Shan has held many senior leadership positions in the past including with Satyam Computer Services (later known as Mahindra Satyam). At Satyam, Shan was the Global Head of a group of verticals in the Retail & CPG, Travel, Logistics & Distribution space. In his career spanning over two decades, primarily in the IT Industry, Shan has led global businesses across multiple verticals in developed economies and also successfully made inroads into emerging markets.

Preeti Das carries with her over 25 years of experience with multiple large organizations, which include key positions of responsibility at Oracle Financial Services Software, i-flex, Microsoft, ICICI Lombard General Insurance and New India Assurance. In her previous tenures Preeti has effectively managed acquisitions and organic growth for many organizations. She has been a catalyst in creating market and growing the business for software products business and consulting services businesses in various parts of the globe - North Americas, UK , South Africa , Asia Pacific including India . An influential industry speaker, she has participated in many panel discussions, seminars and webinar on business and technology challenges.

Mr. Easwaran is a seasoned finance leader with about 30 years of experience and brings extensive expertise in the area of setting up finance organizations to support business operations, Management Information Systems and establishing Enterprise Application Systems in large organizations. He also played key roles in strategic evaluation for acquisition & integration of acquired companies and establishing New Business Analysis shared services and Finance Shared Services.

Previous to Birlasoft, he held the CFO position at Brahma India, a private equity firm. He had also worked with IBS Software Services, Electronic Data Systems, Qualcomm India Inc. , Xerox Modi and Shaw Wallace & Co Ltd.

By qualification he is a Chartered Accountant and a Cost & Works Accountant and has attended Executive Development Program at IIM Calcutta.

Suresh comes with over 22 years of varied experience in the field of human resources across multiple industry verticals. His rich experience and significant contributions in transformation management and change processes has enabled Suresh to carve out a distinct place for himself in this domain. Some of Suresh’s key accomplishments include creating a world class Talent support center in India, Leadership Academy for Leadership Development, Compensation Strategy and Benefits Administration and creating a sourcing centre of excellence.

Suresh joins us from Deloitte where he was the Vice President Human resources for the US and India Support Center and was based out of Hyderabad. He has in the past successfully lead Talent acquisition, Talent Development, Operations, Delivery and Total rewards operations in some of the country's most reputed companies like GMR Group, IMR Global, RPG Enterprises, SSI Technologies etc.

Suresh is a Management graduate from Symbiosis Pune with Bachelors in Science and Law.

Dr. Prakash Challa, brings with him over two decades of significant expertise in managing global businesses spanning sales, account management , client engagement and business strategies. Dr. Challa is a recognized subject matter expert in the Application Development and Management, Quality and Testing practice and a champion in selling and implementing long term large high offshore based multi-year fixed price ADMS, BPO, ERP, Quality and Testing solutions.

Prior to joining Birlasoft, he was Vice President – Retail at HCL America managing all Strategic Clients and Relationships. He has also held senior leadership positions in leading organizations like Satyam, TCS, Wipro, IMRglobal/CGI in the areas of Strategic Sales, Quality management, ADM services and M&A initiatives.

Dr Prakash Challa has a Ph.D in Software Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.

A business leader with over 25 years experience in Technology Strategy and Transformation and an expertise in leveraging Business Process Management for business transformation to deliver early business benefits. His extensive experience spans across creating niche consulting business; creating a Strategic Tier-1 Banking client relationship from scratch; establishing process maturity in a Citicorp startup and creating an ODC from a blueprint for a large Japanese conglomerate client.

Prior to joining Birlasoft, AJ held a leadership position at Oracle Financial Services managing their niche Consulting business in the Americas and leading its Global Consulting Practices in IT Strategy, Architecture and Program Management for BFS clients.

With an academic background in Financial Management and Business Management from Bombay, he has also completed a comprehensive Leadership Program at Harvard Business School.His passion for social causes recently also turned him into a social entrepreneur focused on creating a social ecosystem of academic and corporate institutions to help underserved communities get access to professional education and coaching.

Sanjay joins Birlasoft from Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), where he spent over 25 years handling various portfolios covering delivery and business development across IT, IS and BPO/KPO business streams. Sanjay was the P&L owner of TCS' Life Sciences and Healthcare Business in Europe, prior to which, he headed TCS' large delivery centre in Noida, India and was responsible for the Pharma & Healthcare sector for North India. Sanjay has also lead TCS' operations in Singapore and other countries in the Asia Pacific region.

Sanjay is credited for successfully steering TCS into winning many quality certifications and awards such as ISO9001, CMMI & PCMM Level 5, ISO14001, BS7799 and Rajiv Gandhi National Quality Award for his Center. He has also been actively involved with the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) and many educational institutes of repute. Sanjay was the Vice Chairman of the Technical Education and Training Sub-Committee, in CII Northern Region until last year. He was also the Chairman - CII UP, the year before.

Sanjay completed his M. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1983.

Srinath has over 20 years of experience working with large organizations in the Engineering Services and Manufacturing sales space such as, Godrej & Boyce, Wipro, TCS, Infosys and Satyam. Srinath's last assignment was with Satyam as Head of Global Accounts and Sales - Industrial. Prior to that, he was Head of Product Lifecycle and Engineering Solutions, North America with Infosys, where Srinath spent over a decade, and was responsible, & credited, for building their Engineering practice. Srinath further established the vertical in Automotive and Aerospace. He has successfully set up large Global Sourcing Centers for Fortune 500 manufacturing companies through long term multimillion dollar deals. He has lead diverse teams of professionals involved in multiple business lines in industries such as Aerospace, Automotive, and Discrete Manufacturing, Hi-tech and Retail areas.

