Narayan Laksham founded Ultriva as eBots in 1999 with a vision of building a company that develops customer driven solutions which guarantee high value, quick deployment and measurable return on investment. During his 30-year career, Mr. Laksham has seen software companies repeatedly build applications with underpowered architectures, resulting in customers experiencing high cost of ownership, extensive implementation programs and complex integration projects. Mr. Laksham set out to turn this paradigm on its head by applying lean concepts to software development and deployment.

Over these years Mr. Laksham has visited over 150 factories worldwide to understand how IT solutions can sustain lean implementations across manufacturing value chains from Distribution to supply chain. The outcome is the Lean Execution Platform being offered by Ultriva. Mr. Laksham has written articles on several lean topics including "When Push comes to Pull Kanban wins". He is also a co-inventor of the patent pending "Inventory Optimization Tool".

Mr. Laksham is a big proponent for retaining manufacturing in USA. In his free time he participates in activities to promote this cause. He is a strong believer of "Manufacturing should be where the market is".

Earlier in his career, Mr. Laksham held a variety of executive, sales, product management, and technical marketing positions with Symantec, Computer Vision, Unisys and DEC. Mr. Laksham holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master's degree in Marketing Management.

Rao Kota acts as both the chief architect and head of development for all Ultriva applications. Mr. Kota has over 26 years of experience in the fields of hardware, firmware and application infrastructure. During these years, he has been instrumental in the design and development of application development tools, database management tools, CRM applications and application middleware at both start-ups and major corporations. Mr. Kota joins Ultriva from Amdocs where he spent 9 years as one of the primary architects for their web-based CRM applications. These applications have set new standards in performance and scalability with some of the most demanding customers in the world. Prior to Amdocs, Mr. Kota worked as chief architect and development manager for Integra Technologies, New York, and holds a patent in the area of reusing database object identifiers. Mr. Kota graduated from Andhra University with a Bachelors degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering.

Ms. Angelo-Pardo has over 27 years of financial experience. Most recently, she was Chief Financial Officer of deCarta, Inc., a location-based services software company. At deCarta she assisted in raising over $52M in venture equity, and helped the company grow from $2.1M in revenue to over $14M. Ms. Angelo-Pardo also spent 10 years at Cadence Design Systems, Inc. and held a variety of financial management positions, most recently as Treasurer. Ms. Angelo-Pardo graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara, with a Bachelors degree in Business Economics, and became a Certified Public Accountant in 1983.

Pushparaj joined Ultriva in 2000 and is currently a Director of Software Engineering. Prior to joining Ultriva, Pushparaj worked on various consumer, enterprise and wireless solutions. His extensive hands-on experience in technology includes C++, Windows, MFC, ATL/COM, .NET, VB, J2EE, SQL and Mac. With his current role as Director, Pushparaj architects and leads the product development of all Ultriva Products. Pushparaj and his team have taken a lead role in defining the vision and direction of our next generation of products.

Pushparaj graduated from Bharthidasan University with a Master's degree in Computer Electronics.

For the past two decades Mr. Swisher has help shaped some of the leading companies in the lean consulting and software industries. Mr. Swisher previously held the Vice President Sales and Marketing at JCIT International (now DemandPoint Inc.) and management positions at TBM Consulting Group and the Breakthrough Management Group. During his tenure at those firms, Mr. Swisher led lean engagements with many leading manufacturing corporations including GE, American Standard, Flextronics, Ingersoll Rand, Emerson, NewPage and Nacco.

As Director of Business Development, Mr. Swisher will lead the sales, marketing and business alliance programs. As part of the leadership team at Ultriva, Mr. Swisher will play a key role in accelerating Ultriva’s growth and entrenching its position as the market leader. Mr. Swisher graduated from Metropolitan State College with a Bachelors degree in Marketing.

Mr. Kapper joins Ultriva as Director of Sales to manage the eastern half of United Sates and Europe. Prior to joining Ultriva, Frank held senior management positions in the enterprise software solutions space and in the Aerospace & Defense industry serving in the capacities of Vice President Sales, Director Process Engineering & Process Management and System Director Operations Control. While serving in these capacities, Frank led numerous enterprise software sales initiatives and directed several successful division-level operational excellence programs.

With over twenty years experience in business critical environments, Mr. Kapper has been an innovator in the application of advanced information technology solutions and process improvement methodologies to drive sustainable bottom-line improvement. He is also Ultriva's spokesperson for Lean-enabling technologies and frequent guest speaker for the Microsoft Corporation at Microsoft-sponsored quality, healthcare and manufacturing industry conferences.