Ashu Goel is the founder and CEO of WinWire Technologies. Ashu has a strong technology management and consulting background, with a blend of more than 30 years of experience working at leading organizations like A.T. Kearney and Microsoft. Ashu founded WinWire in 2007 to help customers gain competitive advantage through innovative software solutions.

Ashu is passionate about exploring the impact of technology to assist social causes (#socialtech) as well as the need for empathy due to the impact of increasing advances in technology (#empathytech).

Prior to WinWire, Ashu was at Microsoft helping lead the Microsoft Consulting Services as well as Microsoft Technology Centers around the globe. Ashu also served in a leadership position at A.T. Kearney. He is a Haas MBA graduate from Berkeley and has a BS from IIT Roorkee.

Vineet Arora, Chief Technology Officer, has over 24 years of experience in the IT Services Industry and is a Microsoft Azure certified architect.  Vineet is responsible for technology consulting engagements focused mainly on the Microsoft platform but expanding horizons in the recent years. At WinWire he manages the  technical solutions team, envisioning new solutions, key customer engagement management and also involved in architecting the solutions while trying to balance time to understand trends in the industry as well as in technology!

As a Microsoft’s Partner CSA (Cloud Solution Architect), Vineet helps Microsoft technical sales team as a part of the managed partner program. Prior to joining WinWire, Vineet worked in Microsoft Consulting Services for over 7 years as a consultant and a senior architect focused on delivering solutions on Microsoft’s enterprise app servers.

Vineet is based out of WinWire’s Santa Clara office and can be found online @WinWireCTO or connect with him on LinkedIn.

Herb Labrada, Vice President – Sales, has 20 years of experience in IT Sales and with a strong focus on collaboration, mobility, analytics, application development, mobility, and cloud. His strong background in creating competitive solutions targeting, but not limited to, companies in the Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical, Chemical, Construction and Services verticals.

His responsibilities at WinWire Technologies includes defining and managing the direct sales team across all of WinWire’s office, defining strategies around corporate growth and coordination on all business development activities with internal WinWire departments and external partners. Herb has a BA from the University of Albany.

Vilas Pratapwant, Vice President – Business Development, has over 25 years of experience in IT consulting and has been involved in strategic planning, sales, account management, alliances, operations and organizational development. With a broad understanding of markets in North America, EMEA and India, he brings a good blend of business savvy and technical skills.

His responsibilities at WinWire Technologies includes defining and managing inside sales, staff augmentation, sales & marketing and key client & vendor relationships. Vilas has a MS in Computer Engineering from Villanova University and a BE in Electronics & Communication from Osmania University, Hyderabad.

Subhash Poojari, Senior Director – Delivery,  brings in over 20 years of IT Services experience to WinWire Technologies. Subhash has been associated with WinWire since 2008 and has led multiple customer engagements in various roles. Prior to joining WinWire, he worked for Wipro Technologies for around 9 years and National Stock Exchange (NSE), Mumbai for over 2 years. At Wipro, he has handled large, complex projects for European customers in the areas of Telecom Billing, Customer Care, and Service Assurance and in Finance domain at NSE.

At WinWire, Subhash leads the entire Global Delivery managing the delivery team in the US, Bangalore, and Hyderabad and is responsible for successful delivery to all our customers. Subhash holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering from Mumbai University.

Subba Rao, Director Finance and Administration, has over 18 years of experience in Accounts and Finance. His responsibilities at WinWire Technologies include looking after Accounts, Finance, Admin, and Legal functions.

He comes with rich experience in managing Finance & Operations within service and manufacturing industry. Subba has a postgraduate in Financial Management.

Satya Kundurthi, Director HR, and Recruitment has over 15+ years of experience in Human Resources function in Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Talent Retention and Talent Development. He is instrumental in creation & execution of Talent Acquisition Strategies, HR Policies & Procedures for overall growth and fluent operation of several processes in the organization.

Coming up with an academic background including MBA-HR, PG IRPM, ICWA (Inter), MCOM-Taxation and Certifications like Certified Personality Development Trainer, Certified Nurture High-Performance Culture for Business Excellence, Certified Internal Auditor for ISO 9001:2008.

Prior to WinWire, he was associated with LiquidHub, a Capgemini Company for more than 7 years heading HR function as Associate Director HR and see the organization growing from 92 to 3000. Earlier was associated with Sagarsoft for about 7 years heading HR function as Deputy Manager see the organization growing from 4 to 400.