Management Team
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View more Sashi Reddi, Founder and Chairman
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Sashi Reddi is founder and chairman of AppLabs, the world's largest independent testing, quality management and certification solutions company. Sashi is also a founder and chairman of FXLabs, a leading developer of high quality game products for PC's and Videogame consoles. A serial entrepreneur, Sashi has started two other companies prior to AppLabs. His first company was EZPower Systems, a developer of products for building and maintaining large-scale web applications. EZPower was acquired by DocuCorp International (Nasdaq: DOCC), a Safeguard Scientifics company, and Sashi went on to serve as senior vice president. Following DocuCorp, Sashi founded iCoop to provide group purchasing software to serve the specific needs of co-operative businesses such as Dunkin Donuts. He began his career consulting on technology and strategy to Fortune 500 companies in the travel, financial services, automotive and consumer packaged goods industries.
Sashi received his BTech (Bachelor of Science) degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi. He went on to gain a Master of Science in Computer Science from New York University and later a PhD from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
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View more Makarand Teje, President and CEO
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Makarand Teje is the President & CEO of AppLabs, the world's largest independent testing, quality management and certification solutions company.Makarand has 18+ years of experience in the global IT industry covering P&L management, business development, operations, program management and strategic marketing.
Prior to joining AppLabs, Makarand worked at Wipro for 15+ years, during which he worked on multiple assignments for its' Indian as well as international businesses. During his last assignment at Wipro, he led the global Insurance industry business of about $150M in size.
Prior to Wipro, Makarand worked at Interface Electronics as the Regional Manager for Western India region and completed his management traineeship with Skefko India Bearing Co. in Mumbai. Makarand is an Electrical Engineer and has an MBA in Marketing from the Bombay University, India.
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View more USA
- View moreDoc Parghi, Senior Vice President, North America
Doc leads AppLabs' business development efforts. He is responsible for creating relationships that drive overall revenue growth.
Doc has nearly 15 years of experience in marketing, business development, strategic planning, and finance. Prior to AppLabs, Doc was in a fast track executive development program at CIGNA, a Fortune 100 financial-services giant. Doc was previously in the planning and analysis group at The Pep Boys-Manny, Moe & Jack; the nation's leading full service automotive aftermarket chain. Doc analyzed the impact of the ongoing restructuring of the firm with a special focus on the firm’s supply chain and distribution centers.
Prior to Pep Boys, Doc was with Henkels & McCoy one of the largest privately held engineering, network development and construction firms serving the communications, information technology and utility industries in the United States.
Doc has a dual MBA in Marketing and Finance from Drexel University. He also has a dual Bachelor of Science in Marketing and Finance from Drexel University.
Doc serves on the executive committee of the Young Friends of The Philadelphia Museum of Art and is Vice-Chair of the Friends of the American Red Cross of Southeastern Pennsylvania. - View moreBob Donaldson, Vice President, Sales
Bob Donaldson is the Vice President Sales for AppLabs, the world's largest software testing, quality management and certification solutions company. In this role he is responsible for managing the company's new customer acquisition efforts and top line revenue generation in the enterprise market.
Bob joins AppLabs with over 15 years of experience in the IT industry. Prior to joining AppLabs, Bob had extensive sales management experience at two technology start-ups, including ProcessUnity, Inc. and Meridian Data, Inc., in which he was instrumental in revenue growth and customer acquisition. Prior to ProcessUnity, Inc., Bob served in a number of sales management roles for Novell, Inc., where he led both enterprise and new business sales. As Director of Sales for New York he played a pivotal role in the development of Novell's Global Account program and the execution of Novell's Open Source 'go-to-market strategy'.
Bob has a Bachelors of Science degree in Marketing from Elizabethtown College, USA. - View moreScott Andress, Vice President, Global Alliances
Scott Andress is Vice President, Global Alliances for AppLabs, the world's largest software testing, quality management and certification solutions company. Scott spearheads AppLabs' global alliances efforts and on building business relationships.
Scott has over 15 years of experience in sales, business development, finance, marketing, strategy and management and has a successful history of direct Fortune 500 account sales and distribution channel development in the areas of collaboration, infrastructure, client/server, web 2.0, web-based and enterprise applications.
Prior to AppLabs, Scott was Senior Director of Business Development at BEA Systems responsible for world-wide business development efforts of the WebLogic Product Line and Business Interaction Division. At BEA Systems, Scott was responsible for the development and management of strategic ISV partnerships from deal inception to deal execution and implementation.
Prior to BEA Systems, Scott was EVP, Business Development and Co-Founder of Compoze Software (acquired by BEA Systems, July 2005). Since it's inception in 1999, Compoze Software was a leading provider of collaboration software for enterprise portals. At Compoze, Scott was responsible for direct sales and strategic alliances. - View moreJohn Carmody, Vice President, Strategic Account Management
John Carmody is the Vice President, Strategic Account Management of AppLabs, the world’s largest independent testing, quality management and certification solutions company.
