Satish Polisetti, a master's student in the School of Information, has been named a 2010 Mayfield Fellow. The Mayfield Fellows program provides a year of mentorship and experience in technology entrepreneurship to UC Berkeley graduate students in business, engineering, and information, including a twelve-week summer internship at a technology start-up company.
Satish has just completed his first year in the I School's MIMS degree program, where he is particularly interested in product management, mobile marketing, and human-computer interaction; he joins eight other UC Berkeley fellows for 2010. Previous I School recipients of the Mayfield Fellowship include doctoral student Melissa Ho and alumna Jeannie Yang (MIMS 2005).
As part of the program, Satish and the other fellows traveled this month to Beijing and Shanghai, China, and Bangalore, India, studying best practices for entrepreneurship in emerging markets. In Asia, Satish met with executives from start-up companies in health care, web 2.0, clean tech, and IT.
Satish will be interning this summer with Amobee Media Systems, an international telecommunications-grade mobile advertising firm. He will be building marketing strategies for their platforms in China and India under the mentorship of Michael Bayle, Amobee's CMO.
The UC Berkeley Mayfield Fellows Program is funded by the Mayfield Fund, a venture capital fund based in Menlo Park, California. The program is administered by UC Berkeley's Management of Technology Program and the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
