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Sridhar is the Founder and CEO of Cloud4C, the world's leading cloud Managed Services provider serving Fortune 500 clients, and CtrlS, the Worlds largest Rated 4 Data Centre. Sridhar is a pioneer in the information and communications industry and has spent the last two decades building innovative technology solutions in the areas of cloud computing and infrastructure, energy management and software development.

As a first-generation entrepreneur, Sridhar has founded several companies to date. Following the advent of internet, ecommerce and large scale digital adoption in the early 2000s, Sridhar founded CtrlS Datacenters in 2007. CtrlS is now World’s largest Rated 4 Datacenter with an enviable client portfolio. Sridhar has been credited with launching several industry firsts, including DR as a Service (DRaaS) and the world's 1st Community Cloud for Banks. He is also the Founder and Chairman of Pioneer Group of companies which has interests in Internet, IT services and IT Infrastructure.

An entrepreneur who always looks to give back to the entrepreneurial community, Sridhar is closely involved with TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs), a nonprofit organization devoted to empowering entrepreneurs in all industries and at all stages.

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As CIO, Anil is in charge of Cloud4C’s product innovation and business strategy spanning AIOps, Service Augmentation, Hybrid Cloud capability, Information Assurance, and user experience. An industry veteran with 30+ years of IT experience, his glorious career began with designing computer security for the country’s armed forces in 1996.

Since the inception of Cloud4C, Anil has played a key role in enhancing innovation and strategy by adopting bleeding-edge technologies and a problem-solving mindset. Prior to his current position, Anil held multiple leadership roles at CtrlS since 2008.

A graduate from St. Joseph College, Anil has been honored with the Eminent CIO 2020 award, Super Hero CIO 2020 award and the ‘Most Inspiring Tech Leaders 2020’ award.

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Chanakya Levaka is a proven leader in the Information Technology & Cloud Industry and has held various leadership roles in Enterprise Sales, Marketing, Strategy and Alliances. As a Vice president of Cloud4C for Global Sales and Marketing, Chanakya is responsible for leading all aspects of Customer Engagement, Service Offerings, Sales Operation and Global Expansion.

He was instrumental in building SAP & Azure practices at Cloud4C and scaling them to 25 countries and multi-million dollars in revenue.

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Paresh is a highly successful, dynamic and Transformational Country Business Unit Manager and Executive Coach.He is in possession of over 25 years of both Sales and Strategic management experience across IT, Digital and Telecom industries.

In his new role Paresh will lead Cloud4C Sales, Inside Sales and Retail Colocation business. His focus is on Enhancing Market share in both India and Global Markets thru technology partnership, alliances and collaboration.

He will be responsible for charting out the blueprint for growth to pole vault the business as Cloud4C move towards becoming a billion dollar enterprise by 2023.

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As Country Manager & VP, Peter has been the driving force for seizing the first substantial HEC deals from South Korea for both SAP and Cloud4C. An enthusiastic IT visionary with a wide spectrum of experiences, Peter pioneered Enterprise Cloud Portfolio Establishment for top 10 Korean Companies including LG CNS HEC & SDS HEC partnership for SAP Global.

Peter orchestrated the VoIP Business Model Creation which was further patented for Vodafone, Japan and EMS (Emergency Messaging Solution) Service on CDMA/GSM mobile cloud.

A passionate leader and a strong advocate for enterprise level digital transformation, Peter holds a Master’s degree of Commerce (Investment Banking), a Master’s degree in International Business and Law(MIBL) and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Business Information System from the University of Sydney.

Having worked in Australia, Japan, Dubai and USA, Peter retains strong cultural and interpersonal skills. When he’s not innovating, he’s either golfing or spending time with his wife and his sons.

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Iskandar is an approachable thought-leader with a people first mind set with which he enables & empowers people around him to excel to their full potential. He has always ensured that his team members grow & develop in their professional and personal life. Iskandar focuses on bringing continuous innovation to clients and driving business impact by adopting newest technologies.

