Symphony SummitAI, backed by the $1 billion SymphonyAI fund focused on building the next generation of artificial intelligence and machine learning applications across multiple verticals. Our flagship product, SummitAI, is an advanced, modular, ITIL 2011 Certified solution that unifies service management, asset management, and operations management in a single, easy-to-use offering.
Enterprises and service providers use SummitAI to dramatically reduce cost and complexity of their IT Management while improving efficiency, productivity, predictability and control. Leading enterprises across business, financial services, insurance, healthcare, IT and consulting, automobile, manufacturing, aviation and education verticals are delivering better user experience while lowering the cost of managing their IT using Symphony SummitAI.
Board of Directors
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Dr. Romesh Wadhwani is a proven, successful serial entrepreneur and CEO. He built Symphony Technology Group from startup to $2.5B revenue, $10B EV. Prior to STG, he built Aspect Development, which he sold for $9 billion. Dr. Wadhwani has committed $1 billion of his own capital to build SymphonyAI.
Dr. Romesh Wadhwani
Founder, Chairman, and CEO, SymphonyAI
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Dr. Romesh Wadhwani is a proven, successful serial entrepreneur and CEO. He built Symphony Technology Group from startup to $2.5B revenue, $10B EV. Prior to STG, he built Aspect Development, which he sold for $9 billion. Dr. Wadhwani has committed $1 billion of his own capital to build SymphonyAI.
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Dr. Pallab Chatterjee is Chairman & CEO, Symphony RetailAI. Prior to joining, Dr. Chatterjee was CEO of i2 Technologies, Inc. where he earlier held the role of President of Solutions Operations. Before joining i2, he spent 24 years at Texas Instruments in various executive management positions. Dr. Chatterjee also serves on the board of directors for SSC, Teleca and MSC Software. Dr. Chatterjee received his Bachelor degree from IIT-Kharagpur, India and a Master’s and Doctorate degree in electrical engineering from University of Illinois.
Dr. Pallab Chatterjee
Chairman & CEO, Symphony RetailAI
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Dr. Pallab Chatterjee is Chairman & CEO, Symphony RetailAI. Prior to joining, Dr. Chatterjee was CEO of i2 Technologies, Inc. where he earlier held the role of President of Solutions Operations. Before joining i2, he spent 24 years at Texas Instruments in various executive management positions. Dr. Chatterjee also serves on the board of directors for SSC, Teleca and MSC Software. Dr. Chatterjee received his Bachelor degree from IIT-Kharagpur, India and a Master’s and Doctorate degree in electrical engineering from University of Illinois.
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Mahinder Mathrani, Operating Partner
As operating partner since October 2011, Mahinder Mathrani helps portfolio companies in their business transformation efforts to significantly enhance customer and shareholder value. He brings over 32 years of diverse global general management, customer facing and operations experience.
Mahinder joined STG from Genpact, where he spent twenty months successfully integrating the acquisition of Symphony Marketing Solutions, formerly a STG portfolio company leveraging a global delivery model for data management and analytics to deliver the gold standard in market and customer insights.
Prior to Genpact, he was President and COO of Symphony Marketing Solutions for three years, where he was instrumental in launching, building and operating the company before its acquisition by Genpact. Prior to Symphony Marketing Solutions, Mahinder also spent over fifteen years with IRi, where he held a variety of senior level roles in client services, sales and marketing, technology consulting, and operations.
Before he joined the STG family, Mahinder had more than a decade of diverse international business experience in a variety of research, analytic and product management positions at companies like Citicorp, the Arbitron Company, and the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company.
Mahinder has a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, and also holds an MBA with specialization in Finance and Operations Research from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
As operating partner since October 2011, Mahinder Mathrani helps portfolio companies in their business transformation efforts to significantly enhance customer and shareholder value. He brings over 32 years of diverse global general management, customer facing and operations experience.
Mahinder joined STG from Genpact, where he spent twenty months successfully integrating the acquisition of Symphony Marketing Solutions, formerly a STG portfolio company leveraging a global delivery model for data management and analytics to deliver the gold standard in market and customer insights.
Prior to Genpact, he was President and COO of Symphony Marketing Solutions for three years, where he was instrumental in launching, building and operating the company before its acquisition by Genpact. Prior to Symphony Marketing Solutions, Mahinder also spent over fifteen years with IRi, where he held a variety of senior level roles in client services, sales and marketing, technology consulting, and operations.
