Meet Our Leadership Team

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 is the Executive Vice President of Digital Transformation. 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.

Aditya Mony is Innovapptive's India Managing Director & CTO, bringing nearly three decades of technology experience to the role. He is responsible for engineering leadership, platform strategy, and driving the organisation's next phase of growth - translating vision into execution through clear goals, strong teams, and disciplined delivery.

Aditya has led large-scale platforms and transformations across global financial services, enterprise technology, and high-growth startups. Most recently, he was CTO at Servify, leading a 250-person engineering and product organisation that scaled an AI/ML-powered, AWS-native platform supporting millions of transactions across India and global markets. He served as Executive Director at J.P. Morgan Chase, where he was India CTO for Consumer & Business Banking and Head of Infrastructure & Production Management. He has also held leadership roles at ANZ Bank, Genpact, Microsoft, and Siebel.

Aditya holds a Master's in Computer Science from Villanova University and a Bachelor's from Bangalore University.

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 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 is the Vice President - 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.

Joni Lipkowitz is the Vice President of Value Engineering at Innovapptive, where she helps global industrial organizations accelerate digital transformation and unlock measurable operational value. With more than 18 years of experience across the energy, oil and gas, chemicals, engineering and construction, metals and mining, pulp and paper, life sciences, and industrial software industries in over 50 countries across 6 continents, Joni specializes in enterprise value creation through digital transformation. Her expertise includes industrial AI, asset performance management, supply chain optimization, and operational excellence.

Prior to Innovapptive, Joni held leadership, consulting, and technical advisory roles at C3 AI, AspenTech, Jacobs Consultancy, KBC Yokogawa, and Honeywell UOP. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

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.

Samir Akhtar is the Head of Field, Partners & Alliances Marketing at Innovapptive, where he builds and scales the Field, Partner and Alliances ecosystem strategy that drives predictable pipeline for the company's global growth agenda.

With more than 18 years of experience in regional field, partner & alliances marketing across the technology and enterprise software industries, Samir specializes in building software partner ecosystems from the ground up, having scaled one such ecosystem at Freshworks spanning four regions. His expertise spans Global partner and ISV marketing, alliance strategy, and regional go-to-market execution across US & international markets.

Prior to Innovapptive, Samir held marketing leadership roles at Freshworks & IBM, working across Global, APAC and international markets. He is recipient of Economic Times Edge Most Promising Tech Marketer, 23') as well as Outstanding Marketing leader (Christ University School of management, 26'). He holds an Engineering degree with an MBA from Christ University Bengaluru.