Notable Kamma IT Proffesionals:

SatyaNadella:
As president of the Servers and Tools Business (STB) at Microsoft, SatyaNadella is accountable for the overall business and technical vision, strategy, operations, engineering and marketing for Microsoft's $15 billion business. STB is responsible for Microsoft infrastructure software, developer tools and cloud platform, including products such as Windows Server, SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center and the Windows Azure Platform.

Nadella and his team are tasked with leading Microsoft's enterprise transformation into the cloud and providing the technology roadmap and vision for the future of business computing, while helping our customers and partners make the transition to the cloud platform by providing the necessary solutions, services and tools. Focusing on IT professionals and developers, STB is also chartered with providing Microsoft's enterprise technology roadmap for the company's largest customers and industry partners worldwide, to address some of their most challenging business and computing needs.

Prior to that, he was senior vice president of R&D for the Online Services Division, which includes the Search (Bing), Portal (MSN) and Advertising platforms. In that role, Nadella was responsible for the technical vision and engineering of some of the largest web services and cloud infrastructure on the planet, serving hundreds of millions of customers each day around the world, as well as providing advertisers with a scale search and display platform to connect with customers and grow their businesses.

Nadella joined Microsoft in 1992. Prior to joining the Online Services Division, he led Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS), which develops and markets the Microsoft Dynamics line of ERP and CRM products. Prior to that, he spent several years leading engineering efforts in Microsoft's Server group. Before joining Microsoft, Nadella was a member of the technology staff at Sun Microsystems Inc.

A native of Hyderabad (India), Nadella has a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Mangalore University, a master's degree in computer science from the University of Wisconsin and an MBA from the University of Chicago. He and his wife have three children and reside in Washington state.

Dr.KrishnaMikkilineni:
Dr. Krishna Mikkilineni is the Senior Vice President, Engineeringand Operations, Honeywell International Inc, and is responsible forthe company’s worldwide engineering and integrated supply chainorganizations. He is the member of the executive managementteam.Mr. Mikkilineni is also the President of Honeywell Technology Solutions (HTS) worldwide, with over 8000 engineers providingbusiness oriented total solutions to Honeywell businesses in theareas of Aerospace, Automation and Control Solutions, Specialty Materials andTransportation Systems. His association with Honeywell dates back to more than two andhalf decades.

Mr. Mikkilinenihas been instrumental in leading the globalization initiatives, establishingglobal processes, develop competency to successfully initiate and execute global projects andleverage ecosystems in emerging regions for Honeywell.As a visionary leader, Mr. Mikkilineni has developed many leaders throughout theorganization. As a firm believer of continuous improvement, he led HTS to achieve SEI-CMMI Level 5 rating, PCMM Level 5 rating, AS9100, BS7799, ISO9001-2000, ISO14001quality standards, besides many other quality certifications. Mikkilineni holds a bachelor of engineering in electronics and communications and receiveda Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Florida. He also serves as the chairman of the engineering services forum for NASSCOM, theChamber of Commerce for engineering, IT and IT enabled services in India.

Raj Koneru:
Raj Koneru (CEO – Kony Solutions) is an experienced entrepreneur with a record of success, an eye for market needs, and an ability to bring teams together, from technical developers to sales. He has over 18 years of experience delivering to global enterprise business requirements. He co-founded Intelligroup (NASDAQ: ITIG) which grew to a $200m company over five years under his leadership. He also built Seranova (NASDAQ: SERA) which he grew to about $100m in revenues within 2.5 years and was sold in 2001. Raj co-founded a BPO company, iTouchPoint, which was sold in 2005. Raj has a masters in management from BITS, Pilani, India.

Raj Vattikuti:
Currently Chairman of Vattikuti Ventures, Raj Vattikuti is investing in global technology companies. Mr. Vattikuti shares his knowledge with these companies and provides strategy and growth aspects to increase their success in the business world.

Prior to retiring from CSC on May 29, 2009, Raj Vattikuti was the Group President for Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC – India). Mr. Vattikuti spearheaded CSC India which has an employee strength of over 16,000 today. In 1985, Mr. Vattikuti founded Covansys with five employees which offered complete global consulting and technology services specializing in industry specific solutions, strategic outsourcing and integration services. Prior to the sale of Covansys to Computer Sciences Corporation in July 2007, Covansys had over 8,000 employees worldwide.

In February 2007, Mr. Vattikuti was honored with the prestigious Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship. In addition Mr. Vattikuti received the Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the Information Technology industry from Dykema Gossett at the third annual Michigan IT Summit in May 2001.

Mr. Vattikuti holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the College of Engineering, Guindy (India) and a Master of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Wayne State University. Mr. Vattikuti also holds an honorary doctorate in Business Administration from Bryant College.

