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With nearly two decades of IT and telecommunications experience,
Mr. Kumar is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of XIUS. He successfully established XIUS as a cutting-edge telecom technology company and guided the company in developing unique products to solve the business problems of telecom operators unattended by incumbent telecom solution providers.

Mr. Kumar is credited with the ideation and commercial development of a number of patent pending wireless technologies and services.

The Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) strategy focuses the company in the significant emerging field of Intelligent Networks, Convergent Solutions, Mass Subscriber Customization, Wireless Roaming and Wireless OSS.

Prior to his work at XIUS, Mr. Kumar began his career with the Godrej Group of India, and last served as CEO of Godrej Telecom Ltd. – the telecom arm of the Godrej Group.

Mr. Kumar graduated from National Institute of Techonology, Bhopal with a specialization in electrical engineering and received an MBA from XIMB.

Shridhar, a post graduate in Business Management, brings in about 25 years of multi dimensional experience to the XIUS Management team. In his current assignment he heads the HR organization for XIUS across various geographies.

In this role, Shridhar is responsible for Hiring Talent, Talent Development & Talent Management. The objective is to ensure the HR strategy is aligned to the current and future goals of the business and to the expectations of employees development needs. He is responsible for designing and developing HR initiatives with a focus on creating the Employer Brand and ensuring high motivation and morale levels in the organization. In short he works towards Attracting, Retaining and Developing Talent that makes XIUS a preferred employer.

Prior to XIUS, Shridhar has worked in some of the reputed global groups such as British Gas, Godrej and United Spirits. In these organizations, in addition to the HR function he held the responsibility for the admin /facilities and the IT organization. He has in the past successfully led a team towards the implementation of BaaN ERP. In his previous assignments he has been associated with the companies from the start up stage and has been part of the executive management teams that built and grew the organizations.

Shridhar has a cross functional and a multi industry experience (S/w, Financial Services & Telecom Manufacturing and Services). While he is enthusiastic and passionate about all that he is associated with, his corporate and personal successes are a result of his USP’s - communication, people management, organizing & planning and adaptability to changes around.

In his spare time, Shridhar catches up on reading and would also prefer to trek and listen to Indian music.

Sundaresan is a growth oriented, globally focused leader with over 23 years of experience in handling Retail, Direct and Channel sales in various industries. He also brings with him a deep understanding of Business Development and International Business. In his previous profiles he had the experience of handling products ranging from Service Retail, Telecom, High value diagnostic Medical equipments, Consumer Durables and Entertainment (subscription based satellite radio service).

Sundaresan possesses excellent business skills involving planning and development of business plans, designing and implementation of successful sales strategies. He is also adroit at analyzing an organization's critical requirements, identifying deficiencies and potential opportunities, and developing innovative, cost-effective solutions thereby enhancing competitiveness, driving growth and increasing revenues.

Prior to joining XIUS, Sundaresan held leadership positions in Suvidhaa Infoserve, Young Learners Academy, and World space India. A seasoned Telecom professional, Sundaresan has 8 years of experience in the Telecom Industry with successful stints at Reliance Infocomm, where he was the PCO business head for Karnataka Circle and Zip Telecom, where he was the business head for the South India region.

In his spare time, Sundaresan enjoys photography and is also a trained voiceover artist.

Derek brings more than twenty two years of leadership and management experience in business and specifically within the mobile industry to XIUS. The last eighteen (18) years have been focused on Sales, from the perspective of the mobile operator selling to subscribers as well as the perspective of selling mobile services and solutions to the mobile operator. Working both of these roles has provided Derek with unique insight and perspective as to what is required to enable success for the mobile operator. Derek has a breadth of knowledge of wireless technology and the wireless industry overall. He has been involved in operations planning and management within mobile operators and his sales experience has been focused at taking that experience and understanding to bring value to his customers by respecting their needs and requirements and providing solutions to meet them.

