Bhaskar Panigrahi - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

Bhaskar has a rich experience of more than 14 years as a technology entrepreneur. He is a confident and an innovative leader, with a passion to build a brand of CTE to be the Single Stop General Contractor for IT services for mid-size enterprises. Bhaskar has an extensive experience in setting up, building, formulating corporate strategy and direction for various successful organizations. Recently, Bhaskar led a successful IPO of Cambridge Technology Enterprises on both Bombay and National Stock Exchange in India. Under his leadership, Cambridge Technology has grown at 100% CAGR during last three years. Prior to Cambridge Technology Enterprises, Bhaskar served as CEO of CellExchange, an enterprise systems developer to Government enterprises. Before that he served as the CEO of Unique Computing Solutions, an Internet technology and services firm. He also co-founded e-Solutions Integrator in 1999, an e-business consulting firm, which subsequently merged with Unique Computing Solutions. Bhaskar promoted two other technology companies, Mascot Networks (product and solutions provider in education space) and Trading Research Design (financial risk management solution provider). He started his career as a technologist at IBM, State Street Bank and TELCO as the chief architect of some of the Web's earliest products. Bhaskar holds a BS in Computer Science from National Institute of Technology, Suratkal, India. Bhaskar firmly believes that the most valuable assets for a company is the deep relationship with the customer coupled with excellent execution and superior talent. He spends time as much as possible to coach and mentor his management team and making his employees to embrace that working at CTE is more than just developing revolutionary solutions and applications for clients or innovating with the latest technologies. Besides his entrepreneurial interests, he enjoys golf, keenly follows cricket and loves social networking.

Brian Courtney – Vice President, Consulting

Brian Courtney heads the CCI and leads CTE's Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Oracle Fusion Middleware practices. Brian joins CTE after completing an MBA in the Sloan Fellows Program at MIT. Prior to that Brian was the Senior Architect at Smith & Nephew, where he led the Digital Operating Room initiative including video integration, central device control and medical informatics. Brian also worked as an Architect at PTC for the ‘Windchill’ product line where he led the EAI integration efforts. Brian has experience working in software development, marketing, strategy and sales. He founded C&C Consulting Inc. in 1991, which provided IT services to the legal industry. Besides an MBA Brian holds a BS and MS in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts and was an adjunct faculty member at Daniel Webster College.

Daniel Reilly – VP, Process Manufacturing

Daniel Reilly is responsible for process manufacturing division at CTE. He has enriched CTE with an experience of more than 20 years in the process manufacturing industries. He founded Reilly & Associates, Inc., who has a strong niche in the area of Oracle implementations for process manufacturing companies. They are also a certified Oracle partner and one of Oracles top partners for implementations in the process manufacturing arena. Prior to that Dan was the Manager in Process 1 organization for Accenture (formerly Anderson Consulting). Process 1 was a software package developed by Anderson for use in the food and chemical industries. Before that he has was a Sales consultant with Datalogix International, who was one of the premier software vendors with an ERP package focused on Food, Chemical and Pharmaceutical companies. His first stint with the process manufacturing industries started with Anheuser-Busch and Packaging Corporation of America where he was the project manager for the implementation of maintenance planning. He started his career as a cost accountant in the automotive industry. He has a BS in Management from Oakland University and a Masters degree in Business Information Systems from Georgia State University. He has also received his APICS certification in production and inventory management.

Jagdish Negi - Vice President, India Operations

Jagdish Negi is responsible for leading CTE’s India Operations and managing all project delivery out of the Hyderabad & Pune development centers. He has over 15 years of experience in the field of Telecom, Software development and delivery. Prior to CTE, Jagdish worked with Pune-based Persistent Systems, where he managed multiple projects for US based product development companies. He scaled his last account from a 4-member unit to a 90+members team within a short a span of six months. Prior to Persistent, Jagdish served in the Indian Air Force for 12 years and took release while he was the head of the IT and Information Warfare Cell in Maintenance Air Command. At IAF, he planned, designed and implemented the biggest WAN networks covering the whole of northern India. He was also instrumental in conceptualization and development number of software applications for the Operations, Maintenance and Administration branches of the IAF. He holds a BS in Computer Science from National Institute of Technology, Allahabad.

