Management

Prasanth Gopalakrishnan

Over the years, he has assembled a strong management team and top engineering talent to establish Kalkitech as a specialized technology solutions provider for the energy industry. Prasanth has more than 22 years of experience in communication systems research and product development. His areas of specialization include standards based communication and optimization technology in the energy and utilities space. He is a member of Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) LITD 10. Prasanth holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India and a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Colorado State University.

Vanishree Gururaj

Vani’s areas of expertise include business process improvement, mergers and acquisition advisory and corporate restructuring. Prior to joining Kalkitech, she was a Finance Controller for the Healthcare Sector (R&D) at Philips India Pvt. Ltd. for two years. She started her career working at B. P. Rao and Company and has worked at several companies including Motorola India Pvt. Ltd. She is a Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI).

George Punnoose

Prior to joining Kalkitech, George worked at Easun Reyrolle Limited for 11 years where he last served as President – India Business and was instrumental in growing it from Rs. 40 crores to Rs. 250 crores. Prior to that, he worked for 16 years at ABB where he last served as Head of Technology of the Utility Automation business unit and was responsible for the introduction of Digital Protection Relays in Indian Markets. George holds a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Kerala University.

Bill Davila

Bill is responsible for developing and managing the North America sales team to meet ASE/Kalkitech revenue goals while developing and maintaining mutually beneficial long-term customer relationships.Bill brings a strong background working with technology companies to create and deliver solutions to utility company IoT challenges.Prior to joining ASE/ Kalkitech Bill has held both leadership and individual contributor positions with industry edge tech companies such as Silver Spring Networks, Tropos Networks and EDS. Bill Holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Manhattan College and an MBA in Finance from Georgia State University.

Jose Thomas

He is responsible for charting the entire product road-map. His areas of specialization include SCADA, Communication Protocols, RTU/IED and SCADA-IT application integration. His industry affiliations include: Member of IEC TC-57 WG-13 and WG-16, Secretary of Working Group on Common Information Models (IEC-61970, 61968 and 62325) of BIS LITD-10 Committee, Executive Committee Member of IEEE PES- Bangalore Chapter and Member of UCA Users Group. Jose holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Instrumentation and Control Engineering from Calicut University and a M.Sc. in Electrical Power Systems from University of Manchester.

Johney Varghese

Prior to joining Kalkitech, Johney Varghese worked for Bank of America and Wachovia Corporation in the US (now merged with Wells Fargo) as Vice President handling IT projects in their Corporate Finance Division. Johney holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India.

Sushil Cherian

His areas of specialization include Dynamic Controls, Dynamical Systems and Energetics, and Non-linear Systems. Prior to founding Kalkitech, Sushil worked with ACES Controls in Houston, TX, USA. Sushil holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India and a Master’s in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Cochin University of Science and Technology, in the field of Thermal power plant modeling and simulation.

Jack Verson

He has over 40 Years experience in the Electric Utility Industry and is an expert on Utility communications protocol and currently serves as the Vice President of DNP3 User Group. He drives the product development and product strategy at Applied Systems Engineering Inc., Prior to Applied Systems Engineering Inc., he was with ABB. Jack holds a BS Degree in Computer Science from Purdue and MS in Computer Science from University of Maryland.

Vinoo Shankar Warrier

Vinoo is a member of the DLMS-UA task team that maintains the DLMS/COSEM specifications. He is also a member of IEC-TC57 in the working groups 10, 17 and 18. His chief interests are communication protocols used in the energy sector, participation in standards bodies related to these protocols and product design. Prior to joining Kalkitech, Vinoo worked for MICO (Bosch) in Bangalore, India. Vinoo holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India.

Denise Barton

Prior to joining Kalkitech/ASE, Denise worked as an independent marketing consultant for a range of companies including entities focused on selling solutions to utilities: ABB, Tropos Networks and N-Dimension Solutions. She has worked for a variety of other public and private technology companies in marketing leadership roles with Bay Networks, Cisco, Halosys and Tarana Wireless. Denise holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from University of the Pacific.