Board of Directors
Novatium's Board of Directors comprise of luminaries drawn from the IT and Communications world. Novatium--the company--reflects the confluence of their vision for India's computing future:
Ray Stata is the Chairman of Analog Devices Inc. The company has a market capital of about $15 billion and a workforce of nearly 8,900 employees. Headquartered in Norwood, MA, USA, Analog Devices is a pioneer in the design, manufacture and marketing of analog, mixed-signal, and digital signal processing equipment. An ardent believer in India's computing future, Ray is a member of the Novatium Board, providing valuable guidance.
Rajesh Jain is one of India's best known IT icons and is now Managing Director, Netcore Solutions. He is best known for his launch of the Indian web portal India World in 1995. From its pioneering start, India World grew to be one of the largest collections of India-centric websites, comprising Samachar, Khel, Khoj and Bawarchi. India World was acquired by Satyam Infoway (Sify) in November 1999 for $115 million in one of Asia's largest Internet deals. Rajesh is passionate about building a new India enabled by Internet and Information technology. His blog www.emergic.org is one of the best known sources on the advances in the computing world.
Dr Ashok Jhunjhunwala * is Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and was Department Chair till recently. Since 1981, he has been teaching at IIT, Madras. He was instrumental in establishing the TeNeT group at IIT with fellow faculty members, with a vision to make India a design house in the area of telecom and computer networks. His TeNeT group has incubated a number of R&D companies that work in partnership with TeNeT group to develop world class technologies. For his pioneering efforts, he has been honored with numerous awards including the Padmashri in 2002.
Alok Singh is Chief Executive Officer, Novatium. His career spans 15 years of accomplished experience in service marketing and service delivery, solutions designing, marketing, manufacturing & consulting. He brings in experience of two successful start-ups. Prior to current role he served as CEO of Cummins Auto Services Ltd for five years and is credited with building this business from scratch. His previous stints also includes Satyam Computer Services Limited, Tata Cummins Limited, Tata Motors. As CEO, Novatium Solutions, Alok brings a wealth of management expertise, coupled with the innate ability to see start-ups through the heady days of their nascence.
Shirish B Purohit is a founding director and currently the CEO of Midas. He has a strong track record in managing development activities in the technology space and in managing a company through its early evolution. He has over 15 years of experience managing design and development activities in industrial automation, monitoring & control systems, telecom and networking products. Prior to Midas, Shirish founded Texel Systems, in 1987, which specialized in automating test and measurement systems. In 1994, he co-founded Midas. Shirish holds a Bachelor's Degree in electrical power & electronics from REC, Nagpur and an M.Tech in electrical engineering from IIT Madras. He specialized in integrated circuits and systems design.
* Invited as Director |