Leadership

Sudhakar Pennam

Sudhakar was the Founder & CEO of Cigniti Technologies, the world’s 3^rd largest independent software testing services company. Sudhakar started Cigniti Inc as a two-member company in 2004, and under his leadership, Cigniti rapidly expanded its global operations and added many Fortune 500 customers. Sudhakar has led Cigniti to great success with the market capitalization of the company touching its all-time high during 2016-17. In 2014, Sudhakar knew that the next big technology wave would be around cloud, mobility and social. To ensure he expands his passion for the technology he founded Solunus Inc. Within four years Solunus grew to be a 100-plus member strong technology focused organization.

Sudhakar now personifies Solunus Inc. commitment to customer satisfaction and high quality. Through his experience in a variety of leadership roles, he has built a reputation in the software industry for his exceptional ability to build and grow new business offerings and nurture long-term relationships.

He is extremely passionate about the impact of technology on human lives. In particular, he believes Education as a great enabler for Social Empowerment. His vision, commitment, and direction are today responsible for Solunus’ strong Corporate Social Responsibility focus. Sudhakar is also credited with building global leadership on Software Testing across the world. He chairs and mentors many global leadership and IT forums and conferences. He serves as an advisor to many budding entrepreneurs and start-ups. He served as IT Serve President for the year 2015 and was a part of IT Serve Executive Chair 2016. Currently, he plays an impeccable role being on IT Serve Governing Board.

Raj Neravati

Raj brings more than 19 years of rich technical and business experience to this role. Raj has worked in companies like AppLabs and Cigniti where he played key leadership roles. An accomplished leader with a proven track record of building, managing and delivering profitable growth. Diversified experience in playing leadership roles in the areas of Technology, R&D, Service Delivery, Pre-Sales, Account Management, Sales and Operations

Venkat Subramanian

Venkat Subramanian works as the Strategic Advisor at Solunus. He is responsible for developing and delivering the company’s enterprise cloud transformation solutions to its customers. Mr Venkat has over two decades of experience with Management, Consulting and Business development experience guiding clients with product evaluations, roadmap, vision, implementation, and integration of high-performance technology and business solutions.

Before his current role, Venkat successfully launched a Gold level Salesforce partnership at Keste as the practice lead. Venkat, over the years, has established a reputation of an expert presenter, negotiator, and businessperson with the ability to forge stable relationships with customers, end-users, management, team members and partners and build consensus across multiple organizational levels.

Venkat’s strengths include being innovative, conceptualizing complex business solutions and performing impact analysis. Venkat is a natural communicator, mentor, and leader with strong motivational skills and ability to build, produce, and succeed. For hobbies, Venkat likes to Golf and relax with a game of chess.

Darin Florenz

Darin Florenz is responsible for the development of strategic corporate client relationships and acts as an active advisor in creating growth opportunities for Solunus.

Darin has over 30 years of strategic business development and operational experience in a broad cross-section of corporations. Including senior-level strategy, innovation, business development, and national customer relationship management roles at several Fortune 500 financial services corporations. He led the FinTech business for one of the Fortune 500 financial services corporation and also managed an international business consulting practice for emerging, high growth businesses.   

As a seasoned business veteran, Darin is passionate about connecting business leaders with the tools and resources they need as they seek to transform the way they engage with customers, grow their organization, and create transformative customer experiences.

Darin is also actively involved in advising on the development of sustainable business models in underserved communities, both domestic and abroad.

Kirk Smith

Kirk Smith is the Director of Business Development of Solunus, Inc. He is responsible for helping clients transform into digital innovators by streamlining their business processes through the use of technology, reducing costs and managing risks with a proven track record of driving business value.

Kirk brings more than 25 years of experience in driving opportunities to provide customer value and leading strategy and operations efforts through analyzing client needs, developing service offerings, and communicating the value of offered solutions. His ability to rapidly formulate strategies and execute plans allow him to lead with valuable insight while providing clients with advisory, strategy development, implementation, migration, integration, testing and support & maintenance services.

Before joining Solunus, Kirk was a Co-founder and Managing Partner with an IT Consulting and Staffing firm where he built the practice and consulted with several fortune 500 companies. Whenever he is away from work, he enjoys spending time with his family and giving back to his local community by serving others.

Akash Mayank

Akash Mayank leads the marketing function for Solunus Inc. He is responsible for designing and implementing comprehensive marketing strategies to create awareness of Solunus’ business activities. Akash is a performance-driven professional with 11 years of progressive work experience in the areas of Marketing, Digital Transformation, and Business Intelligence. Before joining Solunus, he worked for Hewitt, NASSCOM, and Hewlett Packard and was responsible for their Go-to-Market activities.

Akash gets super excited about tasks that are challenging, one of the reasons behind him joining Solunus. He is a big fan of off-roading and ensures his weekends get busy with long-drives or travelling. 

Dilip Singh Bhola

Working as a Technical Architect for Solunus Inc., Dilip Singh is very keen at developing Solunus’ technical expertise and aims at moving it up the ladder from Silver to Gold partnership with Salesforce. He currently leads and executes the research and development initiatives at Solunus and also performs the pre-sales activities. With over 11 years of experience, Dilip is skilled at migrating from legacy systems (like Siebel, SharePoint) to Salesforce. He has hands-on experience in integrating Salesforce with SAP, Siebel, and on-premise systems. Dilip is instrumental in implementing and launching solutions on Salesforce Communities. He boasts that he derives his strength from his family, and longs to spend time with his newborn baby girl. He is a tech-savvy, whether at work or off work, he is seen working on Salesforce and learning new technologies.

Pavan Kumar Vasudeva

Pavan comes with over 12 years of experience in Talent Acquisition and HR Operations. He has spent the last 12 years in recruiting at various capacities accross industries. He has been associated with Keste Software, CallHealth Services, Smarton Learning and Planman Consulting before joining Solunus Technologies. Pavan holds a graduate degree in commerce.

In his leisure time Pavan enjoys playing cricket and Table Tennis. Pavan believes in learning every day and cherishes the opportunities at Solunus and looking forward to drive the organization towards success. 

Pankaj Kumar Polepalli

Pankaj Kumar works as Sr. Manager, Administration and has over 13 years of experience spanning global financial operations with strategic, operational leadership experience across IT & ITES.  Pankaj core competencies include Strategic Financial Planning, Finance & Accounts, Auditing & Taxation, Secretarial Operations, and Management of Legal Issues, etc. Prior to joining Solunus, he served as Manager in Process at Cigniti, Hyderabad. He led the entire finance, accounting, HRD, IT & corporate legal departments. He successfully led initiatives like the adoption of corporate governance methodologies, modernization of payroll systems, reorganization of investor communications, implementation of cost control mechanisms, cost savings with value engineering, etc. He is a photography enthusiast and spends his free time experimenting with the camera.

Raja Raghavendra Rao

Raghavendra works as a senior manager for the delivery team at Solunus and has over 14 years of experience across CRM industries. He has good exposure to end-to-end life cycle implementations of Siebel CRM, Salesforce & CPQ – CLM applications with a strong understanding of functional, technical aspects across domains. He is an expert in gathering customer needs and translating them into solutions with best approaches & practices. He is a committed, self-motivated, innovative, and goal-oriented professional to transform and develop diversified global applications.

Currently, he is leading development projects from offshore and actively involved in designing, developing, and delivering SaaS (Salesforce) applications. He is responsible for mapping the customer requirements to the SaaS application features. He is also responsible for providing solution, design, and assistance to the customers by understanding their desires & needs.

When off-work, Raghavendra takes pleasure in cooking and travelling.