Derek also possesses and exercises his strong communication, team building, negotiation, relationship building and public speaking skills within and outside of the company. He has used these skills for the last 8+ years in a series of leadership positions as a volunteer for Boy Scouts of America. He is currently serving as a Commissioner for the Cathedral Gorge District in the Utah National Parks council where he has applied and taught leadership skills to the Boy Scouts in his area helping them improve their lives and capabilities to deal with challenges in life and prepare themselves to be successful productive adults. Derek has lived in a number of countries in Latin America over many years. These experiences, in addition to his ability to listen and understand, have enhanced his ability as a customer advocate. They have also helped him to maintain and develop long term relationships with his customers.

His interests lie within the mobile realm even in his private time as he describes himself as a wireless technophile and early adopter of all things new in the mobile arena.

Derek is a certified level 3 Motorola repair technician and Master Coach. He has studied Criminal Justice and worked in law enforcement until finding his way to the mobile industry where he has succeeded over the past eighteen years.

Sridhar Lanka is Vice President, Technology & Engineering at XIUS. He has about 14 years of experience in technology management in telecommunications, e-governance, manufacturing and e-commerce.

Identifying market segments, innovating and delivering solutions for those opportunities have been his expertise over the years. His broad geographical experience and regional insights drive in this endeavor.

Throughout his career in XIUS, Sridhar was instrumental in innovation, realization of ideas and commercialization of technology. Formal training Sridhar acquired (in his MBA days) on delivering value through application of technology drives these.

Sridhar joined XIUS in 2004 and was driving the solution architecture and consulting team in his previous role at XIUS.

Mr. Umakanta Mansingh joined as Head – Quality for XIUS in January 2011. The role encompasses strategic growth initiatives - Quality Assurance and Quality Control, corporate wide initiatives to build a sustainable organization and the corporate brand.

Umakanta has varied experience of 20 years in the Information Technology services industry. Starting his career as a software developer, he has a well rounded experience and has held important responsibilities in software development, project management and process improvement & Institutionalization of best practices, strategy formulation and prioritization, Quality planning for business adaptability.

Prior to joining XIUS, Umakanta was with Infotech Enterprises Ltd for 6 years, as Quality Head for one of the largest verticals – Engineering Services. He was responsible for Quality Management through multiple delivery units and nurturing multiple global customer relationships. Under his leadership, Quality/Process improvement programs had resulted in savings of many million dollars. He had consulted many national / international organizations on Quality Management and Business Excellence Model.

Umakanta is a certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Lead Examiner- RBNQA equivalent of Malcolm Baldrige Business Model, CMMI Assessment Team Member, Certified ITIL professional, Certified Internal auditor for ISO 9001, 13485, AS9100, IRIS, ISO14001/18001 & ISO 27001 and a trained PMP & PCMM professional. He holds a Master Degree in Business Administration and a Post Graduate Diploma in Systems Management.

Jim brings 25+ years of varied IT and industry experience to the XIUS Management Team. In his current role, he leads the worldwide corporate and product marketing organization as well as heading up the Sales Operations within the XIUS organization. In these roles, Jim manages all of the corporate and solution messaging (online and print), internal and external websites, press releases, public relations, brand management, creation of sales collateral and presentations, advertising, and market and solution research as well as global lead generation, tradeshow planning and support, identifying and teaming with product partners, while also monitoring and tracking sales activities and progress towards corporate targets, supporting the Sales Team with financial analysis and management team reviews.

Prior to his current role, Jim served as the General Manager of BCGI’s Postpaid Billing business until BCGI’s acquisition by Megasoft. Previously, Jim was the head of operations at Infotech Solutions, a wireless postpaid billing company in Maine. He also served in key roles in the electric utility industry at Central Maine Power where he implemented the state of Maine’s electrical deregulation plan across multiple systems and organizations, and at Bath Iron Works, a shipbuilding company for the Department of Defense where he managed a number of systems from Financial and HR to Manufacturing Resource Management (MRP) to Logistics and Engineering. Jim started out his career serving in the U.S. Marine Corps where he performed a number of IT roles from Operations to Development, Systems Analysis, and Project Management. Jim earned his MBA from Northeastern University in Boston in 2006.

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