Muki Founder & CEO more info: Muki founded pepper square with 11 dollars in his pocket. He is the CEO of pepper square. A people´s person, Muki leverages 16 years of experience in the field of branding, experience design, emerging media, search marketing and technology development. Muki has influenced over 150 companies from brand building to exit strategy in his career. Muki´s digital strategy for one of India´s large IT companies has helped them garner $230 million worth of leads through their online initiatives. A combination of high energy and extreme passion, his skills to connect and mentoring abilities, have seen 10 entrepreneurs born from pepper square. Muki is a Charter Member of the prestigious TIE (The Indus Entrepreneurs, the largest and the oldest entrepreneurial association in the world). He regularly devotes his time to enhancing the entrepreneurial ecosystem through TIE.

Jyothi
Kiran Digital Anthropologist Jyothi Kiran is Digital Anthropologist at pepper square. JK has 15 years experience gained from working with various forms of the content industry - online, print, new media, e-learning and corporate communications. Her cross-domain experience means that JK is able to intuitively map business goals with content strategies. JK is a free soul and brings unconventional thinking with her, has published widely on women´s empowerment and on the intersections between technology and culture. She is passionate about small ideas creating a big impact and blogs about the social implications of technology and science at www.nanomaya.com. Prior to pepper square, JK was Professor/Director of New Media at the Indian Institute of Journalism & New Media. JK has double Masters ­ English from Bangalore University and Communications from University of Illinois, Springfield.

Sriram
Tadimalla Financial Advisor more info: Sriram Tadimalla has been the Financial Advisor for pepper square since its inception. Sriram has three decades of experience helping various companies grow to multimillion-dollar revenues through astute and strategic thinking. Sriram is the pillar behind pepper squares success; he has built a world-class governance model at pepper square, helping the company and its clients meet the challenges of today´s business environment. He has been involved in the formation and setting up of over 200 ventures, some of which are major brands today. Indeed it won´t be wrong to say that Sriram played a vital role in awakening Bangalore to become the Silicon Valley of India.

Arun
Katiyar Strategic Advisor more info: Arun Katiyar is strategic advisor to pepper square. He is a thinking man´s delight and loves to reflect on things that need to change for the better. A media expert with over 25 years of experience, Arun has worked as editor with the India Today Group, was Founder and Chief Operating Officer of the company´s online venture and was instrumental in setting up their online global syndication business. Arun is author of Bombay: A Contemporary Account of Mumbai published by Harper Collins. He has produced a rock album for CBS (Bedlam), led the team that developed the software to report the 13th National General Elections live on Doordarshan and has run India´s first 24-hour private FM station (Radio City, Bangalore). He was Vice President, Tech Support for Microland and has a provisional Six Sigma Green Belt certification for remote support in the technology space. Prior to pepper square, he was the CEO of a technology start-up, Seraja, showcased as the Top 100 ideas in the world by Esther Dyson in 2006. Arun has a keen interest in mountain biking and is one of the core members behind the Tour of Nilgiris, a 900+ km bicycle ride across 8 days through the challenging Nilgiri mountains of South India.(www.tourofnilgiris.com)

Rajesh
Kumar.A.S Finance Manager Rajesh Kumar.A.S is Finance Manager at pepper square. He is responsible for all the financial and accounting activities. Rajesh brings 10 years of finance experience with him to the company and is a champion of corporate governance. He is meticulous and disciplined and has an unusual eye for detail. His favorite quote sums up his personality: ´From one spark of life millions of lives emerged´. He hails form ´Thrissur´ the cultural Capital of Kerala, a major financial and commercial hub of South India after Chennai & Kochi. Rajesh is highly efficient, loyal, and loves to take on challenges.

Balaguru
Shanmugam Senior Visualizer Balaguru Shanmugam is Senior Visualizer at pepper square. Bala brings with him over 11 years of web, mobile and print experience, having worked with clients across the US, Europe, Middle East and India. At pepper square, he leverages this experience along with an in-depth understanding of technology to create User Interface designs, software and mobile applications, product designs, go-to-market wire frames, flash presentations, web, portals and other collateral designs. Bala´s visualizations invariably achieve simple and effective visual output and brand communication through immediate audience connect. Prior to pepper square, Bala worked with Xerox PARC where he was responsible for visualization of several large digital rights management solutions for clients like MP3.com, Adobe, Microsoft, etc. Bala is Bachelors in Mathematics and has a professional certification in digital graphic designing.

Vivek
Alfred Pinto Senior Creative Writer Vivek Alfred Pinto is Senior Creative Writer and Web Strategist at pepper square. He believes in getting things done ­ and on time. Vivek is as comfortable creating clear and lucid web content as he is with to-the-point mobile content. Either ways, he loves the challenge of creating communication that is easy to understand and to act on. Maybe it has something to do with his favorite author Alvin Toffler who said that ´the illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.´ Vivek is Masters in communications from Manipal University. He hails from Mangalore on the west coast of India to which he goes back every now and then to rejuvenate himself. He loves table tennis (ping pong to some) and football (soccer to others).

