The Executive Diaries powered by AWS | Chapter 1 - India’s ISV Market - Capturing a global SaaS opportunity

About Puneet Chandok

Puneet leads the AWS business in India and South Asia. As the country MD, he oversees and manages the incubation, planning, and demand for AWS Services from customers across industry segments and verticals in India and South Asia. In addition, he is responsible for building and leading customer-centric teams that help organisations innovate and transform using AWS services. He holds a Master of Business in Marketing, Finance and Systems from IIM, Calcutta.

About Shekhar Kirani

Shekhar has over 25 years of experience in business and tech leadership roles across several startups and large companies in the US. As part of Accel, Shekhar focuses on investing in early-stage software and mobile startups that help enterprises. He holds a Masters and PhD in Computer Science from IISc Bangalore and the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, respectively

About Milind Borate

Milind has been working in technology for more than 20 years, His main areas of focus have been storage and database technologies, cloud storage and machine learning for unstructured data. He believes in bringing technology to solutions and is passionate about building engineering teams that deliver end-to-end solutions. He holds a Master of Technology in Computer Science from IIT, Bombay.

About Ankit Sobti

Ankit and his co-founders began Postman as a side-project in 2012 while working at Yahoo. Launched in 2014, Postman has created a collaborative platform for application processing interface (API) development, which helps developers work with existing APIs and modify and customise them according to their needs. Ankit holds a Master of Business Administration in Strategy and Leadership from ISB.

About Aneesh Reddy

Aneesh leads a team that helps enterprise customers engage with their consumers intelligently, delivering personalized communications to the right consumers at the right time. He works with enterprise customers to help them put the right communications for the right products into the hands of the right customers at the right time. He holds a Bachelor of Technology in Manufacturing Science and Engineering from IIT, Kharagpur.

About Jayant Paleti

Jayant Paleti co-founded Darwinbox and is currently its head of sales.Darwinbox is a technology company that provides cloud-based workforce management and analytics application for businesses. Before co-founding Darwinbox, Jayant worked as consultant at E.Y. across functions like mergers and acquisitions and private equity. He completed his M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow. Prior to his M.B.A. he was working with Deloitte as a consultant for clients in power, energy and telecom industries.

About Baskar Subramanian

Baskar drives business strategy, investments and technology architecture as co-founder of Amagi. He holds multiple patents and regularly mentors various start-ups and businesses. He says he loves straddling between technology and business strategy and building a bridge between the two. He holds a Master of Technology in Computer Science from IIT, Chennai.