Rajesh (Raj) Thankappan - Chief Executive Officer
Raj
has over 15 years of
experience in managing
people, projects, and
operations in Asia, Europe,
and North America across
financial services, technology
consulting, and manufacturing
industries. He was a
SVP at Providian Financial
Corporation, a Fortune
500 Company based in
San Francisco, USA. responsible
for the company's Business
Process Outsourcing (BPO)
and Corporate Vendor
Management (CVM). He
has an in-depth understanding
of the challenges and
opportunities associated
with onshore and offshore
operations, including
collections, customer
service, telemarketing,
IT and back office processes.
He has been instrumental in developing Providian's BPO strategic growth since the first quarter of 2000 and is credited with initiating call center and IT offshoring to global locations when BPO was still an emerging concept in the industry.
Prior to joining Providian in 1999, he has spent six years with General Electric, where his work ranged from product development to customer consulting in Europe and Japan.
Raj has a Masters in Engineering and Management of Technology, and a B.S. in Mechanical and Material Science Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. He is also trained in Six Sigma quality methodology and has used it actively to re-engineer processes at Providian. |
Mr Ashish Panchwadkar - Chief Technology Officer
Over 18 years of extensive experience in IT & ITES industry
Entrepreneur with over 19 years rich experience and demonstrated expertise in Business Planning, Strategic Planning, IT Project / Program Management, Business Processes, Systems Design, and Technical Support services for clients in India, USA and UK.
Experienced in consulting and implementing standards like ISO, BS 7799, PCI and SAS 70.
Rich experience in full life cycle implementation of Datacenter, Networks (LAN & WAN ) Telecom (PBX , MSS and QMS systems), CIM (Predictive Dialers) and Systems (NOS , Mail messaging etc ) from inception to realization
VP-Technology for Tracmail
Worked with another BPO and headed VP- Technology, set up 1500 seater call center
Vast experience in supporting voice based operations.
Graduated in Engineering B.E. (Advanced Electronics) from Pune University. |