Hi, we're Zazu & we are huge nerds.

About Us

Punit Shah, CEO
Punit

Punit is Zazu's operations and marketing whiz. Prior to Zazu, Punit co-founded Boston Book Works and CoopRatings.com in the international eCommerce and social collaboration spaces respectively. An active member of the Boston Entrepreneurship Community, he is a Boston World Partnerships Connector and a Startup Leadership Program Fellow. Punit is a graduate from Northeastern University, the former President of the Entrepreneur’s Club where he created the Entrepreneurs Immersion Program and co-created the Husky Innovation Challenge. Punit has also worked in Investment Banking at Merrill Lynch and Venture Capital at Hercules Technology Growth Capital, though it’s helped show him his heart lies in startups. Punit is an avid foodie and yelps to it with pride!

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Marc Held, CTO
Marc

Marc is Zazu's geek, leading the development of Zazu and its mobile and web products. He has a long-standing passion for robotics and internet technology. He’s previously done consulting, operations work, development, teaching, and researching at organizations like EMC, Tippingpoint Labs, Northeastern University, Newton Public Schools, and MIT. He has a soft spot for girly music and listens to Beyonce's Single Ladies on repeat.

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Pascal Chesnais, Ph.D., Chief Scientist
Pascal

Pascal specializes in leading talented research teams in creating prototypes of innovative services and applications and is guiding the development of innovative media consumption models and IP strategy at Zazu. Dr. Chesnais is also currently a visiting Scientist with the MIT Mobile Experience Lab. Previously he was Senior Research Director at Orange Labs Boston. There he helped create and staff France Telecom Research and Development Boston lab focused on developing new mobile and internet technologies involving multimodal haptics, electronic publishing, and location based applications and Services. Pascal also was co-founder of Message Machines which was later acquired by NMS Communications. Pascal holds Masters and PhD from MIT Media Laboratory. Pascal hails from France and has three wonderful daughters.

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Andrew Berkowitz, Director of Mobile Development
Andy

Andrew manages multiple mobile projects at Zazu and builds innovative new features for our products like many of those our users love using today. New to startups, his prior experience includes technical work for the MIT Solar Decathlon and creating market disrupting point of sale technology. He likes food quite a bit and can out eat anyone on the team, combined.

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