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Sashi Reddi, Founder,
Chairman & CEO
Doc Parghi, Senior
Vice President, Worldwide Sales
Adam Ripley, Senior
Vice President, Marketing
Clive Grummett,
Senior Vice President, Europe
| Sashi Reddi,
Founder, Chairman & CEO |
Sashi Reddi is founder, chairman & CEO of AppLabs
Technologies, a global IT services company. A serial entrepreneur,
Sashi has started two other companies prior to AppLabs.
His first company was EZPower Systems, a developer of
products for building and maintaining large-scale web
applications. EZPower was acquired by DocuCorp International
(Nasdaq: DOCC), a Safeguard Scientifics company, and Sashi
went on to serve as senior vice president. Following DocuCorp,
he founded iCoop to provide group purchasing software
to serve the specific needs of co-operative businesses
such as Dunkin Donuts. He began his career consulting
on technology and strategy to Fortune 500 companies in
the travel, financial services, automotive and consumer
packaged goods industries. Sashi received his BTech
(B.S.) degree in computer science from Indian Institute
of Technology in Delhi, and later, an M.S. in computer
science from New York University and a Ph.D. from The
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
| Doc Parghi, Senior
Vice President, Sales |
Doc leads AppLabs' business development efforts. He
is responsible for creating relationships that drive
overall revenue growth.
Doc has nearly 15 years of experience in marketing,
business development, strategic planning, and finance.
Prior to AppLabs, Doc was in a fast track executive
development program at CIGNA, a Fortune 100 financial-services
giant. Doc was previously in the planning & analysis
group at The Pep Boys-Manny, Moe & Jack, the nation's
leading full service automotive aftermarket chain. Doc
analyzed the impact of the ongoing restructuring of
the firm with a special focus on the firms supply chain
and distribution centers. Prior to Pep Boys, Doc was
with Henkels & McCoy one of the largest privately
held engineering, network development and construction
firms serving the communications, information technology
and utility industries in the United States.
Doc has a dual MBA in Marketing and Finance from Drexel
University.
He also has a Dual BS in Marketing and Finance from
Drexel University.
Doc serves on the executive committee of the Young Friends
of The Philadelphia Museum of Art and is Vice-Chair of
the Friends of the American Red Cross of Southeastern
Pennsylvania.
| Adam Ripley,
Senior Vice President, Marketing |
Adam was a founding Director of IS Integration (IS Integration
was acquired by AppLabs in September 2006), which, along
with his co-founders, he grew to become the leading testing
services consultancy in the UK. Adam has over 25 years
experience in the technology industry in both technical
and management roles. After working for one of the UK’s
largest consultancy firms in the 1980’s he joined
a startup consultancy and played a key role in developing
it into one of the leaders in relational database consultancy
services.
Adam has established his position as a thought leader
on testing issues in the European technology industry.
He has contributed a number of papers for industry magazines
and software journals and presented at conferences in
the Europe and the USA.
In recent years Adam’s focus has been on developing
IS Integration’s sales operations, market offerings
and positioning. He has continued to develop his broader
management and business skills and completed his Chartered
Director qualifications for the Institute of Directors.
| Clive Grummett,
Senior Vice President, Europe |
A founding Director of IS Integration (IS Integration
was acquired by AppLabs in September 2006), Clive has
been instrumental in the growth of the company from a
start up to the UK’s largest independent testing
consultancy.
With a Masters Degree in Computer Sciences from Birbeck
College, Clive has over 25 years experience in the UK
technology industry. Clive embarked on his technology
career at life assurance company, Friends Provident,
before moving on to mortgage systems at the Woolwich
where he held a programming and systems analyst role.
Clive has also held positions at: North West Water,
where he oversaw a migration from ICL to IBM machines
and was responsible for designing the data migration
strategies; and Scottish Hydro Electric, where he headed
up testing during electricity deregulation when the
company procured new IT systems to support the change.
Over the past decade Clive turned his attention to
building
IS Integration into an established delivery organization
with strong financial and operational management processes.
Alongside this he continues to play an active role in
testing industry, lobbying the need for independent
testing services.
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