Padmanabhan Raghavan (Paddy) - Co-founder & Chief Evangelist, 8KMiles.com

About the Speaker

Padmanabhan Raghavan (Paddy) is a Co-founder & Chief Evangelist at 8KMiles.com, an IIM-B incubated start-up offering cloud based outsourcing & infrastructure solution for SMBs, start-ups and IT consulting companies. Paddy is responsible for the strategic and operational leadership of 8KMiles’ Sales, Marketing and Technology teams. He closely works with the senior management team and Advisors of 8KMiles to ensure successful delivery and marketing of the application.

Before starting 8KMiles, he worked with EMC Corporation in Bangalore in their Product Management group (for 4+ years). He joined EMC after completing his Masters degree from International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore. He also has a Masters in Computer Applications from Madras University and a Bachelors degree in Mathematics from Loyola College, Chennai. Paddy had also worked in GE Capital, Caritor Systems and Barry-Wehmiller International Resources in their software development teams. He has won prizes for innovation in IIT-Madras and other places during his education. Paddy won the N. Rama Rao Entrepreneur Award at IIIT-B in 2009.