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Adarsh Katyal Built VARITE for the Work Between the Work
For 25 years, the VARITE founder has worked in the unglamorous machinery of enterprise talent - matching people, programs and trust across borders. His record offers a useful lesson: durable companies are often built where coordination matters more than applause.
Prasad Rao Built a Career by Finding Better Words for Hard Problems
Before the awards, public listings and decades in enterprise technology, a Telugu-medium engineering student solved a vocabulary problem with three improvised words. That instinct - work with what you have, then make the system better - still explains Prasad Rao's career.
Baljeet Chhazal Is Building for the Part After the AI Demo
After years spent inside the machinery of Oracle, ERP and supply-chain transformation, the Calfus co-founder is betting that enterprise AI will be judged by what survives contact with production.
Rajiv Khattar Built a Career in the Work Between Talent and Technology
For more than 17 years at Agama Solutions, the Bay Area executive has worked where software delivery, client trust and technology talent meet. His record offers a quiet lesson in the value of staying close to the work.
Anjali Yadav and the Quiet Machinery Behind a Tech Company
Her public footprint is spare, but the work around it is substantial: people, process and the long operational shift from IT consulting to enterprise AI.
Rajiv Pendyala Built a Career in the Work Between the Software and the Sale
For three decades, Rajiv Pendyala has worked the seam where technical projects meet commercial trust. His long tenure at Infotech Spectrum offers a practical study in the quiet machinery of IT services.
Karan Yaramada Chose the Long Game - Then Built for Every Next Wave
He left consulting in 2003, worked without a paycheck, and built Jade Global past $100 million without outside funding. His real product was never a technology stack. It was staying useful while the stack kept changing.
Matt Scherocman Built a Cloud Company With a Scout's Compass
He learned leadership in Scouting, learned the channel at Microsoft, and built Interlink around a durable idea: technology earns its keep only when people can actually use it.
Peeyush Dubey Is Rebranding An IT Giant One Chess Move At A Time
The CMO betting that a 1,500-year-old board game can do what another billboard cannot - make a global IT services brand impossible to ignore.
Paresh Vankar
For Paresh Vankar, the future of B2B marketing is neither a louder story nor a shinier tool. It is the disciplined work of turning technology, data and human understanding into business meaning.
Paul Mazzo
Paul Mazzo is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Technology Integrators, Inc., an IT services firm specializing in structured cabling, network integration, physical security, audio/visual systems, and managed services. He has led the company since January 2004, following a stint as Project Director of Information Technology at Pfizer. His work sits at the seam where copper meets code - the unglamorous plumbing that keeps modern enterprises running.
Keigo Okumura
Keigo Okumura is Vice President of Marketing at ServiceNow Japan, bringing over two decades of marketing leadership across enterprise technology giants including Oracle, Adobe, Dell Technologies, and Citrix. Based in Japan, he oversees marketing strategy for ServiceNow's Japan region, helping drive the AI-powered workflow platform's expansion in one of the world's most demanding enterprise markets. His career arc - from systems engineer at Hitachi Solutions to VP at a $13B+ cloud company - reflects a rare blend of technical grounding and strategic marketing acumen.
Naren Kini
Naren Kini is the CEO and co-founder of Global Touchpoints Inc., a California-based IT services and consulting firm he built organically over 20+ years to 150+ employees and $15M+ in annual revenue — entirely without outside capital. Starting from a background in industrial engineering and early stints at Hinditron and Syntel, Kini built Touchpoints into a trusted partner for Fortune 500 companies like Meta, Intuit, and Fiserv, as well as California state government agencies, specializing in Salesforce, AWS, data analytics, AI consulting, and managed services.
Sonia G.
Sonia G. is the VP of Marketing at Amazon Web Services (AWS), based in Dubai, UAE, where she leads marketing strategy for one of the world's most dominant cloud platforms across the MENA region. With an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management and prior experience at Accenture, she operates at the intersection of enterprise cloud solutions, demand generation, and go-to-market strategy for a company that serves millions of customers globally.
