Leadership Team: Meet the Key Players

Aditya KrishnaChairman & Managing Director

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Niraj Kumar GaneriwalChief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer

AvantikaChief Sales Officer

Dhiraj ManglaChief Customer Officer

Saswat Swain Chief Delivery Officer

Venkatesh AgarwalSVP - Strategy and Growth

Shankar Harihara IyerChief Growth Officer (Americas)

Amit VermaBU Head, Logistics & Transportation

Aditya Krishna

Chairman & Managing Director

Mr.Aditya Krishna, is a M.A.(Economics) from St. Stephens College, New Delhi and MBA (Finance & Marketing) from Northeastern University, Boston, USA. Aditya started his career with Chase Manhattan Bank N.A, New York, USA. He also completed a three year Owner/President Management program at Harvard Business School, Boston USA between 2010-2012.

Aditya was with Citibank N.A, New York, USA from 1987 to 1990 as a member of the business analysis department of the Credit Card Business and from 1990 to 1995 was Vice President – Credit Director & Financial Controller, Citibank N.A, India responsible for managing Citibank India’s credit card portfolio.

Mr. Aditya Krishna was the founder promoter of Nation Wide Finance Ltd. and was the Managing Director of the company from 1995 to 2001 In year 2000, Mr. Aditya Krishna sold 74% of the company to Citigroup, Inc and managed a transition to a Citigroup management team for 12 months and sold the balance 26% to Citigroup in 2003. The company was called Citifinancial Consumer Finance India Ltd and was the market leader in small ticket, sub prime lending and was a part of the global Citifinancial finance arm of Citigroup.

He was a Director in Kennametal India Ltd (erstwhile Widia (India) Ltd) from 1991 to 2002 as a member of the promoter group. He was also on the board of Ing Vysya Bank as an independent director from 2007 to 2013.

Mr Aditya Krishna, with his banking and retail lending domain knowledge, founded Saksoft Ltd. in 2000 and at present is its Chairman and Managing Director. Sakso ft Limited is a global leader in providing digital transformation solutions and helping businesses stay relevant in a highly connected, rapidly evolving world. Saksoft offers a gamut of services including Strategic Consulting, Information Management, Application Development, Digital Testing, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Cloud, Mobility and Internet of Things (IoT).

Sl. No	Name of the Company/ Bodies corporate	Nature of Interest – Director/ Promoter/ Manager/ CEO. Also indicate position as Director viz., Executive/ Non- Executive/ Independent etc	Status of Company – Listed Public Company/ Unlisted Public Company/ Private Company*
1.	Sak Industries Private Limited	Director	Private Limited
2.	Sakserve Private Limited	Director	Private Limited
3.	Zetechno Products & Services Private Limited	Director	Private Limited
4.	Ceptes Software Private Limited	Director	Private Limited
5.	Augmento Labs Private Limited	Director	Private Limited
6.	Sak Industries Pte. Ltd, Singapore	Director	Foreign company
7.	Saksoft Inc, US	Director	Foreign company
8.	Sak Abrasives Inc	President	Foreign company
9.	Saksoft Pte Ltd, Singapore	Director	Foreign company
10.	Sak Industries Inc	President	Foreign company
11.	Sak Industries FR	Manager	Foreign company
12.	Buffalo Abrasives Inc.	Director	Foreign company
13.	Saksoft Ireland Ltd UK	Director	Foreign Company
14.	Acuma Solutions Ltd UK	Director	Foreign company
15.	Dreamorbit Inc	Director	Foreign company
16.	MC Consulting Pte Ltd	Director	Foreign company
17.	MC Consulting Malaysia SDN BHD	Director	Foreign company
18.	Saksoft Solutions Limited, UK	Director	Foreign company

Niraj Kumar Ganeriwal

Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer

Niraj Ganeriwal is the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Saksoft Group. He has over two decades of experience and has been with the business for over 12 years.

