To Change the World of Frontline Workers,
You've got to have Great Leaders

Paul (Tony) Malz is Innovapptive's Chief Financial Officer (CFO). In this role, Tony will bring a clear understanding of corporate finance, financial planning & analysis (FP&A) to the Innovapptive team (Both in the short and long term financial planning).

He takes special interest in influencing business growth by passionately collaborating with marketing + sales teams on developing predictable investment strategies, influencing deal economics/deal structuring to maximize the ACV, while reducing the costs to improve Gross Margins. Tony will help Innovapptive instill the necessary financial discipline and integration between Sales (ARR), PSO and R&D with his extensive SaaS FP&A experience, and to help us realize our growth ambitions.

Tony has over 20+ years of experience as a finance professional and as a finance executive. His experience has been a standout and has helped him touch all parts of the business (Product, Marketing, Sales, PSO and Customer Success) from a financial perspective to maximize ROI. Tony influenced organization's growth via optimization of unit economics across account growth, increase in average deal sizes, win rates, ramp up time of associates, maximize ARR, deal structuring, reduce costs/consolidation and continuously improve shareholder value.

Tony graduated from San Diego State University with a Bachelors and Masters in Finance.

Sri Karthik is Innovapptive’s Executive Vice President, Pre-Sales & Solution Engineering. Sri brings strong relationship building skills cultivated by a successful career in software sales and project management, which complements an extensive background in accounting, finance, and information technology. His organization is focused on leading profitable growth by creating differentiated solutions for customers. His team’s responsibilities include product strategy, branding and execution, marketing initiatives, and the development and deployment of industry-leading value engineering capabilities.

His experience spans several industries including consumer products, oil and gas, media and telecommunications, F&B, chemicals, and life sciences and includes working with clients from different geographic regions and cultural backgrounds.

Sri has a Masters degree from Illinois Institute of Technology.

Amit Lal is the Executive Vice President of Digital Transformation. Amit brings in rich experience of over 25+ years in both functional and technical areas spanning across disparate industry sectors including Manufacturing, Natural Resources, Chemicals, Technology, Media and Telecom. In this position, he is primarily responsible to enhance the customer experience with integrated services delivery covering implementation to ROI realization.

Amit has a unique and valuable functional background in leading plant maintenance and operations functions coupled with in depth ERP consulting experience with big 5 firm for close to two decades. Amit is passionate about thinking out of the box and bringing in innovative ways for complex problem solving and to challenge the status quo. His leadership skills have proven to be very effective in turning around the situations and in strategizing for efficiency and profitability.

Amit has received Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering from N.I.T. Rourkela.

Kalyan Vankayalapati is Innovapptive’s Managing Director for Australia and New Zealand (ANZ). In this role, his responsibilities include developing and managing the emerging territory’s marketing initiatives, brand positioning, sales pipeline, product distribution, and operations. Kalyan also leads the company’s strategic customer success initiatives designed to increase user adoption of Innovapptive's product portfolio across ANZ.

Kalyan has a proven history of success in the information technology and services industry. Prior to joining Innovapptive, he served as a senior manager at Accenture in Brisbane and a managing consultant for IBM in the U.S., where he completed several key projects involving business transformation.

Kalyan earned a Master’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the State University of New York (SUNY).

Abhishek Parkala oversees the daily operations of the Global Delivery Center or GDC, the largest workforce office for Innovapptive. As an experienced and efficient leader, he is responsible for designing and implementing business strategies, plans and procedures that promote Innovapptive’s Mission and Vision.

He is responsible for developing and managing policies to streamline processes, oversee their execution and make sure the back office is running in alliance with the customer requirements. He has extensive experience in different sectors like Financial Services, IT, Real Estate, and Construction Management.

Abhishek is a serial entrepreneur having involved in three startups as a founder. In his previous ventures, he demonstrated competency in strategic planning and business development. He has deep insight into all facets of a business, and his ability to develop financial strategies to help these businesses grow is of added advantage to Innovapptive.

Joe Gallagher is Innovapptive’s Vice President of Sales, bringing extensive experience from his roles at ServiceMax and ServiceNow. Joe's proven ability to drive growth and maintain strong customer relationships equips him to lead Innovapptive's enterprise sales efforts, aiming to enhance client services and expand market reach.

Kathyryn Narayan is Innovapptive’s Head of GTM (Go-to-Market) and Solutions. In this role, she will oversee Innovapptive’s GTM strategy, including product marketing, field marketing, indirect channels, and partnerships strategies. Kathryn brings more than three decades of experience in enterprise software sales. Her strategic vision coupled with hands-on leadership will be instrumental in driving the company's growth and refining operational functions

Vikas Reddy Natala Innovapptive’s  Vice President of Product Management, bringing more than a decade of experience in the technology sector. Vikas began his career as a software engineer at Adobe and has since held significant leadership roles in product and design at Sprinklr, Airmeet, and the Newton School, managing products with over $100 million ARR. During his stint in his previous roles, he was instrumental in launching multiple groundbreaking products from scratch. Vikas is a graduate from IIT Guwahati and holds an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad.

Swagat Singh is the Senior Director of Demand Generation focusing on our global demand generation programm to accelerate the growth. 

Swagat is a seasoned marketing leader, who brings over 16 years of experience in demand generation, digital and performance marketing within the tech SaaS industry. He brings a wealth of extensive experience in building and scaling up marketing organizations with digital marketing strategy. Swagat has been recognized as Top 100 Marketing Minds of India and Asia's Top 100 Martech leaders by WMC.

Prior to joining Innovapptive, Swagat worked on some top SaaS tech companies such as Highradius, Leoforce, ProcessMAP, Suneratech and others in various leadership roles. He holds a B.Tech degree in Information Technology from Utkal University.

Sundeep Yalamanchi is Innovapptive's Senior Director of Partners and Alliances. His role is to find, develop and nurture business partnerships with industry-leading technology companies to further Innovapptive’s mission.

Through Sundeep's persistence and hard work, Innovapptive now works hand-in-hand with several technology, hardware and system integrators to offer a wider range of solutions to our customers. Our many partners include giants such as Deloitte (systems integration), SAP and IBM Maximo (technology), and Zebra and Cognex (hardware), among others. Sundeep has 15 years' experience in the Oil & Gas Industry.

He began his career as a Control Systems Engineer at W-Industries designing safety and measurement systems for downstream production facilities and later moved to Expro into the upstream drilling side of the industry designing control systems for well control.

This background gives Sundeep a solid understanding of upstream, midstream and downstream Oil & Gas customers' unique needs, something Expro realized when they promoted him to Sales and Service Engineer. Prior to Innovapptive, Sundeep held various roles at Schlumberger from product manager and business development of well pressure control products to managing global sales for equipment business for the M-I Swaco business unit.

He brings extensive field-level insights with global experience critical to understand the world of our customers and to be a valuable partner in their digital transformation journey. Sundeep earned a Master's degree in Electronics and Computer Technology from Indiana State University and an MBA in Management and Finance from Tulane University.