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| Vijay Wadhi |
MD &
CEO
Vijay is with 20+ years experience in the IT space. He is a successful entrepreneur having started and succeeded in 2 ventures earlier. He brings in leadership and financial discipline in the organization.
He is an MBA by qualification, and has attended various short term executive training programs conducted by Business Schools (IIM-A) and other professional organizations. His subjects of interest are Business Strategy, Human Resources & Finance.
His success lies in finding, growing and retaining key talent in the organization. He is passionate about building a highly HR friendly organization, and is key in driving Locuz towards PCMM Level-5 status with the objective of making Locuz an 'Employer of Choice'.
He has given several lectures
in various forums on Leadership, 7-Habits,
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| Uttam Majumdar |
Founder
& President (Consulting &
Services)
(B.Tech, CISSP, CCSP, CCNA & CIISA)
Uttam is one of the technology visionaries of the company. As Chief of Consulting & PS he is responsible for services operations and consulting assignments of Locuz.
He was the chief architect of the first ever Digital Library in India. He also has been the prime facilitator to set a Centre of Excellence in Medical Bioinformatics in India - networking some of the leading Post-Genomics organizations to collaborate using technologies like GRID computing.
He served on the board of advisors to STPI (Software Technology Parks of India), a Government of India organisation to set up a BIO-IT Park in India.
He is also on the Channel Advisory Board of Cisco Systems for Strategy in the APAC region.
Uttam is an Engineer in
Electronics and Communications and possess several
professional qualifications. He has presented
papers in various forums on Information Security,
HPC Clusters, Digitization, content
creation/delivery, and Infrastructure Management.
He also has been a guest speaker in prestigious IT
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| Durganadh K Venkata |
Vice President – Business Development & Operations
(B.Tech, MBA, 11 yrs of industry work experience)
Durganadh K Venkata is an industry specialist in the area of Consultative Selling of IT Infrastructure solutions. As Vice President for Business Development & Operations, he is responsible for all sales, marketing & service delivery operations for Locuz in India.
Durganadh joined Locuz from IBM, where he spent almost 7 years handling various functions in the IBM Systems group and in IBM Global Services. In his final assignment, he successfully grew the Systems (servers & storage) business for IBM in the Telecom sector. Prior to this, he led teams and managed a significant part of the IBM iSeries server business. Durganadh also worked with IBM Global Services in 2001 as a member of the Networking & IT Infrastructure services division in Bangalore.
Prior to IBM, Durganadh worked with Tata Steel for 3 years and was based in Kolkata, as part of the commodity trading team. While at Tata Steel, he carried additional responsibilities for managing IT needs of his profit centre.
Durganadh completed his MBA program from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) Delhi in 1996, prior to which, he graduated in B.Tech (Computer Science) from the Jawaharlal Nehru Tech University (JNTU) Hyderabad in 1994.
Durga (as his friends call him) is a keen reader, likes to visit new places and loves to unwind by solving crossword and other word puzzles.
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| Mohd. Arifuddin |
AVP – Sales – Technology Solutions.
Arif has varied sales experience of 12 years out of which he spent about 7 years in core Technology Solution sales. As AVP he is responsible for the sales of Technology Solutions for Locuz in India.
Arif started Locuz Bangalore operations in 2002 and successfully grew the business manifold in 4 years. He also steered the Pune team to achieve similar success last year. In his most recent assignment, Arif led the Locuz business for the Education & Research vertical. During the last 2 years, Arif and his team made Locuz a formidable player in the country and a partner of choice for almost all technology vendors in this space.
Arif is an avid reader and a complete cricket & movie buff. He is an MBA from Osmania University and a graduate in commerce.
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| Deepak Majumdar |
Chief Technology Officer
Deepak Majumdar is an accomplished techno-professional with over 10 years of experience. As Chief Technology Officer, he is responsible for all of the high –end consulting & professional (onsite & remote) IT Management services for Locuz.
Till recently, he was also in-charge of all Service Delivery operations for Locuz and successfully groomed the delivery organization to execute some of the most challenging projects in the country.
Deepak is a role model and an inspiration for the tech-specialists community in Locuz. From very modest roots as Mathematics graduate, Deepak learnt the technology ropes very quickly to emerge as a champion in architecting, implementing & trouble-shooting any piece of enterprise technology.
Deepak is a holiday lover and takes special interest in trekking.
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| Asit Sahoo. |
Chief Consultant.
Asit Sahoo heads the technology & delivery for the High Performance Computing practice at Locuz. He played a pivotal role in architecting & implementing large HPC clusters at CDFD and NCBS. He has indepth understanding of complete HPC solution stack and is regarded by many large users in the HPC community as a champion on the subject.
Prior to this, Asit led the service delivery operations for Bangalore and was instrumental in successfully handling large projects including the first overseas deployment for Locuz. He is a certified professional in VMware, Microsoft,
IBM and Solaris. Asit is a systems geek and a specialist in multi tiered storage solutions.
Asit is person with
unwavering commitment. Though a commerce graduate,
his command on the subject combined with over 14
years of rich experience continues to inspire the
growing talent at Locuz.
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