Ashu Goel is the founder and CEO of WinWire Technologies. Ashu has a strong technology management and consulting background, with a blend of more than 30 years of experience working at leading organizations like A.T. Kearney and Microsoft. Ashu founded WinWire in 2007 to help customers gain competitive advantage through innovative software solutions.
Ashu is passionate about exploring the impact of technology to assist social causes (#socialtech) as well as the need for empathy due to the impact of increasing advances in technology (#empathytech).
Prior to WinWire, Ashu was at Microsoft helping lead the Microsoft Consulting Services as well as Microsoft Technology Centers around the globe. Ashu also served in a leadership position at A.T. Kearney. He is a Haas MBA graduate from Berkeley and has a BS from IIT Roorkee.
Frank is a Managing Partner in Sverica’s San Francisco office. He officially joined Sverica in January 2007, but had worked closely with the team since 2003 as the CEO of PsPrint, LLC, a prior Sverica portfolio company.
Under Frank’s leadership PsPrint’s revenues quadrupled and cash flows more than tripled. PsPrint was sold in 2011 to Deluxe Corporation (NYSE: DLX). Frank actively serves on the board of Cytracom, DeFy Security, Gorilla Logic, ShadowDragon, Synoptek and WinWire. Frank is a former Director of Optiv (FKA Accuvant), which was sold to KKR (NYSE: KKR), Pivot Data Centres, which was sold to Rogers Communications (TSE: RCI) and Syscon Justice Systems, sold to Constellation Software (TSX:CSU).
Prior to partnering with Sverica on PsPrint, Frank worked in San Francisco with another middle market private equity firm called Alpine Investors and in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Robertson Stephens.
Frank relocated to the Bay Area in 2000 after spending most of his life in the southeast. Born and raised in Alabama, Frank received an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and a BA from Wake Forest University. Frank has also received the designation Chartered Financial Analyst from the Association of Investment Management and Research / CFA Institute.
Ryan is a Partner in Sverica’s San Francisco office, which he joined in 2011. He currently serves on the boards of Coastal Cloud, Gryphon.ai, Omeda, Stream Companies, Synoptek and WinWire. Ryan previously served on the boards of iWave which was sold to Incline Equity Partners, 7Summits which was sold to IBM (NYSE: IBM), Pivot Data Centres which was sold to Rogers Communications (TSE: RCI), and Sheet Music Plus which was sold to Hal Leonard.
Ryan previously worked with Friedman Fleischer & Lowe (“FFL”), a private equity firm based in San Francisco. At FFL, he evaluated opportunities and executed transactions across a variety of industries including healthcare services and consumer products. Prior to that, he was an Analyst with the Industrials Group in Lehman Brothers’ Investment Banking division in New York.
Ryan graduated magna cum laude with a BS in Analytical Finance from Wake Forest University and earned an MBA with honors from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Katy Brown is Corporate Vice President of Americas Enterprise at Microsoft.
A twenty-five-year Microsoft veteran, Katy has a proven track record for delivering strategic initiatives and sales programs to drive overall growth. Before her current role, Katy held the position of Regional Vice President for Northwest Region and previously the General Manager for the NorCal District. She also held the position of General Manager – US National Sales Excellence, where she led a world-class sales team, orchestrating breakthrough development on customer satisfaction, innovation on sales enablement tools, planning and processes, and the overall leadership of the Sales Excellence community.
In her pursuit of sales excellence and customer loyalty, Katy has been recognized with several awards for her sales achievement, management, and leadership.
A native of San Francisco, Katy has a B.S. in Managerial Economics from the University of California, Davis. Her executive education includes IBM Advanced Business Institute and advanced leadership courses at Microsoft.
John Castleman is the CEO of Bridgenext, a global consulting that helps clients innovate and realize their digital aspirations by creating digital products, experiences, and solutions around what real people need. He is the also the Former CEO of Mobiquity, a digital consulting firm for leading banking, healthcare, and consumer brands with offices in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Castleman joined Mobiquity in 2016 and led the expansion and ultimate sale of Mobiquity to Hexaware Technologies in 2019.
He was President and CEO of Alliance Global Services from 2008 to 2015, and EPAM acquired Alliance Global Services in 2015. Before Alliance, Castleman worked for several technology services and venture capital firms, including Elemica, Safeguard, and Internet Capital Group (Actua).
He currently serves on the board for Emtec Inc. and Gorilla Logic, a Sverica-backed IT Services company.
Greg Jenko is the Global Lead for EY’s Microsoft Services Group and is responsible for growing the firm’s Microsoft consulting, solution, and implementation capabilities. Greg originally spearheaded the creation of EY’s alliance with Microsoft and for the last nine years has been leading the build-out of their Microsoft capabilities, including onshore and offshore delivery, acquisitions, talent development, assets and solutions, and P&L.
Prior to joining EY, Greg spent more than twenty-seven years at Andersen Consulting/Accenture, where he was a partner at Andersen Consulting and a managing director at Accenture. During his time, Greg built several businesses around emerging technologies and mobile computing while also working in various roles, including client partner, delivery lead, and master architect.
Greg has resided with his family in the Chicago area for several decades and has a BSE in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University. He has also taken executive education from the Harvard Business School and various leadership courses from Accenture and EY.
Ashu Goel is the founder and CEO of WinWire Technologies. Ashu has a strong technology management and consulting background, with a blend of more than 30 years of experience working at leading organizations like A.T. Kearney and Microsoft. Ashu founded WinWire in 2007 to help customers gain competitive advantage through innovative software solutions.
Ashu is passionate about exploring the impact of technology to assist social causes (#socialtech) as well as the need for empathy due to the impact of increasing advances in technology (#empathytech).
