Sanjiv Gupta, Chairman & Founder

Sanjiv founded Bodhtree and leads the company as chairman & founder , shaping the strategic growth and vision of the company as a niche IT services provider. He has over 25 years of successful entrepreneurial experience. He originally set up the company to offer niche Web Services expertise to the industry and tied up with reputed organizations like Hewlett-Packard and AU System (Sweden). He then led the company to expand into other high-growth areas like Data Quality Management and Business Analytics and partnered with leading healthcare giants in the US. He has also successfully attracted business from Fortune 500, 250 and Forbes enlisted organizations.

He initiated a Strategic Business Unit within the company focused on offering New Media Delivery and Archival services to the publication industry and has led it to become a separate corporate entity called Pressmart Media Limited. Pressmart is a successful has leading publication organizations as its customer from over 21 countries.

He has also co-founded Trylah, a first-of-its kind B2B mobile search classified service based in Malaysia and expanding rapidly across the South East Asia.

He is also the co-founder of 24x7guru.com, an education E-Assessment portal – the only portal of its kind that has already served over 2.7 million students offline.

Dr. Akila Jaikumar, Sr. Vice President & Director

Akila has over 15 years of experience, first as a Scientist in a CSIR Lab and then in the IT industry. She has managed large global teams, worked with international clients and overseen multiple projects simultaneously, being responsible for on-time delivery of projects and operations of the delivery group including staffing, budgeting, revenue growth, pre-sales, domain and technology competency building, capacity building, client relationship management and administration. She has immense experience in architecting, designing, and developing software solutions in diverse areas such as real-time data processing, simulation projects for the defense sector, investment banks, e-business, telecommunications, healthcare and storage solutions. She has contributed to creating and implementing best practices in delivery management, knowledge management, process implementation and organization building. Akila has played various roles in Project Management, Delivery Management and Competency Excellence at leading IT companies like DE Shaw and Virtusa. She headed the Competency Excellence Group at Virtusa.

Akila holds a Ph.D. in Materials Science from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and received the Vittal N Chandavarkar award for the best thesis in the department of Engineering. She has published 13 papers in international scientific journals related to her doctoral thesis and post-doctoral work.

Raghavan Madabhushi, Head - SOA & DW

Raghavan Madabhushi has 13 years of experience in IT industry with ERP, BI-DW, EAI, SOA, Web 2.0 implementations with strong project and product management expertise. He has been certified by Oracle/Microsoft and specializes in data warehouses and J2EE based implementations. He is well versed in Pharma, life sciences verticals. He is responsible for SOA&DW and advises on strategy for product engineering and building and delivery of various SaaS and Cloud computing based applications at CoE for SaaS to different customers. He along with the leadership team is instrumental for laying the Process and framework for spend data management, advanced analytics, and business intelligence for O&M (Owens and minor) a fortune 500 company with USD 5-10 Billion in sales, is the leading distributor of healthcare supply-chain management company. He is a member of core leadership team and advises on SOA, DW and current technologies meant for health care competency center. He is working as the multi-project change manager with the rank of
Head – SoA&DW. This includes troubles shooting of critical mission tasks or arbitration of projects and any form of dynamic change management required for the customers. He is mentor for large, software delivery and development teams. Raghavan is known for his presentations at various international technology events and unveils the latest software solutions from Bodhtree for healthcare and pharmaceutical community and other new vertical domains. He is an avid blogger with deep interest on evolving technologies and invites technology communities on the evolving needs of the Data warehouse, emerging SaaS and Cloud Computing and SOA. He holds MBA in finance from Andhra University and his interest include technology evangelism in SOA, data warehousing and cloud computing areas. Apart from delivery and technology he heads Bodhtree Business Development driving the same in high tech areas with clients such as CISCO.

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SubbaRao Devulapalli, Head - Healthcare

Subba Rao has over 20 years of experience in health care domain, specifically Hospital information systems, spent analytics and materials management. He is a key member of leadership team responsible for the Bodhtree health care competency center, which has more than 120 members working relentlessly in delivering world class health care solutions to fortune 500 organizations. Having been instrumental in making strategic bridges and fulfilling the evolving needs of US healthcare providers in the areas of Supply chain information systems (SCIS), he is a key member currently working on guiding multiple teams in scoping and analyzing to deliver quality reports related to data cleansing, price parity analysis and benchmarking for US medical surgical supplies.

He initiates and executes the standard quality processes whilst inculcating the emerging advance knowledge management in health care domain. He is instrumental in product standardization in medical specialty. A strong working experience as IT-Head in south Asia’s leading chain of hospitals and having been involved in setting up a medical center in south India gave him wide exposure to various international hospitals. Taking initiative to follow technology news and regularly update the team on functional equivalence of medical consumables is his personal interest.

PVS Chalapatirao, Head – HR, Admin & Quality

Chalapatirao has over 35 years of industry experience and possesses immense knowledge and working experience in the areas of ERP implementation, EAI and IT administration. Prior to Bodhtree, he worked with BHEL as General Manager. He was instrumental in initiating ERP (SAP) implementation at BHEL and made a significant contribution in overall automation within the organization in the areas of materials management system, production planning, production systems and commercial systems. He also consulted several PSU’s like ECIL, CDM, NFC and so on. His understanding of the government vertical and work experience with PSU’S helps him oversee large government projects at Bodhtree. He specializes in executing PSU/Government based projects and directs multiple teams for on-time delivery of projects and operations of the delivery group. By virtue of experience, he has taken up another important role as Head of HR and Quality at Bodhtree. He is also a management representative for ISO 9001:2008 and ensures Quality framework for SDLC and other departments.

He holds Bachelors of Science (B.sc), B.Sc. (Eng) and Masters of Engineering (M.E) degrees. His wide interest in human resources management, quality and project management has important contribution to Bodhtree.

Bhoopal Reddy, Program Manager

Bhoopal has over 21 years of professional experience; he has strong international industry exposure and had resided for 25 years in United States. He worked with multi national organizations like Xerox corporations, Silicon Graphics, Cosine communications, Extreme Networks, Caspian Networks, so on. He brings with him a strong program management expertise and has contributed significantly in his previous roles in executing and implementing best practices in program management. A multi project manager, he was associated with CISCO for 11 years and worked on various CISCO Networking products and solutions. He was a faculty member for 3 years at State University of New York; Bhoopal holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from Mississippi, MBA from University of Phoenix in San Jose, California and Stanford Certified Program Manager.

Gurvinder Singh Kapoor, Head-Sales India

Gurvinder serves as the Sales Head for India region at Bodhtree. He has over 11 years of experience in the field of Sales and Marketing, Business Development and Channel Sales. He stared his career in Human Resource Management, Account management and Online recruitment portals. Prior to joining Bodhtree, he was Sales Head for Irish based, Saongroup.com. He was instrumental in driving and expanding the Saongroup’s sales growth in pan India and has been acclaimed for region wise strategic approach by mentoring key account managers, area sales managers and expanding the footprints of the company in India. He also worked with Times jobs as Area Sales Manager supporting pre-sales, new account management, sales process management and new business development. He has seen the best of both the worlds in Human Resource Management and Technology Sales. As a National Sales Head at Bodhtree he explores and strategizes new target markets and is instrumental in driving sales innovation and brand promotions to achieve overall sales objectives.