Our Leadership Team

Kshitij Kumar

Founder & CEO

Ben Pastro

COO

Vinay Dhingra

VP Global Development Center

Dr. Deven Atnoor

VP of Scientific Strategy

Baris Guler

Scientific Cloud Computing Manager

Pavan Konduru

Database Engineering & Cloud Manager

Ravindra Sonakiya

Delivery Lead

Ruturaj Mokal

Database Practice Leader

Jennifer Mariani

Sales Director

Ravi Teppla

VP of Client Relations

Kshitij Kumar

Founder & CEO

Kshitij founded Clovertex in 2019 to specialize in building High Performance Computing architecture frameworks on Amazon Web Services. He is a seasoned technology executive and a serial entrepreneur who has a passion for starting and growing companies and developing win-win partnerships. Kshitij has a proven track record of identifying market opportunities to create differentiating and transformational applications.

Ben Pastro

COO

Ben has a track-record of leading global technology-centric consulting organizations through various stages of growth from inception to exit.  His experience includes bringing new services and solutions to market and integrating acquisitions to increase an organization’s competitive positioning and value.  He has worked across a variety of industries and technologies.  Ben is passionate about building organizations that set a high bar for serving their customers and employees.

Vinay Dhingra

VP Global Development Center

Vinay is an IT professional with more than 20 years of experience in both technical and consulting space across multiple geographies such as US, UK, and APAC. He has worked extensively across multiple roles and responsibilities  managed numerous large-scale business intelligence, custom data warehouse & big data pojects in an Architect/Tech lead/PM role. Vinay  empowers sales teams by works closely with them across the complete sales cycle. In addition, he has played leadership role in building and heading offshore development center for several leading analytics companies.

Dr. Deven Atnoor

VP of Scientific Strategy

Leveraging his domain knowledge and operational insights in healthcare and life-sciences, Deven builds digital transformation solutions for unlocking the power of data. This enables healthcare and life sciences customers to generate insights to fuel innovation to deliver better outcomes for patients. Since his start as a bioinformatics scientist at Whitehead Institute/MIT, Deven has been working directly with clients for the past 20 years to deliver business outcomes addressing strategic opportunities in informatics, discovery research, the lab of the future, clinical trials, real-world evidence, and real-world data.

Baris Guler

Scientific Cloud Computing Manager

Baris leads Clovertex’s HPC Solutions Development and Implementation. He brings 20+ years of experience and expertise in High Performance Computing (HPC) across a range of industries. Baris has worked as an HPC professional at Dell, Schlumberger, Shell, ARM, and Amazon. Prior to Clovertex, he worked at AWS as a Partner Solution Architect for guiding HPC ISV partners in their journey to migrate their applications/solutions to AWS Cloud. He is passionate about making HPC accessible to research scientists by focusing on the simplification of HPC configuration, development, and maintenance by leveraging DevOps, innovation, performance optimization, automation, and continuous process improvements.

Pavan Konduru

Database Engineering & Cloud Manager

Pavan is an expert cloud architect and IT professional with nearly 20 years of experience. He leads the cloud practice and Database Managed Services at Clovertex, where he advises Clovertex’s enterprise customers on cloud strategy and ensures their success in their cloud transformation journey. Pavan brings deep expertise across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Oracle, and Linux stacks, with a successful track record in delivering cloud transformation, enterprise architecture, application integration, and DevOps for large enterprise businesses such as Sleepy’s, Mattress Firm, iQOR, Applied Materials, Anthem, and others.

Ravindra Sonakiya

Delivery Lead

Ravindra is an IT professional with over 25 years of experience. This includes 17 years in the US, plus 8 years in India. He is a strategic thinker and problem solver, with experience managing Deep Technology across multiple industries, including automotive, government, healthcare, and more. Ravindra uses technology to help our clients enable innovation, solve business challenges, and win market share for clients. He strives to achieve excellent client relationships with his unique ability to bridge the gap between business and IT. Ravindra specializes in building cloud-based enterprise-scale solutions to help our clients meet their business needs today, and for the future. He successfully delivers large scale application and database conversion and migration by creating a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) to efficiently transform businesses using the cloud.

Ruturaj Mokal

Database Practice Leader

With experience spanning 18 years in the IT industry, Ruturaj has excelled across diverse sectors, including Healthcare, Banking, and Insurance. Renowned for his strategic acumen, he specializes in orchestrating seamless operations for a spectrum of IT infrastructure projects, automation initiatives, and database migrations—both on cloud and on-premises environments.

Ruturaj’s proficiency extends to people and process management, where he has successfully overseen large teams exceeding 100 members. He is committed to fostering exceptional client relationships and ensuring customer satisfaction. Ruturaj’s unique strength is bridging the gap between business objectives and IT solutions, focusing on continuous improvement to enhance customer value.

Jennifer Mariani

Sales Director

Jen has over twenty years of experience in technology as an account executive and sales leader in building sales and partner organizations.  She has an in-depth understanding of the Life Sciences industry and its priorities across the value chain.  She has worked closely with change agents for large life sciences organizations, presenting success patterns and solutions to improve speed to market via the Agile Methodology.

Ravi Teppla

VP of Client Relations

Ravi is an internationally-experienced IT executive with extensive business leadership, operations management, technology delivery, and consulting skills in pharma, biotech, and life sciences. His expertise includes strategy, global delivery, business-technology transformations, customer advocacy, global account management, strategic alliances, change management and strong delivery oversight. Ravi is committed to steering programs of complex projects with diversified technology to the finish line. Within life sciences, he brings significant value by focusing on supporting the decision-making of commercial leaders and marketing, sales, analytics, operations, and technology teams. Ravi has helped numerous clients develop critical global analytics, digital, and operations capabilities.

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Head Office (USA)

275 Grove St Suite 2-400
Newton, MA, 02466
[email protected]
+1 (508) 395-3423

Regional Office (India)

Workafella Cyber Crown, Hi-Tech City
Sec-II, Village, HUDA Techno Enclave
Suite #204, 2nd Floor Hyderabad
500081, Telangana India