Srinivas Kankanahalli

In his role as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Dr. Srinivas Kankanahalli is responsible for clearAvenue's technology strategy and overall solution architectures. With over 20 years of industry experience, Srini is a technology evangelist, thought leader, and an acclaimed contributor to Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), computer security, Information Assurance and business systems applications.

Srini was a tenured Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at West Virginia University. Looking for new challenges, he took up the position as a lead architect with the IBM Object Technology Group. After a successful stint at IBM, he moved to Hewlett Packard (HP) as the lead architect for the e-solutions division at Cupertino, CA. He also has held adjunct faculty positions at University of Maryland, and American University (Kogod School of Business).

Srini is a serial entrepreneur and has been a founder of multiple companies. He was a co-founder of CyberMarche, a systems integration company. He was one of the co-founders of Careflow|Net (accquired by Philips Medquist) which implemented state-of-the art patient information systems. He was also the co-founder of a startup called Glopex in Silicon Valley for Business-to-Business transactions in the automotive industry.

Srini holds a bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from Bangalore University, a graduate degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur and a PhD in Computer Science from New Mexico State University.

Srini has published over 60 original research papers in National and International Conferences and Journals on Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Computing, Computer Security, Software Engineering and Network Protocols.