Management Team

Mr. Gopi Kumar Bulusu
Chief Executive Officer

Gopi Kumar Bulusu is the CEO at Sankhya Technologies Private Limited. He is an acknowledged expert in the areas of distributed computing and embedded systems. His team received the Lockheed Martin India Innovation award in the year 2008 and the DST-Lockheed Martin Innovation award during 2009. He holds 4 granted US patents in addition to several pending patent applications.

Gopi Bulusu is a regular speaker at industry and academic events on a wide range of topics. Gopi is an active member of the NASSCOM Emerge Forum and IEEE; and a member on the editorial advisory board, EETimes India. His key interests are in the area of creating innovative platforms that bring the power and efficiency of architectural model driven solutions to IT system designers and business users.

Gopi Bulusu is a founder member of Sankhya Technologies as a garage startup in the year 1996. Prior to 1996, he was a senior software engineer in the embedded software division of Mentor Graphics Corporation, where he was a member of a core team that created one of the industry's first C++ compilers for Motorola 68k processors. Gopi's work at Mentor resulted in 2 US patents.

He holds a Masters in Computer Science from Arizona State Univesity (1992-93)and a Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering from College of Engineering,Guindy (1990).

Mr. Murali Desikan
Architect and Solution Manager, System Software Solutions

Murali Desikan joined Sankhya Technologies in 1996 and has successfully led and managed several compiler and debugger projects at Sankhya. As an Architect and Solution Manager of System Software Solutions, Murali leads a team of engineers working on parsers, compilers, simulators and debuggers. Murali holds a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science from Madras University.

Mr. Murali Manohar Rao Bulusu
General Manager and Director of Marketing

Murali Bulusu is the General Manager and Director of Marketing at Sankhya. He is also the head of Sankhya's business solutions group, which offers process driven solutions like document management, order-to-cash and procure-to-pay to manufacturing and services industries.

Murali joined Sankhya in 2000 as General Manager and Director of Strategic Alliances. As director of strategic alliances, Murali has worked on establishing several key partnerships with leading RTOS vendors. Previously, Murali was a senior financial analyst with a leading National Stock Exchange Member.

Murali actively contributes to VITA (Vizag Information Technology Association), NASSCOM and various government and industry initiatives. Murali holds a Masters Degree in Econometrics from Madras University and an MBA in Finance from Institute for Financial Management & Research, Chennai.

Mr. B V Prasad
Member, Advisory Board

Mr. B.V. Prasad is a member of the advisory board at Sankhya Technologies since April 2009.

Prior to that, Mr. Prasad served as the Chief Financial Officer of Sankhya Technologies Private Limited. Prior to joining Sankhya Technologies in 1997, Prasad worked in the Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance (Government of India). Prasad is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and holds an MBA in Finance.

Mr. BhaaRathe M
Director of Business Development

BhaaRathe joined Sankhya Technologies as Director of Business Development in January 2011 and heads Sankhya's Bangalore Business Development office. BhaaRathe is focused on system level design automation for Automotive, Defence and Space Electronics. Prior to joining Sankhya, BhaaRathe was head of ODC for Renesas(REC) at KPIT Cummins, Bangalore. His responsibilities included Delivery Management for VLSI in consumer and automotive applications. Before that, Bhaarathe was the senior manager for Thomson Multimedia ASIC group. Prior to that, Bhaarathe served as a Senior Scientist at ISRO.