Vijay Jain

Co – Founder, Sr Director

Learning every step of the way, Vijay has earned his spurs pf entrepreneurship with determination, planning and anticipation. He is the Co – Founder of Minfy Technologies one of the fastest growing cloud computing companies in India. Founding Minfy Tech in 2015, Vijay leads a team of over 250 qualified professionals and has enabled the growth of Minfy Tech across several verticals and consulting areas in the cloud.

Vijay takes pride in establishing a born in the cloud company and building teams that were geared to service customers with solutions that are customised and outcome driven. With a strong belief in customer commitment, bordering on customer obsession, he has a style of leadership which has made him available to customers and businesses on literally a 24 x7 basis. It is this culture of customer first that has helped him build Minfy into one of the most enviable smart sized companies fast expanding its footprint into APAC and USA.

Prior to MinfyTech, Vijay has had 14+ years in Global IT products & services.

Vijay is a professional by training, an entrepreneur by passion. He thus is a combination of professional expertise and risk management skills. On the one hand he is deft at leading and directing the C suites understand transformation journeys including Digital Transformation, Cloud Migration, and Augmented Intelligence & Machine Learning. While on the other he is a seasoned professional in managing diverse teams in areas of Sales & Marketing and Business Development.

Vijay holds a degree in Computer Engineering.

Vivek Jain

Co-Founder, Director

Vivek is the Co- Founder of Minfy Tech where he brings a combination of expertise in business development and delivery with his ability to gauge the aspirations of businesses that are wanting to digitalise rapidly. As a Co – Founder and essentially a senior leader, he understands that the most telling challenge is keeping his customers competitive and relevant in the ever-changing marketplace.

Vivek has been in the IT services for over a decade and possesses diverse experience in India and the global markets. Cost effective, on-demand solutions is what Vivek and his teams are known for. As an avowed working principle, he keeps strategic direction and innovation at the core of all his cloud transformation road maps and solutions. Vivek recognises the benefits of teamwork. He nurtures a culture of freedom and challenges where his colleagues have an evolving goal post set to a well calibrated rewards and incentives framework.

Vivek holds a degree in Computer Engineering.

Vikram Manchanda

CEO

Vikram Manchanda is an accomplished and a widely respected business leader in the IT industry. In 2015, he founded the AWS public sector business by enabling AWS’s entry into India’s burgeoning market. He anchored AWS’s multibillion-dollar investments in the two cloud regions in India. He set the vision, developed strategic partnerships, hired the leadership team and built the AWS organization from its inception. His focus included customers, partners and startups in government, education, healthcare, BFSI and energy segments. As the Country Head of the India and South Asia business, his direction enabled AWS to become the leader among the cloud providers focused on the $1 billion government cloud market. In his last role at AWS as the Digital Transformation Leader in the global team, he was responsible for the adoption of India’s cloud-based innovative solutions in the international markets.

Prior to AWS, Vikram performed various leadership roles at Microsoft, where he spent ten years. As the cloud leader, he was responsible for the Microsoft Azure cloud launch in India. He represented the cloud industry to the government for opening up the cloud market as early as in 2013. He led Microsoft’s efforts in formulation of India’s cloud policy, India’s national cloud Meghraj and accreditation of private cloud providers. He collaborated with Industry bodies including NASSCOM, DSCI and MAIT to provide advice to regulatory agencies on data classification, security and privacy policies. Before the cloud role, Vikram started Microsoft India’s focus on Global Financial Institutions such as The World Bank, IFC and Asian Development Bank. He also led Microsoft’s strategy to build its power and energy verticals and established it in the Enterprise segment.

Vikram has served on various Boards including MAIT, India Smart Grid Forum and Startup Funds. His expertise is in mainstreaming disruptive technologies by creating financially viable business models and wide-scale adoption. His personal passion lies in the future of healthtech and he believes that the power of AI and Emerging tech will transform human capacity.

Vikram has an MBA in Finance from S P Jain Institute of Management, Mumbai. He loves playing tennis and lives with his wife and daughter in Gurgaon.

Shankar TR

Chief Officer - Growth and Strategy

A technology enthusiast by choice Shankar TR is an avowed cloud technology evangelist. He is a proven professional and builder of well architected digital transformation pathways. His understanding and advice has helped several businesses stay relevant and competitive in a rapidly evolving marketplace.

