten is VP of Product Strategy at Quova, enabling some of the largest web companies understand “where” their users come from. Before Quova, Miten was Chief Architect & CTO at Feeva where he developed technology to enable ISP’s to provide metadata for targeted online advertising in a privacy friendly manner.
Prior to Feeva, Miten co-founded & led the SeeVT project at the Center for HCI at Virginia Tech that conducted R&D on handheld location based systems, and developed one of the early implementations of Wifi(R) location sensing. Miten also worked at Reliance Communications in India to design, develop, and introduce value-added local services to mobile consumers in India.
He has a BS & MS in Computer Science from Virginia Tech, where he was awarded the Outstanding Graduate Student of the Year.
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Additional Info
Here is a list of my Research Publications
Recent Conference Panels & Press
- Article on What can ‘where’ do for you in Campaign India from my talk at Ad-Tech 2012 in New Delhi
- Benefits of Geo-location in Marketing - Forbes.com on November 7, 2011, Co-authored with Steven Cook
- GeoLoco 2011 - November 3, 2011
Panel: API overload: Making $$$$ and Sense with Data, Context, and Infrastructure - Digital Hollywood - (October 17-20, 2011)
Panel - Advertising Innovation! Ad Targeting and Hypertargeting, In-Video, In-Game, Social Networks and Blogs) - SMX East 2011 - (upcoming on Sept 13-15, 2011)
Panel - There Is No “National” Commerce: All Sales Are Local - Data 2.0 2011 (Panel - The Advertising Equation)
http://livestre.am/H2rw - Article by Dev Khare (Venrock) - quoting some ideas around building a “data business”
- Concept of “data narrative” as I described at Data 2.0 conference (short blurb)
http://data2con.com/2011/03/31/social-data-or-making-data-social/ - Privacy, Identity, and Innovation - 2011
(Panel - Can you locate now?) - Reuters interview regarding Feeva
- Canadian Tech Policy Blog by Chris Parsons - privacy, ISP based advertising, and Feeva
