MUMBAI: Bristlecone,
a global business process and enterprise technology consulting firm, today
announced the appointment of Ashok Santhanam as its new president and chief
executive officer.
Santhanam takes over from Padman Ramankutty, a co-founder of the original
Bristlecone who continued as CEO after its acquisition by Mahindra &
Mahindra Limited in 2004, who resigned to pursue entrepreneurial interests.
Santhanam has over 25 years experience leading technology product and service
businesses. Most recently, he was senior vice president, Worldwide Field
Operations at Epiphany. Before Epiphany, 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 served on the board of Bristlecone predecessor Mahindra
Consulting Inc., introduced Bristlecone to Mahindra and advised Mahindra on its
acquisition of Bristlecone.
Earlier, 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. Santhanam also founded two other services
companies, including 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 received an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School and a B.Tech.
degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
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