Before he joined the STG family, Mahinder had more than a decade of diverse international business experience in a variety of research, analytic and product management positions at companies like Citicorp, the Arbitron Company, and the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company.
Mahinder has a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, and also holds an MBA with specialization in Finance and Operations Research from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Mahinder Mathrani
Operating Partner
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Mahinder Mathrani, Operating Partner
As operating partner since October 2011, Mahinder Mathrani helps portfolio companies in their business transformation efforts to significantly enhance customer and shareholder value. He brings over 32 years of diverse global general management, customer facing and operations experience.
Mahinder joined STG from Genpact, where he spent twenty months successfully integrating the acquisition of Symphony Marketing Solutions, formerly a STG portfolio company leveraging a global delivery model for data management and analytics to deliver the gold standard in market and customer insights.
Prior to Genpact, he was President and COO of Symphony Marketing Solutions for three years, where he was instrumental in launching, building and operating the company before its acquisition by Genpact. Prior to Symphony Marketing Solutions, Mahinder also spent over fifteen years with IRi, where he held a variety of senior level roles in client services, sales and marketing, technology consulting, and operations.
Before he joined the STG family, Mahinder had more than a decade of diverse international business experience in a variety of research, analytic and product management positions at companies like Citicorp, the Arbitron Company, and the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company.
Mahinder has a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, and also holds an MBA with specialization in Finance and Operations Research from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
As operating partner since October 2011, Mahinder Mathrani helps portfolio companies in their business transformation efforts to significantly enhance customer and shareholder value. He brings over 32 years of diverse global general management, customer facing and operations experience.
Mahinder joined STG from Genpact, where he spent twenty months successfully integrating the acquisition of Symphony Marketing Solutions, formerly a STG portfolio company leveraging a global delivery model for data management and analytics to deliver the gold standard in market and customer insights.
Prior to Genpact, he was President and COO of Symphony Marketing Solutions for three years, where he was instrumental in launching, building and operating the company before its acquisition by Genpact. Prior to Symphony Marketing Solutions, Mahinder also spent over fifteen years with IRi, where he held a variety of senior level roles in client services, sales and marketing, technology consulting, and operations.
Before he joined the STG family, Mahinder had more than a decade of diverse international business experience in a variety of research, analytic and product management positions at companies like Citicorp, the Arbitron Company, and the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company.
Mahinder has a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, and also holds an MBA with specialization in Finance and Operations Research from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Eshwar is currently a Partner at SymphonyAI and is focused on investing and creating companies that leverage artificial intelligence to disrupt B2B markets. In addition, Eshwar helpsportfolio companies in their business transformation efforts to significantly enhance customer and shareholder value. Prior to SymphonyAI, Eshwar led Products & Alliances for Rubrik. At Rubrik, Eshwar helped launch an innovative suite of products that enabled the company to double revenue & customers on a quarterly basis and approach an annual run rate of $100 Million after only six quarters of selling. Rubrik is the fastest growing enterprise infrastructure company in the world and was featured as a top company in Forbes’ 2018 The Cloud 100 list.
Prior to Rubrik, Eshwar was the Vice President of Strategy at Rocket Fuel (NASDAQ:FUEL) and was responsible for shaping the strategic direction of the company as well as driving ancillary revenue through new business initiatives. He successfully helped close Rocket Fuel’s $230M acquisition of [x+1] to expand Rocket Fuel’s portfolio of solutions for the enterprise market. Prior to this role, Eshwar was Vice President of Products and Business Development at Rocket Fuel and was responsible for building Rocket Fuel’s brand and direct response products and taking them to market as well as establishing relationships with data and measurement partners. As part of the founding executive team, he helped Rocket Fuel grow from the ground up to over $240 million in revenue from over 75 of AdAge’s top 100 national advertisers within five years to claim the #1 spot in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™ list.
Prior to Rocket Fuel, Eshwar was the founder and CEO of Sensact Applications, a Silicon Valley based company focused on pervasive real-time embedded sensing and computing (aka “Internet of Things”) to create solutions for smart physical environments. At Sensact Applications, Eshwar formulated the business plan, raised financing, recruited a cross-border team, and delivered the first set of innovative wireless applications which are used on a daily basis in commercial building facilities.
