Sridhar Bogelli is the Founder and President of Apps Associates. Under Sridhar’s leadership, Apps Associates has grown rapidly including revenue expansion of more than 100% for 5 consecutive years by building a leverage delivery model with offices in USA, India and Germany. Sridhar is responsible for fostering partnerships and delivering extreme value through their Global Delivery to the Fortune 1000 customers.

Sridhar had started his work career with Wipro Systems, where he was responsible for the Oracle ERP implementations at GE Capital locations in Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand and Indonesia. He was instrumental in standardizing the IT and accounting practices at GE Capital in the Asian countries. Sridhar had later worked for Oracle Corporation where he had managed numerous successful implementations of Oracle Applications across industry segments.

Sridhar is a regular speaker at Oracle Conferences and at local Universities. He is very passionate about the right approach to train and develop new employees at Apps Associates in business processes, technology, quality and leadership.

Sridhar holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Osmania University.

Ajay manages the Product Development practice based out of Westford. Ajay has over 10 years of experience in the Research and Development of products involving leading-edge technologies such as Information Extraction, Pattern recognition and Neural Networks. He has led the development of two products at Apps Associates: ShipConsole, a shipping application that integrates Oracle E-Business Suite with freight carriers like UPS and FedEx; and Report Lifecycle Management Solution (RLMS), an enterprise report management & search application. Prior to joining Apps Associates, Ajay held senior positions at companies delivering automatic speech recognition products such as Infinitive Speech Systems (subsidiary of Visteon Corp.), and Dragon Systems (acquired by Nuance).

Ajay holds an MS in Computer Science from BITS, Pilani and a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

Kshitij is Vice President of Business Intelligence business unit based out of our Westford, MA office. Kshitij has over 15 years of industry experience and has strong project management and technical skills. Kshitij has a deep technical background in data warehousing and database technologies and has been working with and managing teams for Oracle Business Intelligence for several years, following the acquisition of Siebel by Oracle. Before joining Apps Associates, Kshitij was a database manager for six years at a leading social research firm based out of Cambridge, MA. In his role, he was responsible for managing the company's Oracle Applications 11i ERP system and reporting data warehouse. Kshitij has also worked for Government of Qatar (Middle East, Arabian Gulf) for three years, developing GIS (Geographic Information Systems) applications using ESRI, Microsoft and Oracle technologies.

Kshitij holds a Masters Degree in Management Information systems (MIS) from Northeastern University, Boston, MA. He has completed Boston University's certificate course in Project Management based on PMI (Project Management Institute) guidelines. Kshitij is also an Oracle Certified Database Administrator for database versions 8i, 9i and 10g.

Jim is the Vice President of the Oracle Applications Consulting business unit based out of Boston, MA. He manages the team of functional and technical personnel, providing On-site and Off-shore services to our clients. Jim has over 16 years of industry, consulting and Oracle experience. He is an accomplished professional with a successful track record in consulting leadership, project management and the delivery of Oracle solutions.

Prior to joining Apps Associates, Jim was the Vice President of ERP solutions for a New England based systems integrator. Jim was also very successful at Oracle Corporation for eight years, where he held management and delivery positions in commercial consulting practice.

Christian is the General Manager for Apps Associates’ European operations headquartered in Germany. He is responsible for the business development and execution for the European wide projects. He has over 10 years of experience in Information Systems business and implementing integrated systems in various Industries. One of his key strengths is program management in international/multi-cultural/multi-language environments. Prior to joining Apps Associates, Christian worked for 4,5 years at Kaz Inc. as their IT-Manager for Europe. In this position he had led the European wide roll out of Oracle Applications to success. He has deep experience in executing the offshore-onsite model.

Christian holds a Master of Science in Physics from University of Applied Sciences in Iserlohn, Germany and a MBA from University of Applied Sciences in Hagen, Germany.

Lav Nigam serves as the Vice President of the Indian operations at Hyderabad. He brings in more than 30 years of managerial and technical experience in IT and communication industry, out of which over 10 years has been in setting up and managing the Indian operations of US based start ups. In his current role, he is responsible for development and expansion of the off-shore capabilities of the Hyderabad operations of Apps Associates.

Most recently, Lav Nigam was the Managing Director of Cendura Software (P) Ltd, Hyderabad, a product development company based out of Mountain View, CA. He led the company’s efforts in India in development of it’s product Cohesion, a platform for change, configuration and compliance, which is used by Global 2000 IT organizations to gain control of their application infrastructure. The company recently got acquired by Computer Associates. Earlier to this, Lav Nigam set up and managed the Indian operations of Healtheon (now WebMD Corp), a Santa Clara based e-health company, at Hyderabad. WebMD is the leading provider of health information services, serving consumers, physicians, other healthcare professionals, employers and health plans in US.

In his earlier assignments, Lav Nigam was the Head of Indian operations of Visualtek Corporation, a Fremont based company. Earlier to this, he was a Senior Executive at ITI Ltd., the country’s first telecommunication company.