Shankar’s strengths essentially lie in establishing thought leadership on digital transformations & cloud adoption across industries. He interacts with with C- Level IT and non-IT, executives sensitizing them to the need for cloud computing roadmaps and the lifetime value associated with such business impacting decisions. In his address book are a range of global leaders (CXOs, CTOs, CDO, CIOs) from multi-cultural backgrounds who have benefitted from his well tailored digital & business strategies.

Shankar is a part of the Minfy Tech founding team. A certified cloud practitioner, Shankar has championed cloud services to Government/PSU, large enterprises, SMC, and SMBs. Shankar holds a degree in Computer Engineering.

Ravi Shanker

Chief Technology Officer

Ravi Shankar is a professional of many facets. With the common thread of understanding the pervasiveness, relevance and impact smart technology solutions can bring to the table. His expertise is wide ranging – cloud solutions, presales and cloud migration.

In his illustrious career he has managed and directed multiple streams of software development across several teams. In fact, he is benchmarked in the industry for his solution design/ architecture and insightful inputs with regards to the business benefits of enterprise and cloud-native solutions Ravi Shanker is an acknowledged On-Prem to Cloud Migration and Disaster Recovery strategy formulation expert. He brings to the team and customers end to end capabilities that ensure the cloud computing solutions are well designed, smoothly executed with minimum disruptions and downtime. Needless to say delivering business impact is a prioritised agenda item.

Ravi Shanker holds a Bachelor's Degree in Geography with a Master's in Business Administration.

Amit Kataria

Minfy is committed to its cultural values and to enable our people to be their ‘best version’. Amit joins as the Chief Human Resources Officer to drive Minfy’s commitment to its people and create ‘Employee Wow’. Amit will help build leaders for the future that adopt a growth mindset and display excellence with high velocity. He will additionally, build a sustainable HR business model to attract top talent that believe in Minfy’s purpose.

Amit is a human resources specialist with 20 years of strong international experience in information technology. His concentration is on developing innovative talent acquisition strategies to overcome the current IT skills gap. Amit's area of expertise is the design and implementation of HR strategies, and aspects of his key strengths as an HR practitioner include employee engagement and JOY AT WORK.

In his most recent position, he oversaw the Human Capital Management department as CHRO for a Fortune 500 company that focused on the cloud. He has most recently been recognised by reputable accredited organisations as Asia's TOP 100 Power Leader in HR, CHRO of the year 2022, and recipient of the HR Excellence Award in 2021–2022. He is promoting the development of cutting-edge HR strategies and tools to assist corporations, the HR community, and the global talent pool.

His two master's degrees in computer applications and human resources, along with his bachelor's in physics, make Amit's education equally interesting. In his ongoing quest to keep learning, he is currently working on his PhD in human resources and defending a thesis on modern talent management strategies in the cloud industry.

Amit enjoys public speaking and has represented the HR community in a number of panels and seminars on both a national and international level. His love of learning and desire to improve the lives of youth and students led to his appointment to the boards of various illustrious universities. Additionally, he serves as Professor of Patrice's and a visiting faculty at numerous top universities worldwide.

Karan Mutha

Director Sales & Business Development IES

Karan is a sales enthusiast by choice. This hunger of knowing more and delivering results has ensured that Karan packs in a mosaic of experiences into his sales journeys.

With Minfy Tech he demonstrates the twin benefits of learning and risk taking. This has resulted in Karan leading several breakthroughs in sales and lead generation. He brings to the customers’ an innate sense of urgency and diligence in understanding the requirement. He is culturally grounded and is immersed in the diverse nature of customers’ attitudes and workplace demands.

Prior to Minfy Tech Karan worked with Vodafone. He is a Computer Science Engineer and an MBA in Marketing.

Kiran Kumar Tupalli

Kiran Kumar Tupalli is a seasoned technology strategist with almost 3 decades of experience in driving businesses forward. He has held key roles across a variety of industries, including Supply Chain, Hospitality, Manufacturing, Life and General insurance, and Global Professional Services.

Kumar's comes with a broad range of capabilities across include Tech Strategy, App Development, Data Science, IT Operations, and Governance. Kumar is an expert in formulating policies, re-engineering processes, and implementing effective governance and controls that have a positive impact on business performance, service delivery, and customer satisfaction.

