Pervinder Johar

Director

Pervinder Johar is the CEO 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

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.

Jonathan Heller

Director

Mr. Jonathan Heller is the Head of Architecture for Finacle and EdgeVerve. 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.

Ritika Suri

Director

Ritika is the Global Head of Corporate Development at Infosys, where she leads Infosys Corporate Venture Fund, as well as the Strategic Large Deals program. She has been an Executive Leader in Technology for the past 18+ years, focused on defining new business models to transform and deliver new business value to customers, and the end users. She has led roles in sales, product management, professional services and mergers & acquisitions.

Prior to Infosys, Ritika was Senior Vice President at SAP Labs in Palo Alto, where she held the role of Customer Officer for the Technology, Innovation and Products group, directly responsible for managing key executive relationships within SAP, and running customer engagements through strategic account management with Fortune 100 companies.

She helped drive new innovations and thus new lines of revenues within these accounts. In her role of a sales executive, she successfully led, negotiated and closed large multi-year, complex sales deals involving new services and joint product development. In her Business Development role, she helped establish new recurring revenue models, especially low/no touch routes to market, through online marketplace and cloud models. Ritika has also worked in silicon valley startups, and started her career in Citibank managing product development for financial derivatives.

Ritika has an MBA from Leeds Business School, UK.

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.

D N Prahlad

Independent Director, Infosys

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

Pervinder Johar is the CEO 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.

Anirban Dey (Andy)

Global Head and Chief Business Officer - Edge Products

Andy has diversified experience in general management, cloud and platform technologies, enterprise applications and in incubating Big Data solutions. At EdgeVerve, Andy heads the Sales, Marketing, Services and Operations for EdgeVerve Products. Prior to joining EdgeVerve, Andy was SVP at Concur Technologies (now part of SAP) and was heading the R&D for Concur’s Cloud solutions in Travel and Expense. He has also spent 6+ years at SAP Labs India in various roles, joining them as VP for BI & Data Warehouse solutions and later went on to head the HANA R&D Team in India. His last role was to lead SAP Labs India as its Managing Director. Prior to SAP, Andy was with Oracle Inc. for 10+ years in their Applications Division at Redwood Shores, CA, USA.

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

Head of Architecture, EdgeVerve and Finacle

Mr. Jonathan Heller is the Head of Architecture for Finacle and EdgeVerve. 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.

Arun Krishnan

Vice President, EdgeVerve and Global Head of Engineering, Finacle

Arun serves as the Vice President, EdgeVerve and Global Head of Engineering, Finacle. He is a veteran with over 25 years of product experience including senior leadership roles in product engineering, pre-sales, support, services delivery, program management, and innovation. Prior to joining Edgeverve, Arun was the Vice President, Product Development at WellDoc Inc, a startup in mobile health. In this position, he was responsible for re-engineering the product organization and was credited with dramatically transforming the capabilities of the company. Earlier, Arun led world-class product organizations in Microsoft and in Bell Labs. He successfully led winning teams in highly competitive and technically complex domains empowering customers and users around the world. He holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Buffalo, SUNY. Arun is passionate about growing and nurturing organizations to enable sustained innovation.