| Dr. Srikanth Sundararajan,
Worldwide Head of Corporate Strategy and Technology and previously,
Chief Operating Officer of Persistent Systems, Pvt. Ltd, amassed
more than 25+ years of innovative international IT experience
with Hewlett-Packard (HP), Informix, and his own successful
startup(s), HCL Technologies, and Cognizant Tech Solutions.
He is also a Visiting Faculty at Virginia Tech, and IIT Bhubaneswar,
where his focus areas are Cloud Computing and Software Engineering.
At Persistent Systems,
Srikanth spent the first 4 years as their COO, ran worldwide
operations and technology initiatives. The company more than
tripled its revenue and had a very successful public offering
in April of 2010. Under his tenure industry-leading practices
in the areas of Cloud Computing, Mobility, Analytics, and
Collaborations were established in 2007/8 and today these
drive 50% of the company’s revenues. These teams have had
a very successful track record in providing services as well
as building platforms for companies likeIBM, Microsoft, Force.com,
Google, Rack Space, Yahoo, VM Ware, Wells Fargo, just to name
a few.
Srikanth founded Pretzel
Logic, a wining software product services business and, over
a nine-year period, provided design/architecture/implementation
consulting expertise to companies like SUN, SGI, HP, and SAIC,
registering triple digit growth six straight years and gaining
recognition as one of the Top 100 Private Companies in the
Bay Area three years in a row. His firm was acquired in 2001
by a BEA Systems Inc spin off.
Srikanth was also the
Chief Technical Officer of HCL responsible for delivery and
all strategic technology initiatives. He was responsible for
the consolidation of the services revenue stream and technology
initiatives between the HCL group companies. Srikanth then
transitioned to became the worldwide CTO for Cognizant, where
he drove all technology initiatives for customers and provided
a technology roadmap for competitive advantage.
Srikanth was responsible
for setting up and driving worldwide product development for
International Decision Systems, a financial services product
startup, which was eventually acquired by a large private
equity firm.
Srikanth also successfully
launched a course on Cloud Computing last summer at Virginia
Tech, which was aimed at CIO’s, professors and ISV’s.
During this tenure at
HP, he was part of the original team that architected and
implemented the first IDE on Unix for C/C++/Cobol called SoftBench.
Industry leaders such as IBM, CDC, Informix, and Honeywell-Bull
licensed this technology.
Srikanth earned a B.Tech
degree from IIT Madras, and attained his MS and PhD in Computer
& Information Sciences from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
He has made innumerable contributions to conferences over
the years, and is also the holder of patents.
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