Because of the sheer volume and complexity of spend data within an enterprise, SDM must be enabled through use of business applications and services that automate labor-intensive classification, enhancement, and analysis activities and that can organize spend data at a detailed, attribute level - all on a repeatable basis.

Aatish Dedhia
Founder and CEO of Zycus Inc.

Aatish Dedhia started Zycus in 1998 with a vision to leverage technology to solve business problems. Aatish harnessed the power of Artificial Intelligence technology for practical business purposes to create a powerful Zycus Spend Data Management framework. This was aimed at helping companies unlock huge savings from their e-business content. At the same time he ensured that quality remains high while product enhancement cycle times are kept to a minimum.

Under his dynamic leadership, Zycus has emerged as the industry leader in its business space. He has been responsible for the company's success in the fiercely competitive international market. His astuteness and strategy has been the pillar of Zycus' success.

Aatish is a widely known professional in the IT industry and has been invited as a speaker at several international forums.

Prior to Zycus, Aatish enjoyed a flourishing career at Intel Corporation in the United States and was part of the core design team on the Pentium-II processor. At Intel, Aatish also introduced Internet and Intranet technologies within the Pentium-II group for improving group work and knowledge management.

Aatish has a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India and a Master of Science (MS) in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, U.S.

Hemant Nadkarni
Vice President - Global Sales

Hemant Nadkarni leads the global sales and solution consulting teams. He is responsible for driving enterprise adoption of Zycus solutions across the world. A seasoned professional, Hemant has enabled the organization accomplish the toughest goals. Since 2004, the field organizations have achieved rapid growth under his leadership.

His stewardship has enabled more customers to gain visibility into their enterprise spend using the Zycus Spend Data Management solutions suite. Hemant brings over 15 years of technology sales and management experience to Zycus.

Prior to joining Zycus, Hemant headed the South Asia regional sales team for Selectica, a leading product configuration software provider. He has also held senior management roles in sales and business development at Datapro Information Technology Ltd.

Hemant holds a Bachelors Degree in Electronics Engineering.

Girish Mishra
Financial Controller

Girish Mishra heads the Finance function at Zycus. He shoulders the responsibility for all the financial decisions for the company along with CEO. He is also in-charge of maintaining relationship with Zycus investors and stakeholders.

In a career spanning over 12 years, he has worked with global and Indian multinationals. Girish also has varied experience of working with manufacturing, financial services and IT & Software industries. He has spent 6 years in the software industry at CyberTech Systems and Software Limited before joining Zycus. Besides these, Girish has also worked with Ford Credit India, a car finance company of Ford Motor Company, a management consultant firm, banking software & IT service provider companies.

Girish is a certified Chartered Accountant (CA) from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and holds a Bachelors degree both in Law and Commerce from the Mumbai University. He is also a qualified Company Secretary (CS) from the Institute of Company Secretaries of India.

Arthur Raguette
Vice President - Business Development

Arthur Raguette drives strategic partner development, industry alliances, and new business initiatives for Zycus. He has successfully developed win-win relationships with industry leading technology companies.

Arthur Raguette's career of creating collaborative business relationships that deliver enterprise-class solutions to Global 2000 customers spans over 15 years. Prior to joining Zycus, Arthur was responsible for establishing and growing partner / reseller relationships with TMP Worldwide, Microsoft and others in the HCM/ATS space for ICIMS.

His experience includes senior business development and product management positions with a number of innovative software companies including DataFocus (now MKS Software), Quantum AI, Global Learning Systems, and is a founding team member of BEA Systems.

Arthur has brought several evolutionary and revolutionary solutions to market through successful partnerships, ranging from high speed hybridized middleware, to geospatial analytics to low bandwidth online language training for emerging markets.

Arthur holds a Bachelors Degree in Economics from Rutgers College.

Anurag Dixit
Vice President - Marketing

Anurag has close to 10 years of diverse experience in supply chain, asset management, R&D and marketing in the IT industry globally. Anurag started his career with a Fortune 500 semiconductor equipment supplier and then moved on to Marketing.

At Zycus, Anurag's key responsibilities include Product Marketing, Branding of Spend Management solutions. Anurag has been a big evangelist of automated spend analysis concept for last three years and has helped leading Global 1000 organizations adopt spend analysis best practices.

Anurag holds a Bachelor in Technology (B Tech) in Materials Science from Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai, India.