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Board of Directors
Benjamin Benson
Director
Ben Benson has spent his career partnering with and advising growth oriented technology businesses across several verticals including connected workforce, field service, hospitality and training
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Ben Benson has spent his career partnering with and advising growth oriented technology businesses across several verticals including connected workforce, field service, hospitality and training technology. Currently, he helps lead Vista Equity Partners’ growth stage private equity fund, Endeavor.
Prior to joining Vista, Ben was a senior investment professional at LLR Partners, where he was focused on growth stage B2B software. Prior to LLR, Ben began his career in the M&A group at BMO Capital Markets.
Mark Bouzek
Director
Mark Bouzek is an accomplished global leader and board member dedicated to continually improving for-profit and not-for-profit organizational performance. He possesses a wide range of strategic,
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Mark Bouzek is an accomplished global leader and board member dedicated to continually improving for-profit and not-for-profit organizational performance. He possesses a wide range of strategic, operational, technology and cybersecurity experience, including leading several $500 million+ global organizations, helping start multiple internet businesses, and serving on numerous for-profit and not-for-profit boards. Mark is currently a partner at Social Ventures Partners, where he works with not-for-profit organizations on strategy, optimization and coaching.
Previously, as BP’s Upstream CIO, Mark developed and implemented a global IT strategy, governance structure and operating model for 15 previously fragmented and diverse regions. His new organization operated in more than 20 countries with a $600 million budget.
Perry Turbes
Director
Perry Turbes has nearly 20 years experience in the upstream, midstream and pipeline sectors of the oil and market. He is the former CEO and COO of Quorum Software, which offers cloud-based platforms
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Perry Turbes has nearly 20 years experience in the upstream, midstream and pipeline sectors of the oil and market. He is the former CEO and COO of Quorum Software, which offers cloud-based platforms that deliver advanced functionality, improved efficiency and enhanced regulatory compliance. Prior to becoming CEO in 2013, Perry served in various executive management roles including, President, COO, and CCO. He played an instrumental role in product development and client delivery.
Perry brings proven software executive to the Innovapptive board of directors. He has used his expertise to maximize business process efficiencies throughout the energy value chain. Perry’s mantra is first and always take care of your employees and customers, and as a result Quorum experienced significant growth under his leadership. Before joining Quorum, he worked in the natural gas plant accounting group at Duke Energy Field Services (now DCP Midstream).
Sashi Narahari
Director
Sashi Narahari is the co-founder of HighRadius, which has developed an AI platform that allows businesses to automate key back-office functions such as trade receivables and treasury management.
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Sashi Narahari is the co-founder of HighRadius, which has developed an AI platform that allows businesses to automate key back-office functions such as trade receivables and treasury management. HighRadius’ clients include top companies such as Adidas, Cargill, Danone, Walmart, Johnson & Johnson and Starbucks. Under Sashi’s leadership, the company has achieved unicorn status (valuation of at least $1 billion), the first tech/software company in Houston to reach such a level.
Sashi brings a unique combination of business management expertise and technical knowledge to the Innovapptive board of directors. He has proven executive management experience in building and operating software companies. Sashi is passionate about finding technology-enabled disruptive solutions to large under-served markets. He has worked with Fortune 1000 companies in implementing credit management, collections management, dispute management, and invoicing and payments solutions. Prior to HighRadius, Sashi served as the CEO of Riversand Technologies, a provider of Master Data Management (MDM) solutions.
Sundeep Ravande
Director
Sundeep V. Ravande is the CEO of Innovapptive Inc. and believes in a better way of running plant-based operations. Most enterprises are experiencing shrinking profit margins in the current economy,
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Sundeep V. Ravande is the CEO of Innovapptive Inc. and believes in a better way of running plant-based operations. Most enterprises are experiencing shrinking profit margins in the current economy, and disappearing tribal knowledge due to a rapidly aging workforce. For the last 40+ years, operations continue to be a set of tedious linear steps—slow, inaccurate and highly inefficient. Sundeep envisions a world where field work can be done faster, cheaper and safer through a "Connected Worker" experience for 350 million field workers across the globe. By placing the front-line worker at the center of all plant-based processes, companies are seeing their staff seamlessly collaborate with systems of records, humans, machines and workflows in a highly efficient and safe operation.
Prior to co-founding Innovapptive Inc., Sundeep worked with several Big 5 consulting firms, IBM and Accenture, helping Fortune 500 clients such as Verizon, Shell, Mead Johnson Nutrition, Coca-Cola and FMC Corp. to re-invent and re-imagine their business operations with digital technologies. As CEO of Innovapptive Inc., Sundeep is responsible for driving the company's vision to become the #1 provider of "Connected Worker" experience software for front-line workers. Sundeep received a Master of Science degree in aerospace and mechanical engineering from the University of Mississippi.
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Stuart Morstead
Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)
Stuart Morstead is Innovapptive’s Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). In this role, Stuart is responsible for aligning the company’s sales, marketing and customer success teams to operate as a single unit...
