Manoj Kunkalienkar
Manoj completed his education from IIT Bombay, India’s premier institute, with B. Tech in Electrical Engineering and M. Tech in Computer Science.
Manoj specializes in application system performance consulting and has improved performance of various applications in sectors namely the Banking, Finance and Insurance sector. He has also contributed through his skill set as a Consultant to prestigious organizations such as IIT Bombay, MTNL, Rashtriya Chemical Fertilizers Limited.
In early years of his life after graduating from IIT, Manoj worked for Patni (now IGate) before branching on his own as an entrepreneur. The venture grew leaps and bound from single person organization to one with more than 45 employees before it was merged with ICICI Infotech Ltd (now 3i Infotech Ltd).
At 3i Infotech his focus was on handling the software development. He was elevated to the board and his responsibility included global technology services business, top and bottom line responsibility for Indian geography and support services like quality, PMO etc.
After 3i Infotech, he was entrusted with a role of MD & CEO at Saraswat Infotech where he transformed SIL from an inward focused services company (providing services to the parent) to customer focused organization by offering bouquet of products and services.
Manoj is on the Board Technology Committees of National Securities Depository Ltd. (NSDL) and National Commodity Exchange Ltd.(NCDEX)
Vijay Khare
Vijay is a professional with a vision always striving for perfection. He completed his Masters in Computer Sciences from IIT Bombay post completion of his BE in Electrical Engineering from VNIT, Nagpur.
Vijay is an industry stalwart with more than 30 years of experience in IT consulting across all verticals starting from software development and support to being a part of executive management team.
He started his career at Patni Computer Systems where he spent most part of professional life. At Patni he started his career in software development and support team. In last 10 years of his tenure with the organization he was a part of Patni’s Executive Management. Vijay played a number of different roles during this tenure. He led the business units for Insurance as well as Growth Industry Verticals where he was the Chief Delivery Officer and Chief Administrative Officer to the company. For the last 2 years, he played the role of Global Quality and Solution Head.
During his tenure with Patni, Vijay was instrumental in creating the first $100MM customer for the company, led a business transformation program called Propel which improved the company bottom line by 500 bps, created a number of solutions and platforms for the company to drive non-linear growth and built an Enterprise Risk Management system as well as a number of methodologies enabling a robust global delivery engine.
Post the acquisition of Patni by iGATE, he was part of the IGATE executive management in his roles as Head of Consulting and Solutions and later as an iTOPS Evangelist.