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| Arjun Rao, CEO |
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| Arjun is the founder and CEO of ValueLabs. He started ValueLabs in 1997 with a vision to create a unique company; one with a different approach to business. He has created an entity that is focused on building true partnerships with clients and employees, growing with purpose, ethical in approach and fully aware of its social responsibilities. |
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| Armed with the insight that clients can derive true and sustainable competitive advantage using the offshore model, ValueLabs, under the leadership of Arjun, has grown rapidly. Oft quoted by Arjun, ValueLabs has only two stake-holders, Clients and Employees. This approach to building relationships, focusing on partnerships and a long-term outlook is part of our unique culture. |
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| Arjun provides key strategic direction to the company and ensures, by example, that we never lose sight of our culture and values. |
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| Arjun is actively involved in the IT industry and is one of two members from the private sector on the Governing Council of the Software Technology Parks of India (STPI). He is an active member of the Young Presidents Organization, an organization focused on creating Better Leaders through Education and Idea Exchange. Arjun is a Director in InsightMethods, a start-up in the market research space. Until recently, he was a Director on the board of Multimedia Technologies Sdn. Bhd., Malaysia, which is the technology company of the multi-billion dollar Usaha Tegas Group of Malaysia. |
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| Arjun earned an MS from Cornell University, USA, where he held the A.D. White Fellowship. He has a BS from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, India, where he graduated at the top of his class. |
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| Harini Rao, President & Co-founder |
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| As a co-founder, Harini has played a key role from the start-up days to its current status as one of the top SME IT services companies in India. Her ability to keep abreast of bleeding edge work done in the product development, QA / testing and KPO services, have enabled ValueLabs to frame effective growth strategies. In her role as the President, she helps drive the overall vision for the company, the service areas being offered, geographical expansion and overall risk mitigation. Her ability to identify key members of the organization and subsequently empowering them has helped ValueLabs build a cohesive and high performing culture within the company. |
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| Ram Manjeri, SVP, Sales & Marketing |
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| Ram is the Senior Vice President – Sales and Marketing at ValueLabs. Based out of Atlanta, Ram is responsible for growing ValueLabs’ business and building relationships world-wide for our services. |
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| With over 16 years of experience spearheading and managing profit centers for growth, Ram brings his expertise in managing diverse functions to ValueLabs. Prior to ValueLabs, Ram headed business development at a custom software development company that grew twelve-fold in his 10-year stint with them. He started his career at Shaw Wallace & Company Limited, where he held P&L responsibility for an entire State in India. Subsequently, he moved to the IT industry, setting up a sales channel in South India for software products. |
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| Combined with his “if-its-worth-doing-its-worth-doing-well” approach and “hands-on” management style, Ram has been able to significantly accelerate the sales and marketing initiatives at ValueLabs. Extremely focused and detail oriented, Ram uses his excellent communication skills, subtle sense of humor and friendly demeanor to great effect. |
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| Ram is a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management (Calcutta, India) and has a Bachelor of Technology degree (Electrical Engineering) from the Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi, India). |
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| Ajit Kumar, Director, Projects |
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| Ajit is Director – Projects at ValueLabs and has been with the company for more than nine years. His designation covers only a part of his responsibilities. At the tangible end of the spectrum, he is responsible for technical delivery, administration, HR and finance. While at the intangible end of the spectrum, he is responsible for preserving our culture, ensuring an excellent working environment, maintaining a politics-free meritocracy based system, inculcating a focus on cost throughout the company and planning to handle the growth of the company. |
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| Ajit started his career in the area of QA / Testing, and has deep experience in all facets of Delivery. He has played a key role in defining the offshore operations and exceptional delivery capabilities of ValueLabs. His experience spans working with clients across geographies with large multi-location teams. |
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| Extremely focused at work, he has risen through the ranks at ValueLabs and continues to manage his extremely demanding schedule in a systematic manner. His upfront and transparent approach is illustrative of the organization’s culture of openness; Ajit has played a key role in building ValueLabs and its unique culture. |
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| Ajit has a Masters degree in Computer Applications and is well versed in a range of technologies. |
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| Kiran Kumar, Director, Technical |
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| Kiran is Director – Technical at ValueLabs. Kiran is responsible for managing our client relationships and operations in Malaysia, which contributed 20% of our revenue in 2006. Over the last year, Kiran has also been mandated with building our Telecom and Media practices. He has been doing this by helping convert and managing all the clients in this space, by helping existing clients leverage our knowledge and experience in this space and by helping componentize the IP that we own in this space. He also champions our product suites in the mobile technology and interactive TV space. |
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| Kiran was the second person to join ValueLabs |
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| With over 10 years of experience spanning client management, project delivery, program management and managing relationships, Kiran brings to the table his experience in managing some of the largest client engagements in ValueLabs. |
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| Behind his affable exterior, Kiran possesses deep expertise in mobile related technologies and a keen analytical mind. He has helped define the culture of the company and epitomizes what we would like everyone at ValueLabs to be: always available, always happy to help and always composed. His approach to work follows the doctrine “Actions speak louder than words”. |
