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Our management team consists of veteran industry executives with decades of software product development and IT services management experience. We lead by example, and each one of us is highly-responsive and focused on client service and satisfaction. We are very proud of our 100% client referenceability, and we do whatever it takes to satisfy our clients.
Prakash Balebail
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Prakash Balebail
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
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Prakash Balebail brings more than 20 years of software development
and implementation experience, including the last 16 years in several
key roles in Oracle Corporation. His management principle has been
to provide commitment to continuously improve how he serves all
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employees by anticipating their
needs and exceeding their expectations through a culture of creativity
and forward thinking.
Prior to founding Estuate, Prakash was a Senior Director in Oracle
Applications Global Sales Solutions team, which built complex Oracle
E-Business Suite application demonstrations for Sales activities.
Additionally, he had leadership roles in development of Oracle's
much-acclaimed Business Flow Accelerator (BFA) for the E-Business
Suite. During this time, Prakash also built the highly-regarded
India operations team from the ground up.
While at Oracle, Prakash played a key role in leading the technical
team for the Program Management Office of Oracle's CRM Applications
Division. This team handled escalated technical resolution for Oracle
CRM's most important strategic customers. While with Oracle Worldwide
Alliances, Prakash was responsible for the industry-leading Cooperative
Applications Initiative (CAI) on a global basis, developing best
of breed solutions, which helped hundreds of partners to integrate
their application with E-Business Suite applications. He is one
of the founding members of Oracle's Design and Migration services
team.
Prakash began his career at Oracle in the Platform division, playing
a key role in enabling Oracle Applications to run on UNIX operating
systems. He was the first person to make Oracle applications run
on Intel 386 based machines.
In India, Prakash started his career at Patni Computer Systems Ltd
India.
Prakash holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Karnataka University
in India, and has enhanced his managerial and technical skills through
continued education at the University of California, Berkeley and
Stanford University, Palo Alto.
Nagaraja Kini
Founder and Chief Financial Officer
Nagaraja Kini
Founder and Chief Financial Officer
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Nagaraja Kini has more than 18 years of engineering development,
business development, consulting, alliances and management experience
in application software development, integration and implementation.
He has extensive experience in working with multi-site development
teams to consistently | deliver assets to simplify ERP implementations
for consultants. Nagaraja Kini brings with him the commitment, willingness,
and capability to anticipate and act on the continually evolving
needs of a business. Prior to founding Estuate, Inc., Nagaraja served
at Oracle as Director in Application and Industry Solutions group
within Global Sales Support. He was responsible in managing the
development effort of Oracle Accelerator for Special Edition, a
simplified approach to implementing the Oracle E-Business Suite
of applications for Mid Market Customers. Prior to joining Oracle
in 1994, Nagaraja served as Senior Manager managing the entire engineering
and development team at Inventa Software for their offshore operations
in Bangalore, India.
Previously, Nagaraja worked as a Senior Consultant at Kirloskar
Computer Services Ltd., porting UNIX and UNIX Applications on to
MC68000 based systems for Fortune Systems, the first company in
the world to officially support UNIX as Operating System in early
1980s.
Nagaraja holds a Master of Technology in Industrial Electronics
from Karnataka Regional Engineering College Surathkal, India, and
a Bachelor of Engineering from SJ College of Engineering Mysore,
India.
Marc Hebert
Chief Operating Officer
Marc Hebert
Chief Operating Officer
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Marc Hebert joined Estuate in December, 2008 as its first Chief Operating Officer. From 2006-2008 he was the first Chief Marketing Officer for Virtusa Corporation, a publicly-traded IT services firm. From 1999-2006, he was Executive Vice President, Marketing and Alliances for Sierra Atlantic, where he was
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responsible for
corporate positioning, lead generation, public relations and partner development. Prior to his appointment in 1999, he served on Sierra Atlantic's Board of Directors for three years.
Previously, Mr. Hebert was Vice President for Oracle Corporation, where he held several ground-breaking positions: the Chief Information Officer role, Internal Audit, Oracle Manufacturing development, and Worldwide Alliances Technical Services, including the Oracle Applications Integration initiative and the Oracle Migration Competency Center. Prior to Oracle, he spent eleven years with Arthur Andersen & Co. managing large systems implementation projects for health care providers.
Marc is a recognized expert on offshore outsourcing. He has appeared on CNN’s Lou Dobbs Tonight, was interviewed in Investor’s Business Daily, and has been widely quoted in major media publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, Financial Times, New York Times and Boston Globe about offshore outsourcing.
Marc received a Bachelor of Science degree in experimental psychology from Harvard University, and an MBA from Stanford University.
Seemakiran Upadhya
Head of India Operations
Seemakiran Upadhya
Head of India Operations
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Seemakiran heads Estuate India and brings more than a decade experience
in Software Engineering and Design. She is responsible for all customer
engagements, technology building blocks and technology direction
developments at Estuate. She has been instrumental in building an
elite team responsible for development and delivery of services.
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Seemakiran has more than 10 years of knowledgeable experience in
Software industry and has developed excellent technical skills with
her profound experiences in the domains of Finance, Telecom and
Media that are globally recognized across a wide range of cultures
and regions.
Seema holds a BS in Electronics and Communication from Karnataka University in India.
Nazira Virani
Head of Canada operations
Nazira Virani has more than 14 years of experience in the software industry. Nazira worked for Oracle Corporation Canada for 12 years. During her time at Oracle, she had various roles in sales engineering, consulting, technical support and alliances management and worked with the Oracle database, E-Business products and several Oracle tools. As a senior manager within the Alliances organization at Oracle, Nazira lead several projects with Oracle partners to bring their software product to market as well as managed a technical team across the country.
Nazira brings with her the commitment to help customers succeed.
Nazira holds an Honors BSc in Computer Science for Data Management from the University of Toronto in Canada.
Homer Shahbaz
Inside Sales Director
Homer Shahbaz
Inside Sales Director
Homer joined Estuate in January 2008, with more than 20 years of experience in information technology management and sales. Prior to joining Estuate, Homer served as BrilliantSoft’s Business Development Manager, and was Business Development Manager at Modis, managing IT staffing for Sales. Homer has managed multiple projects under challenging time and budget constraints faced by business and HR managers alike.
Homer’s unique skills include helping clients find high-quality candidates and meeting their project objectives across a broad spectrum of information technology services.
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