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Ashok
Santhanam joins Bristlecone as President &CEO
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July
13, 2006
SAN JOSE, CALIF, July 13, 2006 - Bristlecone,
a leading global business process and enterprise
technology consulting firm, today announced
the appointment of Ashok Santhanam as its
President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr.
Santhanam takes over from Padman Ramankutty,
a co-founder of Bristlecone, who continued
as CEO after its acquisition by Mahindra &
Mahindra Ltd. in 2004, and recently resigned
to pursue entrepreneurial interests.
Mr. Santhanam has over 25 years 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 until its acquisition by
SSA Global. Before Epiphany, Mr. Santhanam
was Managing Director of Santhanam Consulting,
providing strategy consulting services to
clients in the enterprise IT, technology services
and technology-enabled services sectors. During
this period, he also served on the board of
Mahindra Consulting, Inc. and advised the
Mahindra Group on its acquisition of Bristlecone.
Earlier, Mr. Santhanam 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. Under his leadership, Inventa grew
to $60 million in annualized revenues and
attracted financing from premier Silicon Valley
venture capital firms. Mr. Santhanam also
founded two other services companies - 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
which was acquired by vMoksha Technologies
in 2002. He began his career with Gould Inc.,
a Fortune 500 technology company, where he
rose to head operations for one of its major
divisions. He received an MBA with Distinction
from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor
of Technology degree from the Indian Institute
of Technology, Madras.
Commenting on Mr. Santhanam's appointment,
Mr. Ulhas N. Yargop, Vice Chairman of the
Bristlecone board and President, Telecom &
Software Sector at Mahindra & Mahindra
Ltd, said, "Ashok is a seasoned entrepreneur
and corporate executive who already knows
Bristlecone well. I am very pleased that Ashok
has joined Bristlecone and look forward to
its next phase of growth and success under
Ashok's leadership."
"I'm very excited to take on this new
challenge", said Mr. Santhanam. "I've
always had a strong belief in the promise
of the Bristlecone and Mahindra combination,
and I look forward to working with the Bristlecone
team to realize that promise in the coming
years." |
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