Management Team

Chief Executive Officer

Arsh has over 20 years of experience across general management and corporate development, with a track record of creating and expanding strong businesses in the services, consulting and technology domains.

Arsh joined AWPL from KPMG, where he was a Partner and Head of the Strategic Solutions Group. Prior to KPMG, Arsh was the Group Head of Strategy and Planning at Serco Group plc. At Serco, Arsh has also served as CEO for Serco India and as an Executive Director for the AMEAA (Asia, Australia, Middle East and Africa) Division.

Arsh attended the Strategic Leadership Development Programme at Harvard Business School, and holds an MBA (gold medalist) and a bachelor’s degree in Management.

Arsh Maini

CEO

Executive Director - Customer Service & Delivery

Viraf is one of the co-founders of AWPL, under whose, leadership AWPL has grown consistently year on year. Earlier, Viraf managed Operations and Sales of key strategic Accounts at AWPL. Viraf was instrumental in compiling and releasing the Limca Book of Records, an indigenous Guinness which was enormously successful. His previously led companies, provided Records Management solutions to various organizations of high repute.
Viraf is a sincere Cricket fan and follows Team India whenever they are in action.

Viraf Sutaria

Executive Director – Customer Service and Delivery

Executive Director - Business Development & Innovation

Romil has been in the industry for 20 years and is one of the leading experts in the Business Process Management (BPM) and Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions area.

He is a highly respected technologist and is responsible for the strategy, design and development of all products under AWPLs product family, DotSphere. His karma now gives him the responsibility of making AWPL’s products and solutions available to the world at large in his capacity as the Global Sales and Marketing Leader.

Romil is a regular speaker, panelist and a published author who has co-authored IBM Red Books on Business Process Management (BPM) and Enterprise Content Management (ECM).

Before AWPL, Romil founded 2 other start-ups. He was associated with Aditi Technologies/Talisma (formerly NetQuest) and Wipro before he became an entrepreneur. Romil has a Bachelor of Engineering from B.M.S. College, Bangalore.

In his free time Romil practices classical singing and music.

Romil Turakhia

Executive Director – Innovation and Business Development

Chief Financial Officer

Venkatesh Ananthanarayanan brings with him around 25 years of experience in Financial Accounting & Controllership, Treasury, Planning & Management Reporting, Mergers & Acquisition, and Company Secretarial matters. He has worked both in large MNCs and in the start-up environment, where he has successfully closed Angel and Venture Capital Funding. Venkatesh distinguishes himself in bringing in the systems and processes in the areas of Finance and Accounts. Prior to AWPL, Venkatesh was the CFO of a New Jersey based start-up company. He earlier headed the Finance & Administration functions for the Indian Operations of Sun Microsystems, Inc, Macromedia Inc and Akzo Nobel, BV. He joined all these companies at their nascent stage and has played a significant role in scaling up operations besides his roles in Treasury, Business Planning and Controllership.

He holds a degree in Commerce and is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

Venkatesh Ananth

CFO

Head - Marketing

Amitabh Poddar is the head of marketing for AWPL. He is a proven visionary and strategic leader for aligning business strategies with business processes and content management for enterprises. With his expertise in Business Process Management, Case Management and Enterprise Content Management, Amitabh has transformed many organizations for efficiency and throughput of business processes. He is extremely knowledgeable in the insurance and banking domain and has a proven track record of implementing large transformational projects for business process improvements. Amitabh has been with AWPL since 1999, through his experience and imagination he has designed products that enable transformation for enterprises.

Amitabh Poddar

Head – Marketing

Leadership Business Consultant

Ananda Hoskote has over 17 years of industry experience. Over the last 12 years of his tenure with AWPL he has implemented various enterprise level ECM and BPM projects & been instrumental in managing various initiatives undertaken by the organization.

He has more than 9 years of extensive experience in leading & managing a professional services team. Apart from managing the business services arm of AWPL, he is also a member of executive committee, which is the key driver of overall organizations business objectives & strategic initiatives.

Ananda Hoskote

Leadership Business Consultant

Chief Technology Officer

Yogish Shenoy has been our Chief Technical officer and Head of the Research and Development unit at AWPL since 2012. With more than 15 years of professional industry experience serving AWPL customers, he has been instrumental in shaping AWPL’s offerings in the marketplace. Head Research and Development, CTO at AWPL he is the key technical architect behind AWPL products.

Yogish is responsible for formulating practices and processes, which ensure that the AWPL products meet the high quality standards. He has spent several years architecting Enterprise solutions for several customers that exploit Business Process Management, Enterprise Content Management, Case Management and Business Analytics. It is this unique blend of technical expertise combined with the experience of building business relevant solutions enables AWPL to remain a leader in delivering Case Management solutions.

Yogish Shenoy

CTO