Ramakrishnan Sundaram

Regional Operations Manager - Mobile at Rêv Asia Pacific

India

Current
Past
  • Director - Operations at MPower Mobile, Inc
  • Consultant at Taylor Down DMCC
  • Director at Vox Spectrum Limited, UAE

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Education
  • University of Kerala
  • Lawrence School, Lovedale
  • Loyola School, Trivandrum
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Ramakrishnan Sundaram’s Summary

I have successfully built up and managed large technical (IT and Telecoms) teams and delivered excellent products on time. I have experience acquiring and managing large corporate customers, and building relationships that last.

Ramakrishnan Sundaram’s Specialties:

Building and managing technology teams; an intuitive understanding of technology; ability to visualize products and technologies that will make a difference in the future; managing distributed development teams; managing change.

Ramakrishnan Sundaram’s Experience

  • Regional Operations Manager - Mobile

    Rêv Asia Pacific Limited

    (Privately Held; Financial Services industry)

    March 2009 — Present (9 months)

    Rêv believes everyone in the world deserves the same access to trusted payment solutions that allow them to play a part in today’s mainstream economy. More than 2.5 billion people currently lack such access.

    That’s why we’ve built a global network designed specifically to innovate cutting-edge, end-to-end payment solutions that bring financial empowerment to underserved markets. Rêv’s processing platform allows us, and our partners, to achieve standardization and consistency worldwide while seamlessly adapting to local currencies, customs, languages and laws.

    I'm primarily responsible for designing, implementing and managing the operations of Rêv's mobile banking and transactions products across our Asia Pacific deployments. In addition, I contribute to product development for the prepaid debit cards business as well.

  • Managing Director

    MPower Mobile, Inc.

    (Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

    March 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)

    MPOWER Mobile. Inc., (formerly Sapphire Mobile Systems Inc.) operates a global mobile banking and payments network.

    As Managing Director, I am responsible for all corporate affairs of the company.

  • Director

    Rêv India Private Limited

    (Privately Held; Financial Services industry)

    April 2007 — Present (2 years 8 months)

    Rêv India is the operational subsidiary of Rêv Asia Pacific Limited, a MPower Ventures company.

    As Director, I have shared responsibility for corporate affairs; legal, financial and regulatory compliance, and strategy.

  • Director - Operations

    MPower Mobile, Inc

    (Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

    March 2008 — March 2009 (1 year 1 month)

    MPOWER Mobile. Inc., (formerly Sapphire Mobile Systems Inc.) operates a global mobile banking and payments network.

    I had overall responsibility for the India operations of the company.

  • Consultant

    Taylor Down DMCC

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

    April 2007 — February 2008 (11 months)

    As a consultant, I advised clients on biometrics, network security, IT strategy and management communications.

  • Director

    Vox Spectrum Limited, UAE

    (Telecommunications industry)

    August 2003 — April 2007 (3 years 9 months)

    Vox Spectrum is a Detroit-based voice solutions provider with development centers in Dubai, Riyadh and Bangalore, delivering software solutions for recording, analyzing and monitoring voice traffic across telecom networks. Vox Spectrum also recently acquired Mack Telecom, which does wireless network roll-outs in India and the Middle East.

    I was responsible for the entire software product line, including design, development, testing, manufacturing, installation and support. I established the UAE development centre and in addition, provided strategic, technology and business inputs into other areas of business.

    I was also responsible for business development in South Africa, by identifying, partnering and building up dealer networks, enabling sales into government, utilities and law enforcement.

  • Head - Technology

    BPL Innovision Business Group, Bangalore, India

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

    June 1999 — July 2003 (4 years 2 months)

    I worked with various companies in the BPL Innovision Business Group, starting with Oyeindia.com, which developed and managed portals for the BPL group companies. I built up a full development team for Oyeindia, and then, as the Internet crash happened, my team and I moved to Wirefree Innovision Technologies, another BPL company, which was then in the software services space.

    Software services was also affected by the crash, and I pushed for, and succeeded in building, a telecom products company. Wirefree builds a range of products in the SS7 service node and SMS and voice messaging space, from SMSCs to Chat Servers, and has successfully sold these products to several international operators.

  • Director

    Arachnis Web Technologies Private Limited, Bangalore, India

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

    June 1997 — June 1999 (2 years 1 month)

    I was one of three promoters of a full-service Internet and Web consultancy, which provided a range of services from Web presence strategy to e-commerce and large site hosting. Other projects executed included designing a segmented data delivery service for a satellite radio broadcaster.

  • Consultant Business Analyst

    Future Software, Bangalore, India

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

    March 1997 — September 1997 (7 months)

    Business analysis for and project management of a ERP system for a INR 400 million chemical manufacturer with multinational facilities. The system comprised finance and accounts, materials, exports and human resources modules across four locations in India and two locations in the USA, covering the entire materials life-cycle, the order cycle, and the human resource functions.

  • Administration Manager

    Bhartiya International Limited, Bangalore, India

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Textiles industry)

    July 1995 — December 1996 (1 year 6 months)

    Designed, implemented and managed administrative, accounting, personnel and information technology systems for a INR 600 million leather garment manufacturer and exporter.

    Facilities under my charge included two factories employing over 650 people, as well as an administrative office. Information systems developed were deployed over these three facilities, as well as in seven other locations within India, in Europe and in Russia. A payroll system was developed specifically to handle the kind of semi-skilled workforce employed, which had a significant monthly turnover. Also developed a computerized material tracking system from the store to finished goods dispatch. Reported to the Managing Director.

  • Assistant Administrative Officer

    The Life Insurance Corporation of India, (Various Locations), India

    (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Insurance industry)

    June 1992 — July 1995 (3 years 2 months)

    Managed the underwriting, accounts, policy services, office services and EDP departments in large (INR 270 million and above) branch offices. I had specific responsibility for underwriting individual proposals up to INR 0.5 million. I was also instrumental in adding several non-computerized functions to the ambit of the EDP department, after negotiations with employee trade unions. This paved the way for a successfully implemented total branch computerization effort.

  • Copy Writer

    Contract Advertising (India) Limited

    (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

    January 1991 — April 1992 (1 year 4 months)

    First job. Decided that advertising was underpaid at junior levels and left.

Ramakrishnan Sundaram’s Education

  • University of Kerala

    B Sc , Zoology , 1987 — 1990

  • Lawrence School, Lovedale

    CBSE , Science , 1985 — 1987

  • Loyola School, Trivandrum

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