Hemendra Aran: CEO & Founder
Hemendra founded Aranca in 2003 with an ambition to provide high quality research and analytics to global clients. He has extensive experience in outsourcing, having started his career with Infosys where he worked with global corporations such as Goldman Sachs, Reebok and Thomson Electronics. He has authored several books on the topics of outsourcing and global financial markets. He is a regular commentator and has appeared in prestigious media channels such as The BBC, CNBC and The Economic Times. He has also delivered talks at top-tier institutes such as London School of Economics, the IIMs and the IITs. Hemendra is passionate about entrepreneurship and aspires to build Aranca into a market leader in research. Hemendra is an alumnus of London Business School (MBA), Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley and Indian Institute of Technology (Madras).

Madhusudan Rajagopalan: Director, India Operations
Madhusudan has been part of Aranca since inception and has overseen the scale up of Aranca's operations in India. He manages the delivery of a range of research solutions to global clients. He started his career as a management consultant with Accenture where he served large clients across sectors in a range of strategy and business performance improvement assignments. Madhusudan is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and IIT Madras (B.Tech).


Neeraj Bhardwaj: Director, Business Development
Neeraj is an entrepreneur with over 10 years of experience in financial services, outsourcing and consulting. Neeraj started his career with the Bank of England as a bank analyst working with a leading US financial services firms operating in the UK. He then founded one of the first business process outsourcing companies and subsequently an outsourcing consulting firm. Most recently he was the CEO of Rocsearch, a leading business research provider based in the UK and India. Neeraj brings considerable experience in capability building and business development to Aranca. Neeraj has a Bachelors in Finance from the London School of Economics and an MBA from London Business School.

Christopher Kingsman:Non-Executive Director
Christopher started his career at Fidelity International- London, where he worked till 2002, before setting up and managing a hedge fund till 2005. He currently works with a private investment partnership in Germany. Christopher graduated from Cambridge University in the UK.

Kannan Siva, Executive Vice President
Kannan has 16- years of experience in strategy / performance improvement consulting and managing service delivery in the outsourcing industry. He started his career with Avalon Consulting (Mumbai) where he worked for 11 years and managed more than 100 consulting assignments across a diverse range of industries and clients. As the President of Nirvana Business Solutions, a Bangalore based BPO, Kannan was part of the senior management team that grew the company from a fledgling startup to a 400+ man organization in a period of three years. He joined Aranca after a stint in Cable&Wireless, where he was responsible for establishing the company's Dedicated Service business and other strategic initiatives. At Aranca, Kannan plays a lead role in guiding the Business Research team and is responsible for a range of corporate priorities including establishment of standard quality processes, productivity improvement and operational enhancement initiatives. He also has responsibility for managing the Pre-sales team and in developing strategies for the company's growth.

Srinivas Macha, Vice President (Marketing, Corp. Comm., IT & Knowledge Management)
Srinivas brings over 18 years of experience in diverse professions including business and technology journalism, media and advertising, research, operations management and IT leadership to the table. He has led the India edition of an international technology magazine titled MM-The Industry Magazine belonging to Vogel Media Group, Germany as the Executive Editor, managed a medium-sized ad agency and served as a Senior Analyst with ARC Advisory Group, Inc - a Boston based global manufacturing consulting company. Prior to joining Aranca, Srinivas successfully launched and managed a large remote publishing services BPO for a graphics firm in Mumbai. At Aranca, Srinivas's functional responsibilities include Marketing and Branding, Corporate Communications, IT and Knowledge Management related activities. He played a vital role in building up the Editorial desk and is responsible for managing Aranca's world-class IT infrastructure.

Eswaran Krishnan, Consulting Editor
Eswaran has been a career journalist for 15-odd years. He began as a reporter with financial daily Business Standard, covering stock markets and mutual funds. After about two years of reporting, he opted to help others find their words by joining the editorial section of the Press Trust of India (PTI), India's leading newswire. Since then, Eswaran has worked with a number of national and international media and research houses, including US newswire BridgeNews, where he led the organization's US and UK equities desk. Prior to joining Aranca, he worked with JPMorganChase as a Process Manager, responsible for editing and production activities across the Asia-Pacific region. Eswaran has a post graduate degree in English Literature from the University of Bombay.