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.

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.

Dr Amit Sinha

MD, APAC

Dr Amit is the Managing Director of Minfy, APAC Region

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.

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.

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.

Nageswara Rao Nannapaneni

Head, SAP

Nageswara Rao heads the SAP wing at Minfy

Sayantan Paul Choudhuri

Sales Director

Sayantan Paul Choudhuri is the Sales Director at Minfy

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.

Neelesh Mansharamani

Neelesh Mansharamani, Head of Customer Success at Minfy, is responsible for building trust and maturing the relationship with customers at each step of association.

Neelesh is an outcome-driven professional with over 2 decades of experience in IT Governance & Service management, as well as, People & Escalation Management, helping them achieve their business objectives.

Neelesh is an ITIL® Expert, with a strong foundation of ISO20000 & Project Management. He is Effective in planning, designing, implementing and managing Cloud Infrastructure and has proven his ability to lead and motivate teams to ensure success. He has Demonstrated capacity to successfully manage all phases of IT projects and operations, from need analysis & requirement definition to implementation & training.

Neelesh is a self-motivated individual with excellent People Management, Customer Engagement & Interpersonal skills.

He has managed multiple teams, with direct & matrix models- including Onshore-Offshore coordination/management.

Neelesh spearheaded Minfy’s Service Delivery for 3 years before transitioning to the Customer Success Division.
Working on Migrations, Greenfield/Brownfield implementations has helped him to identify the problem areas and corrective/preventive solutions.

Neelesh possesses and strives to demonstrate mastery of the Core Skillsets for Customer Connect:

Heart - Drive customer impact through customer trust
Being the Conscience of the Customer
Intellectual Curiosity
Structured Thinking
"Get Stuff Done" Attitude
Executive Presence
Organizational Agility
Brain - functional knowledge, industry expertise, account management, migrations, consulting/business process and change management

Prior to Minfy, Neelesh worked with Dell, Netlink, Vyom Labs, CtrlS, in multiple geographies Including India, APAC & Middle East.

Being Globally Experienced, Neelesh can make connections & build business relationships with people from a variety of cultures & geographies.

Neelesh believes in setting the right expectations from the start, and strives to reduce any element of surprise.

He is passionate to work with you to build a success story; helping you achieve your business objectives.
Neelesh is just one click away.

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.

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.