Stefan joined CTE as a part of the recent acquisition of smartShift, the leading provider of tool-based modernization of complex IT systems. Stefan started his career as a consultant at Cambridge Technology Group. In 1993, he joined i-Cube as the first employee and was instrumental in the company's growth and later became responsible for i-Cube’s European business. The company grew to over $100 million in revenue and went public in 1998. In 1999, i-Cube was acquired by razorfish. In 2001, Stefan acquired the assets of i-Cube from razorfish in a management buyout and formed smartShift. Stefan has a Masters in Computer from University of Constance.

Ravi Joseph heads the North America Business Unit 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.

Marco Farsheed has over 20 years of experience in building successful technology and services businesses. He has held executive positions – sales, marketing, business development and general management -- in a number of private and public companies such as StreamBase Systems, DYS Analytics (now Permessa), C-bridge Internet Solutions (IPO - CBIS), Platinum Technologies (Acquired by Computer Associates). He also held sales and engineering positions at Wang Laboratories. Marco received his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University and MBA from Harvard Business School.

Arjun Chopra is the Chief Technology Officer at CTE. He is also the CEO of Vox Holdings, a company he founded in 2006 to spur the creation, consumption and monetization of Open Source Software. Arjun holds multiple technology patents, has worked extensively with Open Source Software for over 10 years and has held several technology development and management positions in Consumer and Enterprise software companies, including Microsoft, Motive and IBCC. He has a BS in Computer Sciences with Highest Honors from The University of Texas at Austin, where he was an Endowed Presidential scholar, and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was one of 32 nation-wide PD Soros Fellows.

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.

Bhagi brings over 24 years of experience in the IT services industry spanning projects delivery, business development, account management and operations. Most recently he was with Thinksoft Global as President – Delivery. Before Thinksoft, Bhagi was with iGATE for about 11 years. When he left iGATE he was AVP-Centre Head for their Chennai operations with over 800 technical resources delivering annual business of about $50M. His responsibilities included managing global delivery for 6 business units of GE, creating new service delivery capabilities and expansion of centre both in terms of infrastructure and resource count. In addition, during his tenure at iGATE he worked with several Global 1000 companies in US, UK, Germany, Italy, Japan, Australia and Middle East. In the past, he has worked with organizations like Citibank, Ampersand and Nelco in different capacities. Bhagi brings significant experience in process improvement and operations management across HR, administration, recruitment and infrastructure. Bhagi has done his Engineering in REC Trichy.

Girish is the Country Manager at CTE and is responsible for the Indian Sales. He has more than a decade of experience in the Indian Market. He was the co-founder of Q-Soft Systems and Solutions Pvt Ltd, now a 100% subsidiary of CTE. Q-Soft is a Certified Partner for Oracle and is well known for Oracle Services. In the role of Business Development Director at Q-Soft, Girish was responsible for setting up Q-Soft operation in Mumbai and Chennai. Girish holds a graduate Engineering degree from University of Mysore.

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.