Our team comprises of highly focused individuals with valuable experience across industries. They bring functional expertise and leadership style to accomplish a single goal – Customer delight!
Dr. Krishna G V GiriChairman & CEO
Krishna is the Chairman & CEO at Adrenalin. He is also the Co-founder of Zolog Marketplace and also the Principal Advisor to the Chairman, Intellect Design Arena Ltd.
Krishna has led up to billion dollar transformational projects which was part of fabric of the nation , worked both in the private and public sectors across the globe and has been at the helm of P/L’s across Asia Pacific and India. Krishna was former Vice Chairman and Managing Partner of Accenture India and Asia Pacific - Health and Public Service, worked with IBM GBS- Singapore , Mitchell Madison Group - San Francisco and Andersen Consulting- Chicago. Krishna is a Graduate of Fletcher school of law and diplomacy - Tufts University. Krishna has been conferred with Doctorate - ‘D.Litt.’ (Doctor of Letters) by Dr. M G R University.
He has also worked on Public policy and Polity Consulting providing over archiving strategy, Digital campaigns, and its win themes.He is a strategist with clear focus on delivering technology to solve business problems, enable new business channels, and transform organizations.
Krishna has adopted a few villages to bring sanitation, education and Healthcare.
Johar AhmadHead Global Delivery
Johar comes on board with 25+ years of consulting experience leading successful technology consulting, strategic change, business transformation, systems integration and customer programs for a range of industry-leading companies across several sectors.
At Adrenalin, Johar would be supporting by instituting best practices for Delivery Excellence and Quality Assurance across the Geos. He will be collaborating with key Delivery Stake holders across SouthAsia, MEA & APAC on business transformation for achieving revenue growth and sustain innovation in the Delivery.
During these 25+ years of tenure, Johar served many top notch IT organizations and held various positions from Project Director, Quality Assurance Partner to Associate Partner levels at IBM and Accenture. His last assignment was with Deloitte Consulting Malaysia Sdn Bhd as Director.
He speaks English & Malay. Johar loves playing Golf in his free time.
Asif MohammedSenior Vice President & Chief Information Officer
Asif is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Adrenalin. As CIO he oversees the technology services division of Adrenalin and is responsible for driving the organization's digital transformation strategy and implementation of the latest technologies.
Asif has been associated with Adrenalin since its inception in 2002, and as core team member for Adrenalin, his expertise was reflected in forming & managing teams with a pro-active contribution on the techno-creative front. With over 20+ years of his experience in Information Technology industry a significant part has been with building relationship and supporting customer from across industries.
Asif additionally heads the Adrenalin’s services delivery function for the Middle East & Africa region, with a focus of creating customer success stories with Adrenalin product implementation.
Asif loves running to attain his fitness goals, finds running a great way to unwind.
Gautam BanerjeeSenior Vice President & Business Head - South Asia
Gautam is a customer-focused articulate individual with strong time management skills. He has nearly three decades of successful domestic and international Sales & Marketing experience, which includes executive level accountability for P&L, Budgeting, Cost Control, Strategic Partnering, Business Development, Team Building and OEM relationships.
Starting with Xerox Corporation, followed by Akay Industries, his experience covers the field of Office Automation, Engineering Equipment & FMCG products.
Gautam is multi-linguist and an avid swimmer.
Venkatachalam SubramaniamSenior Vice President & Business Head – APAC, Middle East & Africa
Venkat comes with a unique blend of business, technology and customer-centric consultative approach with a global work experience. He has in-depth knowledge and experience in delivering Multi-Country Solutions to derive numerous business benefits like standardizing process, setting up the best business practices and aligning workforces. All of this reflects by the fact that huge conglomerates entrust their Technology & Business Transformation to him almost after their first meet!
Venkat a Marathoner, likes to Travel and listens to all forms of Music.
Sridhar PalaniProduct Head
Sridhar, a great solutions architect with over 24 years of experience in the IT industry, takes pride in being extremely process oriented, almost to a fault. Working on many cutting-edge products and software services, he has been with Adrenalin from our early days.
