LEADERSHIP TEAM
Subhakar Kurly
Executive Chairman
Subhakar Kurly
Executive Chairman
Subhakar heads the Wissen group as the Executive Chairman and is responsible for the overall profitability and growth of Wissen. Skilled in Business Development, IT strategy, IT Service Management as well as being a strong Entrepreneurship professional, Subhakar is always on the top of the situation to lead Wissen in the right direction – be it at new business development, nurturing partnerships with potential partners or embarking on a journey into emerging technologies. A big proponent of Quality across all areas of the company, Subhakar was instrumental in obtaining CMMI and ISO certifications for Wissen. Subhakar graduated from IIT, Roorkee and brings more than twenty years of diversified experience in the IT industry.
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Ashok K Thatipally
Founder, CEO & Head of Operations
Ashok K Thatipally
Founder, CEO & Head of Operations
Ashok heads the overall Wissen India Operations and is the key person behind the growth of Wissen since its establishment in the year 2000. Ashok handled the entire operations of Wissen and was the key person behind the successful deliveries to Wissen’s Fortune 500 clients. He is one of the key persons behind the successful ISO certifications of Wissen.
Ashok holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, India. With over 3 decades of experience in IT Industry in a spectrum of roles, he is at the helm of Wissen’s operations, steering it towards excellence.
Raghu Pareddy
Founder & CEO – Wissen Technology
Raghu Pareddy
Founder & CEO – Wissen Technology
Raghu is an executive with over 25 years of experience leveraging solid leadership and technical expertise to deliver large systems, deriving growth and cost savings for several years at Sabre/Travelocity, Verizon, Santera Systems (acquired by Tekelec), and British Telecom. Starting his career writing compilers and designing specialized languages, he went on to build several successful, multi-million dollar businesses in the past 20 years. He oversaw delivery of technology projects worth over USD 1 billion. Raghu holds B.E (Computer Science) from Mysore University and Master’s Degree in Computer Science from Oregon State University, Oregon, USA.
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Madhav Vijjali
Founder, CFO and EVP of Business Development – Asia Pacific, EMEA
Madhav Vijjali
Founder, CFO and EVP of Business Development – Asia Pacific, EMEA
Operating from Wissen Bangalore, Madhav plays the role of Chief Financial Officer for Wissen and responsible for all the financial functions of Wissen. Apart from this responsibility, he is also responsible for Business development across Asia Pacific and EMEA Regions as the Executive Vice President, Business development. Madhav has a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Western Michigan University, Michigan, USA, and got more than Twenty Five years of experience in the IT industry and played a number of responsible roles. He keeps in constant touch with Wissen’s financial status and take proactive actions to address Wissen’s financial needs.
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Upendra Rachupally
Founder, EVP Global Sales
Upendra Rachupally
Founder, EVP Global Sales
Operating from USA, Upendra holds the position of Executive Vice President with responsibility for the Global Sales. In this role Upendra was instrumental in growing the sales in the USA and earned new business from Fortune 500 clients such as GE Healthcare and GE Aviation. He also plays the role of onsite contact to GEHC and other US client accounts of Wissen. Rachupally has a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Western Michigan University, Michigan, USA and over twenty years of experience in the implementation of Multi Tier Applications. His capabilities include liaisoning and negotiations with the clientele to close the business opportunities in favour of Wissen.
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Anurag Sinha
Head of Banking & Finance Practice
Anurag Sinha
Head of Banking & Finance Practice
Anurag is a technologist with over 17 years of rich experience in building solutions for financial services. Prior to joining Wissen, Anurag worked at MSCI as the head of application development group at Mumbai and led the development of key analytical capabilities for BarraOne platform. Anurag has also worked as an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley for over 8 years from their Mumbai and New York offices. During his tenure, he provided leadership to development of several solutions for Equity Research, Prime Brokerage and Secured Financing groups and was also instrumental in growing the application development group at Mumbai. Anurag holds B.Tech and Master of Management in Finance from IIT Bombay.
