Our team is comprised of experienced professionals who enjoy working closely with our clients and with each other.
We are large enough to offer broad range of services, and small enough to provide exceptionally personalized services to our clients. The client driven focus allows us to excel at providing services that is bespoke to our individual clients.
As Global President & CEO, Sridhar focuses on all the backend operations of the company includes Strategy, Finances, Infrastructure, Operations, Sales and Recruiting. He also involves in leadership development and social responsibility. He joined Kastech in January 2012 and with his vision and leadership Kastech is growing at a pace of at least about 50% growth every year and from 4 million gross revenues in 2012 to 44+ millions in 2018.
With his 20+ years of IT industry experience Kastech entered into the areas of end to end ERP Project implementations / Upgrades / Support / Enhancements, Lean on Services, Mobile Applications, Augmented Virtual Reality, Cyber Security, Cloud Services, DW/BI & Advanced Analytics from a staff augmentation Company. Sridhar holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Applications (MCA) from the Nagarjuna University.
As Founder & COO, Suresh focuses in the areas of identifying appropriate technology platforms (including ERP, BI, Big Data, Cloud) for delivering company's services. With his leadership, technical skills he manages all the technology front of the company. He also involves in the areas of customer relations, streamlining business processes combined with the best technology practices.
In his leadership Kastech adopted new technologies, proposed them to the customers, implemented them successfully in a very cost effective fashion. He is one of the founders of Kastech in 2007. He is the Leader running the technology teams both in North America and India. He holds a Masters Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas San Antonio (UTSA).
Sridhar Koneru
Director - Technology & Innovations / Vice President - LATAM
More than a decade of progressive career with a proven track record of revenue and profitability growth in Enterprise Applications Services. A well-rounded experience in delivery management, practice management, consulting, service delivery, cross Functional Solutioning, Product Design & Development with focus on client relations and value-adds.Passionate to tinker and present different viewpoints. Always inspired to push the envelope, and test the edges.
Recognized for Innovative solutions blended with deep domain expertise, Strategic construct, Design thinking and earned value enhancement.Specialties include Business & Management Consulting in Enterprise Applications (ERP - PeopleSoft, Oracle eBiz, SAP), Pre-sales Support, Service Delivery, Project/ Program Management, Application Outsourcing and Global Delivery
Pradeep Mahajan heads the APAC Business Development as Director, at Kastech. Pradeep is a strategic IT Leader, with over 25 years of IT experience, and is specialized in areas related to Enterprise Applications, Practice/P&L Management and Customer Orchestration. Prior to joining Kastech, Pradeep had worked with ITSC, Saudi as Director of IT Solution and managed their Business Development Portfolio. Prior to ITSC, Pradeep worked with Hexaware Technologies for over Ten Years adorning multiple hats, including heading their new Growth Platforms in the Enterprise Applications area, which was instrumental in incubating multiple enterprise Educational & Manufacturing Domain. Pradeep was heading their Oracle PeopleSoft Solutions Practice for Pune Unit. During his tenure he worked with various countries clients as UK, USA, Singapore, Australia, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Mexico, Spain and Netherland.
In his previous stint as Practice Manager for EDS (a HP company now) Technology, Pradeep set up the company’s PeopleSoft Center of Excellences and also headed their Oracle PS Business Development function. Prior to EDS, Pradeep worked with HCL Technologies and was one of the founder member of their PeopleSoft Practice. Where he executed Standard Charter, UK Project and one of leading Insurance & Banking customer in USA. He worked with HCL for 5 years as ERP Principal Consultant & was with their UK & USA locations.
During the early part of his career, Pradeep conceived, secured capital, setup, Managed and architected multiple application agnostic product lines, across multiple technologies, including pioneering concepts such as MRP, BaaN, NetSuite ERP & Education examination result solutions.
He holds Master of Business Admiration degree in Information Technology from Pune University. And is based out of our Dubai Office and in India, Hyderabad office.
As a Global Head- Digital Marketing, Kamal has proven leadership and ability to deliver highly effective and measurable strategies to drive revenue growth, new customers and increase brand awareness and reputation for B2C and B2B businesses.
A results-driven online marketing professional with over 10 years of hands-on experience in online and e-commerce marketing operations for highly competitive markets.
