Executive Team
Executive Team Members
- A. V. Sridhar, Co-founder, President and CEO
- Raghunath Basavanahalli, Vice President - Sales
- Sudipta Lahiri, Vice President - Engineering and Professional Services
- C R Parmeshwaran, Director – Technical
- Dr. Ramesh Patil, Chief Technology Officer
- Mahesh Singh, Co-founder, Vice President - Product
- Ram Subramanian, Co-founder, Vice President - Sales
A. V. Sridhar
Co-founder, President and CEO
A. V. Sridhar is the Founder President and CEO of Digité Inc. He founded Digité to cater to the needs of organizations who find managing Global Software delivery and Services Outsourcing a challenge.
A. V. Sridhar earlier founded Neta Inc, a Valley startup focused in the area of data mining and personalization. He successfully sold the company and merged its employees with Infoseek Corporation.
Prior to that, he was a founder and President of Wipro, one of the largest market cap companies in India, focused on providing IT consulting and services, with over 5000 people and $500m revenues. AVS was part of Wipro's initial founding team, and was with them for 17 years in various top management capacities spanning distribution, systems integration, software services and eCommerce. He has managed teams ranging from start-ups to 1000 people and created business in excess of $150 million in revenues. He established partnerships with Sun Microsystems, Cisco, Cadence, Adobe, AutoDesk and TIBCO among others.
AVS is also a TiE Charter Member.
Raghunath Basavanahalli
Vice President - Sales
Raghu brings over 19 years of Sales experience in Information Technology products and services in India and the US. Raghu is responsible for Sales and Business Development for India, the Middle-East and the Asia-Pacific region.
Prior to Digité's, Raghu was with Infosys Technologies and HCL Technologies where he was responsible for creating and managing key accounts. Apart from sales and relationship management, Raghu has experience in strategy planning, operations and large change management programs.
He started his career with HCL Hewlett Packard in India where he was a Regional Sales Manager responsible for the sales of system integration solutions to large corporate customers.
Raghu holds a Bachelor's degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi.
Sudipta Lahiri
Vice President - Engineering and Professional Services
Sudipta (Sudi) has been in the IT industry for over 18 years working with leading services providers like Wipro, HCL Technologies and i2. He is responsible for Digité's product development, presales and implementations.
Prior to joining Digité, Sudi was handling the offshore services organization for i2. At i2, he was responsible for its Americas delivery organization. He was also responsible for Retail, Logistics and Technology Infrastructure practices. Sudi also led the QMG initiative for the i2 India services organization. Before i2, Sudi spent 10 years with HCL Technologies. At HCLT, he played multiple roles - from services delivery to leading sales teams. Sudi was responsible for HCLT America's Insurance vertical. Sudi started his career at Wipro where he worked for 5 years in different roles across geographies.
Sudi holds a Master's degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras.
C R Parmeshwaran
Director – Technical
Param has over 19 years of experience in managing software development for the IT industry. Param is responsible for Digité's Technology Services Division and handles complex technology solutions for strategic accounts. With a deep understanding of the product domain, technology issues and complimentary leadership skills, Param has been instrumental in solving challenging business problems for multiple Digite customers by applying the various Digité solutions to the specific needs of the customer.
Prior to this, Param headed Digité's Engineering team.
Before Digité, Param has had successful stints with companies like Infosys, PCS and CMC where he managed projects for a number of Indian and multinational companies and delivered excellent results.
Param holds a Bachelor's degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur.
Dr. Ramesh Patil
Chief Technology Officer
Ramesh brings to Digité over 30 years of rich experience as an academician, entrepreneur and technologist. Ramesh is a pioneer in the field of Artificial Intelligence and its application to medicine and has served on the faculty of Computer Science at MIT and University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute.
In 1997, Ramesh was lured into entrepreneurship and joined Rightworks; a provider of B2B e-business applications. Ramesh served as the CTO from its inception till the year 2000 when the company was bought over by i2 Technologies. At i2, Ramesh was VP Technology and Technology Strategy till 2004. Ramesh holds a bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, a master's degree from IIT Kanpur and a Ph.D in Computer Sciences from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He is also a fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) and was the Editor-in-Chief of AI Magazine from 1991-96.
Mahesh Singh
Co-founder, Vice President - Product
Mahesh brings over 20 years of Product Management/ Delivery and Business Development experience to Digité. Mahesh is responsible for Product Management, Marketing, and Professional Services for North America and Europe.
Prior to this, Mahesh co-founded Aravali Technologies, a Silicon Valley e-consulting company, and as COO, managed Services Delivery and Operations, till Aravali’s successful acquisition by an India-based publicly owned company.
Before Aravali Technologies, Mahesh spent 5 years with HCL America, where he managed business development and delivery of offshore software projects for its West Coast operations, working with Fortune 500 companies such as CIGNA, Boeing, Sun Microsystems and Compaq among others. Before that, he spent 6 years with India’s premier software company, NIIT, delivering consulting and software projects. During that period, he spent 3 challenging years in product management of PC based CASE and project management software in India.
Mahesh holds a Bachelor's Degree in Electronics Engineering from MS University and an MBA in Systems and Marketing from XLRI, India.
Ram Subramanian
Co-founder, Vice President - Sales
Ram brings in over 20 years of Sales experience in Information Technology products and services in India and the USA. Ram is responsible for Sales and Business Development for the Americas and Europe.
Prior to Digité, Ram was a co-founder and head of sales for Aravali Technologies, focused on Information Technology Services till its acquisition.
Earlier, Ram managed key accounts for HCL Technologies - a global IT services organization. Here he was involved in setting up software development outsourcing relationships with Fortune 100 companies. Ram started his career with HCL Hewlett Packard in India where he managed a business unit responsible for the sales of system integration solutions to large corporate customers.
Ram holds a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering from PSG Tech, India.