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Hari Kamineni has been at the fore-front of innovation and the core foundation of Innovapptive's product and innovation strategy. Hari brings extensive leadership and management experience to Innovapptive, with over 15 years of technology expertise in SAP solutions. Prior to finding Innovapptive, he was at IBM as a Senior Leader having managed several large global SAP business transformation projects and he was actively involved in customer sales pursuits. His clients included large organizations such as Government of Canada, AT&T, Verizon, Colgate Palmolive, The Coca Cola Company, Mead Johnson Nutrition, Air Products.

Hari has received multiple awards for service excellence and outstanding technology achievement throughout his career. He has played a pivotal role in several of Innovapptive's strategic partnerships and winning several awards such as the SAP Pinnacle Awards and SAP Mobile Apps challenges.

Rohan Bairat is the Senior Vice President of Global Sales at Innovapptive and he works closely with our Global Sales, Marketing, Sales Development, Products, Professional Services and Customer Success teams, helping Innovapptive to scale new heights.

Prior to joining Innovapptive, Rohan worked for 11 years at PROS, a public software-as-a-service (SaaS) company. He earned more than eight promotions during his tenure there. Rohan moved up the ladder from a consultant to a VP of Professional Services, and most recently served as a VP of Sales.

Rohan holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science (MS) from the University of Houston Clear Lake, a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from the Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management and has been an Adjunct Professor at Rice University, teaching pricing for second-year MBA students for 10 years.

Sri Karthik is Innovapptive’s Senior Vice President, Business Development & Value 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.

Kalyan manages dual roles as Managing Director for Australia & New Zealand (ANZ) and VP of Customer Success. As Managing Director of ANZ, Kalyan is responsible for developing and managing the territory P&L and leading the company in ANZ across sales and operations. On the Customer Success front Kalyan is responsible for strategic customer success initiatives leading to high adoption of Innovapptive’s product portfolio and overall customer satisfaction collaborating across Products, Professional Services, Sales, and Marketing business units.

Kalyan has 14 years of global IT industry experience spanning across State and Federal Government, Mining, Oil & Gas, Utilities, Pharmaceutical, Telecommunications and Products industries. Kalyan worked with IBM and Accenture in senior roles in selling and implementing best of the breed ERP solutions including SaaS and Digital core.

Chetan Jain is the vice president of Product Engineering at Innovapptive. He and his team are responsible for the development, quality, automation, documentation, and L2 product sustenance at the company. Chetan also drives innovation, R&D, PoCs, and sales-ready demos for new technology and product initiatives at Innovapptive.

Chetan has demonstrated a career spanning more than twenty four years at Nokia, Accenture, Collabera India, and also in a few startups in varying capacities. He was awarded the SYMBA EXCELLENCE AWARD for his contributions and innovations at Nokia as a Senior Architect. Chetan also co-founded a successful high-end turnkey interior design studio called 123Interio.

Chetan has authored a book, ‘jQuery Mobile Cookbook’, which has over 100+ recipes to develop cross-platform applications using the jQuery Mobile framework. Chetan authored a vision document titled ‘Charging As A Service’ during his stint as the Chief Architect at Ryds.in (Bhagirathi Group). This document was accepted by BESCOM as part of their EV charging network initiative for Bangalore. He is an open source contributor and was the first person to achieve the Mad Scientist ranking in the Nokia Qt Developer Forum for his contributions.

Chetan holds a bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering from Bangalore University and is currently pursuing professional courses in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. He also holds several professional certifications across a wide range of technologies. He is an avid reader and photographer and loves to travel.

David April leads Product Management at Innovapptive. David understands the changing needs of the market and drives the vision for all products. He and his team are responsible for creating the product strategy and incorporating market requirements and customer feedback into the development of high quality, delightful, and intuitive software solutions.

David has been in Enterprise Mobility for over 20 years. He led product architecture, development, and product management for mobile solutions at Syclo LLC and SAP. His innate ability to promote the usability and adoption of product features is a great asset for Innovapptive. A respected tech speaker, David always keeps his team and customers excited and motivated and encourages innovation to ensure the company has a competitive advantage and differentiation.

David holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Northwestern University. He is also an accomplished photographer with an emphasis on creative portraiture, fine art, and fashion.

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.

Ted Stiefel is a veteran in Accounting and Finance with over 15 years of experience. As the director of Finance at Innovapptive, Ted drives profitable, long-term growth through sustainable financial strategies. He ensures proper financial governance within the company and implements risk management programs.

A Biology graduate from the University of California San Diego, Ted began his career as a senior research associate at Neurocrine Biosciences. A Certified Public Accountant, Ted Stiefel led finance and accounting departments at various biotech and pharmaceutical companies such as BioNano Genomics and GenWay Biotech. Ted’s acumen in a diverse set of industries is a great asset for Innovapptive as he prepares financial projections, measures them against actual results, and prepares budgets to drive business unit decisions.

An MBA graduate from San Diego State University, Ted donned an entrepreneur’s hat and acquired and improved several failing small business enterprises. Prior to Innovapptive, Ted Stiefel supervised the finance department of Capital Royalty LP. 

As Vice President - Strategic Accounts, Sven manages key accounts at Innovapptive with focus on bringing innovation to SAP customers, thereby extending the value creation via mobile solutions and cloud paradigms. Sven brings a rich sales experience in the SAP domain, helping customers realize step-change improvements through the adoption of a workforce management platform.

Prior to joining Innovapptive, Sven worked at Critigen as Global VP – SAP sales, where he led the rapid emergence of Critigen’s business tied to SAP and ensured critical success for the company’s rapid sales initiatives. Sven was instrumental in helping customers realize step-change improvements through the adoption of mobility solutions that seamlessly integrate business data (ERP) and geospatial data (GIS) in the context of business processes.

Before serving at Critigen, Sven enjoyed a distinguished career at SAP where he co-founded and led a cross-organizational incubation team that successfully catalyzed the emergence of spatial solutions across core verticals like utilities, public sector, oil & gas, and transportation. Apart from that, he also worked as a solution manager in the IBU for utilities by focusing on bringing analytic solutions and the SAP HANA appliance to the market. Overall, he possesses over ten years of experience as a strategic member of corporate leadership teams with venture-backed companies and currently is the member of the board of directors of a leading natural and organic beef company in the US. Sven was a Sloan Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he earned an MBA in innovation and global leadership. He currently resides in Boston with his family.

Vivek Bhamare oversees Innovapptive’s global market team. Vivek’s role is to create and grow a predictable and sustainable sales pipeline engine for each of the company’s mobile digital transformation solutions. Vivek is in charge of Innovapptive’s go-to-market strategy for all new products and services, marketing content strategy, event strategy, experiential marketing, account-based marketing and inbound channel marketing. It’s his mission to ensure the message about the company and its array of offerings reach Innovapptive’s target audiences and engage them to want to learn more.

Vivek has a track record of generating results. Prior to joining Innovapptive, he served as a Category Manager and a Global Product Manager at Ecolab. There Vivek led a $150 million global product portfolio, working with a cross-functional team of scientists, finance and salespeople that built and launched several successful water and energy technology products. Vivek’s contributions included initial market validation, positioning and messaging, pricing, go-to-market strategy and launch execution. Prior to Ecolab, Vivek worked at Tata Motors, India in multiple roles such as District Sales Manager, Dealership Development and Graduate Engineer Trainee.

Vivek earned an MBA from Penn State University’s Smeal College of Business and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the Vishwakarma Institute of Technology.

Sundeep Yalamanchi leads Innovaptive’s Sales Operation section. His role is to empower and educate the company’s sales team to best present Innovapptive’s mobile-first digital solutions to the industrial marketplace. Under Sundeep’s leadership and guidance, the sales team identifies prospective customers and tailors its sales approach to more effectively illustrate how Innovapptive’s solutions can improve prospects’ asset management, maintenance and inventory processes.

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 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 Masters degree in Electronics and Computer Technology from Indiana State University and an MBA in Management and Finance from Tulane University.