Our Leadership Team

Kshitij Kumar

Founder & CEO

Sayan Lahiri

VP, Global Delivery

Pavan Konduru

Practice Director DB Engineering, DevOps & Cloud Ops

Ravindra Sonakiya

Delivery Lead

Ruturaj Mokal

Database Practice Leader

Satinath Sarkar​

VP, AI & Product Strategy

Ravi Teppla

VP of Client Relations

Deven Atnoor, Ph.D.

VP, Scientific Strategy

Ben Pastro

COO

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.

Sayan Lahiri

VP, Global Delivery

Sayan is a globally recognized technology executive who has spent his career helping Fortune 500 companies turn big visions into practical, transformational change. He’s known for bridging the gap between strategy and execution, architecting technology roadmaps, rallying cross-functional teams, and delivering enterprise solutions that move the business forward.

His expertise spans digital innovation, AI, data strategy, cloud modernization, and complex systems architecture, distinguished by his ability to blend deep technical insight with sharp business judgment. He builds scalable platforms, optimizes operations, and uncovers new growth opportunities that position organizations for the future.

Driven by curiosity and a commitment to impact, Sayan leverages emerging technologies to solve meaningful problems and elevate the customer experience. He is equally dedicated to developing high-performing teams, fostering a culture of innovation, and enabling organizations to compete confidently in a digital-first world.

Pavan Konduru

Practice Director DB Engineering, DevOps & Cloud Ops

Pavan is a cloud architect and IT professional with nearly 20 years of experience. He leads the Database Engineering, DevOps, and Cloud Operations teams at Clovertex. Pavan 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 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.

Naincy Kumar

HR Director

Naincy Kumar serves as the HR Director for India at Clovertex, where she leads the people strategy and organizational development agenda. With over 16 years of experience across R&D centers, startups, and global enterprises, she brings a deep understanding of how to design scalable HR frameworks that support business transformation and cultural evolution.

Across her career journey, Naincy has been recognized for her ability to blend strategic foresight with grounded execution. She has been instrumental in strengthening leadership capability, enabling high-performing teams, and driving initiatives that align employee development with organizational growth.

For Naincy, HR goes beyond policies and processes—it’s about shaping workplaces where people are inspired, empowered, and enabled to thrive.

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.

Satinath Sarkar

VP, AI & Product Strategy

Satinath is a globally experienced entrepreneur and technology leader dedicated to building and implementing software solutions that drive success—from startups to large enterprises. Currently, he focuses on delivering cutting-edge cloud technologies to accelerate drug discovery by breaking down data silos and leveraging AI-driven automation. Passionate about solving real-world challenges, Satinath takes pride in developing scalable, configurable software that delivers daily value to customers. With a track record of building high-performance teams, he ensures technology not only meets industry needs but also drives profitability and innovation.

Vinay Dhingra

VP, Data Engineering

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.

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.

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.

Contact us for more information

Head Office (USA)

275 Grove St Suite 2-400 Newton, MA, 02466

Regional Office (India)

1st Floor, My Home Twitza, Hitech City Main Rd, Diamond Hills, Lumbini Avenue, HITEC City, Hyderabad, India

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