As a detail-oriented individual with a passion for excellence, he is adept at listening to the client’s needs, then analyzing and implementing the best-designed solution. Passionate about developing winning marketing strategies, fostering brand recognition and growth while positively impacting businesses and communities.
As Head - DW/BI and Advanced Data Analytics, Sudarshan focuses on planning, designing, developing, implementing and managing Big data, Data warehouse, Business Intelligence and Advanced Data Analytics solutions. He is a visionary and result oriented executive primarily responsible for providing business solutions to park huge amount of Data into a well-defined Data storage foundation for decision support and Data analysis.
Sudarshan is an engaging leader that builds and inspires loyal, high performance, cross functional global team that drive for results. He emphasizes on significant interface with business customers, and increase their confidence in Data management and Business intelligence methodologies used in organizations.
Accomplished Systems Engineer and Software Engineering Specialist professional with 20+ years of
experience in IT project leadership and management. He has reached strategic problem solving and
technical skills to improve the team and organizational performance. Planned, designed, developed and
implemented IT and software solutions.
His success has been based on the close relationship with key stakeholders in the organization such as the President and the General Manager and approach to every project as a corporative one. His current objective is to apply my knowledge and project management skills to help lead a competitive growing company to a level of success and guide them towards an advanced technology status.
Lina is electronic engineering with a master in digital systems. A tech lover and a specialist on strategic planning, business development, project management, and consultancy. More than ten years of working collaboratively with clients and digital transformation. She commenced her career working with IT offices as business development and project management to deliver functional solutions to clients focusing on adding value in each implementation. With the experience of enterprise architecture, Lina understood that if she wants to add value to companies she already had the technical background, but she needed growing her expertise in business, so she did an MBA. To ensure the understanding of companies, she has the knowledge to seek for the ideal solution for each sector, assuring to transform and potentiate your company. Her principal focus is through innovative technology add thoughtfully value to any organization.
Customer Success Strategist. Syed creates Go-To-Market strategies for effective formulation, implementation, and execution in line with global and local objectives throughout the EMEA Region - working with a team of stakeholders which include management, sales, marketing, and partners / channel.
His career and experiences are focused on strategic solutions using both direct and indirect sales models for the enterprise. His specialty is in the process of identifying, creating, developing, and expanding new business revenue models - from lead generation, to contract negotiations, by advising a customer success strategy roadmap for clients.
Syed is a team player who can work independently, and collaboratively, in international & virtual team setups to focus on quick results in a complex, fast paced and constantly evolving Technology environment. A self-driven and motivated individual- ready to take on ownership and responsibility for the company’s objectives.
Business Development, Channel Sales & Marketing professional with 25+ years of experience.
Successfully established and managed Strategic & Niche Partnerships with OEM’s & SI’s & achieved defined business goals. Hired & managed Demand Generation & Marketing teams.
Extensive geographical work experience includes Indian, Europe and Middle East & African markets.
Strong business acumen with skills to remain on the cutting edge; drive new business through conceptualizing strategies, augmenting & streamlining Channel networks, implementing product promotions etc. Excellent communication and people management skills that have been honed through managing multi skilled teams.
Demonstrated ability to select train and retain self-motivated customer-oriented employees, possess high caliber presentation, negotiation and closing skills.
Expert solution selling skills include system integration services, software solutions, outsourcing services and enterprise business applications management services.
Mr. Garapati travelled relentlessly to all parts of the globe, has the history of working in the Electronics and IT, Plastics and food industry. Skilled in Negotiation, Team Motivation, Business Planning, Operations Management and E-commerce. Strong entrepreneurship professional by going extra mile and converting competition into collaboration. As a chairman of Electronics and Computer Software Export Promotion Council Mr. Garapati focuses on smaller companies and helps them find export markets in Japan, Korea, Australia, Hong Kong and several emerging countries. Mr. Garapati has a Post Graduate Diploma from Acharya Nagarjuna University.
Jean-Louis Lam, has a 25 year track record in the international financial markets where he has held numerous management positions at top tier global banks, financial institutions, and the New York Stock Exchange.
He benefits from a vast private network of Defense, IT,Cyber Security, financial, and energy C-Level peers and passive senior candidates.
Jeffery Haupt, Senior Advisor of Executive & Board Search, has a strong background in corporate recruitment, start-ups, venture capital, technology, social media, PR, marketing and dark pool talent management.
A futurist with a vision of the big-picture.
