Our Leadership

SRIVIDYA KANNAN

Founder Director

Srividya is a proven business leader with more than 19 years of experience across diverse functions including Sales, Alliances & Channels, Strategy, Innovation, Business Finance, Operations and Sales Enablement. She has extensive experience in creating and managing high performance teams working in large matrix organizations such as Wipro, Oracle and SAP.

Srividya has a passion for incubating functions and successfully integrating them within larger businesses. She brings strong process orientation, work ethic and integrity coupled with an ability to create and orient teams for long term success.

In her five year stint at SAP India, Srividya managed various roles including heading their Business Operations, SAP India User Group, Partner build organization and their competitive intelligence team. Prior to SAP, she was with Oracle in their Alliances & Channels team. She spent over seven years between Wipro Finance and Wipro Infotech where she managed various roles including heading their Business Finance for Enterprise Products, Sales for Banking & Finance vertical, was a key member of their Innovation team and managed the Western Region for Wipro Finance.
Srividya has done Masters in Business Administration from Mumbai University and ICWA post her Graduation in Commerce.

JAY KELLAR

Non-Executive Director

Jay J Keller is a veteran in the IT industry with over 30 years of experience. As a Swiss/American citizen, he worked for some of the world’s finest companies such as Johnson & Johnson and Sony Corporation. Jay has also a vast experience working in the US, Europe and Asia. Currently Jay is the Global Vice President & CIO of Our Daily Bread Ministries in Grand Rapids. Jay worked in Sri Lanka for an apparel company called MAS Holdings and oversaw the IT Division. He was also an advisor to MAS’ IT companies throughout the World. As a vivid speaker, he addressed the Sri Lankan C-Level business leaders on various topics related to IT and Business challenges of the time.

He holds degrees in Business Economics, in Business Engineering, in Computer Science and is also a Certified Scrum Master.

Jay was the regional Director of INDUS (Indian Subcontinent SAP User Group) for Sri Lanka and was on the board of AMCHAM (American Chamber of Commerce). He was also a member of the SAP CIO Council of ASUG (American SAP User Group) and of the Executive Advisory Council for Sustainability of SAP AG.

Pratima Ram

Advisor to the Board

Pratima is an experienced banker with three decades in Corporate, International, Investment & Retail Banking . She has worked in India, USA and South Africa. Pratima held the position of Chief General Manager and Country Head of US Operations of State Bank of India, New York , Member of the Board of SBI California and CEO of the South African operations of the Bank based at Johannesburg. At SBI Capital Markets, she led the Corporate Advisory, M&A & Project Appraisal business. At SBI, she also headed the Diamond Financing business of the Bank.

On leaving the public sector, she joined private sector in the infrastructure and Oil & Gas space as Group President Finance at Punj Lloyd Group having diversified operations in more than 15 countries. She later was CEO and Whole Time Director of India Infoline Finance Ltd, a Non-Banking Finance company.

She is currently an Independent Director on the Boards of Havells India Ltd, Suzlon, Nandan Denims Ltd, Cura Healthcare Pvt. Ltd and is an advisor to India Infoline Finance Ltd.

In Bangalore, she is on the Management Committee of Bangalore Chambers of Industry and Commerce and a member of their sub Committees on Banking & Finance. She is in the Executive Committee of Bangalore International Centre, a initiative of TERI, set up on the lines of India International Centre. She is also associated with activities of CII . When she was in USA , she was actively involved with the activities of US-India Business Council & Asia Society and was an elected member of the executive committee of the Institute of International Bankers, USA .

Pratima graduated from University of Virginia, USA and Bangalore University.

 

Subramani Somasundaram

Non-Executive Director

Subramani is a services industry veteran, a start-up specialist and a business leader with over 25 years of experience in Banking, Insurance and Financial Services across Asia Pacific, Africa and Middle East markets having worked with some of the leading global financial institutions. He has a proven track record of building and growing profitable and sustainable high growth businesses from start-up stage at regional, country and global level.

Subramani is an MBA from Manchester Business School, UK. He also holds a degree in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Madras. Subramani is the Founding Director of Sage Ventures, Singapore and where he currently serves as a business advisor and management consultant for start-ups and early-stage growth companies across multiple industries and geographies. He is also engaged directly with a few other start-ups and early-stage companies in US and Asia serving in different roles as Advisor, Director and Board member helping them to successfully launch and grow new businesses and build customer franchises. Prior to his current position, Subramani was Managing Director at Standard Chartered Bank and served as the Global Head of Insurance-Wealth Management Group.

Subramani has a demeanor of a business coach and uses his creative leadership style to help foster product and process innovations at businesses. He uses his domain knowledge and subject matter expertise to lead multi-cultural people resources and deliver strategic corporate objectives, enhance customer experience and franchise growth. He has led big and complex cross-functional business teams across multiple geographies through large-scale business migration, organizational changes, digital transformation projects, re-engineering mandates and business assets restructuring successfully.

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