Board of Directors

The current board of directors are:

K.B.Chandrasekar	Chairman
V. Chandrasekaran	Managing Director
Sunil Gulati	Director
Somshankar Das	Director
V.R.Govindarajan	Director
A.V.Sridhar	Director

Members of the Committees of the Board

The present members of the various Board Committees are:
Compensation Committee:

• Mr Sunil Gulati
• Mr Somshankar Das
• Mr A. V. Sridhar

Audit Committee:

• Mr Sunil Gulati
• Mr Somshankar Das
• Mr A. V. Sridhar

Investor Grievance Committee:

• Mr. Somshankar Das
• Mr. K. B. Chandrasekhar
• Mr. Sunil Gulati

Share Transfer Committee:

• Mr. Somshankar Das
• Mr. K. B. Chandrasekhar
• Mr. Sunil Gulati

K.B. Chandrasekhar - Chairman

K.B. Chandrasekhar("Chandra") is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Aztecsoft & Technology Services Limited. He is actively involved in assisting entrepreneurs and is currently associated with more than 20 projects in which he has invested. Chandra co-founded and is Chairman of e4e Inc., a global technology holding company and full-service operating enterprise. In addition to his leadership role in e4e, Chandra is also the co-founder, CEO,and Chairman of Jamcracker, Inc., an ondemand software company.

Seeing the need for research and development in the areas of information sciences and life sciences, the AU-KBC Research Centre (Anna University - K.B.Chandrasekhar Research Centre) was set up in 1999 at the Madras Institute of Technology(MIT) campus of Anna University, as a collaborative venture between Anna University, Chennai (Madras), and the K.B.Chandrasekhar Family Foundation.

In 1994, Chandra identified the potential of the Internet and founded Exodus Communications. The company went public in March of 1998 in one of the most successful IPO's of 1998, and in 1999 Chandra was honored as the Ernst & Young Northern California Entrepreneur of the Year.

Chandra started his first entrepreneurial venture in 1992 with Fouress, Inc., a network software design and development firm. Its clients included Sun Microsystems, Adaptec, Toshiba and Lockheed. Within two years, Fouress was a highly profitable company with sales of $1 million per year.

In 1990, Chandra moved to the United States as country manager for Rolta India Ltd., where he was responsible for business development, marketing, and software consulting services for software developers and end users. At Rolta, he generated major new accounts including Ford, DEC, ScanOptics and Borland. Chandra began his career in 1983 at Wipro as a customer support engineer. During his seven years at Wipro, he advanced through various sales, marketing, and support functions including building highly available networks for satellite applications and managing marketing for its European clients.
Chandra holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from Anna University.

V. Chandrasekaran - Managing Director

V. Chandrasekaran (VC) comes with 23 years of experience in Service Industry and has a track record of turning around businesses under his command. VC was the President of Wipro technologies (Enterprise division) during 1992-1999 and during this period the Wipro software unit under him grew from an obscure $3 M to $150M and was the largest profit producer of the Wipro corporation. VC championed the public issue of Mascot systems Ltd and grew the business from $40 M to $75 M in one year. VC also worked as General Manager Customer Service in Modi -Xerox (1985-89) where was responsible for their national support.

VC has several achievements to his credit, the first to steer his organization to SEI level 5, the recipient of the prestigious Golden Peacock award for Quality, Service sector (1995), the champion of the WASE program of WIPRO etc.

VC is a graduate from I.I.T.Madras (1970).

Sunil Gulati - Director

Sunil Gulati is presently the Group President - Risk Management & Corporate Development at Yes Bank Limited.
Sunil Gulati was Managing Director & Head of Investment Banking - India for ING Barings & COO of GE Capital. He has over 17 years of experience in the investment banking industry including 12 years with Bank of America both in India and overseas.

With Bank of America, Sunil Gulati headed their investment banking efforts in India since 1997. Prior to that, he was based in Hong Kong for over five years with responsibilities for the bank's investment banking activities in north Asia. He also handled strategy and corporate M&A exercises for the bank throughout the Asia-Pacific region, including the divestment of the bank's subsidiaries and branches in Malaysia, Thailand and Australia.

Sunil has also worked with Standard Chartered Merchant Bank and with the management consultancy division of A. F. Ferguson & Co. in India.
Sunil has been actively involved in the technology and telecom sector in India, and has senior level relationships with major players in the industry and financial institutions.Sunil holds a B.Tech in Electronics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Somshankar Das - Director

Somshankar Das (Som) is the co-founder, President and CEO of e4e Inc., a technology financing and holding company focused on building a portfolio of Internet technology-based infrastructure companies, which provide outsourced services to corporate customers in the New Economy. Som is currently a Director on the Board of WebEx. Prior to co-founding e4e, Som was a General Partner at the Walden International Investment Group (WIIG), an international venture capital firm with operations in USA and Asia. In that capacity, he co-founded WIIG operations in India, where he specialized in the semiconductor, software, IT service and Internet infrastructure industries. Prior to joining WIIG, Som was the Director for Worldwide Business Development at VLSI Technology, and has over 12 years of management experience in the US semiconductor industry. Previously, he was an officer of the Indian Administrative Service for over 11 years. As Director for Industries in Mumbai, he promoted inward investments and facilitated the implementation of industrial projects in Maharashtra State. Som holds a master's degree in science, physics and mathematics from Calcutta University and an MBA from Stanford University.

V. R. Govindrajan - Director

V. R. Govindrajan (Govi) was Aztecsoft's Chief Technology Officer since inception, and now is a member of the board of directors. He has more than 15 years of experience in the software industry in the United States and in India and is highly experienced in the field of database systems design and development.

While on an assignment with the IBM Almaden Research Center, he helped to develop a transparent, tight integration of a DBMS with external object servers, a widely acclaimed, patent-pending technology that enables the building of enterprise Internet applications with access to legacy data.

Prior to that he was with Tata-IBM in Bangalore, India. Govi started his career with, and became a key member of a distributed database product development group at Digital Equipment Corporation (USA).

Govi holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the Indian Institute of Science and a Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

A V Sridhar - Director

A V Sridhar has more than two decades of experience in the technology industry, both as a professional and as an entrepreneur. He is currently the President and CEO of Tufan Inc., which offers a web-based collaborative platform for software development community.

He was earlier the co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Digité Inc. Prior to Digité, Mr. Sridhar founded Neta Inc, a data mining technology company which he successfully integrated with Infoseek / Disney.

As part of the initial founding team, A V Sridhar spent 16 years at Wipro, currently one of the most valuable companies in India. He has served as President of Wipro with responsibilities spanning distribution, systems integration, software services and eCommerce. At Wipro, he established partnerships with Sun Microsystems, Cisco, Cadence, Adobe, AutoDesk and TIBCO among others.

A V Sridhar holds a bachelor's degree in engineering.

 

Policies for Board Meetings

• Commit the time necessary to prepare for, attend (in person or telephonically, as appropriate) and actively participate in regular and special meetings of the Board and of the Board Committees or other meetings on which they serve/attend;
• Disclose potential conflicts of interest that they may have regarding any matters that may come before the Board, and abstain from discussion and voting on any matter in which the Director/ Senior Management Personnel has or may have a conflict of interest; and
• Inform the Chairman of the Board of changes in their employment, other board positions, relationships with other business, charitable, and governmental entities, and other events, circumstances or conditions that may interfere with their ability to perform their Board or Board Committee duties or impact the Board's assessment of whether they meet the independence requirements.