Mr. Mathews has 25 years of experience as a senior-level IT executive bringing creative solutions that value the end-users of technology and business process management. These solutions have benefited the end-users of higher education, manufacturing, and high technology company products. Mike has held positions as a Chief Information Officer, general manager of CIOs, chief strategist for innovation, business development officer, trainer, teacher, and vice president of academic services for leading corporations and higher education. Mike has been a CIO within higher education for over 12 years. He is currently the AVP and Chief Information Officer at Oral Roberts University. A leading subject matter expert and thought leader on Virtual Reality, he has dedicated his career to technology innovation.
Joseph W. Hendrickson (Joe), is a financial and information technology executive with a successful track record of providing strategic, business process redesign and organizational change, implementation and upgrade, and technology services to clients that operate within the public and commercial industry segments. Joe has extensive experience leading large technology-enabled process improvement and organizational change initiatives. Joe has over 20 years of hands on leadership experience with Oracle solutions. Joe has worked with most of the leading commercially available Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and Business Intelligence (BI) solutions in the marketplace including: PeopleSoft, eBusiness, JD Edwards, Workday, Salesforce, Microsoft AX, Lawson, SAP, Hyperion, OBIEE, Business Objects, Cognos, etc. Joe has provided hands-on leadership to over 100 ERP/CRM/BI-related program/projects during his career.
Irfan Rashid possess 18+ years of combined experience in IT Systems and Business and SAP Practice across various industries such as petrochemicals, construction and food etc., and has global onsite working experience in China, India, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Brazil. He has 13 years of strong experience in different roles and positions in the sphere of SAP Practice and has also led a team of technical and functional experts in executing and creating pipelines across all SAP solutions.
He has strived to work to create a deep understanding of S/4 HANA Cloud and has helmed SAP Projects and Delivery management. Ensured consistent execution of sales strategies, operations and go-to-market initiatives and cultivated expertise in several SAP solution areas.
Employed SAP digital innovations and was instrumental in garnering a reduced TCO for customers; provided Machine learning and AI tools of SAP for customers; worked alongside hardware vendors for IOT assistance Maintenance solutions for S/4 HANA Solutions. Setup the S/4 HANA Cloud Practice from ground zero by building practice, hiring consultants, training, certifications for team using SAP learning hub, partner edge learning rooms and programs to get the best of them for solution delivery.
Worked in tandem with the HR team to formulate strategies for resource hiring and assigning them across multiple projects in offshore/onsite model based on the requirement. Also ensured organization to get certified in S/4 HANA Cloud solutions in UAE and KSA. Served as a Solution Architect for complex business scenarios in the SAP packaged solutions involving cloud solutions using SAP Cloud Platform, C/4 HANA, S/4 HANA Cloud, Ariba and SF solutions.
A C_TSCM62_66: SAP Certified Application Associate, he has excellent presentation, interpersonal and people skills and is a total team player who graduated as an Engineer with Electronics and Communication as his core subjects.
Logananth is a result-oriented Project management Professional (PMP) and SAP Certified Consultant with 15 years of work experience in Supply Chain arena. He has 10 years of international work exposure within the SAP Industry in the MENA region. Worked as the head of the SAP S4 HANA LOB – S/4 HANA on Premise and S/4 HANA Cloud, and managed all areas of operations within Sales, Presales, Delivery, PMO, and Finance.
Possesses excellent customer service skills like attentiveness, time management, patience, clear and excellent communication, update to date know-how on the latest products, and is most adept in analyzing, reading and delivering the customer needs.
He leads strategic initiatives in managing and executing SAP technology projects, and has successfully delivered business-critical projects within deadlines. Fervently, facilitates a team approach to achieve organizational objectives in a bid to increase productivity and enhance employee morale.
High energy and results driven Global Sales Leader, specialized in driving value through a consultative sales approach. Over 10 years of full life cycle sales experience from inception to close. Strong and consistent track record of exceeding expectations and quantitative sales goals while keeping the customer first.
My Team is focused on guiding the customer through their digital transformation by way of deploying, managing and integrating RPA, Chatbots, AI (Artificial Intelligence), ML (Machine Learning), AVR (Augmented Virtual Reality), and Testing Automation. In addition, we have you covered from all the major ERP vendors from on-prem to SaaS (Oracle, Workday, Salesforce, SAP) for managed services, managed projects and consulting services.
