Board of Directors
Dr. Rudra Pratap, an acknowledged expert in the areas of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), computational mechanics, and non-linear dynamics, is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Dr. Pratap is the Chairman of Cranes Software International Ltd., heads Cranes Software's MEMS Research initiative and also plays the role of Chief Scientific Advisor. He has a B.Tech. from IIT Kharagpur, an M.S. from the University of Arizona and a Ph.D. from Cornell University.
Mr. Asif Khader, is a proven entrepreneur, Cranes Software's growing popularity & profitability is a robust example of his skills. Equally at ease with business and technology mechanics, Asif has led Cranes Software's metamorphosis from a marketing-led organization to a leading global player in the scientific and engineering software domain.
Asif has been instrumental in creating and enhancing Cranes Software's successful relationships with leading global organizations as well as its focus on investing in future technologies.
Today, Cranes Software has been recognized as the 'Technology Leader' by Scientific Computing and Instrumentation, USA for two consecutive years apart from being ranked by Deloitte Touche as the fastest growing technology company in 2003 & 2004.
Personal humility, infectious enthusiasm and a sharp sense of opportunity are few of Asif's notable traits. A true leader, Asif continues to motivate his employees and build enduring greatness into the organization. He continues to focus on building the organization, increasing shareholder value and creating strategic relationships.
Asif has a B.E. in computer engineering and has an additional degree in statistics.
Mr. Mukkaram Jan, one of the two founding partners of Cranes Software International Ltd. and a Director on board. Mr. Jan belongs to a leading business family in Bangalore. He is a Commerce Graduate from one of the most reputed institutions in the city.
Mr. Richard Gall has a BS in electrical engineering from Purdue and an MBA. He is an inveterate process man and his special assignments included Malcolm Baldridge Award initiative, design of process for concurrent engineering when at TI. He has had grounding in Six Sigma at the Motorola Institute as a TI member. He brings global marketing savvy, relationships in several Fortune 500 companies that run for decades and irrepressible process rigour to his job.
Richard Gall will see Cranes foray into the American market oversee business development in Europe and Japan. Gall is a veteran of technology industry.
He handled Product development and Program Management in TI for two decades. His tour of duty at TI included a two-year stint at TI India as its MD. He raised the 500 engineer TI Development Center ground up in Bangalore. Later he was with defense contractors Raytheon in west Asia. He has also served as Technical Director of the Parametric Technology Inc. R&D Center in Pune, India, and is a past Chairman of the Karnataka Branch of the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Ronald Brown, graduated with a Chemical Engineering degree from Purdue University in 1975. In the years that followed, Ron gained broad practical experience at the 3M research center in St.Paul, Minnesota, at Eastman Kodak's film manufacturing center in Rochester, New York, and in Silicon Valley positions that included Burroughs, Dysan, and Duke Scientific.
In 1988, Ron founded AISN Software to pursue his vision for analytical software for scientists and engineers. Over the course of the years that followed, his company authored the TableCurve 2D, TableCurve 3D, PeakFit, and AutoSignal products. These were marketed for AISN first by Jandel Scientific and then by SPSS, the major statistical software company.
There are now tens of thousands of copies of Ron's products in general use. The AISN products are considered software standards for exploratory curve and surface-fitting and for modeling hidden peaks in chromatographic and spectral data. Ron has remained the visionary for these products and for new collaborative ventures as he continues to assist Systat Software, Inc in the role of Chief Software architect. Ron also continues as president of AISN, overseeing the continuing development of the AutoSignal product.
Mr. Mueed Khader is an intrinsic part of Cranes Software's executive management team as well as a member of our Board of Directors. He plays the role of Director and is responsible for the overall strategic decision-making at Cranes Software.
Mr. Mirza Yawar Baig, brings with him extensive experience in managerial and organizational development and training people across all levels of the corporate structure. Currently he is associated as a consultant to the faculties of several institutions in the U.S. and India, including the American Management Association, New York and IIM Bangalore, as also the U.S.-based corporate training institutions run by GE, Oracle amongst others.
Yawar holds consultant faculty memberships at key corporate & educational institutions in India & abroad. Some of them include GE Corporate Leadership Development, Crotonville, Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore & Osmania University, Hyderabad.
Yawar has various accreditations & publications to his credit, key accreditations include an Executive MBA from IIM - Ahmedabad, P_CMM Certification Program from TeraQuest & Carnegie Meion University, Austin, TX, USA & Advance Applications of MBTI© in Change & Leadership from CPP & Manasayam, New Delhi, India
He has trained corporates of the likes of GE Medical Systems, South Asia, Digital -Compaq, Talisma Corporation, USA, Praxiar, Motorola, Aditi Technologies, IBM India, Bangalore Labs, Microsoft and other companies on subjects ranging from Corporate Leadership Development, Performance Coaching Skills, Present Your Way to the Top, Outdoor Challenge Training etc.,
Yawar has acquired valuable cross-cultural exposure to working with business executives, government officials, engineers and international staff from multiple nationalities on 3 continents. He has developed a reputation for dealing effectively with people across boundaries of culture, function and nationality. Yawar's Personal style reflects openness, competence, and value based professionalism.
Mr. Ajay Singh, a B.Tech. from IIT Delhi, an MBA from Cornell University, a law degree from the University of Delhi and a stint in the corporate world, Ajay embarked on a career in public administration that has seen him associated with several key government agencies. Ajay is currently an Advisor to the Minister of Communications and Information Technology and part of the Government of India’s IT policy think tank. CSIL turns to him for his guidance on its long-term business strategies and direction.
He has served Government of India in various capacities. He has worked as Director of the Delhi Transport Corporation. He has also worked as Consultant to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and recently, as Advisor to the Minister of Communications and Information Technology. He is a member of the "National Mission for a technology-enhanced Justice System in India".
He has also worked in the private sector as Chief Executive Officer of SpaceAge Internet Limited, a company providing broadband solutions.
Dr. Peter Ryser, a Swiss citizen, is currently a Professor of Microtechnology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. In his current assignment, since 1998, he has been involved in research activities in the areas of Microsystems packaging, thick film technology and conception of high volume micro-engineered products.
In his previous assignment, at Siemens Building Technologies, he was the Director of the company’s multi-disciplinary research group and special product development in the fields of electronic design, wireless data communication, materials engineering, sensor technologies, video technologies, patents and homologations administration. During his stint at Siemens Building Technologies, he was responsible for product innovation and patents for the entire Siemens group for a period of five years to 1998, thus overseeing activities involving an annual allocation of about US$ 1 billion.
Dr. Ryser has a Ph.D. in applied Physics from the University of Geneva and also holds a Masters degree in experimental Physics and an MBA. Overall, he has more than three decades of research and teaching experience spanning across corporate and academic institutions.
Dr. Manju Bansal, one of India's foremost computational biologists, she is a Director at the Institute of Bio-informatics and Applied Biotechnology, Bangalore, and a Professor in the Molecular Biophysics Unit at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
She brings with her 27 years of outstanding experience in her areas of specialization, which is contributing significantly to the ongoing development initiatives on the Sigma product line. Sigma is focused on the requirements of research scientists and engineers in a range of fields including life sciences, environmental sciences, medical research chemistry and engineering and has an extensive base of worldwide users in these areas.
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