Prior to his current role, Iskandar led marketing and sales at SoftwareOne, Dell Malaysia and Symantec Malaysia. Iskandar’s career started as an Engineer and progressed into several roles where he excelled in creating new services offering new capabilities and leading people. A President Club winner in various organizations, he is the only leader in APAC leading a team of four President Club award winners. ​

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Marc is an energetic and highly engaged sales leader with international business development experience with Service Provider Hosting, Cloud, SaaS, IaaS, Software, Big Data, Analytics, and Managed Services. He is a highly driven and inquisitive leader keen on helping clients identify competitive gaps to turn them into opportunities.

He is often referred to as a ‘technology-guru’, leading thought around new methods to generate revenue streams from upstart to established companies. He is an avid learner continually looking for greater challenges to increase my contribution with an insatiable desire to be fluent with new and future disruptive ideas.

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Audy joined Cloud4C as a Country Manager. Audy is focused on Managing Cloud4C Indonesia’s business growth – advising and serving organizations transform their business to digital experience, as well as providing IT managed services.

Prior to joining Cloud4C, Audy served in Senior Management roles in numerous IT organizations including Cloud Comrade an ST Telemedia Company, KPMG, Oracle, Openport, Epicor, Zebra Technology with a deep background serving mid-market growth companies, Enterprise, large publicly traded companies within various high-profile sectors

His 20 years’ experience spans various technology solutions on future-proofing business operation through digital transformation and introduction of Cloud, IoT applications as well software business applications in multiple industries as well as Industrials, Consumer, Telco, and Financial Institutions.

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Rocco heads the sales and serves as Vice President for Business Development for Canada region for Cloud4C. With more than 10 years’ experience, Rocco has been a pioneering force in launching Cogeco Data managed cloud business. He also initiated Hanu’s Cloud business in Canada and broke ground for Cloud4C’s Canadian cloud operations.

Rocco is passionate about credibility and customer success. He believes in creating mutual rewarding relationships rather than just selling solutions. An amateur astronomer, Rocco pursues his 3D printing passion in his free time.

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An out of box thinker with a strategic mind-set, Vikas Bakshi comes with 23 years of vast experience in driving large & complex customer projects in Infrastructure, Cloud Services & Networking services and currently holds the position of senior VP at Cloud4C.

As a creative & successful global business leader driving business, solutions, strategy & sales across global markets, Vikas has bagged a bunch of accolades - Best People Manager for two consecutive years in Schneider Electric, Best Innovative Minds Award in Sify. Not only this, as a Cloud Leader in Wipro, Vikas delivered 7X growth in Cloud Performance in 2 years in APAC, Middle East & India. He’s also grabbed two major deals on AWS Cloud, a $450M TCV deal with Olympus and a $165M deal with NSW Transport.

Vikas has earned a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from RV College of Engineering and has completed PGDM in Marketing from T A Pai Management Institute, Manipal. Vikas is an excellent leader with strong acumen to solve customer problems.​

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Siew Foong (SF) Wong is the Assistant Vice President of Channels and Alliances of the ASEAN region. In her current role, Siew Foong is responsible for building successful CSP alliances, ISV alliances and GTM partnership in Malaysia. An industry veteran with a career in Sales & Partner Management spanning across two decades, Siew Foong provides leadership to Cloud4C’s Malaysia team.She has built the channel ecosystem for Quest ASEAN by recruiting, managing and growing the source revenue contributed by channels and alliances in the region.

Prior to her current role, Siew Foong served as the SEA Regional Channels and Alliances Manager at Quest Software, and held a managerial position at Microsoft for 10 years.

Siew Foong earned a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from La Trobe University.

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The Global Head of SAP Operations and Automation at Cloud4C, Ram Sajja handles AIOps and SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC). Prior to Cloud4C, Ram was the VP of Engineering at Zyme Solutions in Austin, Texas. Ram is a SaaS model leader and is a renowned Infrastructure Maintenance and Software Engineering specialist with more than two decades of experience in the USA.​

Ram’s experience spans across multiple industries and technologies such as AI/ML, SaaS, Cloud Computing, BigData and Technology Operations (SRE/DevOps). He pioneered and developed commercial software for Automated Technology Management of Data Centers in a SaaS model and has successfully implemented this model in Telecom, Banking, Healthcare and Retail verticals.

