Alok Bajpai
Chief Financial Officer

Alok Bajpai serves as Intelligroup's Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Bajpai is a rank holder Chartered Accountant from India, Certified Public Accountant from the US and a Management Graduate from Manchester Business School, UK. Prior to Intelligroup he was with Infosys as their Associate Vice President and was in-charge of the entire Global Accounts function. He started his career with HCL in 1988 and worked with ICIM and Pepsico Restaurants in India before moving to Nigeria to work with a Belgian Organization. He then moved to Canada and worked as Head of Finance with a Canadian Company for about 5 years. In these various organizations Mr. Bajpai has been in senior management positions and has played operational, as well as, strategic roles. Alok is responsible for the Finance, Information Systems, Legal, Facilities and Administration functions globally.

Kalyan Sundaram Mahalingam
Chief Operating Officer

Kalyan Sundaram Mahalingam serves as the Chief Operating Officer effective July 1, 2007. He is responsible for the entire process of Hiring, Training and Grooming in the Practice and deploying the consulting teams in the delivery organization in India. With over 16 years of experience in IT services business, Kalyan joins Intelligroup from Keane, where he was, Vice President GRM and EAS Practice. Before that, he was with Wipro Technologies, where he spent 13 years, where most recently he was General Manager, Enterprise Applications Services. He has held many positions in practice building, delivery, Quality and key positions in Finance. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Bharathiyar University, Coimbatore, India and a Chartered Accountancy from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India in New Delhi.

Satish Subramaniam
Managing Director, Europe-Middle East

Satish Subramaniam serves as the Managing Director of Europe-Middle East effective June 2007, and is based out of Intelligroup's Bangalore office. Prior to this role Mr. Subramaniam held the position of Vice President of India Operations for Intelligroup since May 2006. Satish has rich experience in the areas of Software Consulting and Offshore Outsourcing and has held the position of Global Practice head – SAP Practice and worked in defining Systems Strategies and managing international clients.

Gopal Ramasamy
Vice President of Outsourcing Services

Gopal Ramasamy serves as VP Outsourcing for Intelligroup, headquartered in New Jersey, USA. Gopal’s key priorities will be to provide strategic direction and roadmap for Intelligroup’s Outsourcing Services.

Gopal joined Intelligroup in 1994 and has been responsible for taking on multiple initiatives for the company’s growth and expansion, and has been closely associated with some of the company’s biggest clients including GE, Procter & Gamble, Eastman Chemical, Hitachi, Pearson Publishing and Armstrong World Industries. Prior to his current new role, Gopal served as the Global CIO for Intelligroup, where he led the Global Technology Solutions Group. Prior to that he served as Senior Director for the Global Managed Services organization where he led the growth of the Application Outsourcing practice.

Prior to Intelligroup, Gopal worked as Senior Systems Analyst at Systime, an IT services firm based in Bombay, from 1992 to1994. Gopal has a Bachelor in Applied Sciences from the Madurai Kamaraj University, India.

Russell Riggen
Senior Vice President of Client Services

Russell Riggen serves as Intelligroup’s Senior Vice President of Client Services. Mr. Riggen manages all aspects of business development and service delivery for Intelligroup's US Midwest and Western regions. Prior to Intelligroup, Mr. Riggen was responsible for a $42 million Financial Services Consulting Practice at Oracle Consulting and was the Vice President, US Banking Practice for Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, U.S. LLC. Additionally, from 1984 to 1997, Mr. Riggen held various roles including Program and Risk Manager for electronic trading system at the Chicago Board of Trade and managed several large system integration projects. He earned a degree in Economics and Spanish from DePauw University and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Pankit Desai
Senior Vice President of Sales, North America

Pankit Desai serves as Senior Vice President of Sales for North America. Prior to joining Intelligroup, he was with Wipro Technologies managing $50 Million business in the southwest region, under his leadership the region grew 70% year on year. Before Wipro he worked with IBM as country manager for AS/400 product group, Cognizant Technologies and CMC Limited. Pankit has a Bachelor’s in Engineering and MBA from India.

Prakash Shah
Vice President of Client Services

Prakash Shah serves as the Vice President of Client Services effective May 07. In this role he is responsible for providing Strategy, Presales, Global delivery execution and Integrated Program Management of all US customer accounts. Prakash has long business management experience of 23 years with last 12 years in ERP implementations and Program Management of global projects. Experience includes management of large multi-national Discrete manufacturing organization and running IT services organization. Prakash is working with Intelligroup for last 10 years in different capacities and roles before taking up this role. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Bombay University, India and Masters in Finance Management from Bombay University, India.

