eG Innovations



Directors

Srinivas Ramanathan

President, Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Prior to starting eG Innovations, Srinivas was a senior research scientist at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, California. At HP, Srinivas was the chief architect of Firehunter, an ISP performance monitoring solution. He was also a key contributor to the second version of HP's WebQoS product for enabling Quality of Service for web applications. Srinivas has extensive experience in Internet technologies, performance monitoring and management, and multimedia systems, having co-authored more than forty technical papers and has been a co-inventor of fourteen US patents. He has a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of California, San Diego and a Masters in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India.

Tim Clark
Vice President – Strategic Alliances

Tim brings in-depth knowledge of the technology management arena with specific focus on networks and applications management. Having co-founded TAVVE Software in 1998, one of America's top root cause analysis vendors, where he was Vice President of Business Development responsible for partner development and channel sales. Prior to TAVVE, he founded Computer Networking Techniques Inc., a technology sales and sales management consulting company for high-tech start-ups such as Distributed Networks, UniSync, FiberCAP, and AiroNet. Growing the company from a one-person startup in 1990 to over $50 million in client company sales has given Tim a unique look at what it takes to deliver high-quality solutions to clients. Tim has spent over 35 years focused on providing solutions that solved customers' business needs.

Rick Ruskin
Vice President – Sales, North America

Rick Ruskin is responsible for sales strategy and execution, including channels. Rick has over 25 years of experience in sales leadership roles in the software industry. Prior to eG, Rick was VP of Sales at Lumigent, and before that, was VP of Sales at Virtera, which was recently acquired by GlassHouse Technologies. Rick also led the sales efforts at Index Engines and Storability Software, which was acquired STK Corporation. He also held senior sales positions at MTI and System Industries. Rick holds a BS from the University of Colorado and an MS from Columbia University.

Anand Sampath
Chief Financial Officer

Anand has been associated with eG Innovations since its inception and is responsible for all financial, accounting, tax, budgeting, and implementation of financial systems and controls across all geographies that the company operates in. Anand has over a decade of experience in progressive finance and business related functions in various industries while working for companies like Bayer, Cairn Energy, and Mikuni. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Bala Murugan Vaidhinathan
Chief Architect

Bala Murugan has been instrumental in the design, architecture, and evolution of the eG product suite, and is the co-inventor on eG's key automatic infrastructure triage technology patents. Currently, Bala Murugan heads the solution development and delivery team for the Americas, working closely with eG's sales team and partners in the region. Prior to joining eG Innovations, Bala Murugan was with Transys Technologies where he was responsible for the design and development of one of the earliest J2EE portals in the late 90s. He has a Masters Degree in Computer Science, with extensive experience in multi-tier application development using Java and Microsoft technologies.