About

Ramesh Santhanam is an accomplished entrepreneur and social catalyst with over 37 years of experience in creating and managing successful global IT service organizations. He has a strong background in business generation, creating high-technology teams, forming useful partnerships, and managing key accounts in three continents. He has also established marketing subsidiaries/bases in the USA and Europe, built a global network of marketing associates and partners, and developed a high-technology infrastructure to handle projects and services. Ramesh is a seasoned entrepreneur who has founded multiple companies, built them from scratch, and incubated ventures. He has a unique ability to conceive mobile technology that can be applied in a number of vertical domains and has built a generic framework to extend applications to day-to-day devices like mobile phones, PDAs, Instant Messengers, set-top boxes, and gaming consoles. He specializes in creating and marketing concepts, building technical teams, and managing various resources to deliver technology products, application solutions, and services. He also creates networks of partners, associates, consultants, or vendors. Apart from his entrepreneurial skills, Ramesh is also a social catalyst who has been working on education, training, and empowerment of children and women from impoverished communities since 2004. He is the Managing Trustee of Paadhai, a non-profit NGO that focuses on education, training, and women empowerment projects. He is actively involved in project management and implementation activities in rural and tribal parts of India. Paadhai has created supplementary education centers for children, supported villages with Community Based Rehabilitation efforts, created content to be used in schools, and supported microcredit programs for women in DALIT (Underprivileged) villages in Southern India. Ramesh has a PhD in PPC System Design from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and a PGDIM in Industrial Management and Computers from IISc. He also has a BE in Industrial Engineering from Madurai Kamaraj University. His relevant technical skills include mobile and infra. Ramesh is a visionary leader who has made significant contributions to the technology and social welfare sectors.