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Founding Members |
The four founding members of CoOptions Subrahmanyam, Sridhar, Raghava and Krishna
Reddy continue to work in the organization since its inception in various
roles not only befitting their aptitude and education but taking up the new roles
a start up company throws up. In 2006, the founders decided to bring in professionals
for scaling up the organization. As a first step, a senior professional
Dr. Sudhakar Varanasi has been invited into a leadership role as the CEO. Many more professionals,
with good track record in big corporations, are looking at CoOptions as they are
fascinated by the business spaces where CoOptions has been applying information
technology and its concomitant large scale and long term impacts on the society
at large.
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Management Team |
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Dr. Sudhakar Varanasi,Chief Executive Officer |
Dr. Sudhakar Varanasi has joined CoOptions as the Chief Executive Officer in April,
2007. He worked with Satyam Computer Services Limited at senior levels for a decade
and, before leaving Satyam, has architected and executed the epoch making EMRI (Emergency
Management and Research Institute) project.
Dr. Sudhakar acquired a Masters degree in science from Indian Institute of Technology,
Kharagpur, went on to do a doctoral in Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; stayed
to teach and research for a decade in the same institute before starting to explore
the world of business and corporations.
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Subrahmanyam Yadavalli (Subbu), Managing Director |
Subbu brings the experience of working in CMC for fifteen years on projects in the
areas of ICT & Rural Development, E-governance, Cooperatives, Banking and Indian
Defense. His experience and knowledge is deep in Client-server Architecture, Real-time
Embedded Systems, Web-based Systems, Data Warehousing, Product Architecture, Sizing
and Estimations.
Subbu lives and breathes the organization passionately in the roles of a technology
leader, coach, mentor and a guide apart from being a CEO till March 2007. A natural
leader of people, he has nurtured CoOptions from the start up phase to its current
inflection point.
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Sridhar C, Head - Business Development Group |
Soon after graduation, Sridhar entered the world of numbers, accounts, commerce
and business. Having worked for a decade in the areas of project finance, interfacing
with financial institutions and the challenging job of preparing a company for an
IPO, he left a promising career in the field of finance in the manufacturing industry
to start CoOptions. Sridhar brings the financial discipline and commercial sense
into the techno-developmental initiatives of CoOptions.
Sridhar, a multitask-manager, has transitioned through many functions and roles
as a Co-Founder. His competency in managing relations with people and institutions
is note worthy.
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Raghava U S, Chief - Implementation, Strategic Business Unit |
Raghava is youngest of the founders. A clear thinker who talks precisely and gets
difficult tasks done neatly and with a smile to boot. A Masters in Business Administration
with a specialization in Marketing and Business Finance. He worked for three years
in business development for CMC and had been very closely associated with the marketing
of solutions in the Co-operatives.
Raghava specializes in the art and science of implementing our solutions under the
most trying circumstances: the absence of basic infrastructure, reluctance of the
rural customer combined with the newness of everything including the product. His
ability in establishing quality systems has always shown its impact on the overall
profit of the projects and improving the top line and bottom line.
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Krishna Reddy K V, Head - People and Organisation Development |
A ‘social scientist’ by training who developed a special interest in the cooperative
models as a basic fabric of the political economy of India. He is a non-technologist
who firmly believes that economic activities and developmental efforts driven by
information technology is the only way out of rural poverty.
He brings into CoOptions his knowledge and experience of socio-political dynamics
of rural communities, rural development, poverty alleviation and empowerment initiatives.
His understanding in capacity building, training and resource development has given
the human face to our technology solutions.
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Anil Kuppa, Vice president - Solutions Development Group |
Anil is a Mechanical Engineer by qualification. He worked for six years at the Vizag
Steel plant on installation, service, product design and enhancements. He shifted
into the IT field in 1996, worked in Keane before joining CoOptions in 2001. He
has specialized in System Integration, Project Management and Product Management
over the years.
He is a qualified “Project Management Professional (PMP).” He is a Management Representative
for Quality Management System and has been instrumental in getting the organization
ISO certified. He is the Project Director for the Enterprise-wide IT Enablement
Project for NWSDB, Sri Lanka. He also assists the top management in various business
development and business promotion activities like technical presentations and training,
proposals & tendering and liaison.
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Sandeep Sanadi, Senior Manager - Delivery |
Sandeep has over 14 years of experience in software development and software project
management. He has a rich experience in all phases of the SDLC. He worked in BPL
and CMC before he joined CoOptions in 2005.
The projects he worked on range from developing customized solutions to troubleshooting
complex information systems. He is well-versed with CMM Level 5 quality standards.
He worked in the domains of Police and Law enforcement, Supply Chain Management,
Finance, Wholesale/Distribution and Tourism. He is a commerce graduate with an Advanced
Diploma in Systems Management.
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Sreenivas Kothapalli, Senior Manager - Technology |
Sreenivas was an amateur programmer for seven years—exploring 8086 chips through
text retrieval using Assembly Language, Pascal and C—before he became a professional.
During these last nine years as a professional, he lived the roles of a UNIX programmer,
Teradata DBA, OO Designer/Architect and a methodologist. As a methodologist he believes
that “People make software” and is a firm advocate of the Agile Manifesto.
He worked in Lucent, Avaya, and IBM for six years before he joined CoOptions in
2004. He holds a Masters in English Literature, taught English language and literature
for four years, got himself certified as an ABAP developer by SAP, as a CSDP by
IEEE and as a PMP by Project Management Institute.
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Srinivas Lingala, Senior Manager - Finance and Company Secretary |
Srinivas is a qualified Cost and Works Accountant and Company Secretary. He has a post graduate degree in Business Administration, post graduate degree in Commerce with a distinction, post graduate Diploma in Taxation and a bachelors’ degree in Law.
Srinivas has about 14 years of experience in finance, accounts, secretarial and commercial operations. He has a good understanding of all statutory aspects related with taxation, secretarial functions, accounts, audit and significant experience of handling financial activities. A keen analyst with good relationship management skills and abilities in liaising with Banks, Financial Institutions, Venture Capitalists and other external agencies like STPI, DGFT and Independent handling of Company Secretarial Functions.
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