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Ashok Santhanam
President & Chief Executive Officer

V Mani
Vice President and General Manager, Bristlecone International

Kemal Köeksal

Vice President and General Manager, Bristlecone Labs

Nikhil Nayak
Vice President, Finance and Administration

Sankha Bhowmick

Vice President, Human Resources

Sanjay Bonde

Vice President, Europe

Anil Gupta
Vice President, Marketing

Michael Gunn
Vice President, Sales, Bristlecone America

Jessie Chimni
Vice President, Consulting Services, Bristlecone America

Prashant Karkhanis
Vice President, Consulting Services, Bristlecone International

Satish Moorjani
Vice President, Process Consulting, Bristlecone International

Ashok Santhanam, President & Chief Executive Officer
Ashok has over 25 years of experience leading technology product and service businesses. Most recently, he was Senior Vice President, Worldwide Field Operations at Epiphany (Nasdaq: EPNY), a leader in the analytics-driven CRM software industry. Before Epiphany, Ashok was Managing Director of Santhanam Consulting, providing strategy consulting services to clients in the enterprise IT, technology services and technology-enabled services sectors.

Earlier, Ashok was founder, CEO and Chairman of Inventa Technologies, a successful and fast-growing provider of fixed price/fixed time B2B e-commerce services to large corporate clients. Ashok also founded two other services companies, including Ventura Data Systems, an early pioneer in offshore product development services and Challenger Systems, a successful provider of private-label implementation services to software companies. He began his career with Gould Inc., a Fortune 500 technology company, where he rose to head operations for one of its major divisions.

Ashok received an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School and a B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

He serves as a director on the board of Lohika (www.lohika.com), a company that provides dual-shore software product development services for technology companies

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V Mani, Vice President and General Manager, Bristlecone International

Mani is responsible for all sales, business development, services delivery and client relationship management for Bristlecone’s business outside North America.

Mani has over 20 years of varied experience in software development, marketing and general management in the IT industry. He joined Bristlecone at its inception in 1998, and has served in several executive leadership positions. Prior to Bristlecone, Mani spent 12 years in progressively more responsible positions in India and the UK at TechMahindra, a Bristlecone sister company, in roles spanning capability development, project management and solutions design.

Mani holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Industrial Engineering.

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Kemal Köeksal, Vice President and General Manager, Bristlecone Labs

Kemal is responsible for all sales, business development, services delivery and client relationship management at our Bristlecone Labs business unit, which provides supply chain-related product development and testing services to SAP and other leading software companies. Kemal has over 20 years experience in various engineering and product management positions in Europe and the USA, at Siebel Systems, SAP and Digital Equipment.

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Nikhil Nayak, Vice President, Finance and Administration
Nikhil joined Bristlecone in 2000, and was responsible for finance and administration of our international operations until he was promoted to his current role in 2006.

Nikhil has over 20 years of experience in the field of Finance/Account/Taxation, and is a qualified Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He also holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Mumbai.

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Sankha Bhowmick, Vice President, Human Resources

Sankha is based in Mumbai and is responsible for the worldwide HR function of Bristlecone. Prior to joining Bristlecone, Sankha headed the human resources function for Mahindra Finance (Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services). As part of the core management team there, Sankha spearheaded HR strategy and planning, HR operations and Training & Development during a three year period when the company grew from a little over 1000 employees to over 4000 and completed an initial public offering. He also served as the Chairman of the Mahindra Finance Shadow Board and as secretary of the Mahindra Finance Steering Committee. Sankha’s prior background includes extensive and broad HR management experience in diverse industries at companies such Convergys, Star TV, Barista Coffee Company and Binary Semantics. Sankha holds a Post Graduate Diploma in HR, a Post Graduate Diploma in Industrial Relations & Personnel Management and a Bachelor of Science from Delhi University.

