Sridharan Mani
Shri. Sridharan Mani (Founder) is a MBA graduate from prestigious Emory University, USA has around 25+ years of IT senior leadership experience in innovating and launching new products and solutions, building businesses, handling aggressive corporate and client leadership roles. He led American Megatrends India (AMI) as Director and CEO for 11+ years before joining Amazon. AMI is a global leader in BIOS, UEFI, BMC firmware and remote management tools, booting around 1/2 a billion computers across the world everyday. Under his leadership the flagship BIOS, BMC and Embedded services grew at an accelerated phase and was part of the team that led the successful spin-off of these divisions to HGGC, a leading middle-market private equity firm based in Palo Alto, California. At AMI, he also started healthcare, GPS, IoT and cloud divisions and successfully launched B.O.L.T (Healthcare) and Falcon-i (GPS tracking) solutions in the market. As part of “Make in India” initiatives his team developed IoT enabled Healthcare devices and solutions which, successfully met all regulatory requirements and got USA FDA approval for launching the product in USA. His “Team Danvantri” competed as part of prestigious Qualcomm Tricoder XPrize and was crowned as one among Top 5 finalists and only one from India in the competition amongst 370+ applications across the globe.
Before leading AMI, he was the Chief Operating Officer at Business Oriented Software Solutions (BOSS), a Georgia, USA based incorporation. He served BOSS for over 10+ years and established Business Solutions group and developed products and solutions for Telecom, Systems Management and Service Desk automation and served over 500+ customers during his tenure. Before founding Aheesa™, Sridharan was with Amazon where he led a team of professionals in building an ed-tech platform (Amazon Academy) for supporting students to prepare for competitive exams such as IIT JEE and NEET.
Sridharan’s accomplishments includes having 2 patents granted and multiple patents pending in fields of Healthcare, IoT and GPS tracking. Hands on developer, he loves to code, read, write, travel and listen to music. To his credit two of his spiritual books written in Tamil are published by Giri Traders, Chennai. Sridharan is married to Smt. Archana (entrepreneur and music teacher running Omkaar School of Spiritual Learning) and blessed with two sons. Sridharan and his family is currently settled in Chennai, India.