SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jamcracker, the Cloud Services Brokerage (CSB) enablement company, today announced the addition of three new members to its executive management team. The company has named Mahendra Soneji as vice president of product management, Simon Rowell as vice president of customer advocacy and Vaidhya Raman as vice president of services delivery. These new executive additions will focus on expanding and enhancing the offers, support and operations aspects for existing and new Jamcracker CSB enablement customers.
“The cloud services brokerage industry is evolving quickly and Jamcracker is experiencing rapid growth,” said K.B. Chandrasekhar, CEO and chairman of Jamcracker. “The skills and vast industry knowledge that Mahendra, Simon and Vaidhya bring to our management team will enable us to accelerate our growth and scale our ability to meet our customers’ business operations needs. We are looking forward to continuing to expand our company and leadership in the cloud services brokerage enablement market.”
A recognized leader in developing industry-leading and award-winning products, Mahendra Soneji brings over 20 years of enterprise and service provider-focused product management and marketing experience, with an extensive background in creating innovative products for worldwide markets. Recently, he was the VP of product management and general manager at Covad Communications where he was managing the business unit responsible for more than $500 million of Broadband plus VoIP offerings, and also launched a range of Value Added Services such as anti-malware and security services. He has also held executive and senior product management positions at IP Unity Glenayre, Polycom, Mitel and Siemens.
Simon Rowell has worked as a technology executive and professional services leader with a track record of fusing business requirements with technology vision and strategy to surpass goals in implementation, large-scale project management, product management and organizational growth. Prior to Jamcracker, Rowell was the vice president of professional services and leader of PSO Operations at Dun & Bradstreet, responsible for building and leading the PSO consulting team, quality deliverables, sales enablement and ramping PSO revenue growth and profit margin. He has also held executive positions at corporations including Pay By Touch, Grand Central Communications and BEA Systems.
As the new head of Jamcracker’s India operations and support team, Vaidhya Raman will lead the services delivery of Jamcracker offerings to and through its customers. He has over 20 years of experience in executive and managerial roles in the technology field, previously working for a number of network and data center operations including Pronto Networks, LaunchPad Software and TVS Electronics. Raman’s deep understanding of different market segments and customer behavior across APAC, EMEA and North America will be a huge benefit to Jamcracker’s national and international vision.
About Jamcracker
Jamcracker enables service providers, IT providers, and enterprise IT organizations to become cloud services brokerages, allowing them to aggregate cloud services delivery and life-cycle management for their customers, their employees, and through their channel partners. Jamcracker was founded in 1999 by K.B. "Chandra" Chandrasekhar, who previously founded Exodus Communications and led it through the most successful IPO of 1998. Jamcracker was recently designated by Gartner as a ‘Cool Vendor in Cloud Services Brokerages.’