P.V.S.N. Raju

Director

PVSN Raju is the Head of Delivery for Sonata. Formerly, he headed the Core Research Group at Sonata wherein he was responsible for new technology-based research activities. He also led one of the Consulting Services Delivery groups. Raju’s earlier assignments included software development, IT consulting, technical services, software-architecting and project management.

Raju was MSDN Regional Director for three years, and has been actively involved with evangelizing technologies in Software Developer Technology Forums. Raju holds a postgraduate degree in Industrial Engineering from NITIE, Mumbai. He has also been certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP) by the Project Management Institute, USA.

Ranga Puranik

Director & President

Ranga has held global leadership roles in sales, strategy, product management & general management and has led several initiatives that have contributed to strong growth and differentiation. His focus has been software product development, IT services and business development in Telecom, Healthcare and IT industry segments. His recent experience includes working on various cloud and application platforms and technologies including big data/analytics, social, mobile and Agile to build next generation enterprise software solutions. His prior engagements have been as president and head of global sales of Persistent Systems Inc., SVP North America and chief strategy officer at Sasken Communication Technologies, and General Manager (software) at Motorola and GE Medical Systems. He has done a stint as EIR at Norwest Venture Partners, and is on advisory board of startup companies.

Ranga holds an engineering degree in Electronics & Communication from Karnatak University, and MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Chicago.

Rishi Jyoti

Assistant Vice President, Presales and Product Development

Rishi Jyoti is responsible for the presales and product development functions. He is also responsible for growth of strategic accounts at IBIS by delivering a broad range of Sonata services to these clients. He brings with him more than 12 years of experience in delivering business focused solutions to AX and CRM customers globally. He was involved in the industrial sales and distribution, prior to moving into IT and eventually joined Sonata as an ERP supply chain consultant in 2003. He holds a Bachelors in electronics engineering and a Masters degree in Business Administration. Outside of work, he is passionate about black and white photography and his work has been featured in independent publications.