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Management

Our management team brings in rich diverse experience across various functions - Operations, Engineering, Finance, Presales, HR, Sales and Marketing. They have worked with the top companies of the world like AMD, Bain, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Tech Mahindra, Mastek, KPMG, Patni, CMC(A Tata Enterprise), L&T InfoTech, GTL, IMR Global.

The management team possesses a good mix of in-depth product knowledge and customer service experience.

Anand Jhaveri, Founder, Chairman & CEO
Melvyn Burgoyne, Managing Director (UK)
Kartik Kilachand, Chairman, Rave Technologies (USA )
Sameer Hutheesing, President, Rave Technologies (USA)
Rajiv Ranade, Vice President - Delivery
Ashish Desai, Vice President - Marketing & Head - Mobile Business Unit
Anjoo Navalkar, Head of Quality & HR
Kedar Barve, Head of Finance

Anand Jhaveri, Founder, Chairman & CEO
Anand has a Masters in Electrical Engineering from the Cornell University. He had spent first 5 years of his 22-year IT career with AMD and Clarity in Silicon Valley. Anand has spent the last 17 years building Rave Technologies into a successful venture.

 

Melvyn Burgoyne, Managing Director (UK)
Melvyn has over 20 years experience in the IT Industry and has been intimately involved in offshore services since 1994, when he established the UK subsidiary of US based IMR (later changed to IMR Global). In 1999 Melvyn was invited to head up the sales and marketing organization for Mahindra British Telecom in the UK, with the objective of establishing a customer base outside of BT, MBT’s UK based parent. As the company grew aggressively he went on to run the Northern Europe region for MBT for five years, building businesses in Ireland and Scandinavia. Prior to his involvement in India he had worked for several leading IT services and solutions providers including EDS and IBM (UK), holding senior positions in Sales and Marketing.

Melvyn joined Rave in April 2007 to lead the UK business. He holds a Higher National Certificate in Computer Studies and is a member of the Institute of Directors.
 

Kartik Kilachand, Chairman, Rave Technologies (USA)
An engineer by training ( I.I.T., Bombay ), Kartik also holds an MS in electrical engineering from Cornell University and an MBA in international finance from U.C. Berkeley. His professional career as an entrepreneur has focused on leveraging the “India Advantage”. In the process, he has established successful businesses in the US, using India as a source point. He is currently helping develop a global interface platform for enabling vendor/client interface in the BPO domain (www.worldbpoforum.com).

 
Sameer Hutheesing, President, Rave Technologies (USA)
Sameer has a Masters degree in Finance and MIS. In his 18 year IT career, he has worked in the consulting and corporate environments focusing on various verticals like Financial Services, Media, manufacturing and distribution. Prior to joining Rave, Sameer was at Primedia (the leading targeted media company in the US) responsible for developing and implementing a web strategy for all corporate operating units and at PriceWaterhouseCoopers as a consultant in their Middle Market Consulting practice.

 
Rajiv Ranade, Vice President – Delivery
Rajiv, a B.E. (Mechanical Engineering) with Distinction from Pune University brings with him around 22 years of experience with multinationals like Cummins, Caterpillar, Al Watani FRP Kuwait and Navionics. His last assignment was with Lionbridge as “Delivery Head” where he was responsible for building an EDC for their UK client specialized in Power Plant & Marine domain. At Rave he is responsible for all delivery activities.

 
 

A graduate in Electronics & Telecom Engineering, Ashish’s career spans 16 years working in US, Middle East and India. Prior to joining Rave he spent 6 years in the US leading strategic initiatives to setup new operations & develop offshore business for L&T InfoTech, GTL and Indusa. At Rave, he is responsible for all the Marketing, and Sales Management activities. He also heads the Mobile Business Unit reposible for the growth and P&L of this business line within Rave.

 
 

Anjoo Navalkar, Head of Quality & HR
Anjoo is a Gold Medalist in Mathematics from University of Mumbai. In a career spanning more than 16 years, Anjoo has been involved with over 100 leading edge software companies auditing their processes for ISO on behalf of KPMG QR. She has been trained in CMM, CMMI, BS7799 and BS15000. She has participated in 5 CMM Level – 5 Assessments. Before joining Rave, She was one of the founder Directors of Skylark, set up exclusively to provide Management Consultancy Services primarily focused at Quality.

Anjoo is also playing the interim role of HR Head where she is responsible for all the people practices and policy implementations.

 

Kedar Barve, Head of Finance
Kedar Barve is a CA (Chartered Accountant) and ICWA(Cost Accountant) having 12 years of experience in finance field. He has worked in the past with various leading companies in India like Bluestar InfoTech Ltd, Orient InfoTech Ltd, Wyeth Ltd handling various functions like accounting and finance, corporate taxation, Internal Audit, etc.