Prior to founding Sensact Applications, Eshwar was part of Epiphany’s (now Infor) Product Management team and worked on product strategy for Epiphany’s Marketing and Analytics products. He was responsible for Epiphany’s flagship CRM marketing and analytics platforms that had over $100 million in annual revenue and were used by over 35 Fortune 100 companies.
Prior to joining Epiphany, Eshwar was the co-founder and CTO of iLeverage (acquired by Epiphany [NASDAQ:EPNY] in 2000), a company that built advertising and collaborative selling solutions for online retailers. At iLeverage, Eshwar led a team of engineers to deliver a revolutionary vertical ad network focused on the e-commerce exit corridorto facilitate promotional cross-deals across merchants. Prior to iLeverage, Eshwar worked as a software development engineer in the Application Server Group at Oracle.
Eshwar serves as an Advisor to companies associated with Singularity University and Alchemist Accelerator, and is a Charter Member of TiE Silicon Valley. He holds a MS in Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley, Management of Technology from U.C. Berkeley, and a B.Tech in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras. He has authored several academic publications and holds six patents.
Eshwar Belani
Partner
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Eshwar is currently a Partner at SymphonyAI and is focused on investing and creating companies that leverage artificial intelligence to disrupt B2B markets. In addition, Eshwar helpsportfolio companies in their business transformation efforts to significantly enhance customer and shareholder value. Prior to SymphonyAI, Eshwar led Products & Alliances for Rubrik. At Rubrik, Eshwar helped launch an innovative suite of products that enabled the company to double revenue & customers on a quarterly basis and approach an annual run rate of $100 Million after only six quarters of selling. Rubrik is the fastest growing enterprise infrastructure company in the world and was featured as a top company in Forbes’ 2018 The Cloud 100 list.
Prior to Rubrik, Eshwar was the Vice President of Strategy at Rocket Fuel (NASDAQ:FUEL) and was responsible for shaping the strategic direction of the company as well as driving ancillary revenue through new business initiatives. He successfully helped close Rocket Fuel’s $230M acquisition of [x+1] to expand Rocket Fuel’s portfolio of solutions for the enterprise market. Prior to this role, Eshwar was Vice President of Products and Business Development at Rocket Fuel and was responsible for building Rocket Fuel’s brand and direct response products and taking them to market as well as establishing relationships with data and measurement partners. As part of the founding executive team, he helped Rocket Fuel grow from the ground up to over $240 million in revenue from over 75 of AdAge’s top 100 national advertisers within five years to claim the #1 spot in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™ list.
Prior to Rocket Fuel, Eshwar was the founder and CEO of Sensact Applications, a Silicon Valley based company focused on pervasive real-time embedded sensing and computing (aka “Internet of Things”) to create solutions for smart physical environments. At Sensact Applications, Eshwar formulated the business plan, raised financing, recruited a cross-border team, and delivered the first set of innovative wireless applications which are used on a daily basis in commercial building facilities.
Prior to founding Sensact Applications, Eshwar was part of Epiphany’s (now Infor) Product Management team and worked on product strategy for Epiphany’s Marketing and Analytics products. He was responsible for Epiphany’s flagship CRM marketing and analytics platforms that had over $100 million in annual revenue and were used by over 35 Fortune 100 companies.
Prior to joining Epiphany, Eshwar was the co-founder and CTO of iLeverage (acquired by Epiphany [NASDAQ:EPNY] in 2000), a company that built advertising and collaborative selling solutions for online retailers. At iLeverage, Eshwar led a team of engineers to deliver a revolutionary vertical ad network focused on the e-commerce exit corridorto facilitate promotional cross-deals across merchants. Prior to iLeverage, Eshwar worked as a software development engineer in the Application Server Group at Oracle.
Eshwar serves as an Advisor to companies associated with Singularity University and Alchemist Accelerator, and is a Charter Member of TiE Silicon Valley. He holds a MS in Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley, Management of Technology from U.C. Berkeley, and a B.Tech in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras. He has authored several academic publications and holds six patents.