As a Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, he started his career with S. R Batliboi (member firm of Ernst & Young, a leading professional audit firm in India). He led teams in various audit and consulting assignments and gained exposure to diverse industries such as Manufacturing, Information Technology and Pharmaceuticals. He has also worked in the pharma industry as a Finance Controller, where he gained expertise in varied fields of finance and was responsible for corporate planning and strategy before joining Saksoft.

At Saksoft, Niraj has taken numerous initiatives other than finance, such as HR, Admin, Compliance and IT Support. He has also led many acquisitions of the Group in India and overseas and ensured seamless integration of these acquisitions. He has worked closely with business leaders across the globe. He has a good understanding of the business drivers, which helped him plan and think strategically and has front-ended many critical initiatives, including the recent one of enabling the “Work from Home” during the Covid Pandemic and ensuring business continuity.

T S Balaji

Sr Vice President- Business Growth

Balaji brings with him 27 years of experience in IT services with a special focus on the telecom domain. Prior to joining Saksoft, Balaji served as Global Portfolio Head for Network Services at Tech Mahindra.

Balaji has been in various leadership roles in Tech Mahindra and before that in RPG Cellular and BHEL. His most recent position in Tech Mahindra included service delivery, technology strategy, innovation management, mergers & acquisitions and pre-sales. In his new role at Saksoft, Balaji will be responsible for facilitating and supporting all aspects of business growth. This will include bid management, proposals, pre-sales, and working with the sales teams to design and launch new service offerings, etc.

Dhiraj Mangla

Dhiraj Mangla

Chief Customer Officer

Dhiraj Mangla is the Executive Vice President for the key accounts of Saksoft group He has over 23 years of experience in IT industry and has been successful in delivering a large portfolio of projects. He has extensive experience working with clients across multiple sectors such as Banking, Telecommunications and Manufacturing, and in different geographies such as USA, UK & APAC. He has successfully engaged and managed delivery of several business applications from concept-to-completion with a high level of control in customer relationship management. In his current role he is responsible for end to end offshore delivery of information management, application development and testing projects for Saksoft.

Gopakumar N Kavunkal (Gopa)

Sr. VP (Practice Head – Analytics & Infrastructure)

Gopakumar N Kavunkal (Gopa) is the Senior Vice President & Global Head of Information Management Services (IM) at Saksoft. He has over two decades of experience in global outsourcing business including Sales, Strategic Business & Technology Planning, Global Sourcing & Contract Negotiations, Business Process Transformation and IT Process management. Prior to joining Saksoft, Gopakumar held leadership roles at Quadrant 4 and Mascon Global both in India and abroad.

At Saksoft, he is leading the strategy and operations for Information Management practice. Gopa has outstanding track record for leading, developing IT products and solutions across industries including Banking & Financials, Transportation & Logistics, HR, Payroll & Benefits, Travel and Hospitality and Consulting.

Bhaskar Narayanan

Sr. VP (Business Head – India & APAC)

Bhaskar is responsible for revenue growth in India and APAC. He drives the business by redefining Go To Market strategy for this region He also leads the Digital Marketing initiatives to help the group gain visibility. Apart from this, he also drives the Business support function by conceptualising and managing the knowledge portal to help sales teams access all the relevant updated collaterals.

Bhaskar has nearly 25 years of experience in Business Development, Account Management, and Operations Management. He has worked across various roles in the Engineering and IT Services industries.

Jonathan Eeley

CCO (Business Head – UK)

Soumya Shashi

VP (Practice Head – Testing & QA)

Testing BU Head and Software Engineering Leader, a versatile, high-energy technocrat with track record of executing prestigious projects of large magnitudes. Soumya Shashi is having an experience of more than 15 years in the Software Industry right from Software Testing, Test Practice Development, Delivery Management, Programme Engagement and Account Management within Telecom, Insurance, healthcare, e-Commerce, Software Quality Assurance; QA Process Implementation. In addition to this, he has diversified himself to overall project management, gained through analysing; Resource Management, Risks/Issue Management, collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, building Test strategy/plan, maintaining a cohesive working environment and managing deliverable across various project portfolios.

