Meet the Team
Excellence at TSP is driven by passion and expertise of our talented team, committed to refining both people and processes to create lasting value for enterprises.
Ravi Chowdhury
CEO
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Ravi started his entrepreneurial journey at the age of 19. He setup a dot com company in early 2000s – a performance based loyalty program for users in India & US and achieved over 10-million user base and over million dollars in sales within a year.
His next venture was a Sales & Marketing Services company for Technology clients. He then spent over 15 years with large IT setups like Rapidigm, Fujitsu Consulting, Sparta Consulting & KPIT where he was always involved with intrapreneurial initiatives, setting-up newer business lines & geographies for these large corporations.
Ravi is passionate about trying new things and being involved in a high-pace environment. His love for Technology, People and Growth has kept him absorbed in the Services Business for almost two decades.
Pankaj Banka
COO
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With over 18 years of global IT experience, Pankaj has led multi million dollar SAP projects across the globe.
Prior to joining TSP, Pankaj was the Practice Director for the Global Application Management and Transformation Practice at KPIT where he was responsible for delivery for all SAP AMTS projects. Apart from the AMTS leadership role, he was very instrumental in leading the Enterprise Tools and Accelerators team in building tools around Robotic Process Automation for SAP Business Processes.
Pankaj lives in Folsom, CA with his wife and two kids and enjoys playing Cricket and is actively involved with his son’s cub scouts troop.
Scott Parrish
CFO
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Senior Level Executive with extensive experience building teams and managing corporate support functions for tech companies with global operations.
Specialties:
Mergers and Acquisitions
Financial & Strategic Planning
Budget Development & Management
Global Business Expansion
Sandeep Mathur
EVP and Head of Delivery
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Sandeep has over 20 years of experience in IT Consulting, SAP Practice, Business Development, Digital Transformation and Large-scale Program Management. Prior to joining TSP, he had been responsible for managing Key Accounts, SAP Practice development – New technologies, IPs and Solution Development, SAP Alliance collaboration, implementing Go-to-Market programs, lead pursuits and deliver SAP S/4HANA projects.
Key specialties include:
- Go-To-Market Strategies
- SAP Practice Development
- SAP S/4HANA – Greenfield Implementations and Brownfield Migrations
- SAP S/4HANA Cloud – Single tenant & Multi-tenant
- Strategic Account Management
- Delivery Excellence in 12+ SAP / S/4HANA Global Implementations
- Design Thinking and Value Roadmap
Chris York
SVP, SAP Delivery
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A Global leader with extensive experience in delivering complex business and IT transformations, mergers, and acquisitions. Possessing a keen ability to improve business agility and drive market share gains by leveraging technology to create a competitive advantage. Harnessing the unique ability to design strategic solutions and translate them into effective implementations. Effective at building trust and consensus to achieve high performance. Intense focus on delivering customer value in all pursuits.
Jitender Kalra
SVP and Head of Resourcing
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Jitender heads the consulting operations of TSP. He is a result-driven Talent Acquisition Leader with over 15 years of progressive experience, strong business acumen, ability to influence, critical and creative thinking, and contagious enthusiasm
- Extensive experience in Talent Acquisition, providing thought leadership and working with Executive Management to define strategies and delivery.
- Specialises in relationship building with clients as well as Candidates, Vendor Management, Process Management, Metrics, Behavioral Interviewing, Managing Multiple Projects Successfully.
- Extensive Global Recruiting experience in the Americas, APAC region, and Europe.
Brandon Gordon
SVP, Sales - ROC
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An accomplished, awarded, and tenured business, consulting, marketing, and sales executive with over twenty-five years of experience leading and developing successful technology services businesses. Known for strategic leadership and ability to build strong teams within highly competitive and disruptive sales and marketing environments, driving aggressive growth while implementing streamlined processes, methodologies, and management best practices. Extensive experience building and leading global teams charged with aggressive revenue and profit goals.
Matt Olive
SVP, Sales - West
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Sales leader and Senior Vice President of Sales at TSP, responsible for the strategic vision, execution and continued growth of TSP’s strategic lines of business. Leads the sales organization that takes to market TSP’s services of SAP, Cloud ERP, RPA and other consulting services.
Matt’s experience and focus has demonstrated to do well in both high-growth entrepreneurial environments as well as large, market-leading companies. For the past 15 years Matt has been focused on driving high-growth sales in the complex technology market. Matt helped clients in solving difficult business problems through benefits-led consulting, managed services and outsourcing.
