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Management >>
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APARA 's key management team is a blend of recognized technical and business professionals who bring a collective experience of more than 100+ years of business operations. |
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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'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. He has also served on the Boards of Directors of the Storage Networking Industry Association and the Fibre Channel Industry Association. In February 2003, Kumar was inducted into the Silicon Valley Engineering Council Hall of Fame for his contributions to technology. He also received the Gene Milligan Award for Effective Committee Management from the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) for chairing an INCITS committee that developed 17 standards in the area of Storage Area Networks. Kumar currently invests in and mentors numerous storage networking startups in both Silicon Valley and in India. He also contributes substantially toward his own global vision, which encompasses telemedicine and education. He is a member of the Board of Directors of The Indus Entrepreneurs Silicon Valley Chapter, and is a trustee of the American India Foundation. For many years Kumar chaired the ANSI Fibre Channel Technical Committee and was a member of the boards of the Fiber Channel Industry Association and the Storage Networking Industry Association, Storage Networking Summit. He is also on the board of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), a global nonprofit organization created for the advancement of entrepreneurship among Indians and non-Indians in Silicon Valley and around the world. Kumar has promoted number of storage networking companies like, Aarohi Communications, Intransa, LightSand Communications, Cloverleaf Communications, TeleVital, Tidal Data. He is also Founder of Edurite Technologies. He is a partner and co-chairman in Pulsar Ventures, based in Half Moon Bay. He also is a member of the board of trustees of The America India Foundation, founded in January of 2001 by leading Indian-American business and community leaders under the patronage of former President Bill Clinton. |
M S Sidhu, Managing Director
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Sidhu, with his pioneering vision founded APARA in 1992. He has over 18 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'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. |
Prasad Mamidanna, President of AES
Prasad Mamidanna, President of AES, brings over 25 years of international experience in high technology companies covering supply chain management, operations, product marketing, purchasing, sales and strategic business planning. Prasad launched his career at ACI, Santa Clara, USA in 1982. While at ACI, he was responsible for successfully establishing some of the best global brand names in India and Asian markets. 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. Spectra Innovations India Pvt. Ltd IT products division was subsequently acquired by Ingram Micro in 1999 and was renamed Ingram Micro India Limited. As the founding President and CEO of Ingram Micro India Private Limited, Prasad established IMIPL as a major provider of IT products and services with nationwide presence throughout India. Within a span of less than 3 years, he grew the operations over 300+ percent with annual revenues now exceeding USD2+ billion. IMIPL is in the DQ top-10 IT companies in India. Under his leadership, the Indian operations won numerous vendor awards from Quantum, Cisco, Lucent, Samsung, Tandberg and Intel. IMIPL also won Industry awards including Techies Award – “Best Storage Devices” and Data Quest – Top Growth Company. He was the founder of Amspec (S) Pvt. Ltd., Singapore, a distribution operation sold to Electronic Resources limited, later acquired by Ingram Micro Inc. He established Specsoft Consulting Inc., a software services company with customers including Cisco, HP, Auspex, Adaptec and 3Com. This operation with a team of over 70+ consultants was successfully sold to Aptech International (now Hexaware). Prasad holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from USA. He has completed executive programs in Asia business management from Stanford-NUS and HP-APBA.
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Dominiek Swinkels, Director - Benelux
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Dominiek brings in more than 26 years of cross-domain experience. He heads APARA’s Belgium business in capacity of Director - Sales. Before APARA, he worked as value-add Distributor for Data Management & Data Security products. In his career, he occupied different roles in Sales Management, Account Management, Product Management, Marketing & Partner Relations and worked for various key players on in IT Business, such as Source, Netbuilding, Simac and HAS in Belgium. He started his career as International Sales Manager for J.S.T. Europe N.V., and always kept a keen interest in cross border activities and international relations. Dominiek was also a member of the Board of Directors for various Enterprises and Public Services in Belgium. Dominiek completed his technical and professional studies & trainings in different subjects ranging from Company Management, Accountancy, Customs to Fiscal Law, International Law and International Patent Law. |
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