Board Members

Paul Anthony, Chief Executive Officer

Paul Anthony has 20 years of experience in the IT Industry with a focus on General Management, Marketing and Sales. Prior to CIGNEX, Paul was General Manager at Hewlett-Packard overseeing the Imaging & Printing business in Singapore and the Asia Emerging Markets. He has spent the last 16 years with Hewlett-Packard in various world-wide, regional and country roles. He was instrumental in driving the growth of the imaging consumables business in the Asia-Pacific. He was part of the team that worked in Tata-Elxsi Singapore on strategy and eventually listed Tata-Elxsi India on the Mumbai Stock exchange. He was a member of the Tata Administrative service, the elite management cadre of the Tata Group in India. Paul holds a Master's degree in Management from the Indian Institute of Management and a Bachelor's degree in Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology.

Rajeev Srivastava, Board Member

Co-founder of Pittsburgh-based Apar Infotech, Rajeev brings over 18 years of IT operational experience, as well as an Engineering degree and a Master's Degree in Management Studies, to his demanding role as the company's CEO. Under Rajeev's leadership, Apar Infotech has received numerous awards for its rapid growth in the national and international IT market. Rajeev was also recognized as a finalist in the E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year Awards in 1999. Rajeev is an active investor and on the board of a number of other IT and technology-driven companies in the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pac.

Amit Babaria, Vice President of Sales

Amit Babaria heads the Sales and Marketing team of CIGNEX. He has done a great job in bringing in sales revenue consistently YOY since the company's inception more than 7 years ago. Before co-founding CIGNEX, he worked in the Sales organization of a Professional Services firm in the Silicon Valley - where he excelled with over 300% sales growth during each of the years he worked there. He was awarded the first 'Star of the Year' award in the history of the company for his accomplishments. He started his career in India as one of the youngest minds to manage a largest ever National Readership Survey in the world. Amit has 13 years of total Sales / Business Development / Market Research experience. Amit has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from VJTI, Mumbai and an MBA in Marketing from JBIMS, Mumbai.

Harish Ramachandran, Vice President of Pre-sales & Alliances

Harish Ramachandran has been a key contributor in the CIGNEX sales team since taking on a lead role in Pre-sales. At CIGNEX, since inception, he has played several roles - starting with delivering successful solutions, practice management and now as the head of Pre-sales. He was instrumental in CIGNEX raising expansion capital in 2006 playing a key role throughout the process of financial and business diligence. His passion for Enterprise Content Management drives him to seek opportunities to be an active practitioner - especially in ECM strategy, planning and scoping phases. Prior to co-founding CIGNEX, Harish served as technical lead and program manager at Cisco systems and Click Commerce. Harish has over 15 years of experience spanning areas such as solutions consulting, project delivery and product development largely in the Financial Services industry. He has a Bachelors degree in Electronics engineering from Bangalore University, India.