Advisory Board Members
Sridar Iyengar
Sridar Iyengar is the President of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) in Silicon Valley. Previously he was the Partner-in-Charge of KPMG's Emerging Business Practice. He has had a number of leadership roles within KPMG's global organization particularly in setting up and growing new practices. He has the unique distinction of having worked as a partner in all three of KPMG's regions - Europe, America and Asia Pacific - as well as in all four of KPMG's functional disciplines - assurance, tax, consulting and financial advisory services. He was Chairman and CEO of KPMG's India operations between 1997 and 2000 and during that period was a member of the Executive Board of KPMG's Asia Pacific practice. Prior to that he headed up the International Services practice in the West Coast. On his return from India in 2000 he was asked to lead a major effort of KPMG focused on delivering audit and advisory services to early stage companies. He served as a member of the Audit Strategy group of KPMG LLP. He was with KPMG from 1968 until his retirement in March 2002. Sridar is the Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, holds Bachelor Degree in Commerce (Honors) from University of Calcutta and has attended the Executive Education course at Stanford.
Derek Scoble
Derek brings 24 years of rich experience from the IT industry within commercial, federal and state government arenas. As a specialist in high-profile, challenged project domains he is recognized for his direct and decisive management style. Derek has extensive business and project management experience, with specialties in decision support tool development, risk management, Software Quality Assurance, Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V), methodologies and standards development, and all aspects of software and systems testing.
He is an accomplished speaker who has presented IT management and Governance related topics at various conferences like the International Test and Evaluation (ITEA) World Conference, University of Montana, and NASSCOM Quality Summit in Bangalore, India. Before joining Digité, Derek was PMO Director and IT Process architect within the IT Services Division of State of Montana.
Derek received a Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Computer Information Systems, from National University, San Diego, California and a Masters of Science in Information Systems, from Western International University, Phoenix, Arizona. He also holds a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification and membership from the Project Management Institute (PMI) and is a member of the IEEE Standards Association and Computer Society. He is also serves on the National Association of State CIO’s (NASCIO’s) IT Business Case Subcommittee.