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K Nanda Kumar, President and CEO
Nanda Kumar is the Founder President and CEO of SunTec Business Solutions, based in Trivandrum, India.
After a five-year stint in the public sector, he set up a venture - SunTec Business Solutions. Over the past twenty years, he has built SunTec into one of the more successful, Enterprise software product companies. Today SunTec has offices in the US, UK, Germany, Singapore and Dubai.
With over 22 years of experience in the IT sector, Nanda Kumar is an expert in the transaction pricing and billing space. He conceptualized a horizontal billing platform, flexible enough to address pricing and billing requirements across industry verticals.
Relationship-based Pricing – an idea pioneered by Nanda Kumar way back in 1999 -- has been well endorsed by leading analysts across the financial services industry. Four of the world’s top ten banks have implemented the solution and today, SunTec is considered a leading solution provider in the BFSI domain.
Nanda Kumar started SunTec developing the product – as a technologist -- but he has evolved into a business leader driving SunTec's Strategy Management and Business Development. He has done his Masters in Physics and a Masters in Management (Finance).
G Vijaya Raghavan, Director on the Board
GVR's wealth of experience - more than 25 years in marketing, technology transfer and management consulting - has been instrumental in shaping up SunTec's growth trajectory, since 1997.
He leads multiple aspects of SunTec's operations, including human resource development, finance, strategy, and general administration.
As a pioneering technocrat, GVR has contributed tremendously for the evolution of IT and the software industry in the state of Kerala. He is the Founder and ex-CEO of Technopark, Trivandrum, which is India's first and largest software technology hub. GVR has been at the helm of several trade bodies including the International Association of Science Parks and the State Electronics Commission, and was a member of the advisory bodies set up by UNIDO. Currently, apart from his responsibilities at SunTec, GVR adorns the Honorary Director position of the National Institute of Speech and Hearing, and also the Trivandrum International School.
Percy Barraclough, CTO
Percy's 35-year career in systems operations, programming and design, and business consultancy has rendered him an unparalleled expert in the banking and communications domains. He has amassed a treasure-house of knowledge in various facets of the service-based industries, including financial services, fixed wire, cable, GSM, CDMA, PCN, private mobile radio, and satellite. His primary focus is on business support systems with specific emphasis on billing, service management and customer care, and their integration with the operational environment. Percy was associated with companies like LogicaCMG and Unisys before joining SunTec. He has pioneered the design and implementation of several acclaimed customer care and billing solutions including 'Jupiter'.
In SunTec, Percy is the quick reference guide for any strategic move related to technology, or product development initiative. The activities of SunTec's Product Control Board (PCB) come under his purview.