Dr James Mills - Business Strategist

Dr James D Mills has 20+ years of experience in innovation and technology development, and leverages his expertise in decision sciences to deliver data-driven business transformation solutions at CCI. He has worked in a wide spectrum of wireless and wire-line telecom and data networking areas from device to systems architecture and theory to product development. At CTE, Dr Mills leverages his analytical and quantitative background in decision sciences to deliver data-driven business transformation solutions for clients. Prior to that, he was the Director of Research and Research Fellow for a telecommunications equipment manufacturer, where he led the conceptualization and development of new technologies, products and services. He has been on the faculty at the University of Notre Dame du Lac, a Visiting Scientist and Research Affiliate with the Laboratory of Information and Decision Systems at MIT, and the advisory committee for the Department of Manufacturing Engineering at Boston University. Dr Mills earned a BSEE from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a MSEE and Ph.D. from Notre Dame in Systems Theory. He also holds an MBA from the Sloan Fellows program at MIT.

Nagesh Rao Duvvuri - Vice President Corporate Development

Nagesh Rao, Duvvuri, is responsible for brand equity and also Bangalore operations of CTE. Co-founder & Director of ComCreation Inc brings successful startup & Business strategy, deal making experience to the table from his earlier ventures. He was responsible for Operations & Corporate Finance function at ComCreation, Inc and is based in Bangalore. Prior to ComCreation, he was one of the founding team members & Sr.Business Strategist of Accellion, Inc handling capital formation and Corporate Strategy. He was with Reliance Capital Ltd, and very briefly associated with Aditya Birla Group at their Asia Pacific office in Singapore. He holds a BS and PGPBM in Finance & Marketing.

Prashant Vishnu - Vice President, Sales

Prashant Vishnu manages the growth and retention of all customer relationships at CTE. Prashant has over 15 years of experience and has strong entrepreneurial management skills; he has solid expertise in large and strategic account management. Prashant joined CTE in 2005. Prior to his current role, Prashant held position as Director of Sales at CTE. Before joining CTE, Prashant worked with Satyam Computer Services for over 8 years and built a $10 million account. Later he managed a start up company in Virginia and most recently, he held the position of Director, Sales with Mascon Global.

Ramesh Reddy - Chief Financial Officer

Ramesh heads the Finance function at CTE. Prior to joining CTE, he was with Virinchi Consultants, a Hyderabad based start up in e-Business and Web-based analytical solutions. He was SBU head for Malaysia operations with full accountability for all project deliverables through multiple project teams onsite and offshore. In the start-up phase of Virinchi, he played a key role as the Head of the Product Development and Chief Functional Architect, where he defined Virinchi’s product scope for B2B Exchanges, and managed the entire development and release of its exchange product suite. Ramesh Reddy is a Chemical Engineer from IIT, Chennai, and holds a Management Degree in Finance & Marketing from XLRI, Jamshedpur.

Thomas John – Vice President, Hi Tech Practice

Thomas John leads the Hi Tech Practice at CTE. Being one of the Founders of ComCreation, a CTE subsidiary, he has enriched CTE with his vast experience in sales, management, strategy & product engineering. Prior to his current role, he was responsible for driving the company's vision and played an active role in the sales & marketing of Product Engineering Services at ComCreation. Before co-founding ComCreation he was a member of the launch team of Accellion, Inc a leader in e-mail attachment caching space. Earlier, he had put in a stint with the software division of the $5 billion Aditya Birla group. He started his career in the Banking technology Industry at Synergy, holding various positions including Country Manager for its Malaysia operations. He holds a Bachelors degree in Electronics & a PGPBM in marketing.