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Stuart Morstead is Innovapptive’s Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). In this role, Stuart is responsible for aligning the company’s sales, marketing and customer success teams to operate as a single unit to drive additional revenue growth.
Stuart has strong experience as a management consultant and high-tech industry entrepreneur. He led McKinsey’s digital practice for the southern U.S. and northern Latin America. At Honeywell, he was profit and loss leader for their connected industrial software business – a global organization of more than 1,300 employees. Stuart has also co-founded several tech services and product companies in his career.
Stuart holds a BA in Economics from Rice University (where he later served as an Adjunct Professor in the Jones School of Business) and an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. He is also the author of two books on outsourcing and offshoring.
Tony Malz
Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Paul (Tony) Malz is Innovapptive's Chief Financial Officer (CFO). In this role, Tony will bring a clear understanding of corporate finance, financial planning & analysis (FP&A) to the Innovapptive...
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Paul (Tony) Malz is Innovapptive's Chief Financial Officer (CFO). In this role, Tony will bring a clear understanding of corporate finance, financial planning & analysis (FP&A) to the Innovapptive team (Both in the short and long term financial planning).
He takes special interest in influencing business growth by passionately collaborating with marketing + sales teams on developing predictable investment strategies, influencing deal economics/deal structuring to maximize the ACV, while reducing the costs to improve Gross Margins. Tony will help Innovapptive instill the necessary financial discipline and integration between Sales (ARR), PSO and R&D with his extensive SaaS FP&A experience, and to help us realize our growth ambitions.
Tony has over 20+ years of experience as a finance professional and as a finance executive. His experience has been a standout and has helped him touch all parts of the business (Product, Marketing, Sales, PSO and Customer Success) from a financial perspective to maximize ROI. Tony influenced organization's growth via optimization of unit economics across account growth, increase in average deal sizes, win rates, ramp up time of associates, maximize ARR, deal structuring, reduce costs/consolidation and continuously improve shareholder value.
Tony graduated from San Diego State University with a Bachelors and Masters in Finance.
Sri Karthik
Executive Vice President - Pre-Sales & Solution Engineering
Sri Karthik is Innovapptive’s Executive Vice President, Pre-Sales & Solution Engineering. Sri brings strong relationship building skills cultivated by a successful career in software sales and...
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Sri Karthik is Innovapptive’s Executive Vice President, Pre-Sales & Solution Engineering. Sri brings strong relationship building skills cultivated by a successful career in software sales and project management, which complements an extensive background in accounting, finance, and information technology. His organization is focused on leading profitable growth by creating differentiated solutions for customers. His team’s responsibilities include product strategy, branding and execution, marketing initiatives, and the development and deployment of industry-leading value engineering capabilities.
His experience spans several industries including consumer products, oil and gas, media and telecommunications, F&B, chemicals, and life sciences and includes working with clients from different geographic regions and cultural backgrounds.
Sri has a Masters degree from Illinois Institute of Technology.
Amit Lal
EVP of Professional Services and Customer Success
Amit Lal is the Executive Vice President of Professional Services and Customer Success Business Unit. Amit brings in rich experience of over 25+ years in both functional and technical areas spanning...
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Amit Lal is the Executive Vice President of Professional Services and Customer Success Business Unit. Amit brings in rich experience of over 25+ years in both functional and technical areas spanning across disparate industry sectors including Manufacturing, Natural Resources, Chemicals, Technology, Media and Telecom. In this position, he is primarily responsible to enhance the customer experience with integrated services delivery covering implementation to ROI realization.
Amit has a unique and valuable functional background in leading plant maintenance and operations functions coupled with in depth ERP consulting experience with big 5 firm for close to two decades. Amit is passionate about thinking out of the box and bringing in innovative ways for complex problem solving and to challenge the status quo. His leadership skills have proven to be very effective in turning around the situations and in strategizing for efficiency and profitability.
Amit has received Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering from N.I.T. Rourkela.
Kalyan Vankayalapati
Managing Director - Australia & New Zealand
Kalyan Vankayalapati is Innovapptive’s Managing Director for Australia and New Zealand (ANZ). In this role, his responsibilities include developing and managing the emerging territory’s marketing...
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Kalyan Vankayalapati is Innovapptive’s Managing Director for Australia and New Zealand (ANZ). In this role, his responsibilities include developing and managing the emerging territory’s marketing initiatives, brand positioning, sales pipeline, product distribution, and operations. Kalyan also leads the company’s strategic customer success initiatives designed to increase user adoption of Innovapptive's product portfolio across ANZ.
Kalyan has a proven history of success in the information technology and services industry. Prior to joining Innovapptive, he served as a senior manager at Accenture in Brisbane and a managing consultant for IBM in the U.S., where he completed several key projects involving business transformation.
Kalyan earned a Master’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the State University of New York (SUNY).
Abhishek Parkala
Vice President - Biz-Ops
Abhishek Parkala oversees the daily operations of the Global Delivery Center or GDC, the largest workforce office for Innovapptive. As an experienced and efficient leader, he is responsible for...
