Management Team
Rakesh Antala
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

As CEO, Rakesh leads Crederity's global launch activities including building a strong team consisting of world-class experts. Having led global projects, he brings a decade of technology product development, operations and leadership experience.

Rakesh has worked with the Alcatel Lucent (formerly Lucent) Wireless R&D Division where he led strategic enterprise IT projects. For his work, Rakesh won the Bell Labs team awards for "Innovation and Technology" and "Tools and Best Practices".

Rakesh has broad experience working in the entrepreneurial environment, having previously developed products from concept to market. Most recently, he was COO of Intivia, a healthcare services company serving organizations across the United States. He has also played advisory roles in other technology startups, and is a partner at Aashirwad Care, a unique ethnic service provider to Nursing Homes.

Rakesh holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and a M.S. in Information Systems and has an Executive Masters in Technology Management degree from the Wharton School of Business and the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania. At Penn he was a board member of the Executive Education Society, where he organized entrepreneurship-related activities and events.

Rakesh is an active member of the Wharton Club of New Jersey's Entrepreneurs Circle and Society of Human Resource Management. He is a Charter Member of TiE Tri-State.

Alex Mittal
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

As CTO, Alex brings a range of experience to Crederity as a manager, technologist, and engineer. His accomplishments in software include managing internal projects for institutional clients such as the University of Pennsylvania as well as for individuals including the CEO of a Business 2.0 Fastest Growing Tech Company; Alex has also managed the development of social media and networking web services.

As Founding Treasurer of Penn Engineers without Borders in 2004 and President in 2005-2007, Alex helped convert a group of seven individuals into a full-fledged organization with operations in Philadelphia, Honduras and Cameroon, serving an estimated 15,000 beneficiaries and interfacing with numerous companies, organizations, and governments.

Alex's expertise also extends to the revolutionary enabling technology known as nanotechnology. He was a research associate from 2001-2003 at New York University under Ned Seeman, conducting DNA nanotechnology research. Building on previous finance experience at Smith Barney combined with his tech background, he recently served as a nanotechnology analyst for the Livingston Group of Axiom Capital Management, and was Co-Founder and Co-President of the Penn Nanotech Society.

Alex was a Joseph Wharton Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received a B.S. in Economics and a B.S. in Engineering from the Wharton School of Business and the School of Engineering and Applied Science as part of the M&T Program in 2007. Alex's thesis work on a nanotechnology-based antimicrobial coating for plastics recently earned him highest honors from the faculty of Penn.

Alex has authored numerous publications and has received nationwide media attention for his accomplishments, in particular his technology research—he is a recipient of the Intel Young Scientist Award and the Intel Science Talent Search and Siemens Westinghouse prizes—and he and his work have been featured or mentioned in USA Today, NBC News, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Philadelphia Inquirer, amongst others.