KEY 'EXCEL' MEMBERS

• NARA (Venkataraman Narayanan) founder and manager of Excel Solutions is experienced in conducting technology assessment studies, market research and competitive analysis. Prior to this he was a consultant with ITI, R&D arm of Singapore National Computer Board for eight and half years. He has over seven years of industrial experience in development and manufacturing of construction equipment and over ten years of application software development experience.He has traveled extensively in the Asia Pacific region to form alliances and initiate/execute projects. He has published over 39 technical papers in various international conferences and journals, on automation, artificial intelligence, production management, and image/document processing. Nara holds a Bachelors in Technology in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T), Madras and Masters in Engineering from the National University of Singapore.
• MADHU is a principal consultant helping clients on training and IT Infrastructure development. He has two decades of Project Management and Technical experience in state-of-the-art warship building projects and more than a decade of IT infrastructure development experience. He has been an invited speaker at many Indian & International conferences on Project Management, IT security, IT infrastructure, Service Level Agreements etc. He is one of the architects of the emerging Asian OSS community. He has retired as Head of Information Technology with M/S Mazagon Dock Ltd from May 2008 after acquiring a rich experience of 37 years with them.
• MOHAN, Director of ENTEK CORPORATION, INDIA, and, Director of Scientific Metal Engineers Private Limited, and Senora Constructions (P) Ltd., Karaikudi is a mechanical engineer (Bachelor of Engineering) with 35 years of experience in foundry technology in development of castings and engineering components, and, ferrous and non-ferrous anodes for cathodic protection/corrosion control. He provides consultancy to many firms in India on product development, industrial management and marketing strategies. He has over twenty five years of industrial experience.
• GEETA holds a Ph.D. in microbiology and a post graduate diploma in environmental engineering. She has good knowledge and wide research experience in microbiology and waste treatment studies. She has worked in the research and quality assurance laboratories of leading pharmaceutical firms in India and New Zealand. Apart from these, she has completed few research and country study projects. She has broad exposure to science and technology and is well experienced in conducting research and in depth studies. Currently she is into web page design and development.
• MEENA holds a Masters degree in Science. She has over 15 years of software development and management experience in Manufacturing and Financial applications with AT&T and Bell Labs, USA. She has been a project leader managing several software projects for the Telecommunication industry. She has successfully managed the accounts of New Jersey based clients, including major telecommunication and banking industry for an established software consulting company.
• RAM holds an Electrical Engineering degree from I.I.T. Madras and post graduate diploma in Business and Management from I.I.M, Bangalore. He has been working in US (New Jersey) for the last nine years. He has three years of quality assurance experience in the field of aerospace instruments and over 12 years of software development experience in Project Management, Manufacturing and Financial applications. He specializes in Data and Process Modeling techniques, performance tuning of applications and has been managing several software projects throughout the project life cycle.
• ANANDHI holds a post-graduate degree in Science and is highly experienced in marketing. She has been actively involved in ENTEK CORPORATION, INDIA from its inception.