About us

Ali Hasan is the President & Chief Executive Officer of Speridian Technologies. He is responsible for directing operational aspects of Speridian, vital to the overall growth of the organization. He drives various internal teams and functions to achieve and excel in the company’s sales, profitability, cash flow, and business objectives.

Additionally, Ali leads Speridian’s Public Sector practice, focusing on the deployment of solutions for the Health Insurance Exchanges and the Justice and Public Safety sector. Speridian’s enterprise solutions are built to provide maximum extensibility and ease of integration with a legacy as well as external systems.

Apart from his extensive experience in System Integrator (SI) consulting and leadership roles, he has also worked in the manufacturing and engineering sectors, where he was responsible for the design and manufacture of hardware for advanced navigation systems.

Ali graduated cum laude from Northeastern University with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. He also holds an MBA with specializations in Operations and Logistics Management.

KP Hari joined Speridian Technologies as Managing Partner in 2007 and is responsible for global operations, company growth and associate and customer satisfaction. With more than 17 years of IT experience, KP mastered the art of delivering technology and business solutions for attaining competitive advantage. KP is consistently recognized for on-time, on-budget deliveries and is a champion of software delivery through Distributed Software Methodology. In addition to his technical skills, he has strong management and delivery skills and excellent leadership with maturity and experience.

He received his degree in Engineering from Calicut University and later earned his Master of Science in Computer Science from Regional Engineering College,Warangal. He is a good communicator, team builder, and motivator and has more than 5 years of Bombay University teaching experience.

Prior to joining Speridian, KP held several senior managerial positions such as Vice President, Option One Mortgage Corporation and Director, Online Tax Products at H&R Block. He also held senior management roles at Nexgenix and Union Carbide.

Satish is the Executive Vice President of the company and heads Speridian Asia Pacific region which includes India, ASEAN, and ANZ markets. Satish has been with Speridian for more than 9 years and has played a wide variety of leadership roles. Satish has more than 25 years of global experience in the IT services industry with a strong track record of driving digital transformation for enterprise customers and building technology practices. Prior to the current role, Satish led Oracle practice including CRM, Cloud CX, Analytics and Middleware and ran large enterprise implementations across regions. He handled diverse roles across the organization, evangelizing end-to-end solutions in Oracle, building our next-generation CRM/CX practice and enabling process and technology transformation.

Prior to Speridian, Satish held delivery leadership positions at CGI – AMS (American Management Systems), Booz Allen Hamilton and AmerisourceBergen with a strong focus on Consulting and Customer Engagement.

Girish Nair is the Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) of Speridian Technologies, LLC. As CCO, he is responsible for spearheading the Commercial Sales, Marketing and Alliance channels for the growth of Speridian’s professional services and consulting business. 

Girish brings more than 20 years of sales and marketing experience in business consulting services and has been a specialist in strategic planning and business transformation for small to midsize organizations. He has successfully launched new business models and run the entire sales and delivery cycle for various lines of businesses. His experience ranges from computer hardware to niche technology consulting sales and his key success has been his ability to identify new business opportunities and successfully manage these opportunities through the “Theory of Management by Objectives”. His industry domain includes Financial Services, Manufacturing, Travel & Transportation and Healthcare.

Girish Nair received his degree in Electronics Engineering from Pune University in India and earned a Master’s in Business Administration from the Institute of Technology and Management, Mumbai-India.

Manoj has over 25 years of global experience leading teams for building platforms for mobility, financial and workflow based solutions. Manoj is passionate about delivering innovative software solutions. He is a trusted partner to the organization and clients to provide thought leadership based on his  hands on approach to latest trends and strengths in software design & architecture.

Prior to joining Speridian, Manoj spent more than a decade in Germany working for a niche software company creating innovating integration and workflow platform to build solutions for leading automotive, manufacturing, logistics & financial companies in Europe & US.

Currently his focus is on leveraging  iOT, AI and Cloud for existing core solutions & services of Speridian to help its customers on the journey to next generation of software solutions.

Manoj is Bachelors in Computer engineering from University of Pune, and is on a continuous path of self-learning.

Steve Middlekauff is a dynamic leader with over 35 years’ experience supporting business transformation through information technology.  He has supported clients across multiple private sector industries and has extensive experience with many state and local government agencies.  He is passionate about helping clients solve their business needs with innovative solutions and outstanding professional service.  He comes to Business Advantage Consulting after many successful years with larger system integration companies such EDS, HP, Unisys, and most recently First Data, where he held a variety of positions including Global Industry Director for Social and Digital Citizen Services, North America Director for Health & Human Services, Director of Government Solutions, Principle Consultant, and Regional Director of Consulting Services.