Sanchit Jain

CEO – DreamOrbit, a Saksoft company

Sanchit holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. Before co-founding DreamOrbit, Sanchit worked with Tata Consultancy Services, Aditi Technologies and CircleSource. Stewarding the growth and upgrading the quality of technology services, leading innovation management, market development, strategic planning of business operations are a few of the skills that Sanchit has imbibed in his 20 years long enriched experience in the industry.

Vivek Srivastava

Director – Testing Practices

Vivek Srivastava has over 16 years of experience in Quality Engineering. During his professional career, he has held various portfolios leading QA & Test Automation for clients across the globe. He brings hands on experience in building automation frameworks, QA transformations and establishing a Testing Centre of Excellence (TCoE).He was instrumental in building Saksoft testing team and has handled complex, multi-country and large-scale technology transformations. Vivek also bring a rich wealth of experience in mobility. Prior to Saksoft, his last assignment was with Newgen Software Tech Ltd for more than 9 years.

Swaraj

Sr. VP (Business Head – Us)

Swaraj Dash heads the US Solution Sales at Saksoft. He has over 18 years of Sales and Business Development experience across different verticals including Fintech, Logistics, Healthcare, and eCommerce. Before joining Saksoft, Swaraj was responsible for carrying out business development activities in the US & Europe for companies like Cognizant and Virtusa. At Saksoft, Swaraj is responsible for spearheading business development, managing client relations, fostering strategic alliances, managing sales staff across various group companies and partnerships. He holds an Mechanical Engineering degree from Utkal University and a PGDBA from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management.

Avantika

VP (Business Head UK & Europe, Enterprise Business)

Avantika has over 10 years of experience in Business Development, Account Management and Human Resources Management. She holds a Master degree in HR from Kings College, London & MBA (Marketing & Management) from Fordham University, New York.

Amit Verma

Chief Sales Officer

Amit verma has 18+ years of experience and a proven track record of building high-performance software and technology solutions for Logistics businesses. He currently heads Logistics solutions business unit at DreamOrbit softech pvt. ltd. a wholly owned subsidiary of Saksoft. He specializes in building freight management solutions for LTL, Full Truckload, Supply Chain Management, and Domestic Air/Expedited shippings. He has successfully handled major initiatives to improve performance of various products, interface delivery channels to the products and re-architecturing of the same. He is responsible for direct and oversight involvement in service innovation, reliable sustained high quality delivery and customer satisfaction. Amit is an Engineering graduate from HCET , Jabalpur in Computer Science.

Amit’s Goals
His goal is to produce deliverables that are differentiated in the logistics space and enable disruptive transformation for businesses to grow and at the same time achieve high level of customer satisfaction by providing quality services.

Rohan Pandya

VP (Practice Head – Fintech Solutions)

Rohan Pandya has 20+ years of experience and a proven track record of building high-performance software and technology solutions for Financial, Automobile and Healthcare Domain. He currently heads FinTech solutions business unit at DreamOrbit softech pvt. ltd. a wholly owned subsidiary of Saksoft. He specializes for building Financial Regulatory application for large financial organisation and hedge funds. He has develop complex architecture for system like Cardless transaction, Cyber Securities and Anti Money Laundering. He has successfully handled major initiatives for modernisation of large scale applications. He is responsible for direct and oversight involvement in service innovation, reliable sustained high quality delivery and customer satisfaction. Rohan is an Engineering graduate from GEC, Modasa in Electronics & Communication and also holds various certificates from Microsofts and UiPath.

Rohan’s Goals
His goal is to produce deliverables that are differentiated in the FinTech space and enable disruptive transformation for businesses to grow and at the same time achieve high level of customer satisfaction by providing quality services.