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Abhishek Parkala oversees the daily operations of the Global Delivery Center or GDC, the largest workforce office for Innovapptive. As an experienced and efficient leader, he is responsible for designing and implementing business strategies, plans and procedures that promote Innovapptive’s Mission and Vision.
He is responsible for developing and managing policies to streamline processes, oversee their execution and make sure the back office is running in alliance with the customer requirements. He has extensive experience in different sectors like Financial Services, IT, Real Estate, and Construction Management.
Abhishek is a serial entrepreneur having involved in three startups as a founder. In his previous ventures, he demonstrated competency in strategic planning and business development. He has deep insight into all facets of a business, and his ability to develop financial strategies to help these businesses grow is of added advantage to Innovapptive.
Prabhat Prasad
Senior Director - People & Culture
Prabhat is the Senior Director - People & Culture at Innovapptive, heading the entire HR Operations at GDC office in Hyderabad. He comes with 16 years of experience and expertise encompassing...
Prabhat Prasad
Prabhat is the Senior Director - People & Culture at Innovapptive, heading the entire HR Operations at GDC office in Hyderabad. He comes with 16 years of experience and expertise encompassing complete HR gamut. He has been associated with various organizations including Tech Mahindra, Infosys and TA Digital.
As Head of Human Resources and Administration functions, he was responsible for planning, operations, and strategy of resources. He also spearheaded the efforts to attract, retain and develop exceptional talent and create a world-class workplace. He strongly believes that the real growth and development of any organization happens when we have the mindset to leverage the synergy of Human, Technology and Business elements. He has a vast experience in Talent Acquisition, Core HR - Business Partnering, Organization Development, and L&D.
He has been a proposer for a Competency Enhancement procedure at organizations that guides the managers to drive the standard needs of the company. Prabhat holds a Master's Degree in Business Administration - specialized in Human Resource Development & Organization Development from the IMDR - Pune.
Anand Kulkarni
VP- Global Delivery
Anand Kulkarni is the VP- Global Delivery for Professional services, responsible for entrenching solid Global delivery foundation, governance & execution.
Anand brings in over 25 years+ IT...
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Anand Kulkarni is the VP- Global Delivery for Professional services, responsible for entrenching solid Global delivery foundation, governance & execution.
Anand brings in over 25 years+ IT services experience in global delivery with Fortune – 500 customers in Manufacturing, Utilities and O&G domain. A Strategic planner with expertise in nurturing globally distributed delivery teams and an effective leader with honed people management, analytical, problem-solving skills. As part of his previous career, he had played key leadership roles in organizations like LTI, Cognizant and Wipro Technologies.
Anand holds an MBA and Bachelors in Electronics engineering from Mumbai University
Swagat Singh
Senior Director - Demand Generation
Swagat Singh is the Senior Director of Demand Generation focusing on our global demand generation programm to accelerate the growth.
Swagat is a seasoned marketing leader, who brings over 15 years...
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Swagat Singh is the Senior Director of Demand Generation focusing on our global demand generation programm to accelerate the growth.
Swagat is a seasoned marketing leader, who brings over 15 years of experience in demand generation, digital and performance marketing within the tech SaaS industry. He brings a wealth of extensive experience in building and scaling up marketing organizations with digital marketing strategy. Swagat has been recognized as Top 100 Marketing Minds of India and Asia's Top 100 Martech leaders by WMC.
Prior to joining Innovapptive, Swagat worked on some top SaaS tech companies such as Highradius, Leoforce, ProcessMAP, Suneratech and others in various leadership roles. He holds a B.Tech degree in Information Technology from Utkal University.
Sundeep Yalamanchi
Senior Director of Partners and Alliances
Sundeep Yalamanchi is Innovapptive's Senior Director of Partners and Alliances. His role is to find, develop and nurture business partnerships with industry-leading technology companies to further...
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Sundeep Yalamanchi is Innovapptive's Senior Director of Partners and Alliances. His role is to find, develop and nurture business partnerships with industry-leading technology companies to further Innovapptive’s mission.
Through Sundeep's persistence and hard work, Innovapptive now works hand-in-hand with several technology, hardware and system integrators to offer a wider range of solutions to our customers. Our many partners include giants such as Deloitte (systems integration), SAP and IBM Maximo (technology), and Zebra and Cognex (hardware), among others. Sundeep has 15 years' experience in the Oil & Gas Industry.
He began his career as a Control Systems Engineer at W-Industries designing safety and measurement systems for downstream production facilities and later moved to Expro into the upstream drilling side of the industry designing control systems for well control.
This background gives Sundeep a solid understanding of upstream, midstream and downstream Oil & Gas customers' unique needs, something Expro realized when they promoted him to Sales and Service Engineer. Prior to Innovapptive, Sundeep held various roles at Schlumberger from product manager and business development of well pressure control products to managing global sales for equipment business for the M-I Swaco business unit.
He brings extensive field-level insights with global experience critical to understand the world of our customers and to be a valuable partner in their digital transformation journey. Sundeep earned a Master's degree in Electronics and Computer Technology from Indiana State University and an MBA in Management and Finance from Tulane University.