In addition to his executive leadership experience, Steve has extensive experience as an Enterprise Solutions Architect supporting the design and deployment of large-scale complex solutions for some of the largest corporations and agencies in the world.

Steve has participated on numerous panels addressing social services trends and emerging needs, and was part of a select panel of industry experts requested to provide testimony to the Health Information Technology Policy Committee in Washington D.C. on the implications related to the Affordable Care Act.

Steve Miller is the President at MVP Consulting  Inc. Mr. Miller brings over 36 years of experience to MVP Consulting Inc. in the sales, support and delivery of strategic IT and application managed service offerings including IT consulting to major financial, public / government, higher education and healthcare commercial sectors. He has extensive experience building, operating and managing large, scalable, global consulting, solution and delivery organizations. He is driven by a strong passion for every client’s satisfaction and success.

Prior to joining MVP Consulting in January 2017, Mr. Miller served as COO of nfrastructure Technologies Inc. and in various IBM executive roles, most recently as US Vice President for IT and application managed services for Public Sector until 2014. In this capacity, he developed a long-term track record of sustained, proven performance, delivery excellence and growth. During his 30+ year tenure with IBM, he has held many positions in technology development, system engineering, network architecture, large complex program management, IT infrastructure, application managed services (including global deliver) and executive management since 2002.

He earned both his BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Union College, Schenectady NY in 1984 and has done additional post graduate work in engineering and mathematics at Syracuse University, Syracuse NY.

Mr. Miller is a lifelong resident of upstate NY and has traveled worldwide in support of his clients. He is married to his wife, Lisa and they have four grown children.

Kevin Sherwood has invested more than four decades in helping organizations navigate the rapidly changing technology landscape. That includes reshaping expectations to embrace change, building customer trust across all generations, evolving end-to-end strategies, and elevating the business value unique to each organization. Driven by the passion for aligning organizations with their customers, Kevin launched Helix Business Solutions in 2008. From day one, Kevin has surrounded himself by a talented, innovative team of CX Cloud Pioneers. Together they have worked with 100’s of the world’s most recognizable organizations to deliver on each of their unique brand promises.

Prior to forming Helix, Kevin held executive and information technology positions in several leading organizations, founded and grew a successful consulting services start-up, and served as the CIO of a major commercial and residential services provider. As CIO, he developed and executed the efficient merger and integration of more than 70 disparate businesses into one best-in-class operation.  Most recently, Kevin guided the comprehensive customer relationship management strategy for a $4 billion company that enabled greater sales, client retention, and profits across multiple divisions.

Kevin is a proud native of East Tennessee.  Over the years he has also enjoyed living and working in a few of America’s largest cities.  Today, Kevin, his wife Alicia, and his family enjoy the wild beauty and friendly people of Dillon, Montana.  He realizes the value of his teammates working from any location, but also evangelizes, “in today’s world, you don’t have to leave the place you love to create a successful career in cloud technologies!”.

Shahzad is an accomplished and skilled technology professional with 20+ years of comprehensive Sales and Management Experience. He provides strategic direction to the organization and plays the role of idea initiator for his clients building and maintaining excellent relationship, while captaining a team of ambitious and diligent members in the MEA Region.
                                                           

Prior to joining Speridian Shahzad has exposure of working for big technology firms with a strong track record of Business Development, Design and delivery of large-scale multimillion $ enterprise solutions. He is also experienced in building and leading high-performance teams.
 

Currently, Shahzad is responsible for business development in the Middle East and African markets with a core focus of penetrating the existing markets and introducing the Speridian Cutting Edge solutions and services portfolio to newer unchartered territories in the region.

Shahzad has a Bachelors in Computer Engineering and a Masters in Business Administration, from Karachi Pakistan.

Tariq is a result-oriented technology industry leader and principal, pioneering and managing complex IT solution designs including enterprise level applications. Leveraging 20+ years of requirements analysis and software delivery expertise he drives business development and retention to customer-focused success. 

Tariq oversees Pakistan operations. He provides leadership vision enterprise-wide via decisive and insightful executive leadership, guiding daily operations and policy implementation though strategic thinking and decision-making. Known for seamlessly coordinating and collaborating with internal organizations and third-party partners, Tariq builds and leads high-performance teams to manage, implement, streamline complex IT initiatives using PMI standards. Tariq hold a Bachelor degree in Business Administration (1994), MBA (1996) and MS (2001) from Southern New Hampshire University, USA. He is also an avid outdoorsman and adventurer. 

