Management Team

Mr. Bharat V. Patel (DIN: 00060998) an Independent Director, was born on September 25, 1944, was originally appointed on July 16, 2009 and last re-appointed on July 22, 2011. He holds MA in Economics from the University of Notre Dame, USA and MBA in Marketing from the University of Michigan, USA. He is the former Chairman of Procter & Gamble Hygiene and Health Care Ltd., and presently in the Executive Committee or Boards of Indian Society of Advertisers (ISA), World Federation of Advertisers (WFA), Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) and Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC). He has over 40 years of varied experience in the field of advertising, marketing, sales, exports and operations.

His Directorship, Chairmanship and Membership of the Committees in other companies (as disclosed) are as below:

Mr. Sanjay M. Shah (DIN: 00375679) an Independent Director, was born on August 30, 1963. He was originally appointed on June 10, 2005 and last re-appointed on July 23, 2012.

He did his Bachelor of Technology in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1985 and Masters in Computer Science from Virginia Tech, USA in 1988.

He provides the vision, strategic direction and execution for Invensys Skelta. He brings to the company over 23 years of management and product development experience under multiple platforms and computing environments.

He has played pivotal roles in steering startups from early growth to expansion. Prior to Skelta, he served as Managing Director of Everest Software. He co-founded Everest in 1994 with a vision of developing an integrated ERP software solution for small businesses and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the global market. He helped raise multiple rounds of venture financing to help fund strategic initiatives and fuel the company’s growth between 1999 and 2004.

Before Everest, he was a founding partner of Accel Inc., a $35 million “white box” PC retailer in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. He has also held positions with Mentor Graphics and Tektronix during his 12 year stint in the USA.

He is a member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs), YPO (Young President’s Organization), NASSCOM and several other industry committees and chambers of commerce in India and the USA.

He has been awarded Red Herring – Top 100 – Asia Winner in 2005, Nasscom Product Innovation Award in 2006, Deloitte Technology Fast 50 – India in 2006, Red Herring 100 Asia Winner in 2009, Top 20 “Promising Cool Enterprise Products” by the SmartTechie in 2010, Red Herring 100 Global award in 2011 and Distinguished Honoree medal in Best New Product of the Year in ‘The 2011 International Business Awards’ in 2011.

His Directorship in other companies (as disclosed) are as below:

Dr. G. Venkatesh (DIN 00092085) is a Director of the Company, was born on June 4, 1961. He has been with Sasken since 1995. He started as a researcher at India’s premier research institute TIFR, Bombay, then moved to the Computer Science department of IIT Bombay where he spent 8 years teaching and researching in the areas of temporal logic, functional/logic programming, and applications of logic and languages to VLSI design, which resulted in about 50 papers in international conferences and journals in these areas. He made his transition to the industry in 1990 when Sasken was in its start up phase and moved full time to Sasken as Technology head in 1995. He has played various managerial roles at Sasken and is currently a board member. He also participates in teaching and research at IIM Bangalore, where his interests revolve around applying game theory to strategic thinking, specifically in the telecom and semiconductor industries and in IT outsourcing. He is a graduate in Electronics from IIT Madras, a Ph.D in Computer Science from TIFR, Bombay, and is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineers. Other positions held by him are Governing Council member Centre for Excellence in Wireless Technology (CEWiT), IIT Madras; Governing Council member of the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS); Steering Committee Chair for the Communication Systems and Networks conferences (ComsNets); Member, Sectional Committee VI, INAE; Member NASSCOM Embedded Systems SIG; Jury member for the NASSCOM Innovation Awards; Member ISA Core Committee.

His Directorship in other companies (as disclosed) are as below: