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Yashpal Sahni

Pradeep Saxena

Doug Holden

Manish Gupta

Yashpal Sahni
Former President & COO of TCS (Largest IT Services company in Asia)

Mr. YP Sahni has 30 years of experience in consulting and assisting Indian Companies in Organization Building and IT Strategy. Mr. Sahni is rightly considered as one of the leading leaders of IT industry in India and was one of the Founder Member of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) for over 25years. As as President & COO with TCS, he was responsible for supervising the Management consulting part of the business and headed several large management consulting assignments. He was also responsible for Organization Development, Strategic Planning for new businesses and managing high level relationships and business development both in International and Domestic markets. Mr. Sahni also actively involved in setting up international alliance and partnerships and has remarkable experience in dealing with Organization and cultural issues in Acquisition and Merger situations.

Mr. Sahni holds an honors degree in Mathematics and Masters in Applied Statistics. He attended the ISMP program at Harvard Business School in summer 1991 and is a fellow member of Institute of Management Consultants of India (IMCI).

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Pradeep Saxena
Member Board of Directors
Former CEO & President, eFunds

He has with more than 30 years of experience in the global banking industry. His career spans thirty years in International Banking and three years in Information Technology. He was President of eFunds International; a wholly owned subsidiary of the NYSE listed eFunds Corporation, a US based I.T. company, from 2000 to 2003.

Prior to this, he was Managing Director and CEO of the South Asia Region of ING Barings, the Netherlands' based Corporate and Investment Bank. Earlier he was an Executive Director with the Merrill Lynch International Bank, London, Merrill's International Private Bank. In the mid Nineties he was CEO and Country Manager of the Indian Operations of the Dubai based MashreqBank. He was COO of Commercial Bank of Oman, Muscat, a subsidiary of the Bahrain based Gulf International Bank in the early Nineties. From the mid-Seventies to the late eighties he was at the American Express Bank where he served in the US, UK and India, his final assignment being Vice President and Country Corporate Banking Head. He started his banking career with the then National and Grindlays Bank, in 1970 and served in India and the U.K. He has a Bachelor's Degree in Economics and a Master's in Management Sciences from the University of Bombay.

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Doug Holden
Member Board of Directors
Chairman/Cofounder, iSmart Panache, Inc

Doug has 17 years experience in the Software and Technology consulting business. He spent ten years at KPMG Consulting and attained the level of Executive VP and was a member of the Executive Committee. As an EVP, Doug was responsible for all solutions development and ran KPMG's global CRM (Customer Relationship management) practice. He led the creation of CRM practices in the UK, Australia and Latin America. Doug also spent almost two years as the CEO of a publicly traded systems integration company. He managed the company through the downturn between 2000 and 2002, dramatically cutting fixed and variable costs, and provided a vision to transform the company into a sustainable blended shore services company in partnership with HCL Technologies.

Doug earned his BS degree from San Jose State University and his MBA form The Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

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Manish Gupta
Member Board of Directors
President & CEO, iSmart Panache, Inc.

Manish has extensive experience in the Strategy and Technology consulting business. He has successfully build world class enterprise solutions, sales and global operations team as well as structured various JVs & acquisitions.

Previously, as Executive Vice President at Zamba Solutions a leading US based CRM services company, Manish was responsible for global delivery operations and helped position Zamba as a leading CRM services company in North America. Manish also structured and ran a joint venture with HCL Technology; an India based Global Services Company. Manish also worked at KPMG Consulting where he served as Director of CRM Solutions, North America. There, he launched, sold and delivered enterprise solutions to some of the leading US corporations in the Hi-tech, Financial Services and Telecom verticals. Manish has worked in close partnership with leading technology companies (Cisco, Oracle, Amdocs, Genesys, Aspect, Microsoft, HP, SAP, etc.) Earlier in his career, Manish has also worked with Cap Gemini Ernst and Young LLP and Xerox Corporation.

Manish received his MBA in Global Service Operations Management and Competitive Strategy from the William E. Simon School of Business, University of Rochester (NY), and a BS in Computer Engineering.

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