Mahajan
Shetty Lead, Testing Team Mahajan Shetty heads the Testing Team at pepper square. His extensive expertise with functional, GUI, regression and usability testing with a comprehensive engagement in design and execution of test programs makes pepper square clients´ multimillion-dollar projects up and running. Mahajan is responsible for raising the quality standard and performance bar of all the projects through his detail-oriented approach. He has extensive capabilities in testing on client/server applications as well as web-based applications. Through his years of work exposure, he has acquired a grounded knowledge of the entire Software Development Lifecycle and is an expert in agile methodology. Mahajan is Bachelors of Engineering and hails from the historical district of Gulbarga in South India which boasts a unique synthesis of cultures. Mahajan says that the area, once the capital of the Bahamani kingdom in the 14th century and home to the founder of Carnatic music Purandara Dasa, has had a deep influence on him.

Gobinath
K. Lead, Web Development Gobinath K. is a Team leader, Web Development at pepper square. Gobi brings over 5 years of experience to the team. With a well-honed ability to conceptualize and implement web solutions, Gobi´s contribution to online marketing and brand communication campaigns is significant. His expertise extends to design and development of large corporate websites (over 85,000 pages connecting with CRM tools, knowledge repositories and intranet), e-commerce implementation, as well as back-end scripting and programming on various web technologies. His pixel perfect detail orientation is an asset to every project delivery. He does magic using HTML, CSS and DIV and it is interesting to watch him while at work. Gobi is Bachelors in Engineering with additional certifications in Java and J2EE.

Senthil
Kumar Lead, Software Engineering Senthil Kumar is Team Leader, Software Engineering. His role is to manage the technical aspects of client websites and direct the team to achieve client objectives. His understanding of software development and delivery cycles has helped transform ideas into applications that deliver performance and results, on time. Senthil also leads the tech team in on-demand R&D activities to find tools and best practices ­ customizing solutions to address client requirements. As an open source aficionado who also has a keen appreciation of Microsoft technologies, Senthil brings on board a technology agnostic approach that prioritizes business solutions. He has successfully implemented latest technologies and trends such as ecommerce sites, portals, forums, gallery, search engine, blogs, etc.Having been a serial entrepreneur himself, Senthil adds tremendous value for every project since he understands the end customers´ pain points. Senthil is Master of Computer Application from AVC College, Mayiladuthurai. Nagapattinam district, Tamil Nadu.

Shreenivas
Nayak Senior Visualizer Shreenivas Nayak is Senior Visualizer, Animator and Illustrator at pepper square. He is completely at home with translating ideas into elegant line drawings, moving them into 3D renderings and giving them life through his gentle and sometimes quirky animation. Shreenivas has extensive cross-domain experience garnered from over 13 years of experience. His strong ability to translate thoughts into designs that combine aesthetics with business sense has added value for pepper square clients. Shreenivas is naturally gifted: he can read, write, speak and translate 3 Indian languages along with English. Prior to pepper square he was with MacMillan and acquired considerable expertise in the area of specialized publishing. Shreenivas is a Masters in fine arts, equally at home in print and the digital media.

Varghese
M Lead, Web Development Varghese M is Team Leader, Web Development. He brings over 10 years experience in the technology space helping resolve complex problems of web development for clients across domains. He coordinates with clients´ web development teams and enjoys working on web technologies and upgrading his skills as he is constantly multi-tasking on various projects. Varghese hails from a small town of Periavilai, located in Kanayakumari District. It is not surprising that he misses the beauty of the seashore, eating fresh fish and swimming in the sea as his ancestral home is only 200 meters away from the seashore! Varghese has an Advanced Diploma in Computer Science and Applications.

Neelamohan
S Senior Test Engineer Neelamohan S is a Senior Test Engineer who started his career at pepper square. He is a great example for taking ownership of projects and having fun while completing his work with great detail orientation. When any project goes through his probing eyes you can rest assured it will turn out flawless. His testing mantra is "act dumb while testing" to find mistakes before the user finds them. He has worked for a variety of pepper square clients ranging from product companies, application service providers, software as service and other corporate clients. He understands that expectations vary from one client to another and analyzes each of their unique requirements carefully to find the right solution. An Engineering graduate, he believes in simplicity and is grateful to the small things he has, for he believes that in simplicity lies great strength.

Binod
K. Pradhan Senior Web Strategist Binod Kumar Pradhan is a Senior Web Strategist at pepper square. His role includes developing and implementing online marketing strategies for various client businesses. He is an expert in behavior analytics and knows how to reach millions of users using social media to promote any product or service. Binod believes in "measuring the impact, not the influence". One of the most challenging projects he has worked on is for a healthcare client where visitors to the website had to be converted to leads (in other words, conversion optimization). Inspired by Richard Bach´s book, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Binod´s dreams are goal centric, even as he mulls over small things that he wants to achieve in everyday life. He is a science graduate from Rourkela, the city of steel.