Suneel
M Advani is a double graduate
in Electrical Engineering and
Economics from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, USA.
He also holds a degree in Law
from Mumbai University. Mr Advani
joined Blue Star Limited in
March 1969 as a Management Trainee.
He held various responsible
positions in Blue Star Limited
before joining its Board in
1983 as Executive Director.
He was elevated to the position
of President and Vice Chairman
of Blue Star Limited in 1984
and was redesignated as Vice
Chairman & Managing Director
in 2005.
Mr
Advani set up the Software Exports
Division in Blue Star Limited
in 1983 and oversaw its operations
from inception. This Division
was later spun off and incorporated
as Blue Star Infotech Limited.
He was appointed Chairman of
the Company in 1998 and in June
2005 was appointed as its Chairman
& Managing Director.
A
T Vijayakumar
President
& Chief Operating Officer
ATV is responsible for the global
Delivery, Sales, Marketing and
RMG functions at Blue Star Infotech.
ATV is a Bachelor of Science
in Physics from the Madras University
and a Bachelor of Technology
(Electronics Engineering) from
Madras Institute of Technology
(affiliated to MIT – Mass.
USA).
He had started his career with
Blue Star Limited in the HP
Division field organization
as a trainee sales engineer
at Bangalore in 1977. He was
then transferred to HP India
which was a JV between HP USA
and Blue Star Ltd. He has held
several Sales Management positions
across India, including Country
GM for Telecom Sales in India,
at HP. He then moved on to become
the Center Director for the
HP India Software Operations
Delivery Center at Chennai,
India. He was the first to set
up a full fledged HPIT Applications
Lab in HPISO, and he took care
of both front end engagements
with the CIOs/HPIT managers,
and back end offshore delivery.
In June 03 he joined HP Worldwide
Strategic Outsourcing Pursuit
team where he worked as Director,
Delivery Solutions. He participated
in many mega US $ 1B+ ITO Deal
pursuits. He has set up and
managed Account management and
Governance teams in various
geographies. His last assignment
in HP, prior to joining Blue
Star Infotech, was in a Client
Director role in their BPO Organization.
Hemant
Kamat
Vice
President & Chief Finance
Officer
Hemant
has a Bachelor's degree in Commerce
(Hons) and was ranked 12th by
the All India Institute of Chartered
Accountants in his final year
of CA. His career spans over
20 years. He has worked for
both manufacturing and IT firms.
His vast experience includes
handling Finance, Accounts,
Taxation, Admin, HR and Secretarial
matters etc
Prior
to joining Blue Star Infotech,
Hemant was working with Geometric
Software Solutions Co. Ltd,
where he was responsible for
Finance, Accounts, and Taxation
matters of the company, as the
Chief Finance Officer. He has
also worked for companies like
Onward Technologies Ltd, Greaves
Ltd and A. F. Ferguson &
Co. and before that as a trainee
with Hoechst Pharmaceuticals
Ltd.
Sanjeev
Sethi
President
– Blue Star Infotech
America Inc.
Sanjeev
heads Blue Star Infotech’s
American operations as the President
of its subsidiary, Blue Star
Infotech America Inc., and is
based out of its New Jersey
office.
With over 22
years of global experience in
IT sales and business management,
Sanjeev has been associated
with leading IT companies including
Patni Computer Systems, Marcam
Solutions Inc; Digital Equipment
Corporation (now HP), Unicorp
Industries Ltd and NIIT Ltd.
in the past. Prior to joining
Blue Star Infotech America,
Sanjeev worked as Director &
Client Partner with Cognizant
Technology Solutions and was
responsible for the North America
sales of its Consumer Goods
Practice.
In his earlier
stint at Blue Star Infotech
from 2001 to 2005, Sanjeev was
the Director for its US East
Coast Operations. Sanjeev brings
with him strong business, revenue
management and relation management
skills, extensive hands-on experience
and in-depth industry knowledge.
He has a proven track record
in strategic planning, business
expansion and creating customer-centric
delivery solutions.
Sanjeev has
a MBA (Systems and Marketing)
from Institute of Management
Technology, Ghaziabad, India
and a Post Graduate Diploma
in Systems Administration.
Deepak
Rao
Vice
President – Global
Delivery
Deepak
Rao, as Vice President, Global
Delivery, is responsible for
service delivery across all
lines of business in Blue Star
Infotech. He guides and leads
a team of experts in different
locations globally and leads
the creation and implementation
of performance models, tools,
best practices and guidelines
to ensure quality deliveries
and customer satisfaction.