John Carmody brings over 16 years of Sales and Account Management experience to AppLabs. As Vice President, he is responsible for AppLabs largest North American vertical, Independent service Provider ( ISV) and non-financial Enterprise Sales. Prior to his elevation his present role, John opened new territories for AppLabs by signing clients in California, Atlanta, Virginia as well as in Ireland and the United Kingdom. His Sales career in the IT industry began with a Territory Management role with Oracle Corporation, where he offered RDBMS, CASE tools and ERP solutions to the market. He eventually joined Diffusion, a company focused on developing cutting edge push technology, which got acquired by the content management powerhouse, Vignette. Subsequently, John returned to the world of start-ups and was a top Account Executive with Evoke Software before joining AppLabs.
Early in his career, John worked in a logistics management position for PepsiCo Wines & Sprits International. In his next assignment he represented a Dutch multi-national steel company, Hoogovens, which had its US Sales office in New York. He spent five years in this position traveling internationally with US clients visiting steel mills for sales and technical discussions. During these years he also managed partnerships with US-based mills as a reseller of Hoogovens steel to industry leaders including Bethlehem Steel, Inland Steel and LTV.
John holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Notre Dame.
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View more Europe
- View moreGraham Smith, Senior Vice President, Europe Business
Graham Smith is the Senior Vice President, Europe Business of AppLabs, the world's largest independent testing, quality management and certification solutions company. He has sole responsibility for developing new clients and managing existing client engagements throughout Europe. He is a thought leader within the banking, financial services and insurance industries and is extremely active in generating industry news and comment around quality and risk mitigation within these markets.
He has a strong delivery background in software testing especially in the life assurance market. Prior to AppLabs, Graham held a number of key testing/project management positions at Life Assurance company NPI, which got acquired by AMP. In his time there, Graham was instrumental in developing testing strategies around some major IT issues, ranging from platform migrations, demutualisation, Y2K and eCommerce initiatives that involved a number of third party suppliers.
Following his 25 years at NPI, Graham moved to FIS, a software company, where he was responsible for relationship and program management and was influential in outsourcing a number of testing aspects to a specialist test consultancy.
Graham left school and went straight into the Life and Pensions industry. He qualified for a Diploma in Management Studies whilst working at NPI and along with being a Manager for a Girls football team, he enjoys spending time with his family and playing golf. - View moreVikash Sureka, Senior Vice President - Finance
Vikash Sureka is the Senior Vice President, Finance of AppLabs, the world's largest independent testing, quality management and certification solutions company.
Vikash has over 15 years of experience in various financial areas including P&L Management, Financial Planning, Accounting, Corporate Audit, Risk Assessment, Structuring deals and negotiating large contracts.
Prior to joining AppLabs, Vikash worked at Wipro for over 10 years, during which he worked on multiple middle and senior level assignments within the Finance Organisation including Corporate Audit, Financial Planning, Management Reporting and Business Finance. As part of the Europe's leadership team, Vikash was actively involved in developing business plans for key Geographies. In his last role he was responsible for business finance for Wipro's Europe Business, at about $1B in size.
Prior to Wipro, Vikash completed his articleship at S.B. Billimoria & Co., a Chartered accountant firm based in Bangalore, India. He has also worked for over 5 Years as an Accountant for Kanoria Plaschem Ltd.
Vikash is a Chartered Accountant. - View moreShanmugavel Selvarajan, Vice President, Solution Engineering and Performance Group, Europe
Shanmugavel Selvarajan (Shamy) is the Vice President, Solution Engineering and Performance Group for the European business of AppLabs, the world's largest independent testing, quality management and certification Solutions Company. In his role, Shamy will be responsible for spearheading the campaign for business growth in Europe by providing Innovative business solutions for existing and new customers.
In his career spanning over 14 years within the Global IT services space, he has played key roles in Strategic Account Management, Consulting, Relationship Management, Program Management and Business Development. During this time, he has spent almost 10 years in Europe and in the US working for global 500 customers like GE, Bank of America, Target Corporation, Sears, Auchan etc. defining and delivering outsourcing programs on a global delivery model.
Prior to AppLabs Shamy was with Wipro Technologies where he managed the growth of IT services business for Retail vertical across Europe. As the head of new business across UK, Europe and Nordics, he enabled strong business growth with new customer acquisitions across these regions and added some of the key retail customers to their portfolio. He was instrumental in closing multi million dollar deals with complex outsourcing solutions and commercial models involving Application Development / Maintenance, BPO, Testing and Technology infrastructure services. In his tenure of 4+ years at Wipro, he had also managed multiple retail accounts in the US delivering programs on global delivery model and enabled in creating the largest Retail customer engagement within their business unit.
Shamy also spent over 9 years with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), in portfolios ranging from strategic account management, product development, program management, Euro Consulting etc. for their BFSI and Retail Verticals.
