| Viju Thomas - CEO Viju has over 20  years experience as a corporate executive and entrepreneur. He started his IT  career in India with IDM and soon moved to Wipro in their International  Operations Division where he played key roles in the setting up and  establishing the distribution model in Russia and Eastern Europe. He has held  senior management positions in Tektronix Inc, responsible for Southern and  Western Regions and then at BPL where he was responsible for channel and OEM  sales.
 
 He took over as CEO  of QSupport, a start-up ITES company with operations in India and USA. He later  became the CEO of Real Image Media Technology in Chennai which is a leader in  providing products and solutions to the broadcasting and digital cinema  industry. He then spent 3 years advising Beatnik Inc. for their business  strategy in the Telecom VAS area.
 
 Viju was earlier  providing strategic assistance to Blueshift and has taken over from July of  this year. He brings with him a deep understanding of technology business  coupled with strong operational and managerial experience in business  development and OEM partnering.
 
 He holds an  Honors degree in Engineering from the University of Ulster and a Masters in  Engineering Computation from Queen’s University, UK.
 Sarang Gangan – National Sales ManagerSarang brings a  decade of experience in consultative sales and account management.  In his  previous stints he has worked with SQL Star International and Ernst &  Young.  Sarang holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and PG  Diploma in Marketing and Systems.
 Sarang is  responsible for new business development and managing key accounts & client  relationship.  He has been a key member of the Blueshift’s team that  implemented several pioneering ideas in the online registration and  testing/assessment services for many of the Blueshift’s clients. 
 
 
 Krishnan Pudupakkam Mudumbai – Head TechnologyKrishnan has over 17 years of working  with varied industries, at companies such as Lionbridge, Solution Net, ADP,  Zurich, Kumaran Systems, Synectics(Shriram Group).
 Prior to Blueshift he served as a  project manager of Lionbridge, one of premier localization company. His track  record also includes setting up of onsite development Team in Muscat. He provided technology expertise, strategy and project management for customers like Aveva(UK),  Canbank factors, Alomaniya financial services(Muscat), Zurich Payroll  solutions(US).
 
 
 
 Pari Ranganathan, Program Manager Pari  heads the professional services team at Blueshift and is in charge of delivery,  client management and customer support.
 He  comes in with over 12 years of experience in the IT Industry. He has held  leadership positions in Program management, Delivery management, Sales &  Pre Sales, Business Requirement Analysis, Account Management, Customer  Relations, End-user Training and Business Consulting.  Pari brings on  board strong domain expertise in the HR and Education space and has been  working closely with large corporates and top academic institutions in India  consulting on technology, process management and quality. Prior to joining  Blueshift, Pari delivered Business Development and Business Analyst mandates in  two technology firms; Pari has been with Blueshift since Jan 2005.
 
 Pari has an M.B.A from ITM,  Chennai & a Bachelors degree in Engineering from SIT, Bangalore University.
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