Lav Nigam obtained a B.E. in Electronics and Communication from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.

Srinivas manages the Services practice for strategic accounts & partners based out of Boston. Srinivas has been in the Information Systems business for 10 years, he has started out as a consultant working for Price Waterhouse Coopers. After three years, he joined Oracle Corporation at their North-East Technology Practice. Before starting with Apps Associates, Srinivas was the Development Manager and then Director of Applications Development at Kaz, Inc. In addition to his broad range of Technical and Business skills, he has managed Implementation and Development efforts for many client sites.

Srinivas holds a Master in Business Administration from the Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar and a Bachelor's in Electrical and Electronics from Regional Engineering College, Calicut.

Bill is Vice President of U.S. Operations and Business Development responsible for U.S. Finance & Administration and global business development. In this role, Bill is responsible for overall customer and partner relations as well as development and management of integrated sales & marketing initiatives and operational systems & procedures. Prior to joining Apps Associates, Bill held executive and senior management positions within the high technology sector in both entrepreneurial firms and Fortune 500 companies such as Texas Instruments and Digital Equipment Corporation in the areas of strategic planning & engineering.

Over the past 15 years, Bill has exclusively been focused on the growth & management of small-to-mid sized technology firms, serving as VP Sales & Marketing for Ready-to-Run Software and Regional VP (U.S. New England) for Business Management International, Inc., an IT consulting service firm. More recently, Bill was Managing Director for Voyager Systems Inc., a global provider of software services located in Bedford, NH. Bill has been an invited guest lecturer at Boston University, School of Management Entrepreneurship Program and served on the advisory board of Ivrea Pharmaceuticals, a Boston area life science company, with primary role in strategic planning and business development. Bill holds BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Connecticut.

Srini Samy is a Vice President of Consulting Delivery practice and manages account relationship for our clients in the Medical Devices field. Srini Samy has 17 years of consulting experience implementing projects of various sizes for clients across multiple industries. Srini Samy joined AppAssociates in 2004. He specializes in technical project management and delivery of new Oracle Application implementations and Application Rollouts to international sites. His core strengths include managing projects involving resources across multiple locations (onsite, offshore developers, onsite and near shore business analysts and functional consultants).

Prior to joining AppsAssociates, Srini Samy worked for Oracle Corporation for more than 8 years. As a member of their New England Region consulting practice, he has implemented Oracle Applications and custom Oracle solution projects under developer, technical lead and project lead roles.

Srinivasen worked for Cambridge Technology Partners (CTP) and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) prior to joining Oracle Corporation.

Srinivasen has a Master Degreee in Computer Science from University of Florida and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from National Institute of Technology (NIT/REC), Trichy, India

Nilesh serves as the Vice President of the Indian operations and manages the offshore delivery organization out of Hyderabad, India. He is responsible for the offshore delivery for EBS, Business Intelligence, Microsoft and DBA service divisions of the company for all the regions USA, EMEA and APAC. Additionally he heads the sales organization on EBS, BI, DBA and Microsoft in EMEA and APAC regions for Apps Associates. He possesses over 14 years of experience working in the field of Oracle applications ERP. He specializes in Critical Account management, presales, large accounts program management and complete delivery management in blended multi location engagement models. He has led many large engagements on Oracle applications in his past with several companies and has helped companies functionally set up their onsite offshore business models for delivery.

Prior to joining Apps Associates, Nilesh has worked with Marlabs, Oracle India, Zensar technologies to name few. He has held responsible positions in his past with these companies.

Nilesh holds a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Pune University.

Ravi is the Vice President of the Indian Operations and manages the Global Development Center based out of Hyderabad, India.

Ravi is responsible for the offshore delivery for EBS, Business Intelligence, Infrastructure Management Services and Microsoft solutions to our clients.

Ravi has over 15 years of experience in leading professional service business units, managing offshore delivery centers (ODC), IT project/program management, delivering large scale mission-critical technology and Oracle ERP solutions to Fortune 100 customers on a global platform.

Prior to joining Apps Associates, Ravi was employed by Oracle Corporation (USA & India) for 12 years, where he held various delivery and management roles.

Ravi holds a Masters degree in Computer Applications from Osmania University.

Sowjanya is Vice-President at Apps Associates concentrating on employee development and internal processes to enable better customer delivery and interaction for Apps Associates. She is based out of our Westford, MA office. Sowjanya was instrumental in starting and building the Global development center in Hyderabad, India during the initial stages. Prior to joining Apps Associates, Sowjanya had worked at e-travel Inc, part of Oracle Corporation, a global leader in technology and distribution solutions for the travel and tourism industry.

Sowjanya worked as a technology consultant in Oracle Applications specializing in CRM modules with many of Apps Associates' customers. She brings in the development standards, communication and execution methodology to projects implemented by Apps Associates.

Sowjanya has a Masters Degree in Computer Science from Univ. of Massachusetts and a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Osmania University.