Board of Advisors
Board Of Advisors

![]() The former CEO of Ernst & Young Consulting, South East Asia, and one of 37 Distinguished Graduates from the United States Naval Academy. JD is a former nuclear submarine officer and the crisis response leader who helped supervise the Valdez oil spill cleanup. Nominated as CNBC Asian CEO of the year, he was the Channel News Asia "IT Person of the Week" and advisor to the Singapore Prime Minister, Fortune 100 companies, members of parliament and dignitaries around the world on industrial evolution, innovation, outsourcing and energy policy. After retiring from the corporate world, JD shifted his focus to promoting human potential and became the founder and CEO of Essence Enterprises where he developed a dynamic public presence as the creator, producer, and host of television and radio programs, and leadership seminars. JD is the recipient of numerous corporate, presidential, and innovation awards and he is a #1 Amazon best selling author on personal development. His writing has been featured in major publications including: The Chief Executive Magazine, Leadership Excellence, Texas CEO, Business Times, New Straits Times, and Far East Economic Journal. |
![]() Chief Strategy Officer Ken Kenjale has 38 years of experience in all aspects IT and BPO services over a dozen countries. Since 2005, Ken has been an independent consultant serving on the boards of two listed technology companies, acting as part-time Chief Strategy Officer for a few IT services companies; doing corporate planning, CEO and CXO mentoring; addressing major opportunities and challenges of small and mid-sized companies; improving P&Ls, cash flows and balance sheets; formulating strategy, structure and systems; improving sales, delivery, onsite-offshore management, HR, infrastructure and R&D; providing contractual and other legal support; and Training. Prior to that, Ken spent 17 years at Syntel, Inc., a NASDAQ listed IT and BPO services company, in roles ranging from Senior Consultant to Manager Government Services, Manager Strategic Marketing Group, Head Solutions Group, Chief Technology Office, acting Chief Delivery Officer, Member Capital Assets Acquisition Committee, Member Corporate Executive Committee, member of IPO team, CEO of startup SkillBay.com, Inc., and director of companies incubated in the US and the UK. Started several lines of business, created several internal groups, managed over 3,500 IT professionals generating $180 million annually from clients in banking, financial services, manufacturing, health care, retailing and other verticals, conceptualized and implemented several innovations, including the "Shadow and replacement" technique, automation of the temporary and permanent staffing eco-system through SkillBay.com, etc. Set up the Bay Area branch and initiated continental European business. He was key in growing the company from 70 people to several thousand. Deeply involved in technology, solutions, project and engagement management, sales, contracts, service delivery, recruitment, writing papers, speaking at conferences, training, etc. Prior to that, Ken spent 14 years at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). Working in over a dozen countries, Ken designed and implemented networks, DBMSs, language processors; specified, developed and implemented major applications; managed projects; developed corporate architectures; managed the European region; set up and managed a joint venture in Singapore, and later expanded business to Malaysia; managed company technology acquisitions; conducted campus recruitment and training; and conducted R&D and published innovations in technical journals. Ken holds a bachelors degree in electrical engineering from a National Institute of Technology (NIT), India (1972), and a master's degree in Computer Science from Indian Institute of technology (IIT), Kanpur, India (1974). |
Chief Information Officer Anup is a Senior IT executive with 20 years of global experience in enterprise security, infrastructure and middleware architecture with global firms such as Allianz, Pepsico, Xerox, IBM and HCL. Anup has been instrumental in IT and Business Strategy, transformation, architecture and services. His areas of expertise include :
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![]() Hadoop Architect and Big Data Evangelist Mr. Bala Peddi has been in the technology field for over 19 years. Mr. Bala Peddi has been a lead technology architect for over 19 years with leading global financial firms such as Bank of America, Wachovia(A Wells Fargo Company), Fidelity Investments and others. He has hands-on experience building large scale database applications, including architecture, implementation, scaling and support. Bala has expertise in designing and building scalable infrastructure and platforms to collect and process very large amounts of data (structured and unstructured), including streaming real-time data. |
Hadoop Architect and Big Data Evangelist Al is based in Dallas, Texas and is focused on growing our client base in North America, as well as overseeing numerous client projects. Al has over 20 years of experience in Information Technology ranging from maintenance, and network administration to software development and consulting. Prior to joining Vensai, Al worked for HP Enterprise Services and Liferay. He has a B.S. in Information Systems from the University of Texas at Arlington. Al is also a Microsoft Certified Professional and Certified NetWare Engineer, Eagle Scout and a member of the Order of the Arrow. |