Prior to his current role, Kumar served as a Senior Director, IFS Strategist, and Head of Application Delivery & Led the Tax Technology Products Development at PwC India. He has also represented India on various forums related to initiatives in the country and was recognized as a leading voice for identifying and resolving issues within the project context.

Anirban De

Anirban will enable Minfy’s bionic approach by working closely with our Deeptech Team to design world class solutions for our customers, focusing on AI/ML, data and analytics.

Anirban has over 26 years of IT experience in pre-sales, delivery and innovation in areas of cloud adoption, migration, data, analytics and AI/ML. He has designed and implemented solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for data modernization, ETL modernization, data lakes, BI and analytics for customers from diverse geographies and industry verticals. Anirban has worked at Wipro, Cognizant, Accenture and AISPL earlier in his career. He is a technologist and passionate about solving customer challenges using analytics, AI and ML technologies.

As part of the Deeptech Team he will also drive Deeptech competency development at Minfy, and grow the team of architects, data engineers and data scientists to work with customers across industry verticals in designing and implementing data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions on cloud.

Rahul Bhatia

Taking our Bionic journey a step further, Rahul will drive Innovation of products & services and build Minfy’s unique IP portfolio to enhance customer solutions for technology driven human-centred impact.

Rahul has over 21 years of experience in Software and Product/Technology organisations. As part of his last assignment he led New Product Development and Innovations at India Innovation Center, a division that was formed to promote customer centric Innovations and new Product Development at Panasonic India. Rahul has worked with Samsung, Adobe Systems, Infosys and Ids Infotech (Tech Start-up) earlier in his career. Rahul has a passion for Technology and Products and has worked in various Industry verticals including BFSI, Health, Automobile, and Services.

As part of the Innovation team at #Minfy, Rahul will drive Innovations and evangelise existing Minfy products like #Swayam and #Cloudstorz. He also will help build new products grounds up using AI/ML and Data Analytics.

Ritayan Banerjee

Ritayan Banerjee, Head of Infrastructure Engineering Services at Minfy, is responsible for the stellar delivery of Cloud Managed Services for customers across the globe. Ritayan brings 25+ years of experience in the global delivery of world-class processes & practices, ensuring customers are always left delighted.

Passionate about Cloud Computing, Ritayan is always keen on deploying creatively designed Cloud-Native Solutions to enhance the User Experience and meet Organisational Needs. He is experienced in AWS Solutions Architecting and has a proven track record in both greenfield and brownfield migrations. Ritayan holds expertise in Data Center design, architecting and management for enterprise customers and he is well-versed with public cloud technologies and offerings.

Prior to Minfy, Ritayan worked with Srei infrastructure finance limited, leading their Data Centre service-mapping, cloud migration and digital transformation. This has helped him gain perceptive insights into Governance & Cloud Security. Before Srei, Ritayan held senior delivery positions at Zensar, Religare and Hero Group. He has also been a speaker at Gartner’s IODC conference in the past.

He holds a degree in Finance from the University of Ballarat.

Rupendra Bhatnagar

Rupen will lead Minfy's engagements globally with customers in #Oil & Gas, #Renewable Energy, #Power Generation, Transmission & Distribution, #Mining, and #Manufacturing 4.0. Minfy is deeply committed to #climate change and #sustainability as part of its #better world vision.

Rupen will support customers in their complete digital transformation journey with cloud #migrations, #cloud-native modernisations, and deeptech solutions.

Rupen has over 30 years of Industry experience and management consulting having worked with organizations like #SAP, #Microsoft, #IBM and #Oracle, #India Smart Grid Forum, Eicher Consultancy, where he was responsible for driving customer engagements, technology strategies, defining value propositions and building IT roadmap with a responsibility of supporting Industry revenues of Euro 100 million.

Minfy along with Amazon Web Services (AWS) has already supported Numaligarh Refinery Limited, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited, Vikram Solar, EDF Energy, Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation ( Uppcl ), Essel Mining and Industries Limited, and many others. Rupen will broaden, and deepen Minfy’s cloudnative engagements in this segment. We look forward to his leadership as we build a better world together!

Satya

Satya, brings onboard a deep understanding of how technology can and should transform business. He strongly believes that every piece of code should positively impact the Client’s top-line or bottom-line or brand value.

