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EXECUTIVE TEAM
Our executive leadership team stays ahead of the curve, inspiring a shared vision and motivating everyone at Four Soft to drive to it.
 
Srikanth Palem CEO & Managing Director
Kal Gangavarapu Chief Operating Officer
Biju S. Nair Sr. Vice President - Finance & HR
Rajshekhar Roy Sr.Vice President - CSI
Mahaboob Hussain Vice President - Product Development & Technology
Rakesh Kumar .M Vice President - Asia
Dave Pickburn Vice President - Europe
Poul R Larsen Vice President - Product Marketing
Umashankar .S Sr. General Manager - Marketing
 
Srikanth Palem
CEO & Managing Director
 

Srikanth is the CEO & Managing Director of Four Soft. Through his leadership and vision, he has applied his supply chain execution experience to the innovative development of the prime products of 4S which have become the first ever enterprise operating platforms for the logistics and supply chain management industries on the Internet. His career profile began as an executive in various supply chain execution operations such as: JV Partner & Emery Worldwide (Managing Director), India and Asia Pacific Logistics/Distribution operations at Hewlett Packard (Manager), Singapore. Srikanth is an Industrial Engineering Graduate from REC, Trichy, India and a Post Graduate in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University, USA.

 
 
Kal Gangavarapu
Chief Operating Officer
 

Kal heads Global Sales and Delivery operations of the company. The regional heads of Asia, North America, UK/Scandinavia, Europe, and Global Accounts directly report to him.

 
Biju S. Nair
Sr. Vice President - Finance & HR
 

Biju heads the Finance and Human Resources departments of the company.

Rajshekhar Roy
Sr.Vice President - CSI
 

Raj has over 20 years of business management experience in the areas of Software services, Business Process Outsourcing and Management Consulting. He was the first President of OfficeTiger in India, was the CEO of a medium size software development firm in Chennai for 4 years and the Director of India Operations of an US based E-publishing firm for 2 years before his present assignment in Four Soft. He had earlier worked in Hewlett Packard where he migrated several of HP processes to India and was selected as the best global manager for successful deployment of these processes. Raj holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University and is an MBA from IIM, Calcutta. He is a certified trainer in Organizational Development, Change management and Quality management.
       Raj looks after the overall Global Deliveries of Four Soft which includes Product Development as well as Customer service and Implementation.

 
Mahaboob Hussain
Vice President– Product Development & Technology
 

Mahaboob is responsible for the development of core products, quality assurance, training and technical support. He has 14 years of work experience in the manufacturing and transportation domains on a wide range of technologies and also has previously served presitigious companies like Mukand (Mumbai), PTC (Pune) and Federal Express (U.S.A). He has an Engineering degree from REC Nagpur (now VNIT) and an MBA from Webster University, U.S.A. and he is also a Sun Certified Java Programmer and Developer.

 
 
Rakesh Kumar .M
Vice President - Asia
 

Rakesh has over 15 years of work experience in Corporate Strategic Planning, Sales and Program Management of Baan and PeopleSoft ERPs. He has worked for Escorts Group, Tellabs Inc. and Polaris Software with 10 years experience in software industry and the rest in manufacturing & telecom. He also worked for 3 years in UK handling Business Development while he was at Polaris. He is an Electronics & Communications Engineering Graduate from College of Engineering, Osmania University Hyderabad, and has done his Post Graduation in Management from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
        Rakesh holds the P&L responsibility for Asia region which includes Japan, Far East, India West Asia and Australia/New Zealand.

 
 
Dave Pickburn
Vice President - Europe
 

Dave is responsible for the overall operations in Europe including the businesses in UK, Denmark and Holland. This covers delivery, customer support and account management activities.

 
 
Poul R Larsen
 
Vice President – Product Marketing
Poul Larsen has a long international career in freight and logistics with both logistics providers and software companies. He was a partner with the leading software company Transaxiom and joined Four Soft in 2006. Poul's unique domain background has in recent years been focused on product innovation. Poul recently supplemented his IT and business background with a MBA from Cranfield University.
     Poul is heading Product Marketing. His team supports partners and colleagues to take Four Soft's enterprise products to market and create value for existing and new clients.
 
Umashankar.S
Sr. General Manager - Marketing
 
Umashankar has over 20 years of 'Experience Mix' in both Supply Chain Domain and ERP Product Management. He has worked in Global Product Management functions in IT-Product Companies for about 11 years - 7 years with Baan Company as Sr. Global Product Manager, 2.5 years with Oracle Corporation as Product Strategy Manager -Asiapac for SCM-Globalization and 1.5 years with iSoft plc as General Manager - Product Management. His domain experience comes from his 9 years stint at Caterpillar India Ltd., in Supply Chain functions such as Purchasing, Vendor Development and Logistics. Umashankar holds Bachelor's degree in Engineering from REC, Trichy, MBA from XIM, Bhubaneswar, MS from BITS, Pilani and is an ICWA (Cost Accountant). He also holds CPIM certification from APICS, USA.
      Umashankar manages Product Management and Marketing functions for some key applications of Four Soft, apart from Corporate Marketing.