He has applied his keen innovative mind to various designations in Adrenalin like Database Solutions Architect and Product Support before assuming the charge of Product Development Head.
With his process oriented nature, he has played a key role in implementing Adrenalin mega-sized enterprises spread across more than 65 countries. He has leveraged his vast experience to gain a deep understanding of client’s needs and product delivery process.
Shanmugham NChief Financial Officer
Shanmugham plays a key role in Treasury Management and Corporate Governance at Adrenalin.
He seamlessly handles Financial work, including legal contracts, commercial agreements, taxation matters and liaising role with bankers, lawyers and auditors. A Fellow Member of ICAI and ICSI, he has a rich experience in raising funds, through private equities and IPO, and has played an instrumental role in introducing Management Policies and Migration of Accounts into ERP accounting solutions.
Priyanka GulatiFinancial Advisor
Priyanka is a consultant for strategy and finance for Adrenalin.
Chartered Accountant & a bachelor's degree in commerce from Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) she is a highly skilled professional with proven record of delivering success, with over 16 years of rich experience across tier 1 consulting firms Accenture Management Consulting and Deloitte. She has assisted the CEO& CFO in strategic business development consolidation, corporate restructuring, annual business planning and risk management. Her project portfolio spans geographies like India, UK, South Asia and Africa, leading transformation effort in various industries.
With a strong financial background, she has also acted as CFO for various companies to set up financial processes and transform companies with various business agenda, like post-merger strategies and financial roadmap, PMO for financial restructuring through executive training and sessions on finance with over 1500 execs across multinationals, she has played a key role in product, process, and strategy for various companies.
Dr. Krishna G V GiriChairman & CEOView Profile
Krishna is the Chairman & CEO at Adrenalin. He is also the Co-founder of Zolog Marketplace and also the Principal Advisor to the Chairman, Intellect Design Arena Ltd.
Krishna has led up to billion dollar transformational projects which was part of fabric of the nation , worked both in the private and public sectors across the globe and has been at the helm of P/L’s across Asia Pacific and India. Krishna was former Vice Chairman and Managing Partner of Accenture India and Asia Pacific - Health and Public Service, worked with IBM GBS- Singapore , Mitchell Madison Group - San Francisco and Andersen Consulting- Chicago. Krishna is a Graduate of Fletcher school of law and diplomacy - Tufts University. Krishna has been conferred with Doctorate - ‘D.Litt.’ (Doctor of Letters) by Dr. M G R University.
He has also worked on Public policy and Polity Consulting providing over archiving strategy, Digital campaigns, and its win themes.He is a strategist with clear focus on delivering technology to solve business problems, enable new business channels, and transform organizations.
Krishna has adopted a few villages to bring sanitation, education and Healthcare.
Johar AhmadHead Global DeliveryView Profile
Johar comes on board with 25+ years of consulting experience leading successful technology consulting, strategic change, business transformation, systems integration and customer programs for a range of industry-leading companies across several sectors.
At Adrenalin, Johar would be supporting by instituting best practices for Delivery Excellence and Quality Assurance across the Geos. He will be collaborating with key Delivery Stake holders across SouthAsia, MEA & APAC on business transformation for achieving revenue growth and sustain innovation in the Delivery.
During these 25+ years of tenure, Johar served many top notch IT organizations and held various positions from Project Director, Quality Assurance Partner to Associate Partner levels at IBM and Accenture. His last assignment was with Deloitte Consulting Malaysia Sdn Bhd as Director.
He speaks English & Malay. Johar loves playing Golf in his free time.
Asif MohammedSenior Vice President & Chief Information OfficerView Profile
Asif is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Adrenalin. As CIO he oversees the technology services division of Adrenalin and is responsible for driving the organization's digital transformation strategy and implementation of the latest technologies.
Asif has been associated with Adrenalin since its inception in 2002, and as core team member for Adrenalin, his expertise was reflected in forming & managing teams with a pro-active contribution on the techno-creative front. With over 20+ years of his experience in Information Technology industry a significant part has been with building relationship and supporting customer from across industries.
