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Rohit Chand
President & CEO |
Rohit Chand
President & CEO
Rohit's principal role at Axis-IT&T is to provide overall
supervision and strategic direction to the group. Rohit has over
thirty years of experience in the IT Services Industry. He has
a Bachelor's Degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, New
Delhi and an MBA from the Katz Graduate School of Business, University
of Pittsburgh, USA.
Rohit started his career in software development in 1970 in the
U.S. and later moved to India to head the information technology
division of Computronics India. In 1985, Rohit ventured out on his
own and through a series of acquisitions and mergers created IIS
Infotech Ltd., one of India's foremost software companies, of which
he was the Executive Chairman. IIS was bought over by the FI Group
Plc. (now Xansa Plc.), which is a UK-based multinational and Rohit
exited the company. Thereafter, Rohit co-founded Infinity Venture
Fund which has a corpus of US$ 40 million and bought a significant
stake in IT&T and contributed to its growth and diversification.
Rohit is a recipient of the IIT Delhi Alumni award for outstanding
contribution to national development.

Ronald Rainson
Chairman & CEO, Axis Inc.
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Ronald Rainson
Chairman & CEO, Axis Inc.
Ron has the responsibility for providing overall leadership
and direction to Axis, Inc. in the US. Ron has a B.S. degree
in Electrical Engineering and a B.S. degree in Industrial Management.
He is a registered professional engineer in the States of Michigan,
Illinois, Ohio, and Vermont.
Prior to his current position, Ron has held several senior executive
positions. He was with CILCORP (a publicly traded firm since
acquired by Ameren) from 1980-1995 during which time he was Vice
President of Operations of the electric and gas utility and later
Vice President of Mergers and Acquisitions for the holding company.
While with CILCORP he also founded and became Chairman and CEO
of Environmental Science & Engineering, a consulting engineering
firm he took from 80 to 1500 employees with offices in 31 cities
providing engineering, architectural, and construction services.
Prior to CILCORP, Ron was President & CEO of East Kentucky
Power (1975-1980) and General Manager of the Holland Board of
Public Works (1972-1975). Ron began his career in the aerospace
industry and also managed the family’s construction business.
Ron’s public interests include serving on the County Board
and as a member of the Tri-County Planning Commission.
Anil Lall
Head of Global Engineering
Anil heads the Engineering Design functions in the group. He
is a professional Mechanical Engineer. Anil has over 30 years
of experience in the Engineering industry & has held senior
engineering and executive positions in various organisations.
While working with a premier engineering consultancy organization
in India, Anil set up a new R&D facility for Kirloskar Oil
Engines in Pune India. At this time, he also lead the design team
who developed a high speed naturally-aspirated 4 cylinder diesel
engine for re-powering Jeep vehicles manufactured in India. Anil
has also worked on the development of new technologies for making
possible small scale manufacture in developing countries, of paper
and pulp plant and equipment utilizing renewable agro-residues/fibrous
raw materials.
Dr. Gunnar
Pálsson
Software Development Center
Manager |
Dr. Gunnar Pálsson
Software Development Center Manager
Gunnar heads the software development center in India. Gunnar
is a veteran of the Axis software team in India and has been leading
the application development activities of the group for the last
three years.
Prior to joining Axis Gunnar was a researcher in the field of Theoretical
Physics and is an expert in developing software for scientific modeling.
He has a bachelors degree in Physics and Mathematics from the University
of Iceland and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Rutgers University,
New Brunswick, NJ, U.S.A.
Murali K Krishna
Chief Operating Officer (Axis-Inc) |
Murali K Krishna
Chief Operating Officer (Axis-Inc)
Murali is a graduate engineer with more than15 years of hands on
experience in CAD, CAM softwares, product design, and manufacturing
engineering in the automotive & aerospace industry. While working
for the aerospace industry, Murali has designed and developed aircraft
parts and ground support and testing equipment. He is experienced
in new concept design and special machines design. He has also designed
many special jigs and fixtures to support manufacturing engineering
and has several years of unique experience in the CNC machining
of high temperature alloys like Titanium. As lead engineer in the
US, Murali is responsible for the U.S. team of onsite contract engineers,
provides technical guidance to US marketing efforts, and leads offsite
engineering projects from the U.S. headquarters where he resides.

Shweta
Agrawal
Company Secretary |
Shweta Agrawal
Company Secretary
Shweta is in charge of the legal & secretarial functions of
the company, and is responsible for ensuring that good corporate
governance practices are followed in the company. She has a Bachelor
of Commerce (Honors) degree from Delhi University & is an Associate
member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India with a post
qualification experience of 7 years. She is also a qualified Cost
and Works Accountant from the Institute of Cost & Works Accountants
of India. She has worked with Stock Brokers & Depository Participants
and has practiced independently as a Company Secretary, gathering
diversified experience from exposure to various companies &
industries.

Umang Singh
Vice President - Business Development |
Umang Singh
Vice President - Business Development
Umang Singh is responsible for the sales targets for the European
market.
He is a Chemical Engineer from IIT, Delhi. He has spent 14 years
in Europe and has worked in Germany, Spain and Italy, with companies
such as Borsig, Schering and Osram. After returning to India,
he was with the UB Group in the Foods and Petrochemicals Divisions.
He has extensive experience in marketing, sales and commercial
functions.
Praveen Srivastava Vice President - Business Development
Praveen Srivastava has done his engineering in
Mechanical Engineering and done management course in International
marketing from Indian Institute of Foreign trade, New Delhi (IIFT)
Mr. Srivastava worked in manufacturing as well
as service Industries. Overall he has app. 17 yrs work experience in
International trade and visited more than 41 countries across the
Globe. He can fluently read, write and speak Russian.
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Girish Marathe
Vice President - Engineering
Girish is responsible for the Engineering function in India,
providing guidance to and coordinating the off-shore engineering
effort. He has a Master's Degree in Machine Design from the Indian
Institute of Technology, Delhi and
over 29 years of experience in Automotive & Agricultural machinery
sectors. Girish has held senior engineering positions in Honda
Siel, LML and Claas India. As Head of R&D, he has vast experience
in managing product development from “Concept to Production” and
has led the design & engineering teams to develop a range of
successful products – Motorcycles, IC engines, Portable GenSets &
Combine Harvester - for domestic & international markets.
Pankaj Singhal Chief Financial
Officer
Mr. Pankaj Singhal has more than 12 years
experience working in manufacturing as well as service industries.
He has worked in all areas of finance, accounts and commercial
departments. He has done his PGDBM (Finance) from Institute of
Management Technology, Ghaziabad and also has a degree in Civil
Engineering from Engineering College, Kota.
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