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Sanjay Bonde, Vice President, Corporate Development

Sanjay is responsible for Bristlecone's European operations. Sanjay joined Bristlecone as Director of Finance and Planning in 2005, and was promoted to Vice President of Corporate Planning in 2006 and his current role in 2007. Prior to joining Bristlecone, Sanjay held various positions at Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd. (M&M), and most recently was General Manager and Executive Assistant to the Executive Director, Finance and Corporate Affairs. At M&M, Sanjay was a core member of the Corporate Affairs Group responsible for coordination of the company's strategic planning activities and other corporate projects and initiatives. He has been involved in cross border business assignments in the UK, Turkey, Germany, India, Korea, Finland, Czech Republic, France, United States, Canada, and Brazil.

Sanjay holds a Master’s degree in Management Studies from the University of Bombay, India in addition to a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Power Engineering and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Quality System Management.
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Anil Gupta, Vice President, Marketing

Anil brings extensive experience in enterprise software, having served as Vice President of Marketing and Strategy at companies such as Baan (ERP and Supply Chain), Broadbase (CRM Analytics), ePeople (Collaborative CRM) and Niku and Evolve (Services Automation). At these companies, he has led product marketing, product management and corporate marketing functions. Anil contributes articles to leading technology publications and has lectured at Santa Clara University business school and Stanford University School of Engineering.

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Michael Gunn, Vice President Sales, Bristlecone America

Michael brings a wealth of experience in sales, solutions development and delivery of high value supply chain services to Bristlecone. He spent several years as a Partner at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, where he was also National Director for Supply Chain Solutions responsible for sales, pre-sales and professional services and led a team that secured over fifty client engagements ranging in value from $4 to $50 million. He subsequently held supply chain leadership roles at Manugistics, Benchmarking Partners and QAD before joining SAIC, a large systems integrator, as Senior Vice President of Supply Chain Solutions where he launched a new business to deliver supply chain integration and performance management solutions that achieved annual revenue of $100 million. Immediately before joining Bristlecone, he was Senior Vice President, Supply Chain and Performance Management at iXL/Scient, a leading systems integrator, where he built a sales and delivery team to achieve $80 million in revenue in the first 12 months; and SVP and Chief Solutions Officer at Neoris, a startup focused on supply chain performance management and business intelligence solutions that grew by acquisition and organically to $200 million in revenue across the US, Spain and Latin America over a period of 3 years.

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Jessie Chimni, Vice President Consulting Services, Bristlecone America

Jessie has over 17 years of professional experience in the areas of supply chain management and business intelligence processes and solutions, particularly in the electronics, semiconductor and CPG industries. Prior to joining Bristlecone in 2000, Jessie held various management positions at SeeCommerce, a supply chain visibility software company, KPMG and Nestle.

At Bristlecone, Jessie leads all client engagement activities at Bristlecone America. He also serves as co-leader for the high technology area of Americas SAP User Group (ASUG), and is a regular presenter at supply chain management conferences.

Jessie received a Bachelor’s degree in Economic (Honors) from Punjab University, and a Master’s degree in Management Studies from Carleton University.

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Prashant Karkhanis, Vice President, Consulting Services, Bristlecone International

Prashant has over 20 years of experience in manufacturing, manufacturing systems implementation and business consulting. Prashant has played key leadership roles at Bristlecone since its inception. He has overseen many successful project implementations as Projects Director, managed Bristlecone’s consulting activities in the areas of supply chain strategy and implementation and has served as Vice President, Sales & Solutions for Bristlecone in the Asia/Pacific region.

Prashant brings a unique mix of years of real-world manufacturing experience and systems design and implementation expertise to Bristlecone, and has been instrumental in developing a similar experience mix among Bristlecone’s formidable consulting team.

Prashant holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from VJTI in Mumbai, India.

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Satish Moorjani, Process Consulting, Bristlecone International
Satishhas over 30 years of rich experience in a variety of industries including Automotive, Consumer Packaged Goods, Industrial, and International Trading and Projects. Most recently, Satish was Vice President, Supply Chain at Mahindra and Mahindra’s Farm Equipment Sector, where he spearheaded their SCM journey, including initiatives such as change management, organizational re-structuring, business process re-engineering and alignment of performance metrics across the supply chain.

Satish's educational credentials include a Bachelor of Technology degree from IIT Delhi, and a PGDM (the equivalent of an MBA) from IIM Calcutta. He also recently completed a course in Global Leadership at Carnegie Mellon University.

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