He is a Bachelor in Engineering from College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, Chennai and Diploma in Business Management from ICS, UK. - View moreGeorge Blackie, Vice President, Client Engagement, Scotland and Ireland
George Blackie is the Vice President, Client Engagement Europe of AppLabs. In his role, George will be responsible for delivering profitable growth by continuing to build long term strategic relationships with our clients across Europe.
George joined the AppLabs in 2002, with the remit of building on the successes we had in the Scottish financial services sector, focusing on long term strategic partnerships with our larger customers. George and his team in Scotland have made a major contribution to this strategy by developing long term relationships with some of the largest financial organizations in the country.
George spent his formative years with ICL/Fujitsu Services where he performed various roles in sales and sales management. During this time, he gained experience in both new business and strategic-consultancy led sales ending his time with Fujitsu Services as Client Director for one of the large banks. He has experience in manufacturing, government (both central and local) and latterly financial services.
Outside of work George spends time with his wife and grown up children, plays a bit of golf, and has a masochistic tendency to follow the Scottish International football team. - View moreMark Megson, Vice President, Business Development, Europe
Mark Megson is the Vice President, Business Development Europe for AppLabs, the world's largest independent testing, quality management and certification solutions company. In his role, Mark is responsible for establishing relationships with the next generation of AppLabs clients.
Mark joined the company in March 2005, quickly winning and then developing some of the largest accounts within AppLabs today. Mark has worked within the IT industry for the last 20 years, primarily with software and services companies and has built strong commercial relationships within a number of Systems Integration organizations which have led to productive long term business.
When not at work, Mark loves time with his family and ferries his children to endless sports and social events.
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View more India
- View moreSai Chintala, Vice President, Testing Services
Sai heads the software testing professional services group at AppLabs, the world’s largest independent testing, quality management and certification solutions company. He has been with AppLabs since December 2002.
Sai has over 16 years of IT experience. He has worked with Fortune 500 companies in US for over 12 years. He began his career at William Telecommunications, where he worked on building applications for NeXT desktops. Later he got into developing X-windows applications at Schlumberger Well Services. Sai was part of key Legacy to Client server implementation at Fidelity Investments & Brokerage services, before contributing to SAP implementation at Phillips Lighting in New Jersey. For over 6 years, Sai worked very closely with utility deregulation phenomenon in US. As part of utility deregulation implementation (while working at NSI, Exolink, and Alliance Data), Sai has contributed to utility deregulation implementation at NYSEG, NIMO, PECO, PSEG, Duquesne, Penn Power, CSP, CNGE, TXU, and HP&P.
Sai has an MS in Computer Science from Lamar University, Texas and a BS in Civil Engineering from JNTU, Hyderabad. - View moreIG Reddy, Vice President, Solutions Engineering
IG Reddy Vice President, Solutions Engineering of AppLabs, is responsible for solutions engineering function for the India and US geographies and provides additional support to the Europe solution engineering team. He has been with AppLabs since April 2005.IG has over 17 years of experience in the manufacturing and IT sectors. Prior to joining AppLabs, IG worked for Cordys as Senior Manager, Product Management where he developed the product concepts of Real Time Enterprise (RTE), Compliance Management (SOX) and Cordys Connectivity Framework (CCF). He began his career at Tata Steel, where he worked on industrial engineering and operations management practicing, capacity management, capital schemes evaluation and implementation of business applications. Later he joined Baan Info Systems India Limited where he was responsible for product consulting, solution selling, delivery and presales support for global customers.
IG has a Master's degree in Industrial Engineering from NITIE and Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from NIT. He is also certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM), Integrated Resource Management (CIRM) from APICS and holds a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) diploma from ICFAI, India.
- View moreArun Rao, Vice President, Human Resources
Arun Rao is the Vice President, Human Resources of AppLabs, the world’s largest independent testing, quality management and certification solutions company. In his current role, Arun oversees the HR operations and people development initiatives globally.
Prior to taking up his current position at AppLabs, Arun was the head of the HR function at Intelligroup Asia, an IT Services Firm based out of Hyderabad, where he was responsible for post-recruitment HR operations as well as the Learning & Development functions. He also worked with Satyam Computers in leadership positions in HR and at Mascon Global, where he worked in their offices in India and the US, to manage their Business HR functions.
Arun started his career with Steel Authority of India Ltd as a Management Trainee in 1989, where he worked with them in various capacities in their Personnel and HR teams till 1999, post which he opted for Voluntary Separation.
Arun has a post graduate diploma in Personnel Management & Industrial Relations from the XLRI, Jamshedpur, (Class of 1995), and a Bachelor Degree in Science from the University of Delhi (Class of 1987).
- View moreNVH Sastry, Vice President, Finance
Sastry is the Vice President, Finance of AppLabs, the world's largest independent testing, quality management and certification solutions company. In this role, Sastry is responsible for Finance & Accounting function for the India operations as well as for the F&A shared service center that supports AppLabs' business in Europe and USA.Sastry has over 17 years of experience in various operations within the finance stream with top-notch financial and leading companies both in India and the Middle-East region
Sastry is a Chartered Accountant by education.
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What our clients say
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