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Chaitanya Bandi
Head of Analytics practice
Chaitanya Bandi
Head of Analytics practice
Chaitanya is a renowned data scientist, is a graduate of IIT Chennai, and holds a PhD from MIT. He has worked in technology and Financial services companies such as Yahoo, Bell Labs, Lehman Brothers, and Investment Technology Group. Bandi specializes in the problems of decision making under uncertainty with applications to operations management. He has focused on developing optimization based models, in particular Robust Optimization models, to formulate and solve the key problems in many of these applications. He has worked on the problems of modeling and analysis of large-scale queueing systems, mechanism design problems, optimal portfolio construction and hedging etc.
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Ajith Chandra Sekharan
Head of SAP Practice
Ajith Chandra Sekharan
Head of SAP Practice
Ajith is a business leader with over 25 years of experience in consulting, business advisory, business P&L with deep expertise in conceptualizing and operationalising strategy. During his association with Wipro, Ajith managed multiple global roles like Global delivery head of telecom vertical, Sales leader for Latin America, COO of SAP business, Global head of SAP application management services and head of automation and productivity. He also Incubated and grew the SAP business for Wipro in India, APAC and middle east region to a leadership position. Ajith has a degree in engineering and an advanced certification from Stanford university with multiple technology certification from SAP.
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Sunil Palrecha
Chief Digital Officer
Sunil Palrecha
Chief Digital Officer
Sunil is a global marketing and technology leader with 18+ years of proven track record in building and scaling businesses in Engineering Tech Services / Products / ECOM and Analytics. As a business leader, Sunil has worked directly with CXOs to drive digital transformation projects to ensure profitable growth in companies across Americas,Europe and India. Sunil is a graduate of VJTI (Mumbai) India, and a post-graduate alumnus of IIM Calcutta.
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Narasimha Chandrabhatta Sastry
SVP Operations
Narasimha Chandrabhatta Sastry
(SVP Operations)
Sastry is a Graduate in Electronics and Telecommunications and IT Industry veteran with over 3 decades of experience. He managed very complex and strategic engagements across the spectrum of services and technologies which includes Application Development and Maintenance, Enterprise Application Integration, Analytics and Infrastructure Management. He is a Solution Architect responsible for architecting several Client-Specific Solutions. With his technical expertise of various platforms and business domains, he has designed several Reference Architectures, Engagement Models, Pricing Models and mentored many managers. He is currently responsible for Service Delivery of all Offshore Projects.
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Mohan Mummadi
SVP & Head of Operations
Mohan Mummadi
SVP & Head of Operations
In his role as VP & Head of Operations at Wissen, Mohan will drive business in respect of Strategy, Finance, HR & Operations. Mohan has overall 27 years of experience including 20 years experience in the IT industry. Prior to joining Wissen, he worked as Director in Oracle, managing huge client projects for their IT applications spanning multiple technologies. Prior to Oracle, he has also worked in PriceWaterHouseCoopers, ANZ Bank, PeopleSoft IDC in managing the implementation & delivery of the projects. Mohan is a graduate of BITS Pilani and has EGMP from IIM, Bangalore.
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Sameer Patil
Executive Director
Sameer Patil
Executive Director
Sameer is a seasoned technology professional, with over 20 years of rich experience. Prior to joining Wissen’s Banking & Finance practice, he was an Executive Director at MSCI in-charge of a critical component of their flagship product. Before joining MSCI, Sameer served as a Vice President at Morgan Stanley’s Private Wealth Management Technology, building world class trading platforms. Sameer studied Computer Science at IIT-Varanasi (earlier, IT-BHU).
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Pradeep Chandiramani
Executive Director
Pradeep Chandiramani
Executive Director
Pradeep is a senior technologist, with over 12 years of industry experience delivering top quality enterprise software for global banking corporations. He was a Vice President at multinationals like MSCI and Morgan Stanley before joining Wissen. Pradeep is an alumni of University of Mumbai.
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Kumarpal Sheth
Executive Director
Kumarpal Sheth
Executive Director
Kumarpal is a technologist with over 17 years of rich experience in building solutions for financial services and startups. Prior to joining Wissen, Kumarpal founded a startup specializing in mobile apps. Kumarpal has also worked as an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley for over 9 years from their Mumbai office. During his tenure, he provided leadership to development of several solutions for Fixed Income, Derivatives Processing and Collateral Management groups and was also instrumental in growing the application development group at Mumbai.
Kumarpal holds B.E in Computer Engineering from University of Mumbai.