Rahul L Kanodia Vidur Bhogilal
Michael Thuleweit
Atul Srivastava


Rahul L Kanodia - Vice Chairman and CEO

After his graduation in Finance and Accounts from Mumbai's H R College, Rahul L Kanodia completed his second degree from the Babson College USA, with a specialisation in Management Information Systems. Further, Rahul is an MBA from Columbia University, (an Ivy League University), New York, USA, with a major in Business Strategy & Marketing and a minor in Mergers and Acquisitions and Turnaround Management.

Rahul first worked with Datamatics as a trainee systems programmer; and later as a consultant at the UN. At the age of twenty-five he established Datamatics America in 1992, in New York and was appointed Managing Director of Datamatics Limited in 1996.

While conceptualising and implementing growth strategies, and forging strategic alliances with Fortune 500 companies, Rahul initiated organisational restructuring and financial re-engineering for supporting rapid growth. These initiatives provided the platform for Datamatics to establish operations in USA and Europe.

 
Vidur Bhogilal - Chief Financial Officer

Vidur Bhogilal has been Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director, Datamatics Technologies, Inc. since May 12, 2005, prior to which he acted as CFO and Director from 2001-2005. In this capacity, Vidur played a key role in Datamatics’ US acquisitions, including privatizing a NASDAQ listed company and overseeing the successful merger and integration of Datamatics’ three U.S. subsidiaries into one company.

From 1999-2001, Vidur worked as Datamatics’ AGM, Business Development, where he was actively involved in setting up joint ventures with U.S. multinationals and headed the Mergers and Acquisitions division. During this time, the Company executed the first acquisition by an Indian ITES company of a listed U.S. corporation under Vidur's guidance.

Before joining Datamatics, Vidur worked for international organizations such as JM Morgan Stanley and Arthur Anderson, amongst others.

Vidur received his B.Com. from Sydenham College of Commerce & Economics, Mumbai and an LL.B from Government Law College, Mumbai. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ACA) and the Institute of Cost & Works Accountants of India (AICWA). He also holds a degree of Certified Public Accountants (CPA) from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Delaware.

A rank holder and a gold medallist in his academic endeavors, Vidur brings rich experience in the fields of Accounts, Finance, Human Resources, Administration, and Legal.

 
Sameer L. Kanodia - Executive Director

Sameer received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Bryant University, USA, with Marketing as a major, graduating with honors. Among the honors he earned during his undergraduate years was being featured in the Dean's List throughout the program. Sameer subsequently received his Masters in Business Administration from Bryant University, USA, with Finance as a major. He is currently serving on the Board of Trustees at Bryant University since February 2008.

Sameer led the team that set up and managed the first high-technology scanning R&D centre at Datamatics to test the feasibility of optical character recognition. Adding to his repertoire of project management and project execution skills were his assignments for the top 25 Fortune 500 companies. This was also interspersed with frequent travels throughout South East Asia, Europe, Canada, Australia and the USA on marketing assignments. Sameer was also involved in the study and evaluation of projects, analyzing workflows, methods to improve processes, customer feedback, and other analysis.

Apart from being actively involved in the operations of the company, Sameer drives various strategic initiatives, expansion plans, and go-to-market strategies.

 
Michael Thuleweit - Managing Director, Datamatics Technologies GMBH

A Computer Science diploma holder, Mr. Thuleweit has 20 years of experience in the IT industrywith more than 13 years of management expertise. He joined Datamatics GmBH in 1997. Mr. Thuleweit has a strong background in technology as well as sales and marketing and is well versed in C/S concepts, B2B based on mainframes, C programming, SQL Database technologies and Project Management skills. Prior to joining Datamatics, Mr. Thuleweit worked with firms such as Danet and Nixdorf Computer AG. He also worked at Software AG for 7 years in the capacity of Vice President Technology Alliances where he was responsible for the external development and business relationship of Software AG.

 
 
Rangesh Nayar - President, BFSI and Finance & Accounting Services

Rangesh is a Chartered Accountant by qualification. He has attended a special course at the Harvard Business School and has also received formal training in Oracle Financials and Data warehousing.

He has rich experience in the world of Finance and Technology spanning more than 22 years. He started his illustrious career with Banque Nationale de Paris (now BNP Paribas) as Chief Internal Auditor. Among the other senior management positions Rangesh has held are Vice President at Times Guarantee Financials, Vice President at TCS, CEO at Shapoorji Pallonji Finance and CEO at Sanchez Capital Services. Since November 2002 he has been with IBM as Country Manager.

His expertise spans the fields of leasing, hire purchase, retail assets and liabilities, corporate finance, money markets, treasury management, short-term and long-term credit appraisal, infrastructure finance, merchant banking, investment banking and portfolio management. He also has been involved in evaluating construction projects and power projects.

Other key areas where he has contributed are solution architecture, business process re-engineering, defining MIS needs, and creating business control and compliance mechanisms.

 
Atul Srivastava - Senior Vice President and Head, Corporate HRD

Atul has done his Masters in Social Works from Delhi School of Social Works in 1976 and Bachelor in Social Works from Jamia School of Social Works, New Delhi, in 1973. Atul has 30 years of experience in the areas of Human Resoures Management. He has worked with companies like Hindustan Organic Chemicals, Pawan Hans Helicopters Limited and Siemens Information Systems Limited. His last assignment was with Capgemini Consulting (India) Private Limited as Director - People Relationship Management.