Management Team
Sampath Kumar - Founder & CEO
Sampath has 12 years of sales, marketing and executive management experience in the high-tech sector.
He launched SalesQB
because he is passionate about providing solutions for the pain-points he experienced
as a sales executive himself. Prior to SalesQB, Sampath was the CEO of Valuegy, a
boutique IT services company serving clients in South-East US. Prior to valuegy,
Sampath held leadership positions in PricewaterhouseCoopers & IBM, where he sold, led & delivered
numerous management consulting engagements with Global 2000 companies. Sampath is a Fellow of the
Wharton Business School and holds a MS degree in Electrical Engineering from Temple University and
a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
Ravi Ravikumar - Principal, Deloitte
With more than 24 years of experience in the IT and consulting services industry, Ravi is currently a Principal at Deloitte. Before Deloitte, Ravi was the vice president for the West region of SAP America, where he was responsible for driving SAP’s business for large enterprise customers in the area. Prior to joining SAP, Ravi was a senior vice president at iGATE Corporation, a premier offshore IT Services/BPO firm. Prior to iGATE, Ravi was a partner and vice president for Cap Gemini Ernst & Young (CGE&Y) in their global manufacturing, high technology and automotive sector. Ravi is a member of the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS) and is certified in production and inventory management. He has taught fundamental and certification programs in production and inventory control modules at APICS Santa Clara Valley chapter, and has presented at several international conferences. He received his MBA from the University of Texas, Arlington, and his bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Madras in India.
Ashok Santhanam - President & CEO, Bristlecone
Ashok is the CEO and President of Bristlecone, a leading supply chain consulting firm, and has more than 25 years of business, sales and executive management experience in the technology industry. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Lohika, a company that provides fully-managed engineering teams for software development at technology firms. Before Bristlecone, Ashok served as the senior vice president of worldwide field operations at Epiphany, a recognized leader in CRM. Prior to Epiphany, Ashok ran a successful private management consulting firm helping technology companies manage offshore initiatives, complex services offerings and business process outsourcing. Ashok is also the founder of Inventa, a systems integration company focused on providing complex B2B integration solutions, and Ventura Data Systems, a professional services firm focused on providing services for software product development to clients in the Silicon Valley. Ashok received his master of business administration with distinction from Harvard Business School and a bachelor’s degree in technology from the Indian University of Technology, Madras, India.
V. Shiv Krishnan - Managing Director, Seale Associates
Shiv brings extensive domestic and international experience in corporate finance and investment banking to SalesQB. He is currently the managing director for Seale & Associates Inc., a global investment bank headquartered in the Washington, D.C. area. Previously, Shiv was based in Bahrain as CEO of Addax Investment Bank, which was engaged in private equity and wealth management activities in the Persian Gulf region. Shiv also spent more than two decades with KeyCorp in Cleveland, Ohio where he was responsible for a wide range of corporate finance and investment banking activities. At KeyCorp, he was a member of the investment banking management team, served as managing director at McDonald Investments and was president of Key Capital Markets. Shiv holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering and master’s degrees in business administration and economics from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
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