Dr. JakkampudiAdiseshaiahChowdary:
JA Chowdary is the former president of TiE and NVIDIA Graphics India. As Director of STPIs in Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad, Chowdary played a key role in the spurt of outsourced software development and the setting up of many an Indian operation of Multi-National companies. He has also held key positions in industry circles and has been championing the growth of IT in Andhra Pradesh.

J AChowdary has been on the board of IIIT, Hyderabad, and has been an advisor to IT task force for e-governance initiatives of the State. He is the President of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) and has also served as a Chairman IEEE Hyderabad section, American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) Hyderabad Chapter and President of Hyderabad Software Exporters Association (HYSEA) . He did M.Techprogramme at IIT (Chennai).

Ravi Sreekanth:
Sreekanth Ravi is the Founder and Chairman of Code Green Networks. Sreekanth co-founded the company in 2004 and has been the driving force behind the company’s market-leading solutions for protecting customer data and safeguarding intellectual property. Prior to Code Green, Sreekanth was Co-Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of SonicWALL (NASDAQ: SNWL), a leading provider of Internet security solutions from 1991 to 2002. Sreekanth led the company through a successful Initial Public Offering in 1999 and a secondary public offering in 2000, growing the company profitably to 500+ staff and an installed base of over 500,000 security appliances through a worldwide channel of 10,000+ VARs.Sreekanth holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. (The September 2004 issue of Fortune magazine featured Sreekanth Ravi in 35th place (WEALTH $131 million AGE 37) of the 40 richest people under 40).

Ravi Sudhakar:
Sudhakar Ravi is the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Code Green Networks. Sudhakar co-founded the company in 2004 and has been the technical visionary and architect behind the company’s market-leading solutions for protecting customer data and safeguarding intellectual property. Prior to Code Green, Sudhakar was Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer, and Vice President of Engineering at SonicWALL (NASDAQ: SNWL), a leading provider of Internet security solutions from 1991 to 2002. At SonicWALL, Sudhakar led the design and development of comprehensive Internet security solutions used today by companies of all sizes to protect their networks and to provide secure remote access connectivity. Sudhakar holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. (The September 2004 issue of Fortune magazine featured Sudhakar Ravi in 29th place (WEALTH $137.1 million AGE 39) of the 40 richest people under 40).

Ravi Arimilli:
Ravi Arimilli is patently the king of inventions and innovations in the world of high-tech research.

Ravi Arimilli (born 1963) is an IBM Fellow and Chief Architect. Largely responsible for development of the POWER5, he is one of the most prolific inventors in the world, being awarded 78 patents in 2002 and a further 53 in 2003. He has won IBM's Inventor of the Year award each year since 1998. He is the youngest IBM Fellow. He has 300 patents to his name and is currently listed among the top 10 patent holders alive in the USA.

Arimilli moved with his family to the United States from Andhra Pradesh, India, in 1969. He studied at Louisiana State University, and joined IBM in 1985. He is regarded as IBM's leading expert on symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) system structures, cache/memory hierarchies and system bus protocols.

IBM Fellow and Chief Architect, eServers, Ravi Arimilli, named Asian American Engineer of the Year - 2004 by the Chinese Institute of Engineers in the U.S. IBM's Ravi Arimilli is one of the 25 most influential senior IT managers in the world, according to InfoWorld's CTO forum. Ravi Arimilli bagged the first slot in 2005.

An IBM Fellow is the highest technical position an IBM researcher can reach. The importance of an IBM Fellow can be gauged from the fact that, so far, five have received Nobel Prizes (Georg Bednorz, Gerd Binnig, Leo Esaki, Alex Miller, HeinrichRihrer) and four have been inducted into the national inventors' Hall of Fame in the US.

MadhuYarlagadda:
MadhuYarlagadda was most recently the Chief Development Officer of Skype. He was with Yahoo since 1999 and has held several key leadership positions. Currently he is the VP of Engineering for ICE (Integrated Consumer Experiences). He leads the engineering effort for Yahoo! Home Page world’s most visited web page, MyYahoo, Buzz, Profiles, ToolBar, Mobile, Maps and Local. Most recently he led the effort to unite 35+ different code bases of Yahoo! home page for each of the different countries around the world into a single manageable code base.

Before taking on this current role, Madhu was the VP of engineering for Yahoo communities (2003 to 2007) that included Yahoo! messenger, Voice (VoIP), Video, Flickr and Yahoo! Groups. In this role, he was instrumental in enabling Yahoo messenger to become the largest messaging client in the US, surpassing ICQ, AIM, MSN Messenger and Google Talk.

Prior to joining Yahoo, Madhu served as founder, president and CEO of MyQuest, Inc., a real-time messaging company acquired by Yahoo in 1999. Earlier in his career, Madhu also served as founder and CTO of ISSG, an enhanced telecommunications application provider. While at ISSG, Madhu was responsible for establishing successful relationships with major telecommunications providers such as Lucent Technologies, and he helped develop a large customer base which includes Airtouch, SBC, AT&T, Bell Atlantic, SNET, USWest, Korea Telecom, Centennial, Global Telecom and Telesp.

