CIO Bulletin

30 Most Influential CEOs to Watch 2020

Company	Management	Description
Datamatics www.datamatics.com	Rahul L. Kanodia Vice Chairman & Chief Executive Officer	Rahul leads all strategic and corporate initiatives globally, leading to the long-term growth, profitability and industry leadership of the organization. He has over 28 years of professional experience and has held several progressively senior and leadership positions.
Focus Softnet www.focussoftnet.com	Ali Hyder CEO	Having earned a bachelor's degree of sciences in electronics, Ali Hyder went on to earn a master's degree in business administration from the Osmania University before joining the company. His tenure with Focus Softnet exceeds over two decades wherein he has held leadership roles in strategy, delivery and operations.
ST Engineering www.stengg.com	Vincent Chong Sy Feng CEO	Vincent Chong is the President and also serves as the Chief Executive Officer of ST Engineering. Under his leadership the firm continues to strengthen its core business while pursuing new growth, with global expansion in defence and smart city business encompassing that includes robotics, security, Satcom, and mobility.
Cyient www.cyient.com	Krishna Bodanapu Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer	As Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Krishna is responsible for the strategic direction of the company and ensuring long-term value for stakeholders. He promotes Cyient's Values FIRST culture and focuses on enabling sustainable growth.
Century Pharmaceuticals Ltd www.centurypharma.com	Janak Sheth MD	Janak is a chemical engineer from I.I.T Delhi. I was involved with the setting up a new pharmaceutical plant in Indonesia where he designed the plant, purchased the equipment and later was instrumental in installing and running the plant. This gave him a complete experience of how to start a business. After 4 years he left the company and started his own business.
Cybage www.cybage.com	Arun Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director	Arun is the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Cybage Software. Cybage is a data-driven company, and this work ethic primarily originates from Arun’s thought process of giving more importance to how the analysis of data is applied to decision-making rather than the data alone.
aCommerce www.centurypharma.com	Paul Srivorakul CEO & Co-Founder	Paul Srivorakul is a Thai-American serial entrepreneur who has successfully exited three companies in Southeast Asia. He is the Founder and ex-CEO of Ensogo Group (acquired by LivingSocial) as well as the founder and ex-CEO of DMS Group, New Media (acquired by STW Group), Admax Network (acquired by Komli Media) , and Impaq Interactive (Microsoft Advertising).
Optimal Workshop www.optimalworkshop.com	Andrew Mayfield CEO	Andrew started out at Optimal Workshop as the company’s CTO. He has been the CEO of Optimal Workshop since 2010. As the CEO, he is responsible for leading the strategic growth as the company continues to build tools to improve products and their experience. Prior to Optimal Workshop he founded Spikefin, a company that created a POS system for food franchises. He spearheaded the company as its Founder and CEO until 2009.
Capillary Technologies www.capillarytech.com	Aneesh Reddy Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer	Since the beginning Aneesh has been helping things around at Capillary, steadily building upon the vision of the company. Aneesh holds a bachelor’s degree from IIT Kharagpur where he co-founded the Entrepreneurship Cell.
clickTRUE page.clicktrue.biz	Jackie Lee CEO	Jackie Lee is the CEO of clickTRUE and gives the overall strategic direction of clickTRUE, managing clickTRUE’s fund-raising activities and driving clickTRUE’s expansion plans into the Asia Pacific region forward. He is also the project manager of joint ventures and strategic partnerships. On top of that, Jackie champions innovations and R&D projects within clickTRUE.
Affle www.mtractionenterprise.com	ANUJ KHANNA SOHUM FOUNDER CHAIRMAN & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER	Anuj's entrepreneurial leadership & strategic vision has set Affle on the growth path to be the global audience & data platform for both commerce and brand customers. He aims to address industry challenges including digital fraud and data privacy through technology innovations.
Plumsoft www.plumsoft.com	Jay Sappidi Founder & Chief Executive Officer	Jay Sappidi has more than 18 years of experience in high-tech industry with a very diverse and broad-based background ranging from entrepreneurship, senior management, business development, strategic planning to technology development.
Ozonete ozonetel.com/ind	Murthy Chintipalati Founder & CEO	Murthy Chintipalati, Founder & CEO As the CEO, I work every day with our team to ensure clients have the best software to improve customer satisfaction and agent experience. I started Ozonetel along with my co-founders by leveraging the core strengths of our team to solve the most pressing enterprise communication challenges.
NEXTGEN LIFE SCIENCES PVT LTD nextgenlife.com	Dr. Nagma Abbasi CEO	Dr. Nagma Abbasi is the dynamic founder and CEO of NextGen Life Sciences. She is phenomenally leading the development and execution of long-term strategies with the vivid vision of expanding the organizations’ footprints across the global market. She attended IMT Ghaziabad, AMU, Aligarh and Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Delhi for her studies in Business administration, Doctoral studies in Molecular Genetics and Post-Doc in Molecular Biology.
Cellcard www.cellcard.com.kh/en	Ian Watson CEO	Ian Watson, a respected leader in the telecom circles, Ian is known as a sharp businessman. He has been with Callcard since 2012. He moved to Cambodia to set up Refresh Mobile, the very first provider of virtual commerce platforms in the country. Prior to his stint at Refresh Mobile, he was the Chief Operating Officer of a Texas-based company, Iris Wireless.
