D N Prahlad

Chairman

D. N. Prahlad is the founder and CEO of Surya Software Systems Private Limited, Bangalore. Surya focusses on products for financial risk management of financial institutions in general and banks in particular.

In addition, Prahlad is on the advisory board of Computer Science and Automation Department of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He served as an adjunct faculty at Indian institute of Information Technology, Bangalore in its formative years. He serves as an advisory board member of PathShodh Healthcare, a company with leading edge nano-technology in diagnostic measurements related to diabetes.

Prahlad is a B.Sc. with honours in mathematics from Bangalore University and B.E. (Electrical technology and Electronics) from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Prior to founding Surya, Prahlad played a key role in the rapid growth of Infosys Technologies, being associated with Infosys from its formative years. He brings with him a high level of experience of working with multiple Fortune 50 clients, creation of new services, products and strategies.

Pervinder Johar

Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director

Pervinder Johar is the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of EdgeVerve. He comes to EdgeVerve from Steelwedge Software Inc, where he served as the President and CEO. Pervinder helped position Steelwedge as the market leader in Supply Planning and Sales & Operations Planning. Under his leadership, Steelwedge successfully orchestrated a merger with E2open to form the largest purely cloud-based supply chain software company in the world. Prior to Steelwedge, Pervinder was at HP, where he served as Vice President of Global Supply Chain Systems. In this role, he was responsible for strategy and execution of worldwide supply chain management, manufacturing, product life cycle management, order-to-cash, and procure-to-pay business processes and IT systems for HP’s supply chain, one of the largest in the world. Pervinder previously held the position of CTO at Manhattan Associates, a leading provider of supply chain execution solutions, where he was responsible for global research, development, and quality assurance. He also held senior positions in strategy, marketing, technology and finance with large companies including State Street Bank, and Fidelity Investments. In addition, Pervinder served as CTO for two successful startup companies.
Pervinder holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Villanova University, an MBA from Boston University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee.

Deepak Padaki

Director

Deepak is director at EdgeVerve and Executive Vice President. His responsibilities include longer-term strategic planning for the organization and the management of cross functional strategic initiatives. As the Chief Risk Officer, he is responsible for defining the company’s risk management framework, identifying and monitoring the risks to the successful execution of the company’s strategies and operations. He works closely with the Strategy & Risk Committee of the Board of Directors. Deepak also heads the company’s M&A function, defining areas of inorganic growth, leading transaction and due-diligence teams and monitoring post-merger integration activity.

Deepak has played various roles at Infosys, in a career spanning 24 years. He started as a software engineer in 1992, and then went on to manage various telecommunications projects in the USA and Canada, including those involving next generation technologies such as speech recognition based solutions. In 2003-2004, he planned and helped Infosys’ telecommunications business grow in Europe, opening and growing several key client accounts. Subsequently, he managed and grew one of Infosys’ largest telecom service provider client accounts in the USA. Between 2007 and 2012, as the head of the company’s M&A function he led multiple transactions, including the acquisition of Lodestone, Mc.Camish and Portland. As a member of the Office of the Chairman in 2013-14, Deepak managed several organization change initiatives, especially in the area of improving effectiveness of sales teams. Deepak holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from the University of Mysore, India. He is currently based in Bangalore.

Sanat Rao

Director

Sanat Rao is the Director at EdgeVerve. Sanat has over 26 years of experience in international banking and technology led business transformations. His experience spans strategic partnerships with clients through their digital journey across multiple markets globally. In his present role, Sanat is responsible for growing the Finacle business and driving industry leadership with innovations in the banking space.

Having started his career at ANZ Bank, a global financial institution headquartered in Australia, Sanat has had stints with marquee global financial technology organizations. In his previous role as Vice President and Senior Partner at IBM, he was responsible for a portfolio of offerings including cloud consulting services, CIO Advisory, core banking, digital foundation and payments in the BFSI space. He was also deeply engaged with FinTech companies in identifying and nurturing new partnerships that could prove disruptive in the market.

Prior to that, for nearly 14 years till 2013, Sanat played a variety of global roles as part of the Infosys Finacle organization, helping build and scale the brand, with the last position as the Global Head of Client Services and Alliances. In this role, he was responsible driving global sales, client engagement, and strategic alliances for Finacle globally. Sanat’s expertise of the banking and financial technology industry is exemplary, having previously been responsible for Infosys’ global banking product strategy for the entire Finacle suite. Sanat is based in London but spends much of his time travelling globally to engage with clients.

Srinivasan Rajam

Independent Director

Srini Rajam is a recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award 2013 of the Indian Institute of Science.

Srini co-founded Ittiam Systems in 2001, along with a team of senior leaders from the semiconductor industry. Ittiam is focused on Media Processing and Communications Systems. Ittiam has more than 400 customers worldwide and 60+ patent filings of which 35 granted. The company is ranked as the World’s Most Preferred DSP IP Supplier by Forward Concepts for four successive years from 2004 to 2008. Ittiam is a Red Herring 100 Asia Winner in 2005 and 2013, and received the NASSCOM India IT Innovation Award in 2007. The volume of electronic products such as Smartphones and Tablets that customers ship embedding Ittiam IP has crossed annual run rate of well over 25 million units. In 2013, Ittiam formed a new division, Ittiam Media Labs, to bring its extensive media expertise to the cloud platform and deliver enhanced Online Video Experience.

