A passionate technology innovator, Sunny Balijepalli Rao is the Co-Founder and CEO of ZoomIn.com. ZoomIn is India’s leading photo sharing and printing service. Before ZoomIn, Sunny co-founded Half.com, where he was Chief Technology Officer. The company became one of the largest sellers of used books, movies and music in the world. Computerworld named Sunny a Premier 100 IT Leader in its annual ranking of Information Technology leaders. Half.com was acquired by eBay in July 2000 in a transaction valued at over $350 million. After the acquisition, Sunny remained with eBay to integrate the two companies’ technologies. Since leaving eBay in 2003, Sunny has been an active angel investor and advisor in a number of technology startups. Prior to Half.com, Sunny spent six years at Infonautics, where he designed and built the Sleuth product line and managed the operations of the Electric Library, a subscription service similar to LexisNexis. Sunny has a Master of Science degree in Information Systems from Drexel University. Sunny now lives in Bombay with his wife and their beautiful 3 year old daughter.