GUH Holdings guh.com.my	Datuk Seri Kenneth H’ng Bak Tee CEO & Group Managing Director	Datuk Seri Kenneth H’ng Bak Tee, the CEO/Group Managing Director of GUH Holdings Berhad group of companies successfully turned around the financial performance of the group in less than two years by disposing non-core assets, realigning the business focus, improving operation efficiency and at the same time planning growth path.
Pangea Global Services www.pangeaglobalservices.com	Prashant Pednekar Chief Executive Officer & Founder	Prashant Pednekar is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Pangea Global Services. He has earned a degree in mechanical engineering followed by a Master’s degree in International Sales and Marketing from Harvard School of Business post which he was hired as the youngest Vice President by a leading Bank.
TAGG www.taggdigital.com	Rohit Dhingra Co-Founder & CEO	Rohit Dhingra is the Co-Founder and CEO of TAGG Digital, a company born out of his passion towards technology. His strong decision to make it big in life motivated him to start his own company of technologically advanced goods & gears.
CleverTap clevertap.com	Sunil Thomas CEO & Co-Founder	Sunil Thomas is a technologist and drives CleverTap’s strategic vision while also managing investor relations. He has previously held CTO roles at startups and companies like Network18 and Infospace Inc.
AutonomIQ autonomiq.io	Ram Shanmugam CEO	Ram Shanmugam is the CEO of AutonomIQ. He is also a product and technology leader at start-ups in machine learning, artificial intelligence, deep learning, cloud and infrastructure technologies. Ram is the winner of TiE 50 Award, Top 10 Technology Startups, Top 20 DevOps Startups, Top 50 Technology Leaders in 2019. He also published IEEE papers and several speaking engagements.
Trax Retail traxretail.com	Joel Bar-El co-founder & Chief Executive Officer	Joel Bar-El is a co-founder and the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Trax. Joel is responsible for Trax’s vision and overall market strategy and execution. Before being named CEO of Trax in October 2011, Joel was Trax’s Chief Technology Officer.
Hibob www.hibob.com	Ronni Zehavi CEO & Co-Founder	Ronni has over 25 years of experience leading global SaaS companies. A former Entrepreneur in Residence at Bessemer Venture Partners, he co-founded and served as CEO of Cotendo, following his role as co-founder of Team8 Cybersecurity. Ronni has held an executive role at Commtouch Software and served as a board member at Shiur Acher nonprofit and Tufin. Ronni is dedicated to enhancing company culture for fast-growing businesses.
ClimaCell www.climacell.co	Shimon Elkabetz Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer	Shimon served in the Israeli Air Force for 11 years in several managerial and commanding positions. Multiple near-death weather-related experiences during his service stoked a fascination with the weather, that little thing that affects us all. Shimon holds a BA in economics from Ben Gurion University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Rise-X.IO rise-x.io	Rowan Founder & CEO	Rowan is the founder and CEO of rise-x technologies in Australia building the DIANA Platform. He is excited by the scope and scale of the opportunity to re-invent the global industrial ecosystem. “Never before has an opportunity so massive presented itself on a timeline so minute, driven by an imperative so existential.”
CyberHat www.cyberhat.com	Nadav Arbel Founder & CEO	Nadav Arbel has over 15 years of experience in Cyber and IT security for Military intelligence and Law enforcement agencies at tactical and technological units, specializing in cyber defense, intelligence gathering and strategic technical systems.
Open Brackets Learning Solutions Pvt Ltd www.openbracketslearning.com	Viraj Kalra Co-Founder	Viraj Kalra has over 20 years of experience in leadership roles in multiple industries like Education, PR, Retail, Media, Consulting, and L&D. In addition to being the Co-founder of Open Brackets Learning, he is a distinguished speaker and leadership coach.
AirTrunk www.airtrunk.com	Robin Khuda Founder & CEO	Robin Khuda is AirTrunk’s Founder and CEO, responsible for the overall business and Asia-Pacific expansion. Robin was a founding member at NEXTDC and has held leadership roles in various multinational technology companies across the Asia-Pacific region.
AnyMind Group anymindgroup.com	Kosuke Sogo CEO	Kosuke Sogo oversees the expansion and growth of the company and its business units globally. He is in the top 20 of the Japanese Entrepreneurs Ranking 2020 by Forbes Japan.
Frontier Digital Ventures frontierdv.com	Shaun Di GregorioM Chief Executive Officer Executive Director & Founder	Recognised as a global leader in the online marketplace arena, Founder of Frontier Digital Ventures, Shaun Di Gregorio is a former CEO of ASX listed companies.
Snapcart snapcart.global	Reynazran Royono Founder & CEO	Reynazran Royono is experienced in Consumer Goods, Consulting and Technology. He has held leadership roles at Procter & Gamble, The Boston Consulting Group, and was the CEO of Berniaga.com leading the site to be the no. 1 commerce site in Indonesia. He enjoys traveling, eating out, and a skilled online gamer.