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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.
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Ravi Joseph - Senior
Vice President, Commercial Operations
Ravi Joseph is the Senior Vice President, and heads commercial
operations at CTE. Ravi has significant international experience
in growing organizations, participating in every aspect
of business – strategy, sales & marketing and
delivery, and putting in place infrastructure, systems and
processes to scale global IT & BPO services businesses.
He has worked with over 60 Global 2000 companies in North
America, Europe, Japan, Australia, Singapore and the Middle
East, and has over 16 years of client facing and India delivery
experience in structuring and managing large global outsourcing
deals.Ravi was a key member of several successful global
IT & BPO services firms. Most recently, he was Senior
Vice President at Cambridge Solutions (BSE/NSE listed),
where he headed the Manufacturing and Logistics IT Outsourcing
business unit. Before this, he was President – CIBER
India, a joint-venture between CIBER (NYSE listed) and iGATE
(NASDAQ listed). At iGATE, he held various executive positions
including Senior Vice President, heading iGATE’s North
America Outsourcing business unit. Over a 10 year period
at iGATE he played a pivotal role in scaling iGATE’s
outsourcing operation from less than $1M to over $125M.
Before joining iGATE, Ravi was with Cognizant Technology
Solutions (NASDAQ listed).Prior to starting his career
in the global IT & BPO services industry, Ravi was associated
for over 5 years with C-DAC (Center for Development of Advanced
Computing), Pune, and IIT, Chennai, doing R&D in the
area of modeling and simulation of dataflow-based machine
vision systems. He has a graduate engineering degree from
MIT, Chennai. |
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Brian
Courtney – Vice President, Corporate Strategy & Planning
Brian Courtney joined CTE in 2005 and currently heads
corporate strategy and planning. He is responsible for
driving sales synergies in acquisitions to facilitate
CTE’s aggressive M&A strategy. Brian also leads
CTE’s technology team including oversight of the
Oracle Competency Center and the Cambridge Center of Innovation.
Prior to joining CTE, Brian was a senior technologist
working for Smith & Nephew overseeing their medical
informatics initiatives. Brian has also worked as a technology
consultant and founded C&C Consulting, Inc. C&C
Consulting provided managed services and IT support to
the Legal Services industry. Brian holds an MBA from MIT
as a Sloan Fellow, and an MS and BS from the University
of Massachusetts in Compute Science. Brian was also an
adjunct faculty member at Daniel Webster College teaching
telecommunications.
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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. |
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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. |
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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
& Bangalore 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. |
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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.
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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. |
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Thomas
John – Vice President, High Tech Practice
Thomas John leads the High 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. |
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