Matt enjoys the working relationships with clients and strives to offer the best solutions to their organizations that will have a positive outcome and improve business.
David McDanniel
SVP of Alliance
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David heads the sales department of The Silicon Partners. Prior to joining TSP, David was the Vice President, SAP Alliance at KPIT.
David was directly responsible for complete ownership of establishing and growing KPIT SAP partner program and relationships supporting strategic objectives and revenue goals for all technology areas and focused industries. He served as liaison between SAP and KPIT Field Sales and Marketing teams to drive sales momentum via industry and offering focused account planning, multi-touch sales plays and campaigns.
Key expertise:
- SuccessFactors Consulting Partner – 800+ Projects Delivered
- SAP Hybris Gold Regional Partner
- SAP Medallion Partner (one of 14 strategic partners selected)
- SAP Hybris Delivery Partner of the Year, Americas
Bruno Silva
SVP, LATAM
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Bruno is a Senior executive with verifiable year-after-year success achieving revenue, profit, and business growth objectives within start-up, turnaround, and rapid-change environments. Extensive experience with highly engineered systems, which require a deep understanding of critical business drivers in multiple markets and industries; highly successful in building relationships with upper-level decision makers, seizing control of critical problem areas, and delivering on customer commitments. Customer-focused and performance-driven.
Bruno is helping companies and people to achieve their highest performance, through business technologies and benchmarks. Now, as SVP of TSP’s SAP Latin American Unit, he is responsible for LAC and North America operation and business development operations, including market competitiveness, alliances, compensation, and channel strategy.
With more than 15 years of experience in the SAP Market, Bruno had participated in several big projects bring his knowledge and expertise to clients such as British Petroleum, Volkswagen, Bunge, Anglo American, and others.
Martin SooHoo
SVP of Global Marketing and Communications
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Martin is a Partner and Head of Global Marketing and Communications at The Silicon Partners. Martin have over 25 years experience in the IT industry and has led sales and delivery teams on successful implementations. He now leads TSP in promoting better brand recognition, building marketing plans with the sales teams for effective outreach campaigns and strategically aligning with key partners to help TSP deliver innovative solutions to help enterprises transform their businesses.
Amit Tiwari
SVP, Automation
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Enthusiastic technology leader, helping enterprises in Digital Transformation and Business Transformation journey with Agentic AI, SAP and Automation.
A Digital Technology Evangelist helping organizations with best strategy to achieve the Agentic AI, Intelligent automation and digital modernization at enterprise level by utilizing emerging digital technologies like Agentic AI, Automation, AL/ML, Full Stack and Cloud.
John Strobel
SVP, SAP Practice
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Certified SAP Consultant in C/4 HANA and S/4 HANA solutions, specializing in the Customer Experience LOB (Lead-to-Cash, SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management (BRIM), and Subscription Order Management business models). I help organizations create unique and intelligent customer experiences, rapidly transform business models that adjust to changing markets and integrate front and back office systems to meet future digital customer demands.
Lionel Pieterse
SVP, SAP Practice
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Specialties: Retail, Apparel & Footwear Fashion Companies
Gaurav Arora
VP, SAP Practice
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15+ years in the field of SAP Consulting, Practice Management, Global Pre-sales, Account Management and POC in SAP ERP and S4HANA
– Excellent functional knowledge in Project Systems,PPM, Production Planning and Controlling functions.
Ajay Sharma
SVP, Operations
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Experienced Operations & Talent Leader with a track record of driving business transformation, operational efficiency, and workforce strategy. Proven ability to streamline operations, strategic planning, process improvement, optimize financial performance and build high-impact teams.
Divakar Shenoy
VP, Finance
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Accomplished strategic leader, planner, and business developer with 25+ years of combined experience contributing millions of dollars to corporate bottom line through expert cultivation of strategic partnerships, competitive markets in Canada, USA and India.
Saurabh Mishra
Head, India Delivery
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A certified SAP consultant, having 18 + years of experience in SAP from R/3 & ECC World to S/4 & Cloud technologies and played various roles and responsibilities viz. from Project Management, Solutions Architect Roles to part of a Global IT Team where managing an offshore team from Delivery perspective, from Client facing skills for optimum solution / Pre-Sales activities.
