Venkatarangan Thirumalai (Venkat) is a Technocrat Businessman. He is the Founder & Chairman of Vishwak Solutions. Under his leadership, Vishwak has grown into an agile software services company that customers love to do business with. He is one of the Microsoft Regional Directors from 1999 and a regular speaker in Microsoft TechEd conferences. Venkat believes in the power of delegation and follows his signature style of transparent management. He encourages his team to first listen and put yourself on customer’s shoes before thinking about technology. Apart from Vishwak, Venkat serves as the Director in LIFCO Publishers Pvt. Ltd, a 82 year old book publishing firm in South India. Venkat has a Bachelors Degree in Engineering from University of Madras. Venkat is a regular globe-trotter and a passionate book-reader. Being a voracious blogger, Venkat can be easily reached at his popular blog at www.venkatarangan.com/blog or in Twitter @venkatarangan.

Aravindan brings on board over 19 years of rich experience in myriad functions such as Sales, Marketing, Market Research and Consulting in industry domains like MR, New Media and IT Services. Before joining Vishwak, Aravindan has held various positions at Indiatimes, Chennaionline, Webdunia & Scope E-knowledge KPO. He is instrumental in setting up the Sales infrastructure for Vishwak and he holds an MBA degree from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India. He is also an IBM certified ECOM Professional.

Farshad is a visionary Senior Manager with over 28 years experience in Product management, marketing, business development, and sales. He served as the Group Product Manager for 8 years at Microsoft in the .NET team, MSN, and Windows division. After Microsoft, in 2002 he co-founded Zibasoft which developed a series of solutions for Electronic Medical Recording and Billing. He served as the Director of business development of 352Media Group interactive media solutions for projects with Microsoft and other companies in Pacific Northwest and Western region. Farshad received his Bachelor of Science in Environmental Engineering from University of Washington and has Masters in Engineering and Business Administration from University of California in Santa Barbara. Farshad plays classical guitar and very active in mountain climbing and sailing. He is on board of directors of different charity groups in Pacific Northwest and Children Foundation Organization.