• HOME
• CAREERS
• CONTACT
• SITEMAP

IT Operations Automation

Management Team

Palaniswamy Rajan
Chairman & CEO
Palaniswamy "Raj" Rajan co-founded Virima Technologies and serves as the company's Chairman & CEO. With more than 15 years experience in the technology industry, Rajan has a deep understanding of current technologies and has the ability to articulate the application of these technologies in various business contexts and models. A highly versatile and proven entrepreneur, Rajan also founded Vigilar, Inc, a leading network security technology firm; eLaunchpad, LLC, an early stage venture capital firm/incubator focusing on Internet infrastructure and network security technologies; and Emerald Systems, a boutique technology consulting firm. During his tenure at Vigilar, he grew annual revenues to $32M from 2000 to 2005, during the most difficult technology industry climate. Another previous success, financial aggregator VerticalOne was sold to S1 in 1999 in a deal valued at $166 million.

Rajan previously served on the Board of Directors for Vigilar, currently serves on the Board of Directors of Virima and serves on the advisory boards of several early stage technology firms around the country. A leader in the business community, he is involved in several professional and community organizations. Rajan was instrumental in establishing the Atlanta CEO High Tech Council, where he serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors, and he co-founded and serves on the Board of Directors of the Atlanta Chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TIE). Rajan was honored as Georgia Trend's "40 Under 40" Rising Stars in 2000. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering and a Master's degree in Computer Science from the Florida Institute of Technology.

Greg Spence
Executive Vice President, Consulting Services
Greg Spence runs Virima's Data Center Optimization and Consolidation Consulting Practice. Prior to joining Virima he was the founder and CEO of S2N Solutions where he designed repeatable methodologies for large data center consolidation efforts utilizing S2N's web-based program management tool. In 2010 Virima and S2N merged to combine S2N's proven data center consulting experience with Virima's innovative ERP for IT Operations technology.

Before starting S2N in 2005, Greg was Director of Technical Operations for AGL Resources where he was responsible for data center operations and IT infrastructure. His 12 years in corporate IT provide the foundation for the practical approach and methodologies he employs to coordinate staff and consultant efforts in order to accelerate program completion. In his spare time, Greg is an avid tennis player.

Salil Kulkarni
COO & CIO
Salil Kulkarni was most recently the CIO at the John H. Harland Company. He has almost two decades of IT and management consulting experience. Kulkarni began his professional career at IBM as a software engineer, working both domestically and internationally. During his time with IBM, he expanded his knowledge of software development and management. From there, Kulkarni joined several technology companies in Silicon Valley and Chicago, where he managed multiple client engagements as a management and IT consultant. During his tenure at Accenture, Kulkarni was responsible for managing C-level strategy consulting engagements to companies within the communications and high-tech industries. Kulkarni was a vice president at Fifth Third Bank in Cincinnati, responsible for the B2C channel; and Equifax, where he served as chief information officer for the Personal Solutions Division.

Kulkarni holds three software patents. He graduated from The Speed School of Engineering at The University of Louisville with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering and holds a Master of Business from The University of Chicago with concentrations in finance, strategy and marketing.

Karun Rajasekharan
Vice President of Products
Karun Rajasekharan brings two decades of product management and development experience in U.S. and international companies to Virima Technologies, where he is responsible for product development and management. A demonstrated leader in directing product development for enterprise software and services, he has successfully led large cross-functional teams on highly visible and strategic products. He has a strong track record of socializing new processes within companies and deep experience in Enterprise software architecture and design.

Prior to joining Virima Technologies, Rajasekharan was vice president of Marketing for DicipherTech, a software as a service business analytics startup, and vice president of product management, Principal at for Meru Consulting, where he counseled executives of early stage companies on product management, marketing and investments. He served as director of Engineering and director of Product Management at Internet Security Systems, where he was responsible for driving product strategy and platform visions for the company's suite of security software and appliances. Rajasekharan holds a Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical & Electronics from the Manipal Institute of Technology at Mangalore University in India.

Nandu Nandakumar
CTO & Advisor
Nandu Nandakumar is the co-founder of Virima Technologies where he serves as Chief Technology Officer. Over the course of his career, he has supervised over a hundred projects using multiple methodologies on a wide range of platforms, ranging from transactional systems to data warehouses to intelligent systems. His expertise in analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and business process management (BPM), comes from building analytics engines for a variety of industries ranging from telecom, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, oil and gas, building AI systems for manufacturing, telecommunications and other industries, and designing and re-engineering processes for BPM and operations. Prior to Virima, Nandakumar was founder and CEO at Core Concept, a provider of enterprise performance management software applications for the pharmaceutical industry. He also served as COO at Calsoft Labs, a software development and testing lab, and vice president at Chemoil Corp, a marine fuel supplier, where he oversaw strategy, planning and IT. He also taught Operations Management as well as Product Design as Duke University Fuqua School. He holds a B.Tech from IIT Madras, MBA from IIM Calcutta, M.S. and PhD from Carnegie Mellon.

Mike Bombard
Vice President, Sales
Mike Bombard brings 14 years of experience in complex technology and consulting sales, international partner development and management/operational experience to Virima. Mike's sales career started with Cabletron Systems, a leading manufacturer of computer networking equipment. He worked his way up from entry level telemarketing to Southeast Regional Sales Director for Cabletron's spinoff Enterasys Networks. That led to Director of IT Sales at Southern Business Communications where he led a team of inside and outside sales reps. Following that Mike was National Sales Manager for Roving Planet which was acquired by 3Com's TippingPoint Technologies division. At TippingPoint Mike became NAC Sales Manager for the Americas where he traveled from Canada to Brazil presenting the solution to customers, training TippingPoint and 3Com sales reps and developing partner programs. Mike ultimately joined former customer and long time friend Greg Spence at S2N Solutions, a Data Center Consolidation and Optimization consulting firm. Mike was the VP of Sales and COO when S2N merged with Virima to combine S2N's proven data center consulting experience with Virima's innovative ERP for IT Operations technology.

Mike has a Bachelor of Science in Aviation Management and Flight Operations from Daniel Webster College and is a licensed pilot.