14 years in technology and consulting last heading a US$ 200MM global Client
Founded a tech enabled logistics company that clocked 50 Cr in annual revenue and was acquired by a leading logistics player
Worked as a Senior Vice President to build and nurture their top account in addition to being P&L head
Nurtured future leaders by conducting over 50 leadership workshops through his career

With over a decade in building technology that drove outcomes for multiple Fortune 500 companies and another decade in building his own start up that got successfully acquired, Satya brings onboard a unique understanding of a true digital transformation.

Satya is a certified cloud practitioner and digital cloud leader and specialises in engaging C-Suite and Senior leaders to jointly strategise, draw technology roadmap and execute the roadmap to deliver the agreed outcomes.

At Minfy, Satya leads the Service Delivery in addition to actively engaging with the Clients on their strategic roadmaps that is critical to them.

Jaideep Sen

Jaideep joins as the global Chief Business Officer to drive Minfy’s worldwide business development, go-to-market strategy, and sales for new markets, based in San Francisco.

Jaideep is a builder-entrepreneur at heart. He has co-founded 2 startups and built several businesses across AWS, Microsoft, Intel and HP. Jaideep is passionate about technology led business transformation, data analytics, AI/ML, IoT and has expertise in manufacturing, supply chain and CPG industries.

Jaideep joins us from AWS where he was leading worldwide go-to-market and business development for Industrial IoT and data historians, as part of the WW Specialist Organization. In this role, Jaideep set strategy for the business and worked with customers and partners to drive revenue through adoption of IoT and analytics solutions.

Prior to AWS, Jaideep was the CEO and co-founder, of D4DT Inc., a data analytics SAAS platform for industrial and supply chain automation that was used by several enterprises across the world. Jaideep also co-founded Roxagi Corporation, a technology consulting company that exited to Infogain Corporation.

At Microsoft, Jaideep led multiple product launches and strategic partnerships for the Server & Tools business, created and managed cloud adoption programs for the Cloud & Enterprise business. At Intel, Jaideep managed business development and sales, for Intel Solution Services in Asia, that helped customers migrate from legacy systems.

As part of Minfy, Jaideep’s initial focus among new markets will be North America. He will establish a team to address customer business problems across the North American region via Minfy’s bionic approach and then scale that out globally. He will leverage Minfy’s outcome-based capabilities in Modernization, AI, ML and data analytics to solve unique customer challenges.

Sachin Sharma

Sachin has more than 22 years of experience delivering complex advisory and technology services to public and private sector organisations. He has worked with business leaders throughout Australia, Asia Pacific, and the United States on digital transformation, business transformation and IT Strategy. Prior to commencing as Minfy ANZ Director, Sachin was the Principal/Director of the IBM and Deloitte Cloud Consulting Practice and Operations Manager in Amazon Web Services, Australia.

Sachin has significant experience working within Government, Defence, Banking and Finance, Energy and Resources sectors. He has helped industries embrace digital transformation, improve service delivery outcomes and enhance operational efficiency. He is focused on helping clients modernize their infrastructure and operations while taking advantage of cloud development techniques and ultimately achieving streamlined processes and cost efficiencies.

Sachin enjoys public speaking and has presented at a number of events during his time at IBM and Deloitte.

Stephen Rowley

Steve is an IT leader with a career spanning more than 3 decades. Having started with a technical background in IT infrastructure and midsized systems, he progressed into delivery and leadership.

From the earliest days of his career, Steve has always had an innovative approach to achieving his goals and always finding ways to improve an outcome. This led Steve to become known as a problem solver who was trusted to deliver the most challenging programs and with a track record of turning around those that were failing. He has been recognised for being instrumental in the success of some of the most complex and challenging SAP implementations, such as a regional implementation across 13 countries in Asia. He has worked in various industries including aerospace, manufacturing pharmaceutical and retail.

Steve progressed into leadership as Enterprise Director for a global consultancy leading a practice of 850 employees. During this time, Steve managed to grow the practice significantly while optimising the operations. He has more recently moved towards business development focusing on helping customers achieve successful IT outcomes.

Having enjoyed living and working in several countries, Steve has a passion for understanding people, cultures and the challenges of integrating diverse teams and technology. He enjoys mentoring and managing teams and is recognised for creating an inspirational working environment.

Steve studied Datanom at Niels Brock, Copenhagen International Business College. In his spare time, he enjoys yoga, swimming, scuba diving and traveling as much as possible.