They are the backbone to the sheer grit, determination and vision that makes Apara stand so tall today. They keep the clock ticking with clockwork precision.
Sidhu, with his pioneering vision founded APARA in 1992. He has over 22 years rich experience in Business management, sales & marketing of IT solutions and services to enterprise customers .He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering.
Before he founded APARA, Sidhu worked for India&##39;s largest IT companies- HCL and Wipro in key sales positions. Right from inception, with his dynamism and passion for excellence, he has nurtured APARA into leadership position in IT infrastructure Solutions & Services market.
Ashish has over 19 years of experience in the Indian market selling high end solutions and services to the Enteprise Customers throughout. He has an impressive track record in building and leading sales teams. With strong business acumen, strong customer relationships and partner relationships he is spearheading the transformation at Apara. Ashish was with Sun Microsystems and Tata Elxsi before joining Apara.
Kumar Malavalli is widely considered to be the visionary behind Fibre Channel storage fabrics, an evolutionary technology that enabled the development of production-class storage area networks (SANs) and a multi-billion dollar market segment. Kumar is co-founder and currently chairman and CEO of the Santa Clara, Calif.-based InMage Systems Inc. He also is the co-founder of Brocade Communications Systems Inc., one of the world&##39;s largest providers of infrastructure solutions for storage area networks. He is also one of the principal architects of Fibre Channel technology, a high-speed data transfer technology used in storage networks. He served as chair of the ANSI T11 Technical Committee, which established universal standards for Fibre Channel. Among his most significant industry contributions are serving in technical capacities for Amdahl, Canstar, and Hewlett-Packard.
Prasad Mamidanna who is an advisor to Apara brings over 25 years of international experience in high technology companies covering supply chain management, operations, product marketing, purchasing, sales and strategic business planning.
In 1989, Prasad founded Spectra Innovations at San Jose, California, USA. He was instrumental in rapidly growing Spectra into a significant player in the Semiconductor / RF components and FPGA / PLD design services in India.
