Management
Girish Gaitonde,
CEO and Founder
Girish Gaitonde has more than 25 years of experience in engineering, marketing, finance and business development in the technology and services industries.
Girish founded TekEdge Corporation in the Silicon Valley in 1990 as a software services company focused on the technology companies in the Valley. TekEdge grew in size over the years and its service portfolio expanded it to incorporate business applications, additional industries and geographies. In 2000, TekEdge changed its name to Xoriant Corporation to signify its entry into projects and outsourcing business, including a development center in India. Xoriant continues to grow and expand its footprint into different technologies, industries and solutions.
Prior to founding TekEdge, Mr. Gaitonde held marketing, financial and engineering management positions at Arix Corporation, AT&T Corporation and Intel Corporation. Girish has also participated as a seed investor and board member for more than a dozen technology startups in areas encompassing applications software, telecommunication chips, internet security and internet based/social networking businesses.
Mr. Gaitonde holds an MBA in Finance and Marketing from The University of Chicago, an MS degree in Computer Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University and a B. Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, where he has been granted a status of a Distinguished Alumnus.
R. Balachandran,
Senior Vice President and Head, India Operations
R. Balachandran (Bala) has over 24 years of experience in software industry experience in offshore delivery management and operations. His experience also spans general management, customer management, business turnaround, people development and IT operations.
Before joining Xoriant, Bala worked as Delivery Center Head for Mastek Ltd., where he held several roles over a decade. Prior to Mastek, he worked for General Insurance Corporation (GIC), India where he was a key player in the front office automation project dealing with the Indian operations of GIC. He started his career in the systems department of the Petrochemical Industry SPIC (Chennai).
Bala has over ten years of experience in developing Insurance Solutions. He has managed very large mission critical bespoke solutions for UK and US customers.
Bala holds degrees in Mathematics and Instrumentation. He has also done his post graduation in Financial Management from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management.
Shirish Gosavi,
Senior Vice President, Business Development – Product Engineering Practice
Shirish is responsible for Xoriant’s Product Engineering Practice. Before joining Xoriant in his second innings, Shirish worked as Managing Director with Symphony Services; VP of US Operations for vMoksha Technologies; and VP looking after Dimension Data’s eLearning Solutions Division. Shirish was also a founding member of Datacraft India, where he was responsible for 70% of company’s revenue and grew it by 400% in 4 years. At the beginning of his career, Shirish worked at Fujitsu-ICIM’s factory working on mainframes, Unix machines and peripherals. After a few years, he moved to their sales offices selling those systems.
Shirish has been fortunate to gain experience selling all facets of technology - computer systems, networking solutions and now software engineering services.
Shirish holds undergraduate degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from College of Engineering, Pune, India and Business Management in Marketing from The Symbiosis Institute, India.
Shirish is a recipient of seven 100% clubs and two President Awards within first eight years of his sales career.
Mahesh Nalavade
Chief Financial Officer
Mahesh Nalavade, a Commerce and Law graduate with Fellowships from ICWAI, ICSI and CIMA (UK) has 27 years industrial experience in areas of Finance, Company Secretarial functions and General Management. Starting his career with Siemens India, he joined Thermax Ltd. where he spent 20 years in various roles. His last designation at Thermax was General Manager - Finance and Company Secretary. He spearheaded company's IPO process and was responsible for setting up joint ventures and foreign subsidiaries.
Mahesh has also worked in Zambia (2 years) and Indonesia (3 years) with organizations of international repute. He has undergone specialized management training in Japan.
Ram Subramanyam ,
Vice President, Business Development - Financial Services Practice
Ram Subramanyam has 20 plus years of experience in business development and management of outsourced projects, consulting services within the Financial Services, Banking, Retail, Utility and Government verticals. He has distinctive Executive Qualifications with unique blend of business development, senior sales leadership and selling highly complex solutions across both mature and emerging markets. Ram has managed and delivered large IT projects for several Fortune 1000 companies across the globe.
During his career, starting with General Electric, Ram has managed client relationships in Asia, Europe and USA. He has unique experience in working with multi location, multicultural teams and is an expert in building alliances and partnerships.
Ram has an Electrical and Electronics engineering degree from Annmalai University in India.
Bhavesh Ved,
Vice President, Delivery – Product Engineering Practice
Bhavesh Ved has 23 years of experience in IT. He has a successful track record in the delivery of complex technology and business solutions to Corporate IT, Start-up and Technology organizations. A blend of Management, Functional and Technical skills has helped him to work with global customers ranging from ISV’s in BFSI, Telecom and SCM space to Fortune 500 companies such as GE, Citigroup, Rohm & Haas, Daimler Chrysler, and so on.
Bhavesh has performed senior managerial roles for over 12 years, managing large software engineering and IT development teams, delivering complex product engineering and applications management projects using multiple technology stacks.
Bhavesh, in his current role, is responsible for providing Product Engineering services to global ISV’s. He works directly with CTO’s and Engineering heads to provide core product engineering, product based professional services and 24x7 support services.
Bhavesh is an engineering graduate from Mumbai University. He has done Post graduation from NCST (National Centre of Software Technology).