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Preeti Das/Birlasoft 

Preeti Das serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Birlasoft (India) Ltd and had served as its Chief Operating Officer. Das served as an Executive Vice President and Head of Europe Operations at Infrasoft Technologies Limited, as well as Vice President of Oracle Financial Services Software Limited.

She has 25 years of experience with multiple large organizations in the Technology and Insurance industries, which includes key positions of responsibility held with Oracle Financial Services Software, i-flex, Microsoft, ICICI Lombard. She has expertise in mergers & acquisition, strategic planning & consulting and tech start-ups.

Prior to InfrasoftTech, she served in leadership positions with Microsoft and ICICI. She also has experience in creating, marketing and growing Software Products and Consulting Services businesses in various parts of the globe – North Americas, Asia Pacific, South Africa and UK. She has participated in many panel discussions, seminars and webinar on Business and technology challenges.

Ernie Riddle/EnablePath 

Ernie Riddle serves as the President of EnablePath with overall responsibility for the company’s growth and success. He has had extensive experience leading the growth of both public and private companies and has twelve years of consulting experience helping companies through major growth, technology and transformational initiatives. His experience includes leadership positions, board positions and consulting assignments in both domestic and global companies.

Riddle previously held key leadership positions with several firms: serving as Co-Founder/President/CEO of Astadia, Inc., a cloud computing/SaaS consulting and systems integration company; President and COO of Norrell Services, Inc., a $1.6B outsourcing, information technology services, call center operations and staffing services company; President of Ryder International, a $5.2B international provider of logistics and transportation services with operations in Mexico, South America and Europe; and, earlier in his career, as Vice President Sales and Marketing for Xerox Corporation in the U.S. and EMEA.

Riddle has served on public company Boards as a Director for AirNet Systems, Inc., Enterasys Inc., Danka Business Systems, PLC, Norrell Services, Inc. and numerous private boards.

He holds a BS degree in Marketing from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and an MBA in Finance from Emory University. He lives in Atlanta, GA.

Allyson Eman/Venture Atlanta 

 

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