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Satyen Vyas has been the Chief Executive Officer at Symphony SummitAI since 2013. Currently based in New York, he has led the company’s growth from a startup to a global entity with customers and partners in North America, India and Southeast Asia. Prior to SummitAI, he was a Vice President at IBM in India and South Asia, where he was instrumental in growing the company’s x-Series servers to a market leadership position. He also served as General Manager for mid markets at Dell India, and spent 12 years building Vitage Group into a leading IT systems integration and services player in the Indian market.
Satyen holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Nagpur University and a post-graduate degree in management from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.
Satyen Vyas
President and CEO, Symphony SummitAI
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Satyen Vyas has been the Chief Executive Officer at Symphony SummitAI since 2013. Currently based in New York, he has led the company’s growth from a startup to a global entity with customers and partners in North America, India and Southeast Asia. Prior to SummitAI, he was a Vice President at IBM in India and South Asia, where he was instrumental in growing the company’s x-Series servers to a market leadership position. He also served as General Manager for mid markets at Dell India, and spent 12 years building Vitage Group into a leading IT systems integration and services player in the Indian market.
Satyen holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Nagpur University and a post-graduate degree in management from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.
Executive Management
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Satyen Vyas has been the Chief Executive Officer at Symphony SummitAI since 2013. Currently based in New York, he has led the company’s growth from a startup to a global entity with customers and partners in North America, India and Southeast Asia. Prior to SummitAI, he was a Vice President at IBM in India and South Asia, where he was instrumental in growing the company’s x-Series servers to a market leadership position. He also served as General Manager for mid markets at Dell India, and spent 12 years building Vitage Group into a leading IT systems integration and services player in the Indian market.
Satyen holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Nagpur University and a post-graduate degree in management from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.
Satyen Vyas
President and CEO, Symphony SummitAI
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Satyen Vyas has been the Chief Executive Officer at Symphony SummitAI since 2013. Currently based in New York, he has led the company’s growth from a startup to a global entity with customers and partners in North America, India and Southeast Asia. Prior to SummitAI, he was a Vice President at IBM in India and South Asia, where he was instrumental in growing the company’s x-Series servers to a market leadership position. He also served as General Manager for mid markets at Dell India, and spent 12 years building Vitage Group into a leading IT systems integration and services player in the Indian market.
Satyen holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Nagpur University and a post-graduate degree in management from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.
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Vijaya Shanker is the CTO of Symphony SummitAI, he is a part of Symphony Technology Group since 2006 and has been the main architect of the SummitAI platform from day one.
Shanker brings more than 26 years of IT industry experience to Symphony SummitAI. Most recently, he was the CIO at Symphony Teleca, where he headed the Infrastructure, enterprise applications & production engineering teams.
Prior to Symphony Services, Shanker served as a practice head at Hewlett-Packard Global Soft, where he was responsible for managing the complete IT infrastructure, Production engineering and remote IT management for HP’s global managed services customers.
Before joining HP, Shanker was Associate Vice President of network services and operations at Global Tele systems.
Shanker holds a Bachelor’s degree (BE) in electronics and communications from Bangalore Institute of Technology.
Vijaya Shanker
CTO, Symphony SummitAI
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Vijaya Shanker is the CTO of Symphony SummitAI, he is a part of Symphony Technology Group since 2006 and has been the main architect of the SummitAI platform from day one.
Shanker brings more than 26 years of IT industry experience to Symphony SummitAI. Most recently, he was the CIO at Symphony Teleca, where he headed the Infrastructure, enterprise applications & production engineering teams.
Prior to Symphony Services, Shanker served as a practice head at Hewlett-Packard Global Soft, where he was responsible for managing the complete IT infrastructure, Production engineering and remote IT management for HP’s global managed services customers.
Before joining HP, Shanker was Associate Vice President of network services and operations at Global Tele systems.
Shanker holds a Bachelor’s degree (BE) in electronics and communications from Bangalore Institute of Technology.
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Vasudev Nayak is the Vice President of Product Development at Symphony SummitAI. Vasudev brings more than 18 years of IT industry experience to Symphony SummitAI. Most recently, he was the Director for Product Development at Symphony Services, where he led the enterprise applications teams. Prior to Symphony Services, Vasudev served as a Lead at Hewlett-Packard GlobalSoft, where he was responsible for the automation of IT and Managed Services Delivery. Before joining HP, Vasudev was the Manager of Enterprise Application team at Global TeleSystems.
