Rama Kumar

V Rama Kumar is the Founder and CEO of Tarang Software Technologies. Rama stepped into the shoes of an entrepreneur in the year 2000 when he successfully founded Tarang. Prior to this, he worked with Wipro for 18 years. Rama commenced his career as a software programmer at Wipro writing software for banks and insurance companies. He rose to become Chief Executive of Wipro's Solutions and System Integration business in 1995.

Rama Kumar was Corporate Vice President for the Six Sigma initiative reporting to the Chairman of Wipro in 1996. He was responsible for launching Six Sigma across Wipro and re-engineering several critical business processes. He later became Chief Executive of Wipro's E-Commerce, CRM and Data Warehousing business in 1998.

Rama has been able to nurture Tarang from its start-up days to its current position. He raised USD 5.5MM funding and brought in GIV and Sequoia as Investors. He built an excellent team of professionals and has taken Tarang to leadership in two domains - Payments and eLearning.

He made an acquisition of CyberCash Inc in 2001 and launched Tarang into Payments. He helped acquire marquee customers for Tarang in Verisign, First Data Management Systems, eOne Global, Volvo, Teligence Communications, Wipro and Infosys among others. Rama has led Tarang into becoming a fast-growing and profitable company.

Rama holds a B.Tech degree from Madras Institute of Technology and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad. Rama says that Tarang is his passion and he is focused on making it one of the top companies in its space. When not working, he is out trekking in the mountains with his wife and two sons.