Joerg Wirthmann joined CTE as part of the recent acquisition of smartShift along with Stefan. At smartShift, Joerg was responsible for all worldwide sales as well as channel partnership establishment and management. Prior to smartShift, Joerg held senior sales positions at PeopleSoft, later acquired by Oracle, where he was in charge of Oracle’s Application Business Unit. Joerg has over 15 years of experience in sales and management, with past positions at leading IT enterprises, including IDS Scheer, PeopleSoft, Unisys and Vantive. Joerg holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from Technical University, Darmstadt and a Master’s in Business Administration from Schiller International University, Florida.

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.