Asif additionally heads the Adrenalin’s services delivery function for the Middle East & Africa region, with a focus of creating customer success stories with Adrenalin product implementation.
Asif loves running to attain his fitness goals, finds running a great way to unwind.
Gautam BanerjeeSenior Vice President & Business Head - South AsiaView Profile
Gautam is a customer-focused articulate individual with strong time management skills. He has nearly three decades of successful domestic and international Sales & Marketing experience, which includes executive level accountability for P&L, Budgeting, Cost Control, Strategic Partnering, Business Development, Team Building and OEM relationships.
Starting with Xerox Corporation, followed by Akay Industries, his experience covers the field of Office Automation, Engineering Equipment & FMCG products.
Gautam is multi-linguist and an avid swimmer.
Venkatachalam SubramaniamSenior Vice President & Business Head – APAC, Middle East & AfricaView Profile
Venkat comes with a unique blend of business, technology and customer-centric consultative approach with a global work experience. He has in-depth knowledge and experience in delivering Multi-Country Solutions to derive numerous business benefits like standardizing process, setting up the best business practices and aligning workforces. All of this reflects by the fact that huge conglomerates entrust their Technology & Business Transformation to him almost after their first meet!
Venkat a Marathoner, likes to Travel and listens to all forms of Music.
Sridhar PalaniProduct HeadView Profile
Sridhar, a great solutions architect with over 24 years of experience in the IT industry, takes pride in being extremely process oriented, almost to a fault. Working on many cutting-edge products and software services, he has been with Adrenalin from our early days.
He has applied his keen innovative mind to various designations in Adrenalin like Database Solutions Architect and Product Support before assuming the charge of Product Development Head.
With his process oriented nature, he has played a key role in implementing Adrenalin mega-sized enterprises spread across more than 65 countries. He has leveraged his vast experience to gain a deep understanding of client’s needs and product delivery process.
Shanmugham NChief Financial OfficerView Profile
Shanmugham plays a key role in Treasury Management and Corporate Governance at Adrenalin.
He seamlessly handles Financial work, including legal contracts, commercial agreements, taxation matters and liaising role with bankers, lawyers and auditors. A Fellow Member of ICAI and ICSI, he has a rich experience in raising funds, through private equities and IPO, and has played an instrumental role in introducing Management Policies and Migration of Accounts into ERP accounting solutions.
Priyanka GulatiFinancial AdvisorView Profile
Priyanka is a consultant for strategy and finance for Adrenalin.
Chartered Accountant & a bachelor's degree in commerce from Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) she is a highly skilled professional with proven record of delivering success, with over 16 years of rich experience across tier 1 consulting firms Accenture Management Consulting and Deloitte. She has assisted the CEO& CFO in strategic business development consolidation, corporate restructuring, annual business planning and risk management. Her project portfolio spans geographies like India, UK, South Asia and Africa, leading transformation effort in various industries.
With a strong financial background, she has also acted as CFO for various companies to set up financial processes and transform companies with various business agenda, like post-merger strategies and financial roadmap, PMO for financial restructuring through executive training and sessions on finance with over 1500 execs across multinationals, she has played a key role in product, process, and strategy for various companies.
Adrenalin's Board of Directors consists of highly experienced individuals who bring expertise from various industries. They provide an objective, direction and guidance to the organization.
Dr. Krishna G V GiriChairman & CEO
Krishna is the Chairman & CEO at Adrenalin. He is also the Co-founder of Zolog Marketplace and also the Principal Advisor to the Chairman, Intellect Design Arena Ltd.
Krishna has led up to billion dollar transformational projects which was part of fabric of the nation , worked both in the private and public sectors across the globe and has been at the helm of P/L’s across Asia Pacific and India. Krishna was former Vice Chairman and Managing Partner of Accenture India and Asia Pacific - Health and Public Service, worked with IBM GBS- Singapore , Mitchell Madison Group - San Francisco and Andersen Consulting- Chicago. Krishna is a Graduate of Fletcher school of law and diplomacy - Tufts University. Krishna has been conferred with Doctorate - ‘D.Litt.’ (Doctor of Letters) by Dr. M G R University.
