Ashok Santhanam Joins Bristlecone as President & CEO.SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Bristlecone, a leading global business process and enterprise technology consulting firm, today announced the appointment of Ashok Santhanam as its President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Santhanam takes over from Padman Ramankutty, a co-founder of Bristlecone, who continued as CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. after its acquisition by Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. in 2004, and recently resigned to pursue entrepreneurial interests. Mr. Santhanam has over 25 years experience leading technology product and service businesses. Most recently, he was Senior Vice President, Worldwide Field Operations at Epiphany (Nasdaq:EPNY), a leader in the analytics-driven CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. software industry until its acquisition by SSA Global. Before Epiphany, Mr. Santhanam was Managing Director of Santhanam Consulting, providing strategy consulting services to clients in the enterprise IT, technology services and technology-enabled services sectors. During this period, he also served on the board of Mahindra Consulting, Inc. and advised the Mahindra Group on its acquisition of Bristlecone. Earlier, Mr. Santhanam was founder, CEO and Chairman of Inventa Technologies, a successful and fast-growing provider of fixed price/fixed time B2B e-commerce (Business to Business Electronic-COMMERCE) Refers to one business selling to another business via the Web. See e-commerce. services to large corporate clients. Under his leadership, Inventa grew to $60 million in annualized annualized Of or relating to a variable that has been mathematically converted to a yearly rate. Inflation and interest rates are generally annualized since it is on this basis that these two variables are ordinarily stated and compared. revenues and attracted financing from premier Silicon Valley venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] . Mr. Santhanam also founded two other services companies -- Ventura Data Systems, an early pioneer in offshore product development services and Challenger Systems, a successful provider of private-label implementation services to software companies which was acquired by vMoksha Technologies in 2002. He began his career with Gould Inc., a Fortune 500 technology company, where he rose to head operations for one of its major divisions. He received an MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration with Distinction from Harvard Business School Harvard Business School, officially named the Harvard Business School: George F. Baker Foundation, and also known as HBS, is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. and a Bachelor of Technology Bachelor of Technology is an undergraduate academic degree conferred after completion of a three or four year program of studies at an accredited university or accredited university-level institution. The common abbreviation for Bachelor of Technology is B.Tech., or B. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Commenting on Mr. Santhanam's appointment, Mr. Ulhas N. Yargop, Vice Chairman of the Bristlecone board and President, Telecom & Software Sector at Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd, said, "Ashok is a seasoned entrepreneur and corporate executive who already knows Bristlecone well. I am very pleased that Ashok has joined Bristlecone and look forward to its next phase of growth and success under Ashok's leadership". "I'm very excited to take on this new challenge," said Mr. Santhanam. "I've always had a strong belief in the promise of the Bristlecone and Mahindra combination, and I look forward to working with the Bristlecone team to realize that promise in the coming years." About Bristlecone Bristlecone, (www.bcone.com) a subsidiary of the $3 billion Mahindra Group, is a global consulting firm focused on supply chain related business process and enterprise technology solutions. Headquartered in San Jose, CA, Bristlecone helps clients in North America, Europe, the Middle East, India and the Asia/Pacific regions realize high business impact from improved supply chain planning and execution, and has been continually acknowledged by industry analysts as a leader in solutions for the extended supply chain. The latest AMR (1) (Adaptive Multi-Rate) A variable rate speech codec selected by the 3GPP for the 3G evolution of the GSM cellphone system (WCDMA). Using the Algebraic CELP (ACELP) compression technology, AMR provides toll quality sound at transmission rates from 4.75 to 12. research report rates Bristlecone among the top SAP supply chain planning service providers. Bristlecone clients include globally recognized companies such as ABB n. 1. Among weavers, yarn for the warp. Hence, Noun 1. ABB - an urban hit squad and guerrilla group of the Communist Party in the Philippines; formed in the 1980s , Applied Materials, Exxon/Mobil, Freescale Semiconductor, HP, Mahindra & Mahindra, Nike, Qatar Petroleum, Ranbaxy, Silicon Labs, Unilever, and Whirlpool. |
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