Prior to Ittiam, Srini was the Managing Director of Texas Instruments (TI) India during 1995-2000, following his appointment as the youngest Country Managing Director for Texas Instruments in 1995. He led TI India to be among the most valuable R&D centers for TI. He had also served as the first Technical Marketing Director for TI Asia Region (1993), Chairman of TI Asia Technical Council (1994) and member of the TI Asia Leadership Team (1995).

Srini has served as a member of the Governing Council of India’s Department of Electronics’ Software Technology Parks (1997), as the Chairman of Indo American Chamber of Commerce, Karnataka Branch (2000) and as a member of the Karnataka State IT Task Force (2000).

Srini received his Master’s Degree in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 1984 as the top rank holder in the institute. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Madurai University, 1982 and was the University Gold Medalist for winning the top rank.

Srini has a unique track record of successively building products, organizations and businesses from the ground up. He has been recognized for his commitment to excellence throughout his career.

Pervinder Johar

Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director

Pervinder Johar is the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of EdgeVerve. He comes to EdgeVerve from Steelwedge Software Inc, where he served as the President and CEO. Pervinder helped position Steelwedge as the market leader in Supply Planning and Sales & Operations Planning. Under his leadership, Steelwedge successfully orchestrated a merger with E2open to form the largest purely cloud-based supply chain software company in the world. Prior to Steelwedge, Pervinder was at HP, where he served as Vice President of Global Supply Chain Systems. In this role, he was responsible for strategy and execution of worldwide supply chain management, manufacturing, product life cycle management, order-to-cash, and procure-to-pay business processes and IT systems for HP’s supply chain, one of the largest in the world. Pervinder previously held the position of CTO at Manhattan Associates, a leading provider of supply chain execution solutions, where he was responsible for global research, development, and quality assurance. He also held senior positions in strategy, marketing, technology and finance with large companies including State Street Bank, and Fidelity Investments. In addition, Pervinder served as CTO for two successful startup companies. Pervinder holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Villanova University, an MBA from Boston University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee.

Sanat Rao

Chief Business Officer and Global Head of Finacle

Sanat Rao is the Director at EdgeVerve. Sanat has over 26 years of experience in international banking and technology led business transformations. His experience spans strategic partnerships with clients through their digital journey across multiple markets globally. In his present role, Sanat is responsible for growing the Finacle business and driving industry leadership with innovations in the banking space. Having started his career at ANZ Bank, a global financial institution headquartered in Australia, Sanat has had stints with marquee global financial technology organizations. In his previous role as Vice President and Senior Partner at IBM, he was responsible for a portfolio of offerings including cloud consulting services, CIO Advisory, core banking, digital foundation and payments in the BFSI space. He was also deeply engaged with FinTech companies in identifying and nurturing new partnerships that could prove disruptive in the market. Prior to that, for nearly 14 years till 2013, Sanat played a variety of global roles as part of the Infosys Finacle organization, helping build and scale the brand, with the last position as the Global Head of Client Services and Alliances. In this role, he was responsible driving global sales, client engagement, and strategic alliances for Finacle globally. Sanat's expertise of the banking and financial technology industry is exemplary, having previously been responsible for Infosys' global banking product strategy for the entire Finacle suite. Sanat is based in London but spends much of his time travelling globally to engage with clients.

Sushanth Tharappan

Chief People Officer

Sushanth is the Chief People Officer for EdgeVerve Systems Limited. He is responsible for the people team at EdgeVerve, globally. He has around two decades of experience in people strategy and development. Sushanth spent most of his career in leadership roles at Infosys in the HR spectrum of organization development, talent acquisition, leadership development, and performance management. A leadership development and change management facilitator from the Infosys Leadership Institute, he is a certified assessor on various competency assessment and psychometric tools. Sushanth has also led and participated in a number of key large-scale, cross- functional change initiatives, and has been recognized with multiple awards in the areas of people development, customer satisfaction, and program management. He partners with a number of industry forums as a thought leader and is a speaker in many national and international platforms on HR. A gold medalist and university ranker, Sushanth holds a bachelor’s degree in science and a master’s degree in management.

Jonathan Heller

Chief Technology Officer

Mr. Jonathan Heller is the Chief Technology Officer. He is based out of Israel at Panaya Inc., a subsidiary of Infosys Limited. Prior to this, he was Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Analytics at SAP and a member of SAP CTO circle. In addition, Heller served as the Vice President, Head of Architecture, Business Information, and Technology at SAP. In this position, he was the head for technology strategy of SAP Analytics portfolio, mobile (platform and security) and Internet of Things (IoT) platform including overall software design responsibility for UI technologies and related technologies including Netweaver Portal. Heller holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Computer Science. He has over 25 years of international experience in software design and development. Heller has handled multiple roles including Software Quality Engineer, Senior Developer at Israel Defense Forces, Development Manager (Rank Captain) at Israel Defense Forces, VP research and development (R&D) at e-Mobiles Ltd, CTO at Top Image Systems Ltd, CTO, IT at the Israeli government, and Program Architect at SAP. He is currently focusing on large-scale enterprise software systems.