OUR TEAM

Our Founders

Madan Prasad - CEO

Madan leads the team as Chief Executive Officer with extensive process knowledge in the background verification business. He has worked at FirstAdvantage, HireRight, Aegis and America Online. He is also a Six Sigma black belt qualified professional for process improvement.

Santosh Golechha - CTO

Santosh leads the team as Chief Technology Officer with 20 years experience in Software Development and Architecture. He has worked across California, Boston, Atlanta and Houston. He is currently based in Vizak and manages three associates within our development powerhouse.

Sandeep Krishnappa - CPO

Sandeep leads the team as Chief Product Officer with 14 years of cross-industry background in Digital Transformation. His past experience includes working at Northern Railways, Unilever, British Gas, PricewaterhouseCoopers, KBC Advanced Technologies and, most recently, at Kellogg Brown & Root.

Our Core Team

Abhishek Venkatesha - BD Lead

Abhishek was one of our first partners to join Infoeaze and leads all our business development activities and external engagement. He worked at KPMG and Dunzo before joining Infoeaze to take on the challenging leadership role of developing our business globally. He has BA Honours in Business Management from Sheffield Hallam University.

Lakshmi Kumari - BGV Lead

Lakshmi has over 11 years experience working in background verification process and knowledge process outsourcing. She currently leads our internal BGV process team. and customer experience journey. Her experience also includes casualty and liability insurance at Ajg Gallagher and, people and process management at First Advantage Offshore Services and First American Title.

Atif Ahmad - Investment Lead

Atif has over 12 years of experience as a project/program management and business consultant with extensive experience spanning multiple industries. Atif is a Chartered Engineer, ITIL 4 certified, a PRINCE2 Practitioner and has an MBA from Alliance Manchester Business School. His past work experience includes Cisco, Siemens, DNV-GL, Invensys (A Schenider Company).

Our Advisors

Alina Zhou - Finance

Alina has over 10 years’ experience working across the United Kingdom, China and Singapore. She is currently Head of Finance (ASEAN) at Alibaba group. She is CIMA/CGMA qualified and has extensive experiences across various finance functions, specialising in financial planning and analysis and continuous improvement to process and risk management.

Arianna Trozze - Crypto

Arianna has over 11 years’ experience working as a consultant, product manager, analyst and researcher. She is currently a PhD Candidate at the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Cybersecurity (University College London). Her most recent work was for the law firm Kobre & Kim. She has an MSc from the University of Oxford and a BA from Franklin University Switzerland.

Asfiaa Husaini - Talent

Asfia has 12 years’ experience working in the information technology and services industry. She started her career at Goldman Sachs and then worked for Tesco, NetApp and spent the last 9 years at Dell EMC. She is skilled in Talent Management, Recruiting, and Technical Recruiting. She has a Master’s in Human Resources Management.

Abdulla Mahmood - Brand

Abdulla has over 18 years of experience in Marketing and Business Development. He is currently a Director at AI Ahli Holding Group, Dubai. He focuses on strategic brand alliances with regional and international government bodies, global talents, celebrities and Hollywood Studios such as Netflix, Marvel, Disney, Fox and Sony. He was honoured as Asia's Most Influential CMO, Asia's Marketing Professional and Asia's Corporate Communication Professional.

Jyothish Nair - Design

Jyothish has over 20+ years’ experience in the creative sector. He is currently Vice President and Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company, London. His past experience includes reshaping the future of design systems across digital experiences, physical products and service touch points as a Group Creative Director at Barclays, Creative Director at Native Design and associate creative director for Publicis Sapient.

Kevin Clarke - Services

Kevin has over 35 years’ experience in Energy Consulting. He is currently CEO of CREAS and focuses on strategic and technical advisory to venture capital, private equity funds and banks investing in sustainable technology for the energy-to-chemicals. He has held senior leadership positions at Kellogg Brown & Root, Permasense (A Emerson Company), KBC Advanced Technology (A Yokogawa Company) and others.

Longzhu Shen - AI

Shen is a scientific consultant on machine learning, mathematical modelling, quantum chemistry and GIS computations. He has post doc research experience at University of Cambridge and Yale University. He also holds a PhD in Chemistry from Carnegie Mellon University, M.S. in Computational Biology from Beijing University of Technology and B.S. in Biochemistry from Northwest University.

Maya Bhatti - Marketing

Maya is a seasoned marketer with over 20 years’ experience and has worked for large multi-national organisations as well as SMEs. More recently, Maya worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers for 14 years, where she was the Global Marketing Campaign Leader for Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security. Prior to this role she was Global Financial Services and Asset Wealth Management Marketing Leader.

Bhanu Chandran - L&D

Bhanu has over 28 years’ experience in human resources with a successful history of working in the Financial Services and IT industry. She is currently Vice President of HR & Contacts at Amazech. In the past, she headed talent development at Goldman Sachs in India and served as Vice President – L&D for Asia Pacific at Northern Trust.

Undisclosed - Cyber Risk

Our Cyber Risk advisor has over 18 years experience around various security roles such as product security, information security, infrastructure, cyber risk, governance and compliance. He holds certifications in Offensive Security, Computer Forensics, Ethical Hacking, Blockchain, Containers, Metasploit, CISSP, CCSK, CISA, CNA, CFS, CEH, CISCO, CNA, ITIL, PRINCE2.

Varun Sethi - Legal

Varun Sethi is a lawyer who has been a start-up evangelist and consultant for past 7 years, consulting for more than 120 start-ups in India and abroad, including more than 95 funded by Indian and U.S. VCs. His efforts have been covered by the Economic Times, Bloomberg TV, Money Control, Forbes India, Crypto Currency and other media outlets.

Kavitha Madan - Social Value

Kavitha has 16 years of experience working as a social worker and analyst. She currently leads the social value reporting and corporate social responsibility agenda within Infoeaze. She also works as a social worker at Ashraya. Her past experience includes working at Nightangle Medical Trust, Thomson Reuters Elite and America Online Member Services.