Krishna Yarlagadda:
As the President & CEO of HelloSoft, Krishna is responsible for setting HelloSoft's mission, formulating corporate strategy and executing a plan for the company's overall growth. Under Krishna's leadership, HelloSoft became market leader in wireless VoIP and related technologies.

Prior to starting HelloSoft, Krishna was Chairman, President & CEO of ZSP, where he pioneered the development of DSP's based on RISC technology. ZSP was acquired by LSI Logic, and it's industry leading DSP architecture has been adopted by major semiconductor companies including Broadcom, IBM, Connexant, GlobespanVirata, Skyworks, Yamaha and PMC-Sierra.

A seasoned entrepreneur, Krishna has been involved with several successful companies as investor, advisor or board member - nBand (acquired by Proxim), a communications processor company, Silicon Spice (acquired by Broadcom), vEngines (acquired by Centillium), Intoto (acquired by Freescale), Valyd (acquired by EMC) and eSilicon.

Krishna held key management and technical positions in the SPARC processor division of Sun Microsystems and was a key player in successful launch of four SPARC processors (UltraSPARC I & II, SuperSPARC I & II). Krishna is a frequently invited speaker on DSP architecture and technology, and a contributor on DSP to industry journals such as Microprocessor report, Computer design, and EEtimes. Krishna has a B.S and MS in Electrical Engineering.

RajkumarVelagapudi:
RajkumarVelagapudi is the President of Infrastructure Services Business Unit at MphasiS. His vision is to create an IT infrastructure services portfolio that enables core business transactions in a faster, cheaper, reliable and secure manner.

Raj has over 20 years of experience in IT industry. Prior to assuming this role, Raj was the CEO and President of Fortify Infrastructure Services, a leading global provider of Infrastructure Services. Prior to founding Fortify in 2008, he served as the President of Ness Innovative Business Services, and was involved in corporate development, strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and drove the consolidation of Ness’ India delivery centers on to a single operational platform of 3,000 resources.

Raj holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Madras, India.

HariSurapaneni:
Mr. HariSurapaneni is President and CEO, Solar Semiconductor. Mr. Hari has been a Silicon Valley veteran with over twenty five years’ experience in the technology industry. He worked in various engineering leadership positions in VLSI development of Communications and Processor products at National Semiconductor Corporation, Amdahl Corporation, TRW Defense Systems before he founded Chiplogic in 1997. Chiplogic was a Network Processor company for the Customer Premises Equipment market designed to carry multi-service traffic (voice, video and data) over the broadband pipe to the premises. Chiplogic was acquired by Analog Devices, Inc at the beginning of 2001 and Hari joined ADI as Senior Product Line Director of the Network Media Platforms Product Line. In this role Hari grew the service provider-focused business, addressing IP communications and triple play strategies including IP STB strategies.

Solar Semiconductor was founded by Mr. HariSurapaneni and Mr. VenkatKode in 2006. With offices in California, Dubai and state of the art PV module manufacturing facilities in India, Solar Semiconductor is an internationally known Systems Integration company that specializes in promoting, designing, building and maintaining Solar Photovoltaic (PV) power plants in the US and rest of the world. In only its first full year of production, SSL has built up PV module manufacturing capacity of nearly 200 MW, achieved approximately $95 M in sales and provided employment to over 900 people globally.

Mr. Hari holds an MSCS from Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai and an MSCE from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX.

SuneilMandava:
SuneilMandava is the Founder and CEO of Mobile Aspects, Inc. Initially exposed to the potential for improving inefficient and time consuming processes within healthcare through early experiences at Johns Hopkins Hospital, in 2000 Mr. Mandava sought to address these issues through radio frequency identification (RFID) technology by founding Mobile Aspects, Inc. Since that time, Mr. Mandava has overseen the rapid growth of the organization, providing overall strategic direction for business and product development while also managing day-to-day operations of the company. During this time, Mr. Mandava has guided Mobile Aspects to becoming an innovative leader in the application of RFID technology to create operational and financial improvement for healthcare providers. Now a global company with corporate offices in Pittsburgh, Pa., and Bangalore, India, Mobile Aspects is providing RFID enabled technology solutions to hospitals across the country.

ManniKantipudi :
ManniKantipudi joined GVK BIO as the President in 2007. He brings a unique blend of services, international management and product development experience. He has done his Bachelors in Computer Engineering and Masters in Computer Science. He has spent 15 years with Intel Corporation in various leadership positions in the US and Asia. He was responsible for setting up Intel's engineering presence in India. He was CIO of Intel for Asia where he managed a large team of professionals servicing the IT needs of the greater Asia region. He was Director of Software for Intel's Centrino product line (one of the most successful product lines for Intel) where he brought to market successful products in high volume.

