GiriKalluri is known for his contributions to LA NATS Chapter for his endless zeal of helping people enhance their skills set so they prosper in their professional lives. He has volunteered his time, money and his office facilities to conduct career guidance courses and many members of NATS family in Southern California recognize him for those efforts. His is quick to make decisions and stands by his word and commitment to the telugu community. He is currently helping the Sambaralu team is leading all efforts associated with Business Symposium.
Outside of his association with NATS and non-profit organizations, Giri is theChief Operations Officer at Technossus – a company dedicated to helping businesses leverage new strategies for transformation and growth with innovative technologies that connect, enable and inspire. When free,
Raju is the Founder and former CEO of Sierra Atlantic, a company that grew to be a best-in-class global services company over a period of 17 years. Under his leadership, Sierra Atlantic grew from a startup to over 2400 employees worldwide and was consistently ranked amongst the best managed companies including the top 75 most admired companies in Silicon Valley, Top 25 great places to work in India and Top 10 best employers in South China.
Sierra Atlantic was acquired by Hitachi Consulting in 2010 and it is the largest acquisition by Hitachi Consulting to date. Prior to founding Sierra Atlantic in 1993, Raju spent 10 years at Intel in software development, marketing, and general management.Raju enjoys working with young entrepreneurs and mentoring to build great companies. He currently serves on the board ofHitachi Payment Services, Grey Orange, EspressoLogic and Seclore; and previously served on the board of RedBus (acquired by Naspers) and Cognovision (acquired by Intel).
Raju is active in not-for-profit initiatives and currently the Co-President and Board member of India community center in Milpitas,CA. He previously served as the Chairman of BITSAA Intl, the alumni body of BITS Pilani, India’s #1 ranked private university. He also co-founded SIPA (Silicon Valley Indian Professional Association) in 1987.Raju holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical and electronics engineering from BITS Pilani and a Master of Science degree in computer science from Virginia Tech.
Chairman Appco Pharmaceuticals Corp.Experienced and proven in building enterprises who has demonstrated the ability to lead diverse team of professionals to new levels of success in highly competitive and regulated industries.Strong entrepreneurial experience with an impressive track record of more than 14 years of hands-on experience in building Pharmaceutical business with strategic planning, acquisitions and successful implementation.
Proven ability to successfully analyze an organization's critical business requirements, identify deficiencies and potential opportunities, develop innovative and cost-effective solutions for enhancing competitiveness, increasing revenues therefore maximizing company's client base, sales and valuation.
Acquired small pharmaceutical business and expanded multiple folds in different Pharmaceutical Sectors Founded, expanded and later sold Information Technology Company called Computer Analysts Corp in 2001.Headed the successful acquisition of several Pharmaceutical business in past 14 years.Developed an on-going future business plan and funded even during difficult economic conditions.Established critical partnerships with high level industry leaders.
Senior executive focusing on Innovations at the nexus of Systems, Software and Silicon. Executing on a belief that true defensible and profitable revenue growth for the next decade will require a seamless interface of all these above disciplines. The emergence of SDN/NFV and their interaction with the IoT market is a key market that is a passion to execute on.
Led consistent growth of all product lines.Proven ability in bringing solutions from concept to successful launch on a world-wide basis.Expertise in customer, partner and team relationship building.Highly skilled communicator with negotiation skills in a multi-national environment.
Key Strengths include.
Full P&L Responsibility for > $100M revenue businesses with consistent best in class operating margins and gross margins.
All aspects of general management - R&D, Operations, Sales and Marketing, Systems Engineering, Architecture.
Board level and investor interface experience.
Worldwide (Asia, Japan, Europe, US) based team built and led to multiple successful product lines.
Currently Group Vice President and General Manager for the #1 Location Based Services Company Worldwide (Nasdaq: TSYS)
Prior and Board roles: Senior Vice President at Semtech, Advisory Board Member at CoSemi, Lusiditi, Juventus Natural Resources and Kamcrete.
As an entrepreneur, sold two companies, one in consumer web space and another in the RFID space. Currently CTO/technical founder for a social, mobile startup (trystatus.com). As an angel investor, has invested in 25+ startups, including Genius.com, Zoomcar India, GoCardless, and TesoRX."
