Wayne Berkowitz - Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director
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Dr. K.V. Krishnan - Associate Vice President, Life Sciences
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Surjit Lahiri - Vice President, High-tech
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Shivakumar Krishnamurthy - Associate Vice President, IT Services
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Wayne Berkowitz
Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director
Wayne is a business leader with global experience across multiple disciplines in the Information Technology sector.
Prior to Mindteck, Wayne spent over 20 years at IBM in sales, finance, and marketing, including two international assignments in Europe and Latin America. The majority of his roles were in sales -- including field sales, sales management, and executive sales management.
Wayne also spent eight years with Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC), an enterprise software engineering company. During his tenure, he ran North America sales for the midmarket segment, spent two years in Tokyo, Japan on an Asia Pacific sales assignment, and held a worldwide operations role for four years.
Wayne holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Logistics from Pennsylvania State University in the US.
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Dr. K.V. Krishnan
Associate Vice President, Life Sciences
Dr. K.V. Krishnan heads the Life Sciences vertical at Mindteck. He envisions growing the vertical many fold and establishing Mindteck as a leader in the segment.
He is a doctorate degree holder in Analytical Spectroscopy with over thirty years of diverse experience in Teaching, Research and Product Development. After a successful career spread over two decades in a leading National Research Laboratory in India as Head of Analytical Research, Dr. Krishnan joined a multinational based analytical instrument manufacturer as Applications Specialist. He worked in their production centers in Germany and Dubai and was responsible for product design and application design. He is widely travelled and has over forty research publications to his credit apart from being awardee of UNIDO Fellowship. Dr. Krishnan is a member of several National and International Associations and bodies. He is also an academic advisor for some leading educational institutions in India.
An avid reader, Dr. Krishnan enjoys listening to music during his leisure time.
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Surjit Lahiri
Vice President, High-tech
As the Vice President – Hi-Tech, Surjit heads the Energy, Semiconductor Manufacturing, and Storage verticals at Mindteck. His role entails envisioning the technology roadmap for the organization, driving demand creation for existing and new service offerings and above all, driving sales from locked in businesses. Surjit also leads and manages the Solution Engineering and Development of Practice Assets creation and drives the delivery organization’s Capability Matrix and productivity.
Prior to joining Mindteck, Surjit worked at Novellus Semiconductors and Siemens. His wide ranging experience spans the manufacturing and high technology industries as well. With over 18 years of experience, he has held various roles in areas such as Software Development, Project Management, Product Development, Program Management and Account Management.
During the course of his career, Surjit accomplished several milestones such as establishing the SEMI and Storage Practice at Mindteck and turning around accounts into multi million dollar key accounts. Possessing sound functional knowledge of Sales, Life Cycle Services, Product Development, SQA and SEPG, Surjit’s competencies include complete hands on software architecting, designing and development for real time and enterprise based systems.
Surjit is a regular contributor of articles on Storage and Semiconductors to various technology focused media such as The Machinist, CIOL etc. In his spare time, he enjoys swimming and playing with his young daughters. He is also a part of not-for-profit community projects that use technology to solve community issues. Playing table tennis and solving the daily brain teasers in the newspaper, especially Sudoku are the activities he enjoys on a regular basis.
Surjit holds a Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Industrial Electronics from the University of Poona, India.
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Shivakumar Krishnamurthy
Associate Vice President, IT Services
Shiva heads the IT Services practice and is responsible for defining service lines and target market, developing customer specific solutions for the BFSI, Public Sector and IT Services practices. In this role he is also responsible for creation of Go To Market strategy and driving the revenues for the IT services business.
Shiva joined Mindteck over 3 years back as Head of Delivery for IT Services and setup and grew the offshore team, while actively contributing to developing the practice. Shiva has over 14 years of experience playing various roles in technology, delivery management and consulting and has worked with Infosys, TCS and KPMG prior to joining Mindteck. He has a B.Tech degree in Civil Engineering from IIT Delhi and a PGDM from IIM Lucknow in Finance & Systems.
Shiva lives in Bangalore, is an avid reader and enjoys spending time with his kids in his spare time.
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