Wesley Clover Communication Solutions

Wesley Clover Communication Solutions Private Limited

Nihar Ranjan Sahoo
Chief Financial Officer

Nihar is responsible for leading Wesley Clover’s finance, accounting, and investor relations operations. Nihar joins Wesley Clover with over 12 years of financial management experience at high technology companies in the field of Information Technology and Telecom. He has extensive experience in accounting & taxation, financial planning, budgeting, funds management and risk management. Nihar holds a Masters Degree in Commerce from Utkal University, Orissa.

Suhas Pathak
VP Technology Division

With over two decades of experience in IT industry, Suhas Pathak brings with him the knowledge and expertise to head the WCCS Technology Division in Pune. In 1996, Suhas founded Telesoft, a software outsourcing firm offering software consulting services to US companies.  He successfully managed the delivery of over 40 small and large projects to US clients. Wesley Clover acquired Telesoft in 2008.

Before founding Telesoft, Suhas worked in several Silicon Valley companies such as IBM (Rolm), Centigram, Intel and Metra Instruments. He holds a MS-EE from New Jersey Institute of Technology and a B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.

Sriram Srinivas
VP and General Manager, Mitel

Sriram is Vice President and General Manager of Mitel at Wesley Clover Communication Solutions. Sriram joins us from Neo Source Technology, which he co-founded and held the position of Technical Director.

Sriram started his career at Advocent, and has since forayed into the entrepreneurial and business world, and has seeded companies in the areas of data center consulting, server management consulting and software consulting. Over the past six years Sriram has added extensively to his client portfolio and has gained valuable expertise and widespread repute.

Sriram holds a B.Eng in Industrial Engineering and Management from Bangalore University, India.

Parminder Singh
India Country Manager, Bridgewater Systems

Parminder brings to WCCS over 25 years of industrial experience spanning multiple industry segments. For the past 11 years he has been closely associated with the Indian Telecom
Industry gaining in-depth knowledge of wireline as well as wireless technologies.

Prior to joinging WCCS, Parminder founded and headed the telecom SBU of Raychem RPG, a Tyco joint venture in India, and held the position of Country Manager for Redline Communications and Wavesat Inc. He is an active member of the WiMAX forum India Chapter as well as the FTTH Council.

Parminder holds a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from REC Allahabad, India.

TaraSpan Inc.

Mike Manson
Chief Executive Officer, TaraSpan

Mike Manson is CEO and co-founder of TaraSpan.  He has helped launch numerous startups and together with Raj Narula has secured over $40 million in funding for TaraSpan’s clients.   Mike is formerly Senior Vice President and General Manager at Alcatel, where he led a global business unit with software development centers in Canada, California, Belgium, Spain and India.  Prior to Alcatel, he held executive positions at Newbridge Networks in roles spanning product line management, business development and strategic alliances.  Mike is a frequently invited speaker on doing business in India, software business strategies and venture capital fundraising.  Mike serves on the board of directors of TaraSpan Inc. in Canada and Wesley Clover Communication Solutions Pvt Ltd in India.  Currently Mike divides his time between Ottawa Canada and Gurgaon India.

Mike holds a BASc degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada

Raj Narula
President, TaraSpan

Raj Narula is President and co-founder of TaraSpan. Raj is formerly CEO and co-founder of TenXc Wireless, a company developing intelligent antenna systems for the GSM market. As CEO and VP of business development he launched the company and was instrumental in raising over $20M in venture capital. He also secured Alpha trials with Tier 1 carriers in Canada and the US. Prior to TenXc, Raj was an active angel investor with investments in eLearning, Web Portals, security and IT companies and a serial entrepreneur running successful hospitality businesses. He started his first successful business at age 20. Since 1996 ,Raj has helped launch over a dozen technology companies in North America . He has also conducted business transactions in Panama , Europe , Middle East and South East Asia. Additionally he transacted an M&A of an Ottawa software company by a publicly-traded software company in India.

Raj divides his time between North America and India. In India much of his time is divided between the multiple portfolio companies to increase product penetration with major tier 1 clients.

Raj is also the co-founder and Charter Member of the Ottawa chapter of TiE (the Indus Entrepreneur), a global organization focused on the fostering of entrepreneurship through mentoring, networking and education He currently serves on the board of Canandia Inc.. He is also a co-founder of the Maharajas Ball , an charitable trust that has raised in excess of a million dollars in its first three years. He has lived in Iran, Italy , South America and India in addition to Canada and speaks multiple languages.

Raj holds a B.Eng degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Ottawa, Canada and a Mechanical Systems Diploma from Algonquin College.