Dr. Srikanth Sundararajan

CEO

Hyderabad, Telangana, India37 yrs 5 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Extensive experience in venture capital and startup mentorship.
  • Led technology strategy for major firms like Cognizant and Persistent.
  • Founder of a successful software company recognized in the Inc 500.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and enterprise technology leader with extensive investment and mentorship experience.

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Agile MethodologiesAgile Project ManagementArchitectureBig DataC++Cloud ComputingData StructuresDistributed SystemsEnterprise ArchitectureEnterprise SoftwareEntrepreneurshipGo-to-market StrategyHadoopIT StrategyJava

About

Currently General Partner at VenturEast Advisors Pvt Ltd and Advisor to T-Hub. As an Angel, institutional investor/ mentor to early stage startups like Hyperverge, Myally.ai, Ather Energy, Medibuddy, Affine Analytics, Hasura.io, Moengage, Whatfix, InnovAccer, Active.ai and being part of 2 institutional Venture Capital firms, Helion Advisors and currently VenturEast, I have been fortunate in being able contribute to the start up growth story across India and the US. Having held several senior exec positions in the industry like Persistent, Cognizant, HCL, Webgain, Informix, HP, and my own ventures coupled with stints in academia I feel I am able to add a holistic perspective to this startup ecosystem. A journey that began almost 40 yrs ago continues! COO/Worldwide Head of Technology & Strategy, Persistent Systems, Ltd: As COO was responsible for global delivery of services and operations. As Technology and Strategy Head was responsible for strategic initiatives in key focus area, as well as corporate development. Executive VP Products, IDS, MD IDS India: Responsible for the entire product development effort for International Decision Systems, a company focused on next generation software for the Financial and Equipment and Leasing Industry. CTO, Cognizant Tech Solutions: Responsible for global technology initiatives, ISV partnering, architecture, technology road map and strategy including investments and building critical competencies; interactions with key customer executive management teams. CTO/VP: HCL Group; Focused on technology initiatives on the development environment standardization side as well as reuse on the applications development areas across the delivery organization; Senior VP Product Management Webgain: Transitioned to Webgain as a result of an acquisition of Pretzel, responsible for product management across all product lines, products were aimed at the J2 development space, from IDEs, to Team development, static analyzers, O2R mapping, abstract level programming environments. Founder,CEO, CTO, Pretzel Logic Software Inc. Specialties: Ability to drive technology initiatives, and operations that relate to software services with a product oriented focus. Have been in leadership/senior management positions for a long time, and the fact that I did my own start up (self funded for the first 7 years) gives me the insight to make decisions that are pragmatic, with an eye on the bottom line, and most importantly, improved customer acquisition and retention!

Experience

T-hub

Advisor

Dec 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 3 mos · On-site

Ventureast

General Partner

Feb 2017 – Present · 9 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Part of the investment team for the latest fund, VPF 2, with a special focus on enterprise tech, SaaS, and other tech enabled B2B ventures

Fmas, indus os, inurture, moengage, ekincare,

Board Member

Feb 2017 – Nov 2020 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Repesent Ventureast on portfolio company boards

Investor, advisor to start ups

Investor, Advisor to start ups

Sep 2016 – Feb 2017 · 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Investor, advisor, mentor to companies like Affine Analytics, LogisticsNow, Myally.ai, Hyperverge, Vitual Power Systems, BlueSemi, Active.ai, Fleximoney, Goodera, Ather Energy, Team Indus, Hasura.io, GoFluytta.

Cie@iiith h

Governing Council Member and Advisor

Mar 2014 – Present · 12 yrs

Helion advisors pvt. ltd

Venture Partner

Mar 2014 – Sep 2016 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bangalore

  • Be part of the Helion Investment team with a focus on software, technology both on the enterprise as well as consumer side.

Open university odisha

Governing Council Member

Jun 2013 – Apr 2016 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Silicon institute of technology (sit), bhubaneswar

Governing Council Member

Mar 2013 – Present · 13 yrs

Executive coach and mentor

Executive Consultant

Mar 2013 – Feb 2014 · 11 mos · Bangalore, India

  • Was the interim CEO of a US based services company, ensured a successful sale and transition of the company to another US based services company (March to July 2013). Was an executive mentor and consultant for leading VC firms to assist them with their portfolio companies (July 2013 - Feb 2014).

Indian institute of technology, bhubaneswar

Adjunct Professor Of Computer Science

Jan 2012 – Mar 2017 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Bhubaneshwar Area, India

  • Focused on teaching undergraduate courses related to Programming and Data Structures, and Software Engineering. Areas of research include distributed computing, Software Engineering, and Cloud computing...

Persistent systems

2 roles

Worldwide Head Strategy and Technology

May 2010 – Mar 2012 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Responsible for Strategy across Growth Areas involving mobility, cloud, analytics; including short listing candidates for strategic partnerships...

Chief Operating Officer (COO)

Jun 2006 – May 2010 · 3 yrs 11 mos

  • Responsible for software/IP delivery and related operations globally, This included technology areas of focus, CoE's, ISV partnerships, iinvestments related to IP etc.

Idsi

EVP Product Development, MD IDS India

Jun 2005 – Apr 2007 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Responsible for the Global Product Engineering and Management function.

Cognizant technology solutions

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Apr 2004 – Dec 2005 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Responsible for driving all core aspects of technology, to accelerate Cognizant's expertise base in next generation applications development. The core contributions were the establishment of 8 critical COE's, including data architecture, content and design management, performance engineering, Java/.Net, legacy modernization, BI-analytics. Was part of the executive team that was part of all interactions with all customers. Was responsible for maintaining technology and vision viz. the customer base.

Hcl technologies

VP/CTO

Feb 2002 – Mar 2004 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Responsible for delivery centers focused on providing product development as well as application development services to a world wide customer base; was also responsible for key technology initiatives in the context of Java, .Net, and setting up other competencies and dealing with partners

Pretzel logic software inc

CEO,CTO, Founder

Sep 1992 – Nov 2001 · 9 yrs 2 mos

  • Successfully founded and ran Pretzel Logic, the company was focused on providing Product Engineering Services Systems companies and ISVs; Pretzel was ranked in the Top 100 privately held companies 3 years in a row, it was part of the Inc 500; was later part of a BEA venture called Webgain.

Informix

R&D Manager

Jun 1991 – Sep 1992 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Was the R&D lead and R&D manager responsible for the Informix's first graphical 4GL Interactive Development Environment.

Hewlett-packard

R&D Engineer, R&D Lead

Jul 1988 – Jun 1991 · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • Was part of the core team that developed HP SoftBench (C/C++ IDE on HPUX and Domain OS); Other initiatives included working on messaging interface for 3rd party tool integration; work on SCM tools like DSEE 5.x (which was a fore runner to Clear Case 1.x); Case Communique Standards etc

Education

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

MS Computer Science; PhD Computer and Info Sciences

Jan 1985 – Jan 1988

Colorado State University

MS — Engineering Management

Jan 1984 – Jan 1985

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

B Tech — Engineering

Jan 1979 – Jan 1984

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Bachelors — Engineering

Jan 1979 – Jan 1984

Hyderbad Public School, Begumpet, Hyderabad India

Jan 1974 – Jan 1979

St. Columba's School - India

Jan 1966 – Jan 1972

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