Suresh Rao Suresh Rao is Chief Financial Officer and leads Finance, Legal & Commercial, Secretarial, and Corporate Services teams at SunTec Business Solutions. With over 30 years of experience in strategic planning and developing financial strategy for large scale enterprises, handling mergers and acquisitions, fund sourcing, MIS, managing forex and allied finance and accounting functions, he ensures our operations are smooth and compliant. He has an innate ability to foresee challenges well ahead of time as he keenly observes operating trends and lead indicators with interest. He observes Global Economic trends as well. Given how diverse Finance, Legal and Corporate Services can be with each function being independent by itself, yet many times in conflict with each other, it requires expert subject and people management skills that Suresh has acquired over the years and demonstrates in his day to day role at SunTec. Suresh began his career in finance in petrochemical and fertilizer plants, and he went on to work across industries such as packaging, pharmaceuticals, auto ancillaries, electronics and software product and service segments. Prior to SunTec, he held several key roles, such as Global CFO & Head of India Operations at Mindteck India Ltd., and Vice President (Finance) at Subex Ltd. Suresh is a Chartered Accountant, an Intermediate Cost Accountant and has a bachelor’s degree in commerce. He is also qualified as an Independent Director and a member of Independent Directors Data Bank of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India. He holds Nominee Directorship position in all investee ventures of SunTec Business Solutions. Suresh speaks regularly at events including CII, Trivandrum Management Association and ICSI Trivandrum chapter. His professional interests lie in taxation, enterprise valuation, mergers & acquisition, process re-engineering and automation, insurance, forex risk management and MIS design and implementation. Apart from his professional interests, Suresh enjoys playing lawn tennis and occasionally participates in endurance runs and cycling. He is a sports and fitness enthusiast and takes keen interest in yoga and meditation. He loves music, both film music and Carnatic, and also enjoys photography and cooking.
Michael Yesudas Michael [Mike] Yesudas is the Chief Technology Officer at SunTec and heads the technology and engineering functions, including platform engineering, product engineering, and release engineering. He has nearly three decades of experience in systems, software and AI solutions and has worked with Fortune 500 clients across verticals – telecom, retail, financial services, manufacturing, and software, to name a few. Prior to this, he has played several significant technology leadership roles across organizations, including IBM, Sterling Commerce, GE, and HP and has handled key projects across EMEA, APAC and America. In his previous role in IBM, he was an IBM Distinguished Engineer and the CTO of IBM Sterling and AI Applications Expert Labs. He completed his BTech at IIT Kharagpur and has an MS in Engineering from the University of Houston and MS in Computer Science from Monash University. He has several U.S. and international patents and has been a CISSP Certified Security Expert for 15 years.
G Vijayaraghavan GVR, as he is fondly known, provides strategic inputs to guide our company. With more than 30 years of experience in organisational strategy and management consulting, he has contributed immensely to SunTec’s growth. A pioneering technocrat, GVR has played a decisive role in the evolution of the IT and software industry in India. He is the founder and former CEO of India’s first software technology hub (Technopark) and was the former President of International Association of Science Parks (Asia Pacific). A visionary, he was also a member of the Kerala State Planning Board and the Kerala State Council of Science Technology and Environment.
