Management Profiles




  • Vinod Reddy Chairman and Managing Director

Vinod is the Founder, Chairman and Managing Director of CRMIT and is responsible for managing the overall Strategy and Operations of the company.

At BroadVision as practice head of Service Operations in South Asia he managed more than 20 eBusiness implementations. One of the implementations is the fastest growing e-commerce site in India and the first mobile commerce application and at the time of its delivery had won the PC Quest’s “Maximum Social Impact for Indian people in 2004" and the “Best IT Implementation in India for 2005".

As a country manager of BroadVision he co-founded and built their Operations and Global Service practices in India. In 2001 he was awarded the “BroadVision Services Country Manager of the Year”, in Asia Pacific & Japan Region.

Vinod has worked in various technical and management positions with Sabre and American Airlines. He has a hand on experience in various areas: Product Development, Management, Marketing, Implementation, Consulting, and Project Management. He was also involved in Business development programs in Europe and USA regions.

To add on, in one of the projects that he lead as the Technical Lead received the “Franz Edelman” award for best software application in Management Sciences/Operations in the Research area adding another feather to his cap.





  • Venkatesan Sundaram Director - Projects

Venkatesan Sundaram is a Co-founder of CRMIT and is positioned as the Director of Project Delivery Operations.

Prior to CRMIT, he has worked in various consulting positions for Baan Info Systems, BroadVision and Cognizant Technology Solutions.

He specializes in large scale implementation of CRM solutions in multiple verticals like Banking, Insurance, Telecom etc and has architected multiple ecommerce solutions. One of the implementations is the fastest growing e-commerce site in India and the first mobile commerce application. At the time of its delivery, the project won the PC Quest’s “Maximum Social Impact for Indian people in 2004" and the “Best IT Implementation in India for 2005".

He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering and is certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) by American Production and Inventory Control Society, www.apics.org. He is also certified Project Management Professional (PMP) by Project Management Institute, www.pmi.org and currently pursuing Post Graduation in Software Enterprise Management (PGSEM) from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore pgsem.iimb.ernet.in.

Venkatesan blogs





  • Naga Chokkanathan Director - Presales & Innovation

Naga Chokkanathan is the co-founder and would be delivering the responsibility of being a Director of the Education and the R & D Department.

He has brought to the table an experience of working with various Development and Consulting positions at Baan Info Systems and BroadVision India.

Naga holds a Bachelor's degree in Production Engineering from Bharathiyar University, Coimbatore, India and a Master's Diploma in Business Administration from Symbiosis University, Pune, India.

Naga is an avid reader and a part time writer and has authored many books in English and Tamil.

Naga blogs




  • Larry Glaeser SVP - Finance and Corporate Planning

Larry Glaeser is a French-American national and a seasoned executive who has spent 8 years in India in the venture and technology arenas. As Vice-President of STAR TV (Newscorp), he was part of the core team which managed a portfolio of new media and telecom investments (USD 150 million) and was responsible for rolling-out the first pilot for interactive TV in India, now TataSky. He also planned, built, and managed a profitable captive off-shore software development center in Bangalore for the French sports goods retailer DECATHLON. Between 2006 and 2008, Larry was a Venture Partner & EiR for Footprint Ventures, an India based venture capital fund.

Larry was on the Advisory Board of CRMIT for the last 4 years. He has recently joined CRMIT as SVP Finance and Corporate Planning to work with the team to manage the next growth stage.

Larry has a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Colorado, a Masters in Cognitive Sciences delivered jointly by Ecole Polytechnique, EHESS, and Paris VI. He did his PhD work in Computational Neuroscience at the CNRS in France. Larry recently received an Executive MBA from INSEAD as a Financial Times Scholar.




  • Bhasker Rao Director - HR & Training

Bhasker Rao, Director HR & Training holds multiple roles and is responsible for driving People Practices. Having worked in Leading CMM Level 5 companies he has brought wide experience and maturity to the Educational Services, Human Resources and Quality Processes at CRMIT.

Bhasker holds an Engineering degree in Electronics and Communication and a Master's degree in Computer Science and Applications from National Institute of Technology, Karnataka.

He has worked as Professor of Computer science for over 30 years with Leading Universities, Engineering & Management Institutions and Corporations gaining rich experience in Education and Training.

Bhasker is a Soft Skills Trainer and Certified Professional Behavior, Value and Trimetric Analyst and Senior Member of IEEE (USA), Managing Committee Member of CSI (India) and a Fellow of Institution of Engineers (India).




  • Rakesh Naidu Director - Sales

Rakesh Naidu holds the position of Sales Director at CRMIT and is responsible for Sales, Alliances and Marketing for the firm. He has 15+ years of wide spread and varied cross functional experience for leading Front End Operations of Software Companies in the domestic and international market. He has worked in different domains like, ADM Services, IMS and ERPs has a demonstrated several unique achievements in building and managing sales organizations for start-up and established business entities in a highly competitive product category.