Phani Nagarjuna, Founder & CEO

Phani Nagarjuna, Founder & CEO of Nuevora sets out the global vision & strategy for the Company and leads the overall execution. As the CEO of Nuevora, Phani also until recently advised the executive team & led the product strategy and marketing operations of CallCommand, a client of Nuevora and a leading provider of SaaS based marketing services to a number of organizations.

Before founding Nuevora, Phani ran worldwide sales, marketing & corporate strategy operations for Caritor, which now operates as Keane, a $1 billion-plus global services firm. At Caritor, Phani spearheaded the operational turnaround of the company including one of the fastest and prominent brand re-engineering efforts in the industry. The company more than doubled its revenues in two years during his tenure. As the youngest executive member of the Caritor management team, Phani also helped raise crucial growth capital and headed, as President, the worldwide operations of Certido - a wholly owned subsidiary of Caritor. Certido delivered SaaS based on-demand solutions for streamlining and automating the processes centered around the management of outsourcing operations. Prior to his stint with Caritor and Certido, Phani held multiple roles in product marketing and CRM strategy at Siebel Systems including leading the launch and execution of one of the product lines in the Asia, Pacific and Japan regions.

Phani is a frequent speaker on the subjects of Services Globalization, CRM and Outsourcing at various worldwide conferences. Phani has a B.S. in Engineering from Osmania University, MS in Engineering from the University of Cincinnati, and an M.B.A from Harvard University.

Phani is an active community service member and a two time recipient of the honor from the President of the United States of America, Bill Clinton for his outstanding contribution to environmental protection services.

Sastry Penumarthy, Co-founder & EVP

Sastry Penumarthy is the Co-founder and Executive Vice President of Nuevora. He is responsible for sales and customer development. He is also a key contributor to the development of new solution offerings and IP for the Company. Before co-founding Nuevora, Sastry held leadership positions in product, solutions and industry marketing at leading high tech companies including BEA Systems and Siebel Systems.

At BEA Systems, Sastry was responsible for developing and leading the go-to-market strategy for the AquaLogic product family and helped grow the business for AquaLogic Service Bus from $30M to $60M. Sastry was also responsible for rolling out cross-industry and industry-specific solution offerings for Financial Services, Government, and Telecommunications. These solution offerings helped drive over $25M in revenues. Prior to BEA Systems, Sastry was a founding member of the Universal Application Network (UAN) business unit of Siebel Systems, which grew to a $40 M run rate in its first year.

Sastry has a Bachelors in Technology from Osmania University, a Masters of Science in Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Chicago.

Vishal Salunkhay, Co-founder