He has also worked on Public policy and Polity Consulting providing over archiving strategy, Digital campaigns, and its win themes.
He is a strategist with clear focus on delivering technology to solve business problems, enable new business channels, and transform organizations.
Krishna has adopted a few villages to bring sanitation, education and Healthcare.
Arun JainPromoter & Non-Executive Director
Arun Jain is the Chairman & Managing Director of Intellect Design Arena Ltd. He is a leading proponent of ‘Design Thinking’. Intellect Design Arena Ltd. was incubated within Polaris Financial Technology Ltd.
Arun is the recipient of prestigious accolades including the ‘Indo-ASEAN Business Initiative Award’ and the 'ICICI Venture – CII Connect Entrepreneur Award'. His contribution was recognized by the Times Group, with an award and a feature in a book titled ‘Pathfinders’ that lauds the achievements of extraordinary personalities in the IT & ITES industry.
Arun’s passion for innovation and his constant quest for excellence, have led the organisation into Phase 4.0 of its growth journey.
Balaji GaneshNon-Executive Director
Balaji has been involved in Product Design & Development, Implementation, Customer Support, Pre-Sales Support, as well as Strategic IT planning across diverse industries for over two decades.
Balaji's vision for Adrenalin is to achieve growth through operational excellence.
A professional accountant and a qualified CISA, Balaji, has worked with Pond's, Unilever, SAP and Ramco Systems. As a former CEO & MD of Adrenalin eSystems Ltd for over a decade he was instrumental in shaping Adrenalin. Prior to joining Adrenalin, he was with Satyam Computers where he managed the delivery and support team for Microsoft, one of their strategic customers.
Ashok KorwarIndependent Director
Dr. Korwar is an Electrical Engineer from IIT Mumbai and a Doctorate in Management from the University of California, LA. Prior to joining Polaris & Adrenalin, his earlier assignments were with Electronic Data Systems Corporation (EDS), in the US & later with IIM, Ahmedabad, as Professor of Management.
His Book 'Creating Markets Across the Globe', was selected as the Escorts-DMA best management book of the year, 1998.
Sridhar GaneshIndependent Director
Sridhar serves as an Independent Director in the Boards of Limited, Adrenalin eSystems Limited (a subsidiary of Intellect, an IT major) and Equitas Housing Private Limited. He is also the Chairperson of the Management Development Centre of Loyola Institute of Business Administration at Chennai. He is a graduate in Physics, and holds a post graduate diploma in Management from IIM, Calcutta. and has over 40 years of experience in varied facets of human resource management, at both operational and strategic levels.
Prior to Adrenalin he has worked with Guest Williams Ltd, Cadbury India as their Director-HR and was a board of the board.
He is an advisor at IIIBFT ( Indo - International Initiative for Billions of Fruit Trees). He is also a board of the Advisory Council of Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA), the Academic Council at XISS, Bhubaneswar and the Expert panel of Coaching Foundation of India.
His area of work and interest in recent times is on Executive Coaching and Leadership Development.
Jaideep BillaProfessional Non-Executive Director
Jaideep has a B.Tech degree from IIT Kanpur and an MBA from IIM Calcutta.
JaideepBilla is the Joint CEO - Consumer & Institutional Money Management. He has over 25 years of experience predominantly in the Financial Technology business. Early in his career he worked with TCS in their products division. He has served in Polaris in various capacities including Chief Technology Officer as well as Strategic Advisor to CEO.
Dr. Krishna G V GiriChairman & CEOView Profile
Krishna is the Chairman & CEO at Adrenalin. He is also the Co-founder of Zolog Marketplace and also the Principal Advisor to the Chairman, Intellect Design Arena Ltd.
