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Prior to Co-founding Secova, Venkat was one of the four founding members of Daksh, which became the largest independent client services company in India. His responsibilities included the US operation and the company's Sales and Marketing activities.
As an offshore outsourcing expert, Venkat has delivered numerous talks at various industry forums such as Strategic Research Institute, World Outsourcing Center, SI Annual Event, SIPA Annual Event, and the University of Maryland.
Prior to Daksh, Venkat was a member of the South Asia Management Committee of a large U.S. based consumer products company.
VC has been involved with Technology consulting for two decades. He was the co-founder and Chief Technology Consultant of Congruent Solutions, a software development services organization.
Under his direction, the organization implemented several successful applications, in leading edge technologies, for global corporations. These included a 360 degree survey application for GE Medical systems, a Testing and Certification system for Citibank, and a Net based 401K processing system for Emplanet.
Prior to Congruent, VC held a variety of technical and management positions with IBM in Australia.
Rahul is a Senior Partner of BPEP International and a member of the Investment Committee of Baring Vostok Private Equity Fund. He has served as the Chairman of MphasiS BFL Limited and and oversaw its transformation from a loss making to a profit making company. He continues to be on the boards of MphasiS BFL and other portfolio companies partnering with the management for building and growing their businesses. He has previously worked with Citicorp, Global Asset Management in London where he was involved in asset allocation on a sectoral and regional basis for all their global portfolios. Aside from his experience in the developed markets, he has actively invested in the emerging markets in Latin America, East Europe, Russia, Asia and India. Rahul is an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
Akhil is a Partner with BPEP India. He has 13 years of experience in Asset Management and Corporate Banking and has served on the boards of various companies and has wide experience of the challenges of early growth companies. He was a founding member of ITI Pioneer Asset Management Company (India's first private sector mutual fund) where was responsible for researching and analyzing the pharmaceutical, software and automobile sectors. Prior to entering the mutual fund business he was with the former ANZ Grindlays Bank in corporate banking. Akhil is a Qualified Mechanical Engineer with a First Class MBA from University of Delhi. He is based in Delhi and is active in providing guidance to new entrepreneurs in association with the Indian Venture Capital Association.
Sundaram is the Chief Financial Officer of Baring Private Equity India with over 20 years of work experience. Prior to this, he was working with CSS Group as the Group CFO and helped in scaling it from a start-up to a US$ 70 million company. In addition to being the CFO, he was also the Chief Legal and Risk Officer for all group companies and the Administrative Head of the US office. Mr. Sundaram was also the Assistant Vice President of Chemplast (Sanmar Group), one of India's large industrial houses. He sits on the Investment Committee of Baring Private Equity Partners (India) Ltd. Mr. Sundaram is a Chartered Accountant, Chartered Financial Analyst, Cost Accountant and Corporate Secretary. He has an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. Over the years, Mr. Sundaram has been a visiting professor at the Institute of Chartered Accountants and an Academic Advisor to the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts.
P. Viswanathan is a Chartered Accountant by qualification with over 33 years of Executive Management and consulting experience. Most recently, Viswanathan was the Managing Director of Sanmar Shipping Limited from which he took an early retirement from this position in December 2006. P.Viswanathan has also headed businesses in varied segments- Property Development, Financial Services and Shipping- besides being a consultant for reputed organizations in the Public and Private sectors. During the past 2 decades Viswanathan was involved in large M&A activities, start up and building of businesses.
Mr. Parke was employed for over two decades at a Fortune 100 company. As VP of Human Resources, he was responsible for Human Resources strategy and planning for the Corporation's 93,000 domestic and international employees. In that assignment, he proposed and had responsibility for implementing the outsourcing of all payroll, HR on-line administration and benefits.
His experience over the years includes, executive compensation, International HR, executive development and succession planning, employee benefits, staffing and redeployment, employee and labor relations, HR information systems, equal employment opportunity, and safety, health and environmental affairs.
Prior to the merger of Empact and Secova, Mr. Carter was a co-founder of Empact and its' Chief Operating Officer. Immediately prior to that time, Carter was Managing Director for the consulting services firm engaged to assist in the design and development of Empact's HealthLine and its overall business plan. In his capacity as a management consultant, Joel specialized in the design and implementation of outsourcing and performance improvement initiatives for clients such as BellSouth Telecommunications, Xerox and MCI.
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