Marcelo Casas
Senior Vice President, Empower Solutions Division

Marcelo Casás serves as Intelligroup’s Sr. Vice President responsible for the Empower Solutions division. Empower Solutions is Intelligroup’s Public Sector vertical and has been serving State and Local Governments, K-12 School Systems, Higher Education institutions and Utilities throughout the United States. In addition, Mr. Casás is responsible for Empower’s Latin America practice, where Empower has established strong relationships with financial and telecommunications clients as well as government institutions. Mr. Casás was a partner in Empower Solutions prior to its acquisition by Intelligroup in 1999. Prior to that, Mr. Casás was a Senior Manager in Andersen Consulting’s (now Accenture) government practice. Mr. Casás earned his Bachelors Degree in Physics and Economics from Kalamazoo College and his Masters in Business Administration from The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Bhalachandra Bhosale
Senior Vice President, Global SAP Practice

Bhalachandra Bhosale serves as Senior Vice President of Global SAP Practice.This practice is organized globally with more than 30 competency groups across six major practices including Supply Chain, CRM, Finance and HR, Business Intelligence, Netweaver, BASIS and tools. Mr. Bhosale has responsibility to manage all SAP competency and practice activities including presales, solutions development and oversight on delivery. Prior to this role, he worked within Intelligroup for 7 years in a variety of roles in consulting, project/program management, solution development, pre-sales and most recently as Director, Client Services and Strategic Solutions. Prior to Intelligroup, Mr. Bhosale worked with Siemens Ltd and Siemens AG in India, Europe and Asia pacific and held various positions ranging from Commissioning Executive, Project Manager and Regional Program manager. He specialized in design, development, installation and commissioning of industrial drives and process automation of high tech, PLC and process control equipments in various industries such as Electronics & High tech Manufacturing, Iron & Steel, Chemical & Petrochemical, Textile & Synthetic Fibers, Automobile & Auto Ancillary, Food and Beverages, Sugar, Cement and Material Handling. Bhalachandra earned his Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering with specialization in Industrial Electronics.

Hiren Bhatt
Vice President of Global Oracle Practice

Hiren Bhatt serves as Vice President of Global Oracle Practice. Hiren is an engineering graduate and manages Intelligroup’s Oracle, Peoplesoft, Siebel and JD Edwards ERPs practices globally. Mr. Bhatt’s career with Intelligroup started as a functional consultant, growing to project-program management positions, before taking on his current role of VP Oracle Practice in June 2006. Prior to Intelligroup, Hiren has worked with Zenith Computers as a project manager for Oracle applications and with SM Dy-chem and Tata Consultancy.

Sivakumar Rajagopalan
Vice President of Global Life Sciences & Consumer Products Practice

Sivakumar's Rajagopalan serves as Vice President of Intelligroup’s Global Life Sciences and Consumer Products Practice effective July 1st, 2005. Mr. Sivakumar professional career spans over 22+ years of consulting and work assignments in various capacities across Pharmaceutical and Consumer Product industries. As the head of our Global Life Science and Consumer Products practice Kumar is instrumental in introducing and building core competency in Compliance Services (FDA, EMEA, JMHLW) at Intelligroup. In addition to expertise in Supply Chain Management, Clinical Management, Quality Systems, Audits, Program Management, and Project Management, Sivakumar’s business consulting skills range from Value Engineering (Business Case/ROI), Business Process Re-engineering through developing IT Roadmaps to align with Business Strategy. Mr.Sivakumar is a Chartered Engineer with Institute of Engineers, India Chapter. He earned his Bachelors Degree in Science, specializing in Industrial Engineering and has subsequently been trained in Total Quality Management (TQM). Mr.Sivakumar has undergone the Fellowship training at the Technical University of Aachen, Germany under the United Nations Development Project and is now pursuing Masters Programme in Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs at the Temple University, Pennsylvania, USA.

Vikram Samant
Vice President Strategic Accounts, North America

Vikram Samant serves as Vice President of Strategic Accounts for North America. Vikram is an engineering graduate and manages Intelligroup’s marquee global accounts from a business leadership standpoint in addition to leading the Strategic Business Solutions group for North America. Mr. Samant’s career with Intelligroup started as a functional consultant, growing to project-program management positions and then managing global application management clients, before taking on his current role of VP Strategic Accounts in June 2005. Prior to Intelligroup, Vikram has worked with Tata Technologies (India) Ltd. as a project manager for ERP applications and with Thermax Babcock & Wilcox (India) Ltd. While in TBW, Vikram managed various manufacturing operations and led key initiatives of Total Quality Management, ISO-9000 and Business Process Re-engineering. He was instrumental in turning around one of the units with the lowest operational efficiencies.