Zain Aziz
Zain Aziz is the Founder and CEO of Atom, a San Francisco-based enterprise cloud and digital transformation company. A former Marine and Harvard alumnus, he built Atom in 2020 to tackle the gap between how people live and how enterprises work - delivering cloud transformations across HR, Finance, Sales, and Supply Chain in 26 weeks or less. Atom has raised $15.8M in total funding, including a $6.8M Series A in October 2022, and serves clients ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies across 6 continents with ~220 employees.
Connie Tang
Connie Tang is the CEO and founder of CCT Technologies Inc., operating as ComputerLand of Silicon Valley - a San Jose-based IT solutions firm she built from a storefront computer shop in 1991 into a 55-person enterprise serving government agencies, K-12 schools, higher education institutions, and commercial businesses across Northern California. After more than three decades at the helm, she led the company through a strategic acquisition by ISSQUARED Inc. in May 2024, positioning the combined entity to expand in cybersecurity, AI, and edge computing.
Francis Barte
Francis Cruz Barte is the Chief Executive Officer of Exypnox Inc., a Philippines-based business process outsourcing company that partners exclusively with US-based software companies to build high-impact, cost-efficient remote teams. Operating out of San Francisco and Bonifacio Global City in Taguig, Metro Manila, Francis built Exypnox around a singular premise: that Filipino talent, properly organized and empowered, can rival any global workforce. With a background spanning BPO operations, enterprise sales, and regional management at companies like Boostlingo, he now leads a 75-person team delivering customer support, technical support, HR management, accounting, payroll, and business development services to fast-scaling US tech firms.
David Marks
David Marks is the founder, President, and CEO of TEECOM, a California-based technology design and engineering firm he built from a one-man operation into a 200+ person global consultancy over nearly three decades. Starting at the Moscone Convention Center expansion in San Francisco, he has since shaped the technology infrastructure of hospitals, Fortune 500 offices, universities, and civic institutions across the U.S., EMEA, and APAC. A licensed Professional Engineer with credentials in communications distribution, design technology, and LEED, Marks is known for his belief that buildings should work as hard as the people inside them - and that the best technology is the kind you never notice.
Freddie Heygate
Freddie Heygate is CEO, North America at Just After Midnight, a London-founded managed cloud services and 24/7 digital support company now part of the Ultima group. After spending five years building JAM's Asia-Pacific operations from Singapore, he relocated to Austin, Texas in January 2024 to lead the company's US expansion. With a background spanning digital consultancy, marketing, and business development at agencies including Reading Room and The Drum, Freddie brings over a decade of cross-continental experience helping global brands like Ford, Abbott, and Vodafone keep their digital infrastructure running around the clock.
Igor Repeta
Igor Repeta is the CEO of Empat Tech, a Kyiv-based software development and outsourcing firm with nearly 200 engineers serving clients across 17 countries. He rose from Project Manager to Chief Executive Officer in four years, formally taking the helm in February 2026 after co-authoring the company's operational playbook as COO. Empat ranked #5 globally on the Clutch 100 Fastest-Growing Companies list in 2026 and holds back-to-back #1 Best IT Employer rankings in Ukraine (DOU 2024 and 2025). Beyond commercial growth, Repeta launched two civic tech projects during Russia's invasion of Ukraine: RevengeFor, a military fundraising platform channeling funds to ComeBackAlive, and HealUA, a peer-to-peer medical consultation platform for Ukrainian doctors.
Jigish Shah
Jigish Shah is the Executive Chairman of ArchLynk, a global digital supply chain consulting firm headquartered in San Jose, California. He co-founded Krypt in 2008 and built it into an eminent player in the SAP Supply Chain ecosystem over 14 years before orchestrating its 2022 merger with Novigo to create ArchLynk - backed by BV Investment Partners. Under his leadership as CEO, ArchLynk further acquired WCS Consulting in 2023 and grew to approximately 350 employees with $35M in annual revenue, establishing itself as an SAP Gold Partner serving enterprises across 4 continents with expertise in SAP Transportation Management, Integrated Business Planning, Global Trade Services, and AI/ML-driven supply chain solutions.