With a Master’s Degree in Engineering from Virginia Tech University, Ram has held senior positions in Morgan Stanley, Verisign, Mohawk, metroPCS, IBM Global Services, JP Morgan Chase Bank and Alcatel Network Systems before joining Cloud4C.

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Hitesh Bhardwaj is a technology strategist with more than 16 years' experience in various technical roles across Singapore, India and China. He has embarked on an array of technical leadership deliverables for large multinational clients in Southeast Asia, Europe, China and India, working for or alongside some of the world’s leading technology organizations including Rackspace, SoftwareONE , Accenture-Avanade and HCL technologies. ​

Before joining Cloud4C he was a Principal Consultant at Rackspace APJ. His career has spanned across strategic IT consulting, Solutions Architect, Cloud Architect, Professional Services, Solution Sales, IT & delivery management and Information Security. Hitesh is a certified enterprise architect and holds a master’s degree in information technologies along with a strong passion (and knowledge) about enterprise technology transformations.

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Meet the think-tank behind our futuristic services and frameworks that have been helping enterprises become agile, secure and scalable for years. Ravi also steers the wheel of modernization by developing hybrid cloud adoption and transformation framework.

With more than two decades of experience in IT Infrastructure development, modernization and Managed Services, Ravi has held a variety of leadership roles. Prior to his current role, Ravi served as Vice President of Technology at CtrlS. Ravi has played a key role in setting up nation-wide networks for leading ISPs in India and SaaS services for US federal agencies.

Ravi earned a Master's degree in Information Systems Management from National Institute of Information Technology. A travel-enthusiast by heart, Ravi spends his free time reading about history and science.

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Aseem has been an evangelist and member of the core group of SAP Global Cloud Leadership team that was established in 2008. He is a firm believer in the GROW model - "get clarity on the goal; stay close to the reality, generate options and agree on the way forward. In his current role, he has overseen 40% YoY growth for 5 consecutive years.

Aseem heads the SAP Global Sales and GTM practice for Cloud4C. He focuses on driving SAP services revenue growth, establishing strategic relationships with customers and partners along with building high performance teams. His key focus areas are sales, go-to-market and customer adoption.

B.Tech graduate from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Aseem, is a club-level gold medallist in running, likes to spend his free-time running a few laps. He also owns an NGO – The Utopian Dream.

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Karim Kalaawi is an industry veteran with more than 25 years of professional experience covering a wide range of skills in business development, technology and sales management within the IT and telecom industries, with focus on SaaS and cloud computing in Gulf and Emerging markets across Europe, Middle East and Africa.

For most of 2020, Karim has been working with Cloud4C in the capacity of Executive Vice President, working globally as the lead for the Microsoft partnership, as well as leading the alliances team in Middle East and Africa.

He is a geek at heart and leverages that curiosity to learn new technical tricks whenever he manages to steal some time away from work and family.

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Successfully managing relationships with partners and alliances since 2017, Muneebuddin is our passionate leader in charge of developing and driving new opportunities, mapping digital transformation journeys, and mentoring high performers.

Muneebuddin joined CtrlS Datacenter in 2007 as the Assistant Manager. Since 2015, he has held the position of VP - ISV, SAAS & Cloud Alliances. He has also played a key role in the launch of Cloud4C.

Muneebuddin earned his MBA in Marketing and Finance from the Indian Institute of Planning and Management, and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Osmania University. When not solving business puzzles, you can be this eminent thought leader and speaker scaling mountains or rejuvenating in nature.

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Ravi leads the marketing for Cloud4C, ASEAN region based out of Singapore. He is also the Global Head of Marketing for CtlSdatacentres.He is responsible for PR, Brand communication andDemand generation for both the brands.

In a career spanning over 2 decades, Ravi has cut his teeth with technology leaders like Microsoft, HP, Lenovo, IBM and Adobe, helping drive brand engagement and demand programs across products, sectors and segments.In his previous role, Ravi set up and led B2B marketing practise for one of the leading global agency networksin South East Asia.

His after-work routine includes time and space for reading, music and cooking.