Muki
Founder & CEO
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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
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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
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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.