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Srinivas (Vasu) Netrakanti – CEO
Vasu is a pioneer in creating software solutions for scheduling and sequencing problems. Before he founded Optessa, Vasu was a co-founder and the CTO of TigrSoft Inc. He also participated in taking the company public on the Toronto Stock Exchange in 1998. He left TigrSoft in late 2000 after its acquisition by Matrikon Inc. Vasu holds an M.B.A. from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India and a B.Sc. from University of Poona, Pune, India.
Ashok Erramilli – President, Optessa USA
Ashok brings to Optessa over twenty years of experience in devising optimal solutions to engineering and business problems. Ashok has developed algorithms that have been implemented in a number of commercially successful products in the areas of optimization, sequencing and scheduling. Ashok has been a consultant to many North American and European engineering and networking corporations. He was a Research Manager at Bellcore (now Telcordia) for many years. He has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Yale University.
Vidya Netrakanti – Director, Finance and Administration
Vidya is an early investor in Optessa and has setup and managed the finance function from the company's inception. Vidya holds a Masters degree in English Language from the University of Edinburgh, UK and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Poona, Pune, India.
Erwin Paes – Director, Delivery and Execution
Erwin has over 10 years of experience in designing, developing and implementing resource allocation, planning and scheduling solutions for the manufacturing industry. He has carried out significant research and development in the fields of Operations Research and Artificial Intelligence particularly in the use of Linear Programming, Constraint Programming and Search Heuristics for real world problems. Erwin holds an M. Tech. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the Indian Institute of Technology (Bombay), Mumbai, India and a B. E. in Mechanical Engineering from Goa University, Goa, India.
Bradley (Brad) Baynes – Director, Software Development
Brad has over fourteen years of experience in software development and implementation as well as project management. For the past nine years Brad has worked in the area of manufacturing scheduling and sequencing software. He has extensive experience with the design and development of scheduling algorithms and graphical interfaces for scheduling. His more recent experience also includes several years of working with web-based software solutions. He has successfully implemented software projects in Canada, USA and the UK. Brad has a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and an M.B.A. from the University of Alberta.
Shay Sidner – Business Development Manager
Shay has over 10 years of experience in manufacturing planning, scheduling, and business operations. Through her past experience working in manufacturing environments, Shay has become an expert in defining business processes that support Order to Delivery execution, specifically related to Demand Planning, Manufacturing Scheduling, and Line Control solutions. This gives her the unique ability to connect Optessa functions to business needs. Shay received her B.A. from Jacksonville State University.
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