# Stawan Kadepurkar

> Stawan Kadepurkar is the co-founder and CEO of Provus, a services quoting software company founded in 2021. His career spans engineering at Siemens and Infosys, global HiTech sales at Aricent, and senior business leadership at L&T Technology Services. At Provus, he has held revenue and customer leadership roles and advocates connecting pricing decisions to delivery realities.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Provus
- **Organizations:** Provus, Siemens, Infosys, Aricent, Altran, L&T Technology Services, Esencia Technologies, Alameda County Library Foundation, Boy Scouts of America
- **Education:** College of Engineering Pune (COEP)
- **Known for:** Co-founded Provus in 2021., Member of the founding team at a company that announced a $12 million Series A in July 2022., Served as chief business officer and HiTech business leader at L&T Technology Services.

## Career timeline

- **1991-1995** — Attended engineering college in Pune; graduated in 1995.
- **1995** — Began work as an electronics engineer at Siemens in Mumbai.
- **1997** — Joined Infosys in Bangalore; worked on software for Cisco.
- **2005** — Listed as a technical reviewer in Cisco CallManager Fundamentals, Second Edition, with an Infosys software development manager biography.
- **—** — Led global HiTech sales at Aricent and held senior leadership positions at Altran.
- **2018** — Presented the Hi-Tech roadmap as Business Head at LTTS Investor & Analyst Day.
- **2020** — Identified as chief business officer at L&T Technology Services in its Qualcomm Smart Cities announcement.
- **2021** — Co-founded Provus with Mahesh Baxi and Ganesh Ramachandran; initially served as chief revenue officer.
- **2024** — Appointed chief customer officer at Provus on March 7.
- **2025** — Identified as Provus co-founder and CEO in a November 4 interview.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Provus in 2021.
- Member of the founding team at a company that announced a $12 million Series A in July 2022.
- Served as chief business officer and HiTech business leader at L&T Technology Services.
- Credited as a technical reviewer in Cisco CallManager Fundamentals, Second Edition.
- Served on the Alameda County Library Foundation board.

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — Published an essay arguing that AI efficiency requires services companies to reconsider time-based pricing, staffing and forecasting.
- **2026-02** — Appeared in a Provus recap of a TSIA discussion with Kantata CTO Vikas Nehru about margin leakage and quote-to-delivery coordination.
- **2025-11** — Discussed agentic AI and internal sales delays in a SalesTechStar interview as Provus CEO and co-founder.

## Links

- Website: https://provus.ai/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stawan

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Last updated: 2026-10-26