Girish Purandare

Girish Purandare has over 30 years of experience in technology and business leadership roles. In 2010, they became the CEO & Founder of Sysfort Inc., an Enterprise Solutions Company that develops Machine Learning, Mobility, IoT & Salesforce based applications. Prior to this, they were the Director at Cisco Systems and Cognizant Technology Solutions, where they were responsible for spearheading business growth, building strategic relationships, building new lines of business and heading customer delivery. Girish also held senior management positions at Amazon.com, Onsale.com, Ariba Inc., KPMG Consulting, Tesseract, and Tata Unisys. Girish was responsible for P & L for Ariba Buyer E-Procurement Enterprise Application Integration Business Unit, Business Head for E-Commerce & Online Auctions, and KPMG Consulting LLP. Girish was also successful in global roll outs across 146 countries, increasing revenue by 40%, growing new logos by 25%, and passing the first SOX compliance for Cisco Systems.

Girish Purandare's education history includes attending The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda from 1980 to 1985, where they studied Mechanical Engineering. Girish then attended Welingkar Institute of Management from 1986 to 1988, where they received a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.). Finally, they attended University of California, Berkeley from 1992 to 1994, where they studied Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology.