Management
Our Management Team
InfoSTEP leadership is comprised of a team of executives with 3600 vision, unparalleled motivation and deep commitment to business intelligence solutions. The team is complemented by an advisory board of industry veterans and best in class delivery management personnel.
- Sagar Anisingaraju, CEO
- Sanjeev Kumar, COO
- Samuel Poozhikala, Executive Vice President - BI & BPM
- Maneesh Madan, Vice President ETIS
- Bala Ramachandran, Vice President, Business Development
- Badari Kopparapu, Vice President, BI and BPM – Asia Pacific
- R K Goel, Vice President, ETIS – Asia Pacific
- Terri Mullen, Sr. Director, BI & BPM
- Parag Srivastava – Director, BI and BPM
- Suryam Kurma – Director, BI and BPM
Mr. Anisingaraju has over 20 years of experience in the software industry in various capacities. He is involved in thought leadership and in architecting analytical solutions for managing Internal Controls & Assurances and Business Intelligence applications. He was the winner of ‘Applications Development Trends Innovator Award’ for work done on Reporting solutions. His current passion includes development of Value Innovation strategy frameworks and collaborative BI2.0 solutions. He was instrumental in taking the parent company MIC Electronics to a successful public issue on Indian stock markets (MIC.NS) in April 2007.
Prior to InfoSTEP, Mr. Anisingaraju worked as head of CMC Ltd.’s global delivery operations and was responsible for several successful projects for clients in UK, Switzerland and USA. In his prior career at CMC R&D, Mr. Anisingaraju did pioneering work in computerization of Indian languages and published several research papers and articles.
Mr. Anisingaraju is an invited speaker and writer at several national and international forums including Institute of Internal Auditors, ISACA, Asian Institute of Technology, Business Objects User Conferences and others. He holds a Masters degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India and a Bachelor degree in Engineering from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India. He is also a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA). Mr. Anisingaraju served as a Director & Vice President of the board of Silicon Valley chapter of ISACA, a global IT standards governance institution during 2006-2007.
Sanjeev Kumar - COO
Mr. Kumar, a 15+ years professional in hi-tech, manages the operations of InfoSTEP. Additionally, Mr. Kumar manages the Partner Relationship group within InfoSTEP. A visionary with an envious track record of predicating future of business intelligence market, Mr. Kumar is instrumental in ensuring necessary fiscal controls balanced with realistic visions. Prior to InfoSTEP, Mr. Kumar worked at Fortune 100 companies on several enterprise projects. Mr. Kumar holds a Masters in Computer Applications from CMC, India.
Samuel Poozhikala - Vice President, BI and BPM Practice
With over 15 years of experience in the software industry, Mr. Poozhikala has been involved in managing , architecting and delivering large scale BI and BPM solutions at G1000 companies. A firm believer in providing solutions that ultimately make a positive difference for clients, Mr. Poozhikala spearheads the efforts to institutionalize InfoLEADERSHIP. Mr. Poozhikala is a highly sought after speaker in public forums and panel discussions as well as by large companies to define Business Intelligence enterprise strategy. Prior to joining InfoSTEP, Mr. Poozhikala was a Technical Director at Quovera, enabling Quovera to attain unprecedented growth. Mr. Poozhikala holds a Bachelors Degree in Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. India and a Masters Certificate in Computer Applications from CMC Ltd. India. Samuel’s personal blog is at http://spoozhikala.squarespace.com
Bala Ramachandran – EVP, Business Development
Bala leads InfoSTEP's global business development team and is responsible for enabling new business for InfoSTEP by leveraging a global delivery model, focusing on delivering long-term customer value. The business development fucntion partners with the BI/BPM and ETIS practice lines using their specific technology knowledge for customer benefit. The business development function grows the company business through planned outreach programs, customer satisfaction studies, viral marketing programs, key events and web marketing techniques. Bala has an MBA in Marketing from the University of Mumbai and has completed an advanced marketing program from Stanford University. He has more than 20 years of business development experience working with companies like HCL, CMC (now part of Tata's) and Patni Computer Systems. As part of a larger commitment to the community Bala leverages his knowledge to provide pro-bono services to altruistic organizations that help improve the quality of life. Contact Bala for speaking engagements and specific outreach programs that you feel will benefit the community at large - sales@infostep.com.
R K Goel, VP ETIS – ASIA PACIFIC
Mr. Goel imanages InfoSTEP’s ETIS practice within Asia-Pacific theatre. He comes from a background of delivering very large IT projects and steering e-Governance initiatives for a number of federal departments in India. Prior to working for InfoSTEP, he worked for CMC Ltd. in Systems Integration, Project Management, Business Development, and Business Excellence model implementation. He has done his M.S. in Consultancy Management from BITS Pilani.
Terri Mullen – Sr. Director BPM
Terri has been involved in delivering business performance measurement solutions in financial and accounting, Customer Data Integration and data quality areas for more than 10 years. Prior to consulting, Terri was Director of Sales Finance at Exodus Communications, Business Manager for on-line and IT operations at CMP Media, and Senior Analyst at PG&E Utility during on the electric industry restructuring project. Terri Mullen holds an MBA in Finance from Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, CA and is working on a project management certification through UC Berkeley Extension program.
Parag Shrivastava - Director, BI and BPM Practice
Parag Shrivastava has over 10 years of successful track record in solutions architecture and delivery at marquee accounts, including Stanford Hospital and Clinics, E*Trade Financial, Cisco Systems and Hitachi. He is a frequent speaker at Business Intelligence and IEEE conferences. He received his bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology in Bhopal, India.
Suryam Kurma – Director, BI and BPM
With over 20 years of experience in Software industry, Mr Suryam Kurma has been involved in managing, architecting & delivering BI solutions to InfoSTEP clients including SGI, CISCO Systems, Sun Micro Systems, Stanford Medical and Symantec. He has extensive experience in Data warehouse project implementations including Functional Architecture,. Data Modeling and implementation. Mr Kurma holds Bachelor Degree in Computer Science from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India and M.Tech in computer Science from JNTU College of Engineering,Hyderabad, India. Mr Kurma is also a PMP certified professional. Prior to Joining InfoSTEP, Mr Kurma worked as Project Manager at CMC Limited, India. Mr Kurma also worked in Olivetti in Milano, Italy.
Advisory Board
Advisory Board The executive team is guided by the advisory board with the following members:
- Bill Binch - Held executive sales & marketing positions at several companies including Business Objects, Hyperion & IBM.
- Ken Coleman - Chairman and Founder of ITM Software.
- Mike Graves - Previous CIO at Applied Materials, SGI, and Sun.
- Job Simon - IT Director, Network Appliance Inc.
