Executive Team

SATYA BOLLI

CEO

Satya spearheads the global operations of SemanticSpace. Satya is an established veteran, innovator and entrepreneurial leader in the software development industry. He has over 25 years of experience in the field of software development and consultancy. His vision and experience in the field of IT helped build SemanticSpace successfully. Satya holds M.S. in Computer Science from IIT Madras.

 

 

MICHAEL CHADWICK

Executive Vice President of Business Development

Michael Chadwick oversees business development at Prolifics. Additionally, Michael manages both Marketing and Sales divisions at Prolifics, where he contributes to the growth and financial success of the company by developing new business initiatives and key strategic alliances with partners and customers such as IBM, JPMorgan Chase, MetLife and the National Business Center.

Managing all aspects of the business, Michael brings to Prolifics over 16 years of high-tech sales experience in selling enterprise software and solutions across a wide variety of industries and vertical markets. As Executive Vice President of Business Development, Michael has also helped build an extensive network of partners enabling Prolifics to increase both its capabilities and market reach.

Michael is a former Golf Tournament Professional, a Golf All American and Big Ten Champion. He holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois.

OSCAR ROZARIO

UK Country Manager

Oscar Rozario currently serves as the Country Manager of Prolifics in the United Kingdom. Prior to this, he was employed at IBM in South Africa where he built and ran the Middleware Services Practice at IBM's Global Technology Services Division for 3 years, preceding which time he served at IBM's Software Group as a Brand Sales Manager for the Information Management and Lotus software brands also for 3 years. Oscar joined IBM through the acquisition of Lotus Development where he spent 7 years in several roles starting with technical pre-sales in Johannesburg and ending with running the professional services division based in Dubai in the UAE. Oscar graduated from the American College of Switzerland with a Bachelor of Science degree, and attended secondary school in India. Oscar has lived in multiple countries on several continents over the last four decades across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

HAL NORTHROP

Vice President of Sales

Hal Northrop is responsible for the direction and management of Prolifics' domestic and international sales operations. With more than 18 years experience in enterprise technology, Hal is focused on delivering client value and business growth. He has delivered SOA, Portal, and Security solutions to help organizations reach new markets, increase customer satisfaction and ease collaboration within their enterprise. Hal is instrumental in driving Prolifics' vision to be a true technology partner to its customers – providing dedicated attention, leadership, vision, and guidance. Under Hal's leadership Prolifics has developed relationships with key customers such as Boeing, General Electric, MassMutual, Marketing Management Analytics, Westfield Insurance Group, and Wyeth Laboratories.

Prior to joining Prolifics, Hal worked for IBM where he held multiple sales and management positions across the IBM Software Group, including running the WebSphere and Lotus Business in IBM's Great Lakes Business Unit. He holds a Bachelors of Science degree from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

DEVI GUPTA

Vice President of Marketing

Devi Gupta directs the market positioning for Prolifics and helps manage the company's strategic alliance with IBM. Under her guidance, Prolifics has made the critical transition from a product and services company to becoming a highly reputable WebSphere service provider and winner of several awards at IBM including the Business Partner Leadership Award, Best Portal Solution, IMPACT Best SOA Solution, and Overall Technical Excellence Award.

Devi has been a key leader at Prolifics, fulfilling a variety of principal functions since joining the company in 1991, from Product Manager to VP of Marketing. Her computer science background has allowed Devi to move freely between the engineering and the business development/marketing sides of the technology industry, which gives her a unique ability to apply the client's perspective to the on-going evolution of Prolifics' technology and solutions.

Prior to joining Prolifics, Devi was a programmer and relational database specialist at the Philadelphia Electric Company. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Cornell University, where she was one of the original founders of the Cornell Impact Dance Troupe which is still going strong today.

DAVE MOGEL

Vice President - Legal Affairs

David Mogel is responsible for directing the overall operations for Prolifics including formulating policies, supervising daily operations, overseeing HR functions, and managing the administration of internal systems. As legal counsel Dave is responsible for corporate transactions including acquisitions, software licensing, and intellectual property rights agreements.