BabuMandava:
BabuMandava is Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Beceem Communications, Inc. Mandava has more than twenty-two years of experience in the semiconductor industry. Prior to co-founding Beceem, Mandava was a co-founder of Centillium Communications, a semiconductor company well known for product innovations in ADSL and VOIP. At Centillium, Mandava played a key role in the design and architecture of the SIMD/VLIW DSP processor that enabled Centillium to introduce breakthrough industry-first products like multi-channel ADSL modem and high density VOIP chips. Mandava obtained an M.S.E.E. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and is the named inventor on five U.S. patents. Mandava has had several articles published in the areas of design for testability and fault tolerant processor design.

SrideviKoneru:
SrideviKoneruRao is a director of Product Management for the Cisco Wireless Technology business unit. She moved into the role in 2010 after returning to the US from 2 years working abroad in India on international assignment for Cisco. In India, she served as the General Manager for the Cisco Wireless Networking Business team while also managing the India-based Wireless Research & Development (R&D) team for Cisco in Bangalore. During that time, she led market development in the Asia Pacific region and grew the India R&D team from 50 - 80 people and then through a merge with another business unit, resulting in a 150-person team.

From 2006-2008, while serving as the Director of Engineering for Cisco's Wireless Networking business unit, she earned her Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from Wharton Business School. She is a former member of the Cisco Diversity and Talent Development Board and started the India Connection Network, a Cisco employee-resource group.

RekhaGarapati:
RekhaGarapati is the Director of the IBM India Software Lab Pune, with responsibility for the development & support of IBM Lotus & Tivoli brands. In this role, she leads the second largest development lab for IBM India. She established the first Service Management Excellence Center and Lotus Center for Advanced Collaboration to support AP customers. Rekha has held various leadership positions in IBM software development and strategy prior to this role in the US. Recently as Program Director, she led the High Performance On Demand Solutions (HiPODS) teams in UK, China, Japan, India & Brazil. Rekha has worked closely with several large Fortune 100 companies, with deep expertise in service management, SOA and ERP systems.

Ram Velaga:
RamVelaga is Vice President, Product Management, Cisco Systems. Ram Velaga leads the Product Management team for Nexus 7000 and NX-OS. His previous responsibilities included Nexus 1000, Cisco Blade Switching Portfolio, and the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series. He has 10+ years of experience in the networking industry.

Shankar Vemulapalli:
Shankar, is a Technical Leader at Cisco Systems. As a lead architect, Shankar has worked on some of the largest MPLS deployments both in the Service Provider and Enterprise accounts. His expertise includes: Routing Protocols (OSPF, IS-IS & BGP), MPLS-VPNs, MPLS-TE. He is a frequent contributor both internal to Cisco and Customer facing and external forums like APRICOT, NANOG . Also, he has contributed to several IETF RFCs on IS-IS and has written several white papers that are posted to Cisco.com website.

Raj Talluri:
Raj TalluriVice President of Product ManagementQualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT)RajTalluri serves as vice president of product management for Qualcomm CDMATechnologies (QCT). He is responsible for managing Qualcomm’s Applications Processortechnologies and wired connectivity solutions for the Company’s chipset platforms.

Talluri has nearly eighteen years of experience that spans across business management, strategicmarketing, and engineering management. He began his career at Texas Instruments working onmedia processing in the Corporate Research Labs. While at Texas Instruments, Raj startedmultiple new business in digital consumer electronics and wireless technologies. He served asthe General Manager of the Imaging and Audio Business for five years leading the developmentof a successful digital signal processing technologies for various consumer electronics devices. Later on Raj was named General Manager of the Cellular Media Solution business in TI’sWireless Terminals Business Unit. In this role, Raj led the successful launch of TI’ OMAP3 andOMAP4 (applications processors) platforms for Smartphones.

Talluri holds a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He alsoholds a Master’s of Engineering from Anna University in Chennai, India and a Bachelor’s ofEngineering from Andhra University in Waltair, India. He has published over 35 journalarticles, papers, and book chapters in many of the leading electrical engineering publications. Hehas been granted 13 U.S. patents on image processing, video compression, and media processorarchitectures. Talluri has lectured on multi-media silicon solutions and image processing atindustry forums and at invited talks throughout the country.

LaliteshKatragadda:
LaliteshKatragadda is co-founder Google India, working on geo-data, machine vision, machine learning and space robotics. Before joining Google, Lalitesh founded a robotics startup that was acquired by Google. At Google, Lalitesh co-founded Google India and was its founding Joint Center Head for two years. He co-started several projects including Google Finance and Hindi Transliteration, and is now working on maps.