Leaders Who Make Azentio A Market Leader.

Sanjay was appointed as Group CEO of Azentio in August 2023. Drawing upon 25 years of customer-centric leadership in global software and security enterprises, Sanjay’s expertise encompasses program development that drives revenue and expansion. In his recent role as Chief Revenue Officer at Datto - a renowned provider of cloud-based software and security solutions - Sanjay led Datto’s go-to-market strategy, culminating in the company’s IPO and its eventual acquisition by Kaseya in June 2022. Prior to his tenure at Datto, Sanjay spent nearly 18 years at Akamai Technologies, building and overseeing various go-to-market functions across the globe.

A business growth synergist, Surya has steered the ERP product, Orion, through series of augmentations to keep it technologically rich and functionally relevant. Surya advises clients on solutions related to digital transformation, customer experience, mining and useful analysis of data, thus helping businesses differentiate across Asia, Middle East, Africa, and Europe.

Prior to Azentio, Surya led the ERP business with additional responsibilities for the IT Services business at 3i Infotech, accountable for over 70% of the company’s global revenues. Earlier, he was Vice President, Sales at Oracle Financial Services for over a decade. A high energy, outcomes-focused leader, Surya has consistently and successfully driven growth by creating new market opportunities and penetrating existing ones.

Surya supports causes related to education, wellness, and the software products industry.

Rahul spearheads the Azentio sales expansion program with over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, championing several key customer initiatives during his career as well as building the streamlined go-to-market strategies needed for targeting industry specific business opportunities.

In his previous role at Trellix (McAfee Enterprise + FireEye) as their first Managing Director for South Asia, he was instrumental in building exceptional pipeline growth, ensuring solid sales execution, and driving customer relationships to achieve sustainable growth. Rahul has also held prominent positions with Citrix , Akami, Radware and Skybox.

Abdo, as Chief Information & Security Officer, sets the strategic course for the enterprise-wide technology infrastructure and information systems, including risk management and security of Azentio’s digital assets.

Abdo has over 30 years of diverse experience in Information and Communication Technology (ICT). His deep expertise spans across all ICT functions ranging from information security, disaster recovery, capacity building, enterprise digital architecture restructuring, development and integration of enterprise tools to improve process efficiency and visibility of resource utilization, costs and risks. Prior to Azentio, Abdo has been in leadership roles at Path Solutions – Kuwait, Cisco Systems in San Jose, California (USA), with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and at Texas Instruments – PACC in Lebanon.

An Electrical & Electronics Engineer by profession, Abdo is a certified and accredited trainer (from APMG/ISACA) in Information Security Management (CISM), Data Privacy (CDPSE), IT Governance (COBIT, CGEIT) and IT Audit (CISA). He is certified in Project Management (PMP & PRINCE2) and Cybersecurity (CSX).

Abdo is a Board Member and former President of ISACA Lebanon. He is a part-time instructor at École Supérieure des Affaires (ESA) – Institute for Finance and Governance (IFG) and at the Lebanese American University (LAU) in Information Security.

As Chief Financial Officer, Gaurav heads the finance, accounting, corporate development and commercial excellence functions at Azentio. He guides Azentio’s financial strategy, leveraging his strong growth mindset and extensive hands-on experience in transforming and scaling IT businesses, both organically and inorganically through M&A and strategic partnerships.

He was previously the Global Controller of Wipro Limited, responsible for driving excellence in external financial reporting, consolidation of financials, accounting compliance and controls, process simplification, running the Accounts Payable shared services and implementation of emerging technologies in finance. In his 20 years with Wipro, he has played multiple roles in the Finance function including Internal Audit, Large Deals, Business Finance Head in 4 different units responsible for driving revenue growth and profitability, M&A related activities and as Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Head.

Gaurav is a Chartered Accountant, a Company Secretary and a Certified Treasury Manager.

He is based in Bangalore with his wife and 2 children.

