To Change the World of Frontline Workers,
You've got Have Great Leaders

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.

Paul (Tony) Malz is Innovapptive's Vice President - Finance. 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.

Rajiv Kumar is the VP of Professional Services, Strategic Accounts leading our Oil & Gas, Utilities, Agriculture, and Industrial Manufacturing Industry Verticals. His team focuses on delivery of Innovapptive solutions that improve our customers’ operational efficiency, revenue and margin as well as improve the daily work lives of their front line and back office teams. He and his organization work closely with the Global Sales, Marketing, Products, and Customer Success teams to deliver fast time to value, high ROI solutions to our customers.

Prior to joining Innovapptive Rajiv was Professional Services Director at PROS, a public software-as-a-service (SaaS) company. He was responsible for a team of delivery and customer success managers, protecting annual recurring revenue (ARR), across a wide array of industry verticals. Rajiv also built and led a Solution Consultant organization within PROS Professional Services focused on becoming a customer’s trusted advisor and creating best in class solution designs. He won a 2015 Ventana Research  award for an inventory management solution he designed while at PROS. During his tenure as Director, Rajiv focused each of his teams on making sure his customers were delighted with the service, solution, and long-term relationship with PROS.

Rajiv holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Texas at Austin. He has managed and consulted across multiple industries including rental, high tech, healthcare, food & consumables, manufacturing and distribution.

Amit Lal is the VP of Global Professional Services leading our Mining, Chemicals, Nuclear, & CPG, Industry Verticals.  In this role, he is responsible for managing and evolving Innovapptive’s Delivery strategy and establishing industry wide best practices to streamline operations. Amit brings in rich combination of over 27 years of experience in both functional and technical areas spanning across disparate sectors including Manufacturing, Natural Resources, Chemicals, Technology, Media and Telecom. 

Amit has a unique and valuable functional background in leading plant maintenance and operations coupled with in depth ERP consulting experience with big 5 firm. Amit is passionate about thinking out of the box and bringing in innovative ways in complex problem solving 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 Bachelors of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering from N.I.T. Rourkela.

Wes Chappell is the Vice President of Customer Success. In this role, he directs and evolves Innovapptive’s Customer Success strategy while building industry-leading best practices. He brings over 20 years of experience in Customer Success, Renewals Operations, Commercial Management, Commercial Finance, and FP&A focused primarily on asset-intensive industries (O&G, Petro/Chem, Power Generation, Manufacturing).

Wes brings capability in building functional and effective Customer Success and Renewals excellence in industrial software and IOT SaaS companies. He is a highly effective team builder on a global scale, an individual coach/mentor, and a high business acumen executive. Wes is a passionate leader, building to solve complex operational problems, forming market strategies to achieve financially all while inspiring and energizing teams broadly.

Wes has received a Bachelor of Business in both Finance and Marketing as well as an MBA.

A hard-core techie at heart, Sandeep has been developing world-class software products for more than 17 years. He started his career as a programmer in natural language processing working on several complicated and technically challenging solutions, including high-performance webcasting solutions, 16-bit to 32-bit conversion of a software product allowing the visually impaired to use Windows OS, a HIPPA-compliant hospital management solution, and a backup and retrieval solution for encrypted tape drives.

He founded a successful tech startup in healthcare for providing connected care and other healthcare services in underserved areas. Since 2009, he has architected and developed several multi-tenancy software as a service (SaaS) applications and products from scratch including a collaboration platform for large enterprises, speech recognition-based medical transcription for large hospitals and an enterprise app store with license leasing, management and re-harvesting built in. 

Sandeep holds an MBA in project management and a master’s in computer application. He loves to code in C, C++ and Python and is building advanced prototypes to explore machine learning and artificial intelligence. He enjoys traveling, reading, and playing badminton and squash in his free time.

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.

As an award-winning HR leader, Vik has been building high-performing organizations for more than 27 years, with vast experience in Product & Services, mergers & acquisitions and BOTs. He has pioneered many leadership programs which bring out the best in the people and turn them into leaders. 

Vik made it to the list of 101 Most Fabulous HR Tech Leaders by ET Group, Canadian University & World HR Congress in 2020. 

Vik has been helping the poor & needy during the COVID-19 pandemic. He has helped set up libraries across India and in hosting the Hyderabad Literary Festival for three consecutive years.

Before joining Innovapptive as VP of Global People & Culture, Vik worked with Kony, Cisco, Virtusa and Genpact in leadership roles.

Kelley Tullos is the Sr Director, Sales Development driving our outbound lead generation efforts to accelerate Innovapptive’s growth and create a talent pool of future leaders.  

Kelley, a seasoned sales leader, brings over 25 years of experience in Inside Sales and Business Development within the tech industry. She brings a wealth of extensive experience onboarding, scaling, building, and accelerating business development and inside sales teams for start-up environments and enterprise organizations. Kelley, is a highly effective team motivator, people first leader focusing on coaching and mentorship, building to create collaborative team cultures striving for excellence. 

Prior joining Innovapptive, Kelley worked for top tech companies such as Dassault Systems, Palo Alto Networks, McAfee and others in leadership roles.

Swagat Singh is the Director of Demand Generation focusing on our global demand generation programme to accelerate the growth. 

Swagat is a seasoned marketing leader, 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 organization with digital marketing strategy. Swagat got recognized as Top 100 marketing minds of India and Asia's Top 100 Martech leaders by WMC.

Prior 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 bachelor of technology in information technology from Utkal University.

Debra Venedam is the Director of Field & Events Marketing and brings over 20 years of experience to Innovapptive.

At Innovapptive Debra is responsible for building out the strategy and planning for the overall global tradeshow and events program to accelerate growth and drive brand awareness.

Prior to joining Innovapptive, Debra worked for top tech companies such as Conduent, Mindtree and others in various roles. Debra holds a technical degree in Radio and TV Broadcasting from the Connecticut School of Broadcasting.