Joe Morin
Joe Morin is the Founder and CEO of CyFlare, a top-ranked managed security operations company he built from the ground up in 2017. With over 20 years in cybersecurity, Morin spent years in sales engineering and alliance roles at companies like Zscaler, Forcepoint, and Barracuda Networks before channeling that cross-vendor perspective into CyFlare's signature philosophy: don't pick one platform, wire them all together. Under his leadership, CyFlare achieved 854% growth over three years, landed on the Inc. 5000 list twice, ranked #5 on CRN's 2025 Fast Growth 150, and is consistently recognized as a Top 20 Global MSSP. His LinkedIn handle - cyberbatman - says a lot about the man.
Joe Zarrehparvar
Joe Zarrehparvar is the President and CEO of Fresche Solutions, a Montreal-based IT advisory and modernization company specializing in IBM i (AS/400) systems serving 22,000+ global clients. A 30-year technology veteran who built his career at Microsoft, Juniper Networks, and Wicresoft, Zarrehparvar took the helm at Fresche in May 2023 and has since driven a wave of AI-powered modernization tools, strategic partnerships with IBM, and a transition to subscription-based service models - all while championing a platform-neutral approach that lets clients modernize on their own terms.
Michael Gold
Michael Gold is the Chairman and CEO of Intermedia Intelligent Communications, a Sunnyvale-based AI-powered cloud communications company serving over 150,000 businesses through a network of 7,500 channel partners. Since co-leading Intermedia's acquisition in 2011, Gold has grown the company's revenues and profits more than 7x, transforming it from a hosted email provider into a comprehensive UCaaS and CCaaS platform. A Stanford MBA and electrical engineer by training, Gold is a veteran cloud services operator who previously founded Zlago, led Sphera (acquired by Parallels), and served as SVP at Qwest Communications. His signature strategy - selling through partners who resell under their own brands - has made Intermedia a quiet powerhouse behind some of the biggest names in business communications.
Mikael Carlsson
Mikael Carlsson is the CEO of Forte Group, an AI-native product development partner with 900+ specialists and 25 years of history. A Swedish-born technology executive with 20+ years in digital engineering, he scaled Lohika 5X before joining Forte in October 2022. Under his leadership, Forte Group closed 2025 at an all-time financial high and has positioned itself around AI transformation, data engineering, and outcome-driven software delivery for Fortune 500 and mid-market clients across North America, Europe, and Latin America.
Nilesh Jadhav
Nilesh Jadhav is the CEO and Co-Founder of AMISEQ Inc., a Milpitas, California-based cybersecurity and intelligent automation company he co-founded in 2017. With over 18 years in IT — more than 12 of them in Silicon Valley — he has built AMISEQ into a globally recognized firm serving Fortune 500 clients across cybersecurity, RPA, product engineering, and UX design. In 2025, AMISEQ launched Z-Deploy, a zero-touch automation platform that compresses multi-day security deployments into under two hours, and expanded aggressively into the Middle East.
Ram Naresh
Ram Naresh is the CEO and co-founder of Brillius Technologies, a Pleasanton, California-based IT services company he built from zero to $30 million in annual revenue over a decade. Starting as Formac Inc. in 2014, he steered the company through early-stage grind - 100-hour work weeks in the first five years - to become an Inc. 5000 honoree and a trusted DevOps and cloud transformation partner for Fortune 100 clients including Amazon, Apple, Verizon, CVS Health, and Kaiser Permanente. A former HP executive turned entrepreneur, he is now eyeing a doubling of revenue twice over the next ten years while expanding into AI, Canada, and Mexico.
Sahin Mansuri
Sahin Mansuri is the founder and CEO of Perception System, a two-decade-old software and IT services firm with offices in San Jose, California and Ahmedabad, India. He has spent his career building dedicated offshore teams that handle Magento, mobile, AI and enterprise web work for clients across roughly 60 countries.
Sameer Kishore
Sameer Kishore is the President and CEO of Milestone Technologies, a Fremont-based global IT managed services firm with roughly 2,600 employees. He took the top job in January 2020 after running multi-billion-dollar divisions at IBM, NTT Data and Wipro.
Akhil Khera
Akhil Khera is the CEO and President of Tranzeal Incorporated, a San Jose-based global business transformation and IT services firm. He has led Tranzeal since 2011 and also serves as CEO and Chairman of Khera Ventures, Inc.