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| Kiran has a Masters degree in Computer Applications. |
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| Aseervadam Gandham, Director, IT |
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| Aseervadam G, better known as Ashir, is Director – Information Technology at ValueLabs. Ashir directly manages several key client relationships for ValueLabs. Ashir has great experience around Healthcare and Travel related services and, over the medium term, will create vertical practices around these. |
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| Ashir also drives IT initiatives that have a direct impact on our ability to deliver as well as those that improve efficiencies in the running of the company. He manages our Quality initiatives (CMMI, ISO, BS 27001, etc.) and is the driving force behind a passion for quality throughout the organization. |
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| Ashir is ValueLabs’ first employee. |
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| Ashir brings with him extensive experience across domains and regions. He has the ability to cut across hierarchies and connect with people at a personal level. Extremely approachable and easy to get along with, Ashir has been able to bring out the best in every person who works with him. |
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| His personality, his adeptness in handling and resolving difficult situations, his ability to mediate and reconcile differences, and his desire to “leave people better off for having come into contact” with him has made Ashir the de-facto ‘mentor’ at ValueLabs. |
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| Ajit Manjappara, VP, Sales |
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| Ajit is the Vice President - Sales at ValueLabs. Ajit handles our sales efforts in the US EST geographies and the Middle East / Africa regions. He joined ValueLabs in April 2006. He has started his career as a sales executive for Proline Sports Wear in 1989. Ajit was instrumental in building the company’s Indian operations. He holds a Masters in Marketing (MMS) from SPJIMR (Mumbai, India). |
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| Ajit is a very dynamic and optimistic person with utmost commitment to work. He believes in motivating his team members by leading from the very front and is always ready to help them in challenging situations. He has that rare ability to remain calm and composed even under high pressure. He works towards perfection and ensures his teammates achieve heights of excellence in whatever they do. He loves mentoring people. |
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| Ajit is an avid reader and, more importantly, he remembers everything he reads. |
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| Krishna Reddy, Head, Human Resources |
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| Krishna Reddy heads the Human Resources department at ValueLabs. He is actively involved in talent acquisition, training and development, strategic organizational development interventions and in instilling a positive work culture at ValueLabs. |
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| Krishna has streamlined the human resources function and the related processes in ValueLabs. The talent acquisition activity has become very efficient and has scaled rapidly over the past few years due to the efforts put in by Krishna. His efforts in increasing our employee count from just around 200 in 2004 to 1500 employees today is indeed remarkable. In his four years with ValueLabs, Krishna has received tremendous appreciation and respect from his colleagues, owing to his simplicity and friendly nature. |
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| An MBA from IBAM (New Delhi, India), he was associated with WebMD and Citigroup prior to joining ValueLabs. He was a core member of the team that set up WebMD’s operations in India. |
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| He focuses on instilling trust and confidence in all at ValueLabs while ensuring that the productivity and delivery capability of his team is consistently high. A hardworking and dedicated person, he is instrumental in developing a strong and a vibrant human resource base for the organization. |
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| Manoj TK, Head, IT Infrastructure and Networks |
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| Manoj is the Manager (Networks) at ValueLabs. He is in charge of the IT infrastructure management of the company and has played a key role in setting up our world-class infra. He leads the System Administration team of over 20 people in ValueLabs that ensures a 24x7x365 uptime. Manoj is also responsible for building and managing the teams that support network center operations for our clients. |
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| Manoj joined us in April 2005. He has a Bachelor’s Degree (Computer Science and Engineering) from a premier engineering college in India and has very strong technical skills. Prior to joining ValueLabs, Manoj was part of the core team that set up the world-wide infra for the largest online gaming company in the world (listed on the London Stock Exchange). |
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| A proactive and a fun-loving person, Manoj keeps his interest in Music alive by regularly playing the tabla (an Indian percussion instrument) and the keyboard. |
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| Sandeep Alva, AVP, Sales |
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| Sam (aka Sandeep) Alva has over 10 years of experience in the IT services space and is responsible for ValueLabs’ sales, business development and client relationship management activities in the US West Coast, Central and Mountain regions. |
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| Sam brings to ValueLabs a potent combination of the understanding of the IT services, enterprise application market space, the ValueLabs culture and value proposition. He has international experience and exposure to domains like BFSI, 3PL Providers, Health Care, Payment Processing and eLearning. His career has spanned early stage companies and mature organizations. |
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| He joined ValueLabs in 2005 as one of the initial members of the sales organization. He is an integral part of the team that was instrumental in ValueLabs’ rapid growth. Sam has provided an impetus to our new client acquisition effort. |
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| Prior to joining ValueLabs, Sam worked in various sales and business development roles at Sonata Software, Tarang Technologies and USi. |
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| Sam holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from MIT, Pune / India and a post-graduate diploma in business administration (PGDBA) from TAPMI, Manipal / India. He lives and works out of Sunnyvale, California. |
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