Sol Barrera
VP, HCM
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Consulting Director responsible for HCM projects including, among other, implementations of SAP SuccessFactors, SAP WorkForce Software and Qualtrics. Driving innovation and partnering strategically with clients on their digital transformation journeys. 15+ years in the software consulting industry including 9 years in the SuccessFactors ecosystem. Past experience in Human Resources management covering all functional areas and global operations. Experience managing teams in the Americas and Asia
Rohit Bhatia
Practice Head, Digital
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Experienced Consultant with a demonstrated history of more than 10 years working in the information technology and Financial Banking Domain for various banks in Switzerland. Skilled in Java, JSF, Hibernate, Oracle Database, Requirements Analysis, Agile Methodologies, PL/SQL, and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Strong consulting professional with a Engineer’s Degree focused in Information Technology from Manipal Institute of Technology, Sikkim
Lokesh Sikaria
Moneta Ventures and TSP Board Member
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Lokesh is an advisor to the board of The Silicon Partners and the Founding Partner and Managing Director at Moneta Ventures. Lokesh was the Founder of Sparta Consulting Inc. and served as its Chief Executive Officer. He served as the Co-Chairman and Key Principal of Sparta Consulting Inc. He served as Joint Head of SAP strategic Business Unit at KPIT Technologies Limited (formerly, KPIT Cummins Infosystems Ltd). He was responsible for cultivating its SAP Practice
Denise Ferre
Moneta Ventures and TSP Board Member
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Denise Ferre is an advisor to the board of The Silicon Partners. Prior to joining Moneta Ventures, Denise was the CFO and co-founder at Sparta Consulting, a global IT consulting firm. She spearheaded the financial operations of the $100+ million company with over 1,500 employees. Besides the financial operations, Denise was also responsible for HR, IT and legal departments at Sparta . Before Sparta, Denise was the Business Unit Controller at Rapidgm, a global IT consulting firm, and later assumed the role of U.S. Controller when the firm was acquired by Fujitsu in 2006. Denise has a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration and Accounting
Garrett Marsilio
Delta-v and TSP Board Member
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Chris Mellon
Advisor to the Board
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Successful C-suite executive, board member, and CPA with over 27 years of leadership experience. Strategically engineered the growth of a family-owned regional $300 million broadliner to a top ten domestic foodservice distributor with $3.8 billion in revenue. Over three decades of leadership experience in various industries, including wholesale distribution, banking, consulting and advisory services, formation and sale of SaaS entities, and public accounting.
Currently, the President of Baker Beyea (pronounced Bee-A). Baker Beyea offers advisory and consulting services in various industries, focusing on privately held and family-owned businesses. Services include executive leadership coaching, planning and executing revenue growth initiatives, gross margin enhancement, identifying and implementing cost efficiency strategies, process automation, working capital management improvement, human capital engineering, capital raises, and buy/sell transactions. Actively managing a portfolio of investments in flex space, digital marketing, e-learning, environmentally friendly disposable cutlery, and minor league baseball. Board member for the third-largest domestic dental distributor and advisory board member for two early-stage technology companies.
Nazir Ahmed
Advisor to the Board
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Nazir is a business executive with a long track record of success and a wide network of relationships in the IT industry. Nazir was the founder of Logic Point Inc. and served as its President and Chief Executive Officer. Under his leadership, Logic Point became one of the first partners of SAP-America in the utility industry. Nazir is also a seasoned SAP architect who led one of the first Industry Solution for Utilities projects in North America to success. His commitment to meeting client-needs as well as his transparency and integrity have been recognized by clients and peers alike. With over 25 years of experience helping clients achieve their goals, Nazir has put together many winning teams in US, Canada and the Middle East. Nazir has received several awards and accolades from various clients for his outstanding leadership. Nazir has a Bachelor’s Degree in Business and a Master’s Degree in Finance.
Chris McClain
Advisor to the Board
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Chris has 30+ years of experience in enterprise software leadership and he believes that hiring the best, earning a customer’s trust, and having a positive outlook are the top three keys to success in building a “built-to-last” company.
Most recently, Chris was the President and founding team member of Ridgeline, an Enterprise Investment Management Software company founded by Dave Duffield. Chris has held senior positions at SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle, Siebel Systems, and DocuSign. Chris is an active Board Member and Advisor to a number of Enterprise SaaS companies where he brings significant operational experience.
Michael Wang
Advisor to the Board
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Global High-Tech Digital Transformation Leader
• Transformative and results-driven digital business leader with international expertise in partnering with the business to deliver digital transformation via innovative, value-added technology initiatives with measurable benefits and returns.
• Extensive experience in leading digital transformation initiatives delivering strategy, processes and platforms to enable and accelerate new business models and customer experiences.
Kimberly Kit
Delta-v and TSP Board Member
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Investor with Delta-v Capital in Dallas, TX. Focused on growth investments for private technology businesses.