Puneet Pandit
President and CEO
Puneet Pandit, President and CEO, brings over twenty years of global experience in the IT industry to Glassbeam. He is responsible for setting the company direction, building the right team and delivering on the promise of ground-breaking product analytics solutions.
Prior to Glassbeam, Puneet was Founder and CEO of Orchesys, a professional and managed services firm focused on enterprise storage solutions. In the process of delivering services, Puneet assembled a world class team with unique knowledge and expertise to fulfill an unmet need for data center product vendors. This need was to acquire profound insights and real-time visibility into product usage by mining product operational data from the installed base; based on this mission, he and his team developed the Glassbeam product analytics solution that is applicable to any product manufacturer, whether in the date center or outside. Before Orchesys, Puneet was Senior Director at Network Appliance leading the Database and Business Applications Solutions Group where he was responsible for major cross functional initiatives with global accounts. His general management skills are well complemented with client delivery experience through his work at Ernst & Young and Tata Unisys Limited as a management consultant.
Puneet is a graduate of management school at University of Chicago and holds a BE Electrical degree from Punjab University, India.
Ashok Agarwal
VP, Engineering
Ashok Agarwal leads the Engineering organization and is responsible for Glassbeam's SaaS platform architecture, technology and service operations. He is also responsible for technical liaison with Glassbeam customers.
Ashok joins us from LiveDeal Inc, a leader in local search and SEM solutions, providing SaaS based hosted service for classifieds (e-commerce), Yellowpages and Business Intelligence portal for reporting SEM performance. Prior to LiveDeal, Ashok's engineering career spans 20+ years in the software industry holding senior management positions with various start-ups and large companies such as Acxiom Digital, Earthlink, Patni and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). At Acxiom Digital, he was responsible for managing custom extensions to Acxiom's SaaS based email marketing and analytics application. At Medialive/Earthlink, he managed development of Medialive's Internet Security product and provided technical leadership in Earthlink's acquisition of Medialive's technology. Prior to that Ashok has a track record of delivering complex software solutions (Enterprise and web based) in various underlying technologies.
Ashok is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee.
Pramod Sridharamurthy
Director, Solutions Engineering
Pramod leads the Solutions Engineering Group and is responsible for building customer specific solutions using the glassbeam platform. He handles all customer related activities from proof of concepts to Solution Design, Implementation and ongoing maintenance.
Prior to Glassbeam, Pramod was leading the Consulting and Practices group of Orchesys where he was responsible for building storage practices and its delivery to large enterprise customers. Pramod brings in rich IT experience in infrastructure space through Storage Consulting, Practice development, Pre-sales and Performance Engineering positions held in companies like Apara Enterprise Solutions and Wipro Infotech.
Pramod is a graduate of the Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, Mysore.