Vasudev Nayak
Vice President, Product Engineering, Symphony SummitAI
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Vasudev Nayak is the Vice President of Product Development at Symphony SummitAI. Vasudev brings more than 18 years of IT industry experience to Symphony SummitAI. Most recently, he was the Director for Product Development at Symphony Services, where he led the enterprise applications teams. Prior to Symphony Services, Vasudev served as a Lead at Hewlett-Packard GlobalSoft, where he was responsible for the automation of IT and Managed Services Delivery. Before joining HP, Vasudev was the Manager of Enterprise Application team at Global TeleSystems.
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Ravi Krishnamurthy is a leader with over 25 years of experience in customer service engagements, operations management, strategy development, project management and management consulting.
As Senior VP of operations, he drives the systems and processes for the team to deliver on the customer commitments.
Ravi has extensive global experience having worked in in India, USA & Singapore and managing teams of up to 200 people. He has driven cross-functional projects and end-to-end process improvements across marketing, pre-sales, sales, fulfilment and customer care to optimize costs and deliver great customer experience. Ravi has held senior positions at IBM, Lenovo, Dell.
According to Ravi, “A combination of passionate and experienced team with a process driven approach towards operations will always deliver a great experience”
Ravi is a Physics graduate with and MBA from University of North Carolina.
Ravi Krishnamurthy
Senior Vice President, Operations, Symphony SummitAI
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Ravi Krishnamurthy is a leader with over 25 years of experience in customer service engagements, operations management, strategy development, project management and management consulting.
As Senior VP of operations, he drives the systems and processes for the team to deliver on the customer commitments.
Ravi has extensive global experience having worked in in India, USA & Singapore and managing teams of up to 200 people. He has driven cross-functional projects and end-to-end process improvements across marketing, pre-sales, sales, fulfilment and customer care to optimize costs and deliver great customer experience. Ravi has held senior positions at IBM, Lenovo, Dell.
According to Ravi, “A combination of passionate and experienced team with a process driven approach towards operations will always deliver a great experience”
Ravi is a Physics graduate with and MBA from University of North Carolina.
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Dr. Akhil Sahai as Chief Product Officer heads product management and marketing at Symphony SummitAI. Akhil has 20+ years of experience in Product Strategy and Management, Marketing, and Business Development. Akhil is a product leader with extensive experience managing SaaS based early stage start-ups as well as high-growth businesses with multi hundred million dollars product portfolio. Most recently he was Chief Product Officer at LexisNexis and headed a $250M+ product portfolio spread across Europe, Africa and Middle East. Prior to that, as head of product management and marketing, led an early stage AI/Machine learning based start-up Perspica Inc. to successful acquisition by Cisco. He also initiated, funded and managed Enterprise wide solutions program at HP and product managed and launched vCloud software at VMware. He has led another start-up, Gale Technologies as head of products to successful acquisition by Dell where after the acquisition, he product managed the entire Converged Infrastructure portfolio.
Akhil has a Ph.D in Computer Science from INRIA France and an MBA from Wharton School. He has 17 Technical patents, has authored 80+ peer reviewed articles and has authored a book.
Dr. Akhil Sahai
Chief Product Officer, Symphony SummitAI
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Dr. Akhil Sahai as Chief Product Officer heads product management and marketing at Symphony SummitAI. Akhil has 20+ years of experience in Product Strategy and Management, Marketing, and Business Development. Akhil is a product leader with extensive experience managing SaaS based early stage start-ups as well as high-growth businesses with multi hundred million dollars product portfolio. Most recently he was Chief Product Officer at LexisNexis and headed a $250M+ product portfolio spread across Europe, Africa and Middle East. Prior to that, as head of product management and marketing, led an early stage AI/Machine learning based start-up Perspica Inc. to successful acquisition by Cisco. He also initiated, funded and managed Enterprise wide solutions program at HP and product managed and launched vCloud software at VMware. He has led another start-up, Gale Technologies as head of products to successful acquisition by Dell where after the acquisition, he product managed the entire Converged Infrastructure portfolio.
Akhil has a Ph.D in Computer Science from INRIA France and an MBA from Wharton School. He has 17 Technical patents, has authored 80+ peer reviewed articles and has authored a book.
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