Our Team

Leadership Team

Viditha_CEO

Vivek Krishnamurthy

CEO

Highly accomplished and result oriented engineering leader with over 23 years of rich experience and exhaustive knowledge of executing stock mobile phone programs from concept to production.

Versatile leadership skills encompassing project management, ODM management, risk management, budget management and Offshore development Center administration

He is excellent in managing cross functional teams across globe. Instrumental in inducing trust between teams and focussing on common goal

Vivek started his career as Software engineer in Synergy infotech, an IT services company. After joining Sonim Technologies as Technical lead, focussed on commercialization of products. As delivery head, managed more than 500+ commercial releases across various products. As head of India operations, run the center successfully for more than 3 years.

Core competencies includes The realisation of a complete Android based product, Executive consulting, Program management

Technical Advisor

Sarat Chandran

Technical Advisor

Sarat is a leading expert in the telecommunications and embedded systems. With more than two decades of experience, as a software engineer to entrepreneur, he currently consults with leading players in mobile telecommunication area.

Hyconosys Techologies was a startup established by Sarat and run its operation successfully. It was able to provide expert engineering services to key global players in the area of rugged mobile devices. The team also created automation products for select customers.

He was the Director and Head of Software in Sonim Technologies. He created an entire mobile handset development team from a single engineer and was able to deliver the first in-house built, FirstNet ready smart rugged phone separately customized for multiple North American operators within three years of inception of the team. He was also played key roles during the company's entry into the world of stock-products for major NA operators, a decade ago.

During a brief stint in Beceem(Later Broadcom), he created the multi-processor platform for its LTE modem solution.

He started as a software engineer in Sasken (Silicon Automation Systems at the time), with Nortel EPABX switches, later moving towards VoIP core protocols. It was here he began his career in mobile communication, as part of WCDMA protocol stack development and leading its customisation on Intel mobile platform. He later went on to work on many areas of this techology associating with the leading mobile telecom companies such as Siemens, Vodafone, Motoroala and Samsung to name a few.

Sarat currently focuses on advanced trends in communication technologies and his passionate area of embedded systems.

Advisor

Jagan Mohan Bhalaki

Advisor

Prior to taking retirement from the IT industry, during his 30+ year tenure in the industry, Jagan played various leadership roles as Director of Itron, Vice President of Unbiz Software Solutions, Vice President of Sonim Technologies and Test Group Head of Wipro Infotech.

In his last position as Director at Itron, he played a key role in starting the Itron's Bangalore development centre and growing the same to 500 member team. As a part of this, he was responsible for building the product competence and transitioning the ownership of 20+ legacy Itron products.

As Vice President of Sonim Technologies, he played key roles in setting up the engineering operations of Sonim Technologies in Bangalore, commercialization of Sonim’s Push-To-Talk solution and launching of three models of ruggedized mobile phones. His transition to Sonim Technologies was through the acquisition of Synergy Infotech Pvt. Ltd by Sonim Technologies. Jagan was a co-founder of Synergy Infotech and was heading the enterprise business applications division before the acquisition. Jagan was responsible for setting up the Test Engineering Practice at Wipro Infotech in the role of Test Group Head.

At Unibiz Software Solutions, he was responsible for building a vertical ERP from scratch which has been in use for over two decades by the leaders of the industry.

Jagan currently pursues his interests in sustainable lifestyles and advises early-stage start-ups. He holds Masters in Computer Science from IIT, Chennai.

Jasen Kolev

Advisor

Prior to taking retirement from the IT industry, during his 25+ years tenure in Industry, Jasen played various roles as Vice President in Realwear and Sonim Technologies, Global Type approval manager in Sony Ericsson

Forward-thinking professional with 25+ years of experience developing, directing, and optimizing Design and Development, Type Approval and Certifications,

Customer/Technical Acceptance and Quality Assurance (QA) operations for world-leading telecom providers. Proven ability to build high-performing teams, which work across time zones to deliver products, inspire innovation and improve market share on a global scale.

Tenacious and driven leader, innovator and problem solver for big international corporations as well as small, cutting edge start-ups. Recognized industry expert in testing and certifying wireless handsets and wireless solutions with deep knowledge of trends, standards, regulations and public safety in wireless communications. Multicultural background and extensive experience working with design and test facilities in the U.S., China, Europe, India, Latin America, and Taiwan. Fluent in five languages.

  • Design and Development
  • Type Approval & Certifications
  • Customer & Technical Acceptance
  • Product Verification & Quality Assurance
  • Global Team Building & Leadership
  • Resource Planning & Allocation
  • Data-driven Decision Making
Advisor

Javor Kolev

Advisor

Prior to taking retirement from the IT industry, during his 30+ year tenure in the industry, Javor played various leadership roles as VP of ENgineering at Realwear, Sonim Technologies and Systems Manager at Sony Ericsson.

Javor has expertise in building and leading engineering organizations and programs, and overseeing all phases of product engineering management in the U.S. and overseas

He is a highly accomplished engineering leader with expertise assembling R&D organizations from the ground up—teams, competencies, processes and relationships—and managing complex engineering programs and portfolios.

His relentless focus on driving executional excellence through the product life cycle by providing analytical skills, technology leadership and hands-on people and program management resulted in launching of various successful products across telecom industry