Prior to WinWire, Ashu was at Microsoft helping lead the Microsoft Consulting Services as well as Microsoft Technology Centers around the globe. Ashu also served in a leadership position at A.T. Kearney. He is a Haas MBA graduate from Berkeley and has a BS from IIT Roorkee.
Vineet Arora, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, has over 29 years of experience in the IT Services Industry and is a Microsoft Azure certified architect. Vineet is responsible for technology consulting engagements focused mainly on the Microsoft platform but expanding horizons in the recent years. At WinWire he manages the technical solutions team, envisioning new solutions, key customer engagement management and also involved in architecting the solutions while trying to balance time to understand trends in the industry as well as in technology!
As a Microsoft’s Partner CSA (Cloud Solution Architect), Vineet helps Microsoft technical sales team as a part of the managed partner program. Prior to joining WinWire, Vineet worked in Microsoft Consulting Services for over 7 years as a consultant and a senior architect focused on delivering solutions on Microsoft’s enterprise app servers.
Vineet is based out of WinWire’s Santa Clara office and can be found online @WinWireCTO or connect with him on LinkedIn.
Kalyan Gottumukkala, Chief Revenue Officer, has been helping customers across the globe gain competitive advantage through innovative software solutions and system integration services. He has helped numerous customers realize the technology transformation vision and is responsible for the overall revenue growth at WinWire including GTM Strategy, Sales, and Business Development (BD).
Before WinWire, he was a founding member and Head of Sales and BD at Proxce (A SaaS platform enabling context-aware frictionless experience using IoT and AI). Prior to incubating Proxce, Kalyan has held various sales management roles at Tata Consultancy Services, Tech Mahindra and Infosys. His primary expertise is selling platform-driven digital transformation initiatives to customers across various Industries and Geographies.
He is a management graduate from the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, and holds a bachelor’s degree in Telecommunications Engineering from R.V. College of Engineering, Bangalore.
Eugene Agresta is a Chief Growth Officer with over two decades of success guiding teams across competitive and fast-paced sectors. Eugene, a graduate of New York University's Polytechnic School of Engineering, has an impressive track record in strategic sales and business development.
His journey includes significant roles at L3 Communications, TE Connectivity, TransDigm Group Inc., Cyient, and DXC Technology, where he led teams to secure and expand strategic partnerships with Fortune 500 companies. He's committed to leveraging his expertise to propel WinWire into its next growth phase.
Tanmoy Chowdhury, CFO, brings in over 25 years of global corporate finance experience as CFO, controller, and strategic finance leader. He holds vast experience in driving levers for operating margin, financial planning, M&A integration, driving cash flows, and setting up robust finance processes.
Tanmoy leads the finance function at WinWire and provides leadership for business finance, controllership, internal audit, financial planning, and analysis. Before joining WinWire, he was the CFO of Nexient LLC, an onshore IT services company that later got acquired by NTT Data.
Tanmoy graduated from Calcutta University and is a qualified CPA, CA, and a Cost Accountant.
Tony Guidi, Sr. Vice President of Partner Alliances, brings over 30 years of experience helping customers transform their business with technology. He is focused on building businesses by investing in amazing people with a passion for delivering world class business solutions. Tony is a results-oriented executive with experience crossing key functional areas including alliance development, professional services, managed services, operations, and sales leadership.
Tony leads our Partner Alliance team and is responsible for aligning WinWire with a Microsoft centric partner ecosystem to meet our clients needs for digital transformation. He is also focused on developing tight synergies with these partners so WinWire can deliver complete solutions that drive measurable business outcomes for our clients. Prior to WinWire, he led the development of Partner Alliance programs for MTM Technologies, Blue Chip Consulting, and Core BTS. Tony spent the early part of his career building consulting and delivery organizations focused on Microsoft solutions and held various roles at Microsoft from 2009 to 2013.
Subhash Poojari, VP – Global Delivery, brings in over 20 years of IT Services experience to WinWire Technologies. Subhash has been associated with WinWire since 2008 and has led multiple customer engagements in various roles. Prior to joining WinWire, he worked for Wipro Technologies for around 9 years and National Stock Exchange (NSE), Mumbai for over 2 years. At Wipro, he has handled large, complex projects for European customers in the areas of Telecom Billing, Customer Care, and Service Assurance and in Finance domain at NSE.
At WinWire, Subhash leads the entire Global Delivery managing the delivery team in the US, Bangalore, and Hyderabad and is responsible for successful delivery to all our customers. Subhash holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering from Mumbai University.
Sujata Das, Vice President – People Function, comes with 22 years of HR functional experience across various Industries. Working across all the domains of Talent Management, she has been involved in transforming organizations, building HR structures, and mentoring HR Functional Managers to deliver their best. She is passionate about people and practices driving business strategy and building and shaping organizational culture. Part of many Great Places to Work journeys, she drives efficiency, ease of working, a great culture, and one-team ethos in the places she works.
As WinWire’s Global Head of HR, she is working towards developing human capital strategies and driving the talent agenda. She is strategizing to create, reinforce and operationalize a uniform company culture that permeates across locations and levels and working to achieve the “One WinWire” experience we aspire for at WinWire. With a post-graduation in Human Resources, her prior experience has been with organizations like ICICI Prudential, Genpact, Kantar, and ACS Solution.
Subba Rao, VP – Finance and Administration, has over 18 years of experience in Accounts and Finance. His responsibilities at WinWire Technologies include looking after Accounts, Finance, Admin, and Legal functions.
He comes with rich experience in managing Finance & Operations within service and manufacturing industry. Subba has a postgraduate in Financial Management.
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