Executive Team

Awele Ndili, Ph.D - Chief Executive Officer, Founder, MShift, Inc.
Dr. Ndili was most recently a member of the founding team for ImproveNet Inc., a Redwood City-based public company, and was responsible for the design of its core Internet technology. ImproveNet, a highly scalable database-intensive home improvement site, has facilitated over $1 Billion of contracts since inception. He designed and built the architecture and implemented the core backend engine to keep track of more than 600,000 service providers. Dr. Ndili was also the lead Project Manager for the Global Positioning System on board Stanford University's Gravity Probe B space satellite, launched by NASA on April 20, 2004 from Vanderberg Air Force Base.
Dr. Ndili holds a Masters and a Ph.D in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.

Pamela Livingston - Vice President, Business Development
Pamela joins MShift bringing a wealth of experience in providing relevant, reliable, state-of-the-art technical solutions to businesses. Among her fields of expertise are secure wireless data transmission, interactive multimedia presentations, digital video encoding, multimedia authoring systems and video on demand. Her background includes international sales, marketing and development management positions for major corporations including Panasonic North America, a division of Matsushita Electric Corporation, Phillips Electronics, North America, Digital Video Systems, Inc. and Microware Technologies, Inc. Pamela strives to build strong business relationships that will lead to ongoing strategic alliances in the competitive digital banking and eCommerce marketplace.

Christine Abernathy, Vice President, Engineering
Christine has extensive experience in the mobile software space. Most recently, she served at PixSense as the VP of Engineering and Client Services, managing the development and deployment of mobile products for digital media management and services. Prior to PixSense she served as the VP of Engineering at Semotus Solutions, Inc., where she developed products for mobile back-end business software integration with primary responsibility in building up the international team and engineering processes. Christine was part of the founding team at Clickmarks, a software company that was acquired by Semotus. At Clickmarks, she served in various roles including Director of Professional Services and VP of Engineering. Clickmarks provided software for workflow automation, portal integration, mobilization, and decision support solutions to the enterprise. Prior to Clickmarks, she was a Senior Design Engineer at Adaptec Corporation and later a Member of the Technical Staff at Nokia Corporation in the Internet Protocol Router Group.
Christine received her BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Anil Kurukuri - Director, Engineering
Anil has over 10 years of experience in the design and delivery of software-based products in the Information Technology, E-Commerce and Wireless Industries.Prior to joining MShift, Anil worked as a Sr. Software Engineer for OCTASOFT Inc, an e-Financial solutions company and as an Analyst for Liberty Info Tech.
Anil holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Applications and a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Kamatak University, India.