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Ashok Santhanam
President & Chief Executive Officer

Kulashekar Raghavan
Vice President, Finance and Administration

Thomas Genazzio
Vice President, Sales and Marketing, North America

Jessie Chimni
Vice President, Consulting Services, Bristlecone America

Prashant Karkhanis
Vice President, Operations

Sanjay Bonde
Vice President, Europe

Satish Moorjani
Vice President and General Manager, Asia Pacific

Irfan Khan
Vice President and General Manager, Bristlecone Labs


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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Kulashekar Raghavan, Vice President, Finance and Administration
Kulashekhar joined Bristlecone in 2004, and was responsible for finance for our Americas operations until he was promoted to his current role in 2008. Prior to Bristlecone, he has held a variety of roles in finance and accounting at Mahindra & Mahindra since 1986.

Kulashekhar 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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Thomas Genazzio, Vice President, Sales and Marketing, North America
Tom is responsible for business development, marketing, and alliances for North America. He has over 25 years of experience in marketing technology solutions and professional services to Fortune 1000 companies, including establishing and managing sales organizations, penetration of new markets, major account programs, and strategic planning. During his career, Tom has assisted numerous clients to transform their businesses by successfully deploying ERP and supply chain management solutions on both the supply and demand sides, involving operations improvement in such areas as advanced planning, sales and operations planning, MRP, logistics, inventory optimization, warehouse management, and strategic sourcing.

Prior to joining Bristlecone, Tom was Vice President and General Manager at Cambridge Solutions responsible for all North American business including Enterprise Solutions, Packaged Applications, and Custom Software Development. Earlier, Tom held a variety of management positions at BearingPoint, including Managing Director in their Commercial Services business responsible for sales to discrete manufacturing, aerospace & defense, and high technology industries. His prior experience includes three technology startups including EagleSoft, an ISV of warehouse management, and logistics systems where Tom was a founder and principal. Tom holds a BSBA in Management and an MBA in Marketing from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

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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, Operations

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, Operations 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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Sanjay Bonde, Vice President, Europe

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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Satish Moorjani, Vice President and General Manager, Asia Pacific

Satish has 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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Irfan Khan, Vice President and General Manager, Bristlecone Labs

Irfan Khan is responsible for worldwide sales, business development, services delivery and client relationship management for Bristlecone Labs, a business unit of Bristlecone. Bristlecone Labs provides product development and testing services to SAP, Oracle and other leading software companies.

Irfan joined Bristlecone in January 2002 as Director of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and since then held several key responsibilities, including setting up the first India operation and successfully creating a new line of integration business with Global ISV’s. Prior to Bristlecone, he was the Senior Director, Sales and Operations, for Sutherland Global Services, a leading multi-national BPO/Development Service provider with over 17,000 employees focused on the financial and telecom markets. Mr. Khan has previously worked for Microsoft and Hughes Network Systems.

Irfan has over 16 years of distributed consulting experience. He serves on the Advisory Board of several enterprise software and service organizations. Having started and grown outsourced software divisions for companies in the US, Europe and India, he is a frequent advisor to companies on offshore outsourcing as a strategic tool for Senior Management.

He earned an MBA from S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research, India with specialization in International Business and holds an undergraduate degree in Engineering.

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