Sameer has over 19 years of rich experience with a focus on helping organizations grow their businesses in APAC, Middle East & North America, and has played a key role in new market identification, business closures, building and sustaining the sales organizations in IT companies & managing the P & L for the regions. Prior to joining Birlasoft, he held the position of Vice President (Sales) - APAC Region at SunGard, APAC. Prior to working with SunGard, Sameer has worked with Nucleus Software Singapore and Covansys Asia Pacific. Sameer has completed his PG in Sales from Chandigarh University in affiliation from Purdue University, US.

He brings with him over 20 years of rich and diversified experience in Outsourcing (IT Services), Consulting and Engineering Services across the verticals of Manufacturing and BFS&I. Prior to joining Birlasoft, he held the position of Vice President – Europe, L&T Infotech and was responsible for building and managing their manufacturing business in Europe. Prasanna has also worked in many leadership roles with the Tata Group, Capgemini and T-Systems. He is a Mechanical Engineer from COEP, Pune (India) and has an MBA from Said Business School (University of Oxford).

Manoj comes with a career spanning almost 18 years. Prior to joining Birlasoft, he was working in Oracle India as Director-Sales for Middleware. Manoj was a key member in starting Satyam's India Business in 2002; he played a major role in growing it to a 60+ Mill USD business. His last assignment with Satyam was as the Business Head for South Asia before he decided to move on in 2009. Manoj has helped Satyam to win many large multi-million, multi-year outsourcing engagements across different verticals like BFSI, Manufacturing, Telecom, Energy & Utilities and Government.

Manoj is associated with many organisations and governments bodies in an advisory capacity. He is also a strong supporter of Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives. Manoj has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Bhopal University and a post graduate degree in management from Fore School of Management, New Delhi.

A business leader with over 16 years of experience in the IMEA regions has been instrumental in maintaining and growing the level of engagements in key accounts and expanding the footprint in the geo landscape through identifying new market.

An engineer by qualification, Amit has worked in multiple capacities, the last stint being with the HCL corporation where he was heading the Banking, Finance and Insurance vertical for the western region. An actively networked professional in the Geo, he believes in team work and aims at success through smart team work.

An acknowledged IT marketing expert, he specializes in Branding, Market Research & Consumer Insights, Analyst Relations, Public Relations, etc. With a highly successful 20- year corporate career, Ravi has been involved in the IT industry for a decade and has held responsible positions in various companies including SSA Global, a Chicago-based MNC, where he held the Asia-Pacific charge; Invensys, a Fortune 500 UK-based company; and BAAN, a Netherland-based MNC.

Ravi completed his B. Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi and MBA from Punjab University, Chandigarh.

Maneesh has over 17 years of rich and varied experience in the areas of Financial Management, corporate governance, Strategic direction and business consulting. Maneesh has been associated with Birlasoft since 1996 and is its longest serving member. Before Birlasoft, Maneesh worked with Ernst and Young, New Delhi, Birla Kent-Taylor and ABB. He had been associated with IMT and Indira Gandhi National Open University in the capacity of visiting Professor.

Maneesh is a Delhi university graduate with Honors and a rank holder in Chartered Accountancy. He is also a certified Cost and Management Accountant and holds a law degree (LLB). Maneesh takes keen interest in current affairs, helping others with investment planning and Indian music. He holds professional integrity, commitment and hard work as mantras for success.

Indradeb joined Birlasoft with 21 years of cross-functional quality, delivery and consulting experience. Prior to Birlasoft, he was with PricewaterhouseCoopers Pvt. Ltd, where Indradeb headed Quality Management Group- Performance Improvement for India business unit. Prior to PwC, Indradeb has worked in leadership capacities at Keane, General Electric, Hewlett Packard & Texas Instruments and in Process & Management Consulting roles, at Quality Assurance Institute.

Indradeb is a Six Sigma DFSS Master Black Belt from GE, one of the first CSQA in India. He is an SME in CMMI, an ITIL Foundation Expert and I-TRIZ practitioner. In addition, he has been a Master Trainer in prior organizations in Six Sigma, Project Management and various Software Engineering courses.

Indradeb is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta, in Senior Management Program (SMP). Highly qualified, he is a B.Tech & M.Tech in Computer Science from Indian Institute Technology (IIT) Kharagpur.

His role also include to consistently formulate and articulate powerful sales messages, offer clear & discriminating value propositions and manage proposal development & review processes to ensure delivery of the right proposals. He has about 25 years of rich & varied experience in the IT industry (in both user and IT organizations) in different functions like Presales, Global Delivery Management, Quality Management, Accounts Management, etc. with clients in different industry sectors such as Financial Services, Transportation, Logistics, Education, etc.

Before joining Birlasoft, Shankar was with Wipro Technologies Ltd., where he was managing Pre-engagement Quality function across Service Lines. Prior to Wipro, Shankar has worked in senior management roles at Vmoksha Technologies, Keane India, NIIT Technologies, Mastek and Indian Ports Association.

Shankar holds Master degrees in Operational Research and Business Administration from University of Delhi, Delhi, India.