Venkat Tadanki is the founder and CEO of Secova, a Benefits Administration firm that leverages its proprietary platform along with its global resources to help provide its clients quality solutions in a cost effective manner.
Venkat is active as an angel investor, Mentor, Board member and Advisor to various start ups both in the US and India. Some of his investments are Capillary Technologies, Tribogenics, and Travel Triangle, which have gone on to raise funding from established VCs such as Sequoia, NVP, Bessemer, Qualcomm, Founders Fund. Venkat is also one of the earliest LPs with Accel Partners India which has invested in the likes of Flipkart, Virident. As an industry expert, Venkat delivered numerous talks at various industry forums such as Strategic Research Institute, World Outsourcing Center, Emory University, UCI, University of Maryland, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University etc.
Prior to Secova, Venkat was a founding member of Daksh, one of the largest independent ITeS companies in India that was acquired by IBM. At Daksh, Venkat was a member of the Board and responsible for putting together the US operation and the company’s Sales and Marketing activities. Prior to Daksh, Venkat was the Executive Vice President of PepsiCo-South Asia, where he was responsible for managing Franchise Operations. As a member of the Management Committee, he was also part of the core strategy group for the region.
Venkat is an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata, and a BA (Hons), Economics from St.Stephen’s College, Delhi. He is also a Charter member of Tie-Southern California.
Vijay Mididaddi is Co-founder and Managing Partner of Intueor, a management consulting firm based in Irvine, California. Intueor is a strategy and technology advisory firm, specializing in advising executive management on business advancement, strategy, operational effectiveness and organizational productivity. Vijay is responsible for the firm’s strategy, operations and creation of strategic assets.
Prior to establishing Intueor, Vijay was one of the institutional members of PB Consult, the Management Consulting Practice of Parsons Brinckerhoff – a leading consulting firm in the global infrastructure space. Prior to PB Consult, Vijay was a founding member of Struxicon - a B2B exchange for the infrastructure and construction sector - and largely responsible for product and strategy. Among other achievements, he led the executive team to successfully raise capital.Over the years Vijay is credited with advising several start-ups and growth companies including EL-Net 3L, a company focused on distance education created in cooperation with by IIT Kharagpur; and MITS, an ECM Consulting and Systems Integration provider.
A Charter member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) Global, Vijay holds Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Transportation Engineering, and an MBA from the Anderson School of Management, UCLA. He lives in Irvine CA with his wife and two kids. Vijay spends his personal time trekking and supporting charitable organizations Sankara Eye Foundation, Chinmaya Mission and Special Olympics.
Vik Torpunuri is a visionary with a passion to bring innovative solutions to the market with a unique blend of business and technology. Over the past 20 years, Vik has built several pioneering analytical solutions in healthcare, life sciences, media, supply chain,and hi-tech industries that have won national awards. As a serial entrepreneur, Vik has gone through the entire lifecycle - from start up, capital raise, mergers and acquisitions to successful exits.
Vik’s foray into healthcare began in early 2000 with a web-based practice management software for orthodontists. In 2008, Vik founded AnalytixOn Demand, a ground breaking SaaS Business Intelligence company. In 2011, AnalytixOn Demand acquired a 12 year old national healthcare revenue cycle company to form CentraMed, Inc. Today, CentraMedprovides end-to-end patient life cycle analytics converging cost reduction, improving care quality, and revenue recovery, thus improving providers’ bottom line and outcomes. CentraMed’s customers, spread across 22 states, have gained $2 Billion+ in net revenue using CentraMed solutions.
Vik serves as the Chairman of The Board at Pressmart Media, a global digital media company with cloud-based offerings serving customers in 57countries and 33 languages. EduMocaTM, Vik’s latest venture in education, is introducing pioneering digital education solutions in Asia. In 1999, Vikfounded e2e, a full-service business analytics company that served various Fortune 500 companies including 3M, Amgen, Pfizer, MGM, Sempra Energy, Western Digital, Qualcomm and Sony to name a few.e2e was acquired in 2011.
Prior to his entrepreneurial career, Vik worked for KPMG. Vik holds an MBA and a MS from Texas A&M University. Vik advises several organizations that focus on education, and primary health.