Prior to joining Prolifics, Dave worked at the law firm of Kramer, Levin, Naftalis & Frankel providing corporate legal services. He holds an undergraduate degree (Magna Cum Laude) in Psychology from Hofstra University, and a law degree from St. John's University, where he graduated in the top 8% of his class and served as an editor on the Law Review.

HADI MAKKI

Vice President of Operations

Hadi's career in technology spans over 20 years. A pioneer in the field of Health Informatics with a long and distinguished career with the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, he last served as Assistant Commissioner for Informatics & Information Technology for that organization. Some of this work included creating an electronic medical record system for the largest sexually transmitted disease clinic network in the country as well as designing and implementing the infrastructure for electronic reporting of disease surveillance information for the City of New York. Hadi is a seasoned IT professional and a prolific scientific writer with many peer-reviewed articles to his credit.

 

KADEER BEG

Vice President, User Experience Practice and CTO

Kadeer has over 15 years of experience in delivering and architecting large scale systems across multiple platforms. He has authored numerous whitepaper on SOA, EAI and integration technologies. He is an active speaker at technology conferences on best practices and serves on the IBM's MQSeries UG committee, also previously a lecturer at Seneca College. Kadeer was the Founder and Managing Director of EAI-Corp, a product and services company, where he invented WebSphere Message Broker integration with TIBCO RV. In addition to providing consulting services to Fortune 500 clients, Kadeer worked in senior management roles both in the US and Canada for Société Générale, New Era of Networks, Sapient, Bell Canada, Cendant and IBM. He is currently the CTO for Prolifics.

ANANT GUPTA

Vice President, BPM & Connectivity Practice

Anant leads the BPM & Connectivity Practice at Prolifics with Rajiv Ramachandran. In his role he is responsible for providing guidance to clients around their BPM initiatives primarily in the BFSI and healthcare sectors. He leads a global team of Process Architects and BPM analysts that specialize in understanding the process landscape and charting out a roadmap for measurable improvement through detailed analysis and prioritization workshops. He has over 10 years of experience in the BPM space and has worked as a business integration architect prior to that. Anant holds a bachelor's degree in electronics engineering from Delhi University and an MBA in Finance from New York University.

RAJIV RAMACHANDRAN

Vice President, BPM & Connectivity Practice

Rajiv first joined Prolifics as a Consultant, and currently shares the leadership of the  BPM & Connectivity Practice with Anant Gupta. He has 11 years experience in the IT field — 3 of those years at IBM working as a developer at its Object Technology Group and its Component Technology Competency Center in Bangalore. He was then an Architect implementing IBM WebSphere Solutions at Fireman's Fund Insurance. Currently, he specializes in SOA and IBM's SOA-related technologies and products. An author at the IBM developerWorks community, Rajiv has been a presenter at IMPACT and IBM's WebSphere Services Technical Conference.

KYLE WATSON

Vice President, Security Practice

Kyle leads the security practice at Prolifics and has over 20 years of experience, focusing exclusively on Information Security for the past 10 years. Using his knowledge gained through hands-on, real-world experiences and expertise, Kyle formed Watson SCS in 2004, which was acquired by Prolifics in February 2010. Kyle is able to showcase his extensive knowledge to take a project from requirement analysis through specification, vendor selection, solution definition, technical design, implementation and management and leads a team that specializes in implementing IBM Tivoli security solutions.

 

MIKE HASTIE

Vice President, Infrastructure Practice

Mike is an experienced solutions architect and implementation manager with a strong background in business driven and improvement focused IT solutions. Mike has a field proven track record of successful projects. He has over 20 years of IT experience covering project management, enterprise architecture, IT governance, SDLC methodologies, and design/programming in a client/server and Web-based context. Prior to joining Prolifics, Mike was a co-founder and Director of Promenix, a successful systems integrator focused on IBM software implementations. Mike also has significant large-scale systems implementation experience using SAP ERP, data warehouses, and portals during employment with Deloitte Consulting and Ernst & Young where he specialized in messaging and integration technologies using the WebSphere brand family. Mike attended collage in the UK where he studied a business and computing based curriculum.