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

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.

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 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.

Rajiv Kumar is the VP of Customer Success. In this role, he directs and evolves Innovapptive’s Customer Success strategy while building industry-leading best practices.

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 customers across multiple industries including rental, high tech, healthcare, food & consumables, manufacturing and distribution.

Amit Lal is the VP of Global Professional Services. 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 Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering from N.I.T. Rourkela.

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.

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 is the 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 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.