In his earlier role in Blue
Star Infotech, Deepak set up
and grew the Product Engineering
line of business, contributing
to over 50% of the company revenues.
He successfully set up and managed
ODCs with several leading and
growing Software Product and
High Technology companies and
was primarily responsible for
customer acquisition strategies,
defining engagement models,
identifying services covering
the entire product life cycle,
marketing, presales and sales
support and building core delivery
teams with a 'product' mind
set. During this time, he has
also incubated and grown the
Independent Testing Practice,
the Solutions group and the
Design and Architecture group.
Prior to that, he has successfully
program-managed large complex
multi-year enterprise projects
in the Manufacturing, Financial
Services and Engineering domains
at leading organizations such
as 3M, Amdocs, Hewlett Packard,
Hitachi Medical, Itochu, Philip
Morris, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems,
York International (a Johnson
Controls company) to name a
few, apart from several start-up
and growing organizations. Deepak
Rao holds a Bachelor’s
in Engineering and Post Graduate
Diploma and has over 19 years
of experience in implementing
technology for fuelling business
globally.
Satish
Gaonkar
Vice
President - Consulting Services
Satish
Gaonkar heads the Consulting
Services Practice at Blue Star
Infotech and is primarily responsible
for its sales in India.
With an extensive
industry experience spanning
more than twenty years, his
primary expertise is in business-enabling
the enterprise through effective
usage and alignment of IT. He
has crafted IT strategies for
many medium to large enterprises
and has been instrumental in
their successful adoption and
implementation across the enterprise.
Satish is responsible for seeding
Blue Star Infotech’s relationships
with Microsoft, Oracle, SAP
and SAS in India and has successfully
nurtured and grown its Enterprise
and Business Intelligence service
lines. His deep knowledge of
the enterprise and his passion
for architecting IT solutions
that meet the needs of end-users
enables him to define and successfully
implement appropriate Enterprise
IT roadmaps.
Satish, a Physics
graduate from the Mumbai University,
started his career in the manufacturing
sector focusing on process improvement
and reengineering. He subsequently
transitioned himself to become
a leading IT consultant advising
large enterprises on leveraging
IT for creating operational
efficiencies and business synergies.
Suresh
Iyer
Vice
President - Marketing
Suresh
Iyer joined Blue Star Infotech
in 1989 as a Software Engineer.
He brings more than 20 years
of experience in Application
Management and Product Engineering.
With a BSc (Physics) followed
by a BSc (Tech) in Computer
Technology, Suresh is primarily
responsible for marketing Blue
Star Infotech’s services
in USA, Europe, UK and India.
He has consulted at leading
organizations such as Hewlett-Packard,
Northern Telecom, Glaxo Laboratories
& Pacific Life and has successfully
executed large multi-year projects
in domains such as Technology,
Travel & Hospitality, Manufacturing,
Banking, Financial Services
and Insurance. His exposure
to countries such as USA, UK,
Belgium, India and Malaysia
has enabled him to define and
successfully execute dual-shore
strategies for a number of Fortune
1000 companies. He has worked
on outsourcing strategies, product
definition, product development
& implementation programs,
quality programs, legacy transformation
programs and process improvement
models. His skills, spanning
sales, marketing, account management,
program management, delivery
management and quality management,
have been honed through his
association with Fortune 1000
organizations, start-ups and
high growth companies.
Gerard
D'Mello
Vice
President – Human
Resource
Gerard,
in his role as Vice President
– HR, spearheads the critical
Human Resource function globally
and covers key organizational
areas such as Recruitment, Learning
& Development, Compensation
Management and Employee Relations.
Gerard believes that a nurturing
culture brings the best out
of people and creates an environment
of pride and belonging.
He has an industry experience
of more than 23 years. Prior
to Blue Star Infotech, Gerard
was with Datamatics Ltd. as
Vice President-Human Resource
Development for more than 5
years, where he has handled
the Overseas HR , HR Management,
Recruitment and Resourcing functions.
He has also worked with Birla
Sun Life Distribution as Head
– HRD and has gained significant
expertise in managing human
resources through his earlier
stints with Birla Technologies,
Tata Consultancy Services, BUSH
and Gujarat Coop Milk Marketing
Fed Ltd.
Gerard holds a Bachelor’s
degree in Science, Diploma in
Administration Management and
a Post Graduate Diploma in Human
Resource and Business Management.