Amer is responsible for leading sales, delivery, strategic alliances, and operational teams for Speridian Canada. Amer overall has more than 20 years of experience in Information Technology, which includes over six years as an IT entrepreneur. He has launched multiple IT Integration and Consulting start-ups and led them to an aspiring success.

Before joining the executive management of Speridian, Amer led service delivery and system integration teams in IBM and AT&T to successfully deliver complex IT projects in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.  He specializes in Service Delivery, Enterprise Solution Architecture, and Strategic Outsourcing. 

He holds a business degree in Management Information Sciences and has been presented awards for outstanding performance during his illustrious career including Professional Excellence Award by Chairman of Board at IBM.

Rajiv is a dynamic business and technology leader who has over 25 years of technology consulting and operations experience. Rajiv has extensive experience in delivering complex end-to-end solutions in financial services, healthcare, tax and being a progressive leader in digital transformation. As an entrepreneur, Rajiv helped multiple technology consulting firms grow in Europe and the US. Rajiv has spent the last 15 years as a senior technology leader at Fiserv and H&R Block transforming the organization, technology platforms and servicing thousands of financial institutions. 

Rajiv graduated from State University of New York with a degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. He is married with two children and they live in Overland Park, KS.

Scott brings a wealth of experience to Speridian’s industry practices from various horizontals and verticals. He is a strategist and thought-leader who evolves innovative mechanisms to improve Speridian’s forecasting (both revenue as well as a pipeline), staff scheduling, staff development, recruiting, project quality assurance, engagement management, invoicing/receivables with other Profit and Loss responsibilities, and partner relationship management. He also handles the analysis of existing systems and processes, and futuristic enhancement strategies.

As our practice leader, Scott is responsible for business development activities including lead qualification, proposal development, client engagement and expansion of existing customer relationships.

Brendan Neary has 23 years of Microsoft Software industry experience aligning business strategy to information technology investment combined with a high level of sales, marketing, and business management achievement.

He is an Operational Leader with a solid history of envisioning and implementing Services delivery innovations resulting in accelerated revenue growth at increased margins and demonstrable customer satisfaction across diverse industries, In addition, Brendan is a seasoned sales professional with proven results in Microsoft software, consulting and support services. Brendan is skilled at training sales people to be “exceptional hunters” with effective calling, prospect database mining, establishing credibility, trust and rapport with a customer in order to orchestrate the sales process and close highly complex sales.

Brendan is practiced at managing a marketing staff to develop and execute corporate branding, marketing campaigns, and sales promotions. He is obsessed with creating unique and innovative offers that drive not an only new business but retain existing customers.

Roy is the Vice President of Digital Solutions at Speridian Technologies. In this role, Roy sets the strategic direction of the business unit, promotes Speridian’s client-first culture and focuses on creating sustainable growth by bringing together the industry’s leading technology trends, capabilities, solutions, partnerships, and subject matter expertise into a single integrated unit. Roy is an experienced technology executive with 22 years in consulting, with a proven track record of building business and driving inside driven digital transformation through focused execution.

Prior to Speridian, Roy was the Client Partner for Life Sciences at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). He joined TCS from CloudVirga, a digital mortgage start up, where he served as Vice President of Customer Success from 2017 to 2019. Before joining CloudVirga, Roy spent 16 years at Cognizant in a variety of leadership positions in business management and technology consulting, including most recently as the Director, Cluster Head of Consumer Lending, North America West Coast.

Beyond his practical vision on business modernization Roy works closely with Speridian clients to gain business advantage from large-scale digital transformation programs. He serves on the Board of JUAA-SoCal, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, which he cofounded to promote education within under privileged students in India. 

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Jadavpur University, India.

Ajith has 18 years of experience leading large scale system implementations and has been a core member of the Speridian team since 2005. He has vast experience and in-depth knowledge in Customer Relationship Management systems, Omni Channel Call Centers, Master Data Management and Case Management systems. As an Enterprise Architect, he has designed solutions for the Public Sector, Financial Services, Healthcare and Consumer goods industries.

Since 2013, Ajith has been a linchpin for Speridian’ s Public Sector Health & Human Services team, leading the implementation teams in Hawaii, Vermont, Arizona and Florida to great success.  He is also a technology expert in SaaS, PaaS and IaaS platforms such as Oracle, Microsoft, Google and Red hat. Ajith has spearheaded the design, development and implementation of many large enterprise modernization projects and green field implementations. As VP of Enterprise Solutions, Ajith is focused on architecting enterprise solutions and innovative products that help Speridian customers to achieve their goals. He holds a Master’s degree in Computer Applications and has several technology certifications.