Savitha joined Azentio as Head - Contracts. She manages the entire Contracts Function (including clients, partners and vendor contracts) across Azentio Group. Presently, Savitha is the interim General Counsel spearheading the Legal team and providing legal support, advice and guidance across legal and compliance matters.

Savitha is a seasoned professional with over 20 years of experience, including as an Independent Lawyer & Partner of a mid-sized law firm. She is specialized in corporate & commercial laws and employment laws and has varied experience advising domestic and international clients, both start-ups and established companies in different sectors.

Savitha holds a BSc & LLB degrees from Bangalore University, Karnataka, India and an LLM (Business Law) from Kuvempu University, Karnataka, India.

Emma has over 20 years of B2B marketing experience primarily focused on the tech space in the MEA, APAC and European markets. Most recently serving as the Head of Marketing for Europe, Middle East & Africa at Temenos, she is immersed in building high performing teams to drive transformative marketing models. Her expertise in leveraging data analytics to enhance marketing efficiency and effectiveness is expected to play a pivotal role in shaping Azentio’s marketing strategies into the future.

Her primary focus will lie in ensuring Azentio’s value propositions are clear, compelling, and simple for customers as well as supporting the business in it’s strategic growth plans throughout the Middle East, Africa and South East Asia, with a significant focus on digital marketing technology as well as data-driven marketing initiatives.

Emma holds an honours degree in Business and Marketing from Dublin City University, Ireland.

As Azentio’s Chief Customer Officer, Aarthi will be focused on delivering excellence in customer success. In her role, Aarthi will ensure customer satisfaction and retention by overseeing all customer-facing activities. This includes managing customer success teams, support services, and customer experience strategies to ensure seamless onboarding, adoption and ongoing engagement with Azentio products suite.

Aarthi joins Azentio with over two decades of experience in the IT industry, encompassing both services and SaaS. Previously at Freshworks, she led account management and customer success for strategic accounts across the Asia Pacific, Middle East, and Africa regions. In her previous role, as Head of GTM Operations, she played a key role in scaling operations and aligning the same with the company’s IPO goals. Before Freshworks, Aarthi had a successful tenure at Cognizant as the global COO for a major business unit, and she also played a significant role in incubating and scaling the Asia Pacific business.

Aarthi comes with a strong educational pedigree and is a gold medallist from both NIT Trichy where she did her Engineering and Indian School of Business, Hyderabad where she did her post graduate program in Management. She also holds unique distinction of being a Fulbright scholar from Carnegie Mellon University.

Ramesh Joins Azentio as Chief Technology officer with 28 years of experience in Enterprise application development primarily in Platform as a service, Software as a service and Infrastructure as a service.

At Azentio Ramesh will be focused on building next generational Lending, Insurance, mutual fund, Anti money laundering and Fraud detection-based product and also to SAAS enable the product portfolio. In his role he would be working closely with Azentio Sales to understand and support the immediate need of the customer while also develop Highly configurable Financial products rich in Analytics, AI , user experience and self-service capabilities.

Previously at Brane enterprises , he worked as Chief Technology , strategy, Product officer and lead No Code AI platform development from the scratch and scaled it up to millions of users for customers across India , South America, and North America. This business has grown up to 100 million USD.

Previously at Oracle, Ramesh worked as head of engineering for Oracle Integrations and AI team comprising of product such as Workflow, Rules, Insight , B2B, Digital Assistant, Complex event processing etc. This team has driven revenue up to 200 million USD. He has closely worked with Oracle Financial, HCM team as a subject matter of expert of Business Rules and workflow. Ramesh led many customer implementation of Oracle fusion application involving many fortune 100 enterprise customers.

Prior to this Ramesh worked as Senior Technical architect of Carrefour, Cisco, Hewlett Packard.

He also carries couple of patents around message processing for Oracle ERP.

Ramesh has a BTech in Electronics and communication from Kuvempu university and Executive MBA from Indian Institute of management Bangalore.