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Management Team

Sekar (Sekar Vembu - CEO)

Sekar is a serial entrepreneur with over 11 years of experience in the IT industry. He was a Co-Founder, the CTO and a Business Unit head for AdventNet, a leading player in the network management domain, albeit better known these days for the Zoho suite of products. He had helped AdventNet grow to a 300 people organization without raising any venture capital funding. After Adventnet, he founded SwissSQL, a database migration solution that helps save over 90% of the migration effort and over 80% of the costs typically involved in database migration projects; SwissSQL was later acquired by Adventnet in 2004. Thereafter, Sekar founded Vembu Technologies and has played the pivotal role in growing Vembu to its current position.

Sekar holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a masters degree in Operations Research – both from IIT-Madras.

An avid sportsman, Sekar is particularly passionate about racquet games and cricket. A discerning foodie, Sekar can put most food critics to shame with his eye (rather taste) for detail! With an opinion on virtually anything under the sun, he (aptly) plans to title his 'yet to be started' personal blog “I too have an opinion”

Jay (Jayavasanthan J, Director of Technology)

Jay has been with Vembu Technologies since 2005 and is intimately familiar with the inner workings of StoreGrid. Prior to joining Vembu, Jay was with Adventnet where he worked on various products and diverse technologies in the 'Network Management' domain. Currently, Jay leads the R&D team at Vembu Tech that's working on the 'next generation' of StoreGrid & related storage solutions.

Jay completed his Engineering from Madras University with a specialization in Electronics & Communication Engineering.

An avid consumer of various genres of music & cinema, he also enjoys playing Cricket, Table Tennis & various board games - basically anything that minimizes calorific burn! His vast repertoire of unpublicized talents include limbo & break dancing.

Sathish (Sathish Subramaniam, Director of Engineering)

Sathish Joined Vembu Technologies in 2007 after working for large corporate giants like Nortel and Verizon. Prior to joining Vembu, he was with Verizon Data Services both in India and in the USA, wherein he'd worked primarily on Speech Recognition based applications for the Telecom Industry and on varied applications for handheld wireless devices.

Sathish completed his Bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT, Madras and thereafter obtained his Masters degree in Petroleum Engineering (yes, Petroleum) from The University of Texas, Austin. He went on to complete a second Masters in Computer Engineering with a specialization in Distributed Systems.

He is the resident authority on gully cricket and derives joy from challenging his son to a game of 'living room hockey'. Needless to say, his wife is relieved when he's at work!

Kumar (Kumar Krishnasami, Director of Consumer Markets)

Prior to joining Vembu, Kumar had over 14 years of experience in the IT industry – across verticals like Banking, Insurance, Telecom, Manufacturing and Utilities. He’d worked at several Fortune 500 companies like JPMorgan Chase, Allstate Insurance, MCI WorldCom, AT & T and Wisconsin Energy. In his last role, he was an Enterprise Architect at JP Morgan Chase where he helped architect and integrate web based applications for the Treasury & Security Services division. Kumar is passionate about consumer technologies and has dabbled in creating several consumer oriented websites including a Social Network for Physicians and an Indian languages search engine that searches and indexes Indian language websites that are based on custom fonts as well as unicode.

Kumar has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from IIT-Madras and a Masters degree in Industrial & Systems Engineering from University of Illinois.

An avid basketball player in his erstwhile years, he enjoys the occasional game of squash these days. He also claims to have (during his years in Chicago) ‘noticed’ Obama far before anyone else did.