Krishna has led up to billion dollar transformational projects which was part of fabric of the nation , worked both in the private and public sectors across the globe and has been at the helm of P/L’s across Asia Pacific and India. Krishna was former Vice Chairman and Managing Partner of Accenture India and Asia Pacific - Health and Public Service, worked with IBM GBS- Singapore , Mitchell Madison Group - San Francisco and Andersen Consulting- Chicago. Krishna is a Graduate of Fletcher school of law and diplomacy - Tufts University. Krishna has been conferred with Doctorate - ‘D.Litt.’ (Doctor of Letters) by Dr. M G R University.
He has also worked on Public policy and Polity Consulting providing over archiving strategy, Digital campaigns, and its win themes.
He is a strategist with clear focus on delivering technology to solve business problems, enable new business channels, and transform organizations.
Krishna has adopted a few villages to bring sanitation, education and Healthcare.
Arun JainPromoter & Non-Executive Director View Profile
Arun Jain is the Chairman & Managing Director of Intellect Design Arena Ltd. He is a leading proponent of ‘Design Thinking’. Intellect Design Arena Ltd. was incubated within Polaris Financial Technology Ltd.
Arun is the recipient of prestigious accolades including the ‘Indo-ASEAN Business Initiative Award’ and the 'ICICI Venture – CII Connect Entrepreneur Award'. His contribution was recognized by the Times Group, with an award and a feature in a book titled ‘Pathfinders’ that lauds the achievements of extraordinary personalities in the IT & ITES industry.
Arun’s passion for innovation and his constant quest for excellence, have led the organisation into Phase 4.0 of its growth journey.
Balaji GaneshNon-Executive DirectorView Profile
Balaji has been involved in Product Design & Development, Implementation, Customer Support, Pre-Sales Support, as well as Strategic IT planning across diverse industries for over two decades.
Balaji's vision for Adrenalin is to achieve growth through operational excellence.
A professional accountant and a qualified CISA, Balaji, has worked with Pond's, Unilever, SAP and Ramco Systems. As a former CEO & MD of Adrenalin eSystems Ltd for over a decade he was instrumental in shaping Adrenalin. Prior to joining Adrenalin, he was with Satyam Computers where he managed the delivery and support team for Microsoft, one of their strategic customers.
Ashok KorwarIndependent DirectorView Profile
Dr. Korwar is an Electrical Engineer from IIT Mumbai and a Doctorate in Management from the University of California, LA. Prior to joining Polaris & Adrenalin, his earlier assignments were with Electronic Data Systems Corporation (EDS), in the US & later with IIM, Ahmedabad, as Professor of Management.
His Book 'Creating Markets Across the Globe', was selected as the Escorts-DMA best management book of the year, 1998.
Sridhar GaneshIndependent DirectorView Profile
Sridhar serves as an Independent Director in the Boards of Limited, Adrenalin eSystems Limited (a subsidiary of Intellect, an IT major) and Equitas Housing Private Limited. He is also the Chairperson of the Management Development Centre of Loyola Institute of Business Administration at Chennai. He is a graduate in Physics, and holds a post graduate diploma in Management from IIM, Calcutta. and has over 40 years of experience in varied facets of human resource management, at both operational and strategic levels.
Prior to Adrenalin he has worked with Guest Williams Ltd, Cadbury India as their Director-HR and was a board of the board.
He is an advisor at IIIBFT ( Indo - International Initiative for Billions of Fruit Trees). He is also a board of the Advisory Council of Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA), the Academic Council at XISS, Bhubaneswar and the Expert panel of Coaching Foundation of India.
His area of work and interest in recent times is on Executive Coaching and Leadership Development.
Jaideep BillaProfessional Non-Executive DirectorView Profile
Jaideep has a B.Tech degree from IIT Kanpur and an MBA from IIM Calcutta.
JaideepBilla is the Joint CEO - Consumer & Institutional Money Management. He has over 25 years of experience predominantly in the Financial Technology business. Early in his career he worked with TCS in their products division. He has served in Polaris in various capacities including Chief Technology Officer as well as Strategic Advisor to CEO.