Our Team
Nandakumar Shankar
Nandakumar leads the Salesforce & Business Growth Initiative at Avana Partners. He is a business and growth hacker with 22 years of experience across regions and businesses. He has a blended exposure in incubating and growing new practices, business units and expanding businesses. Having had core experience in customer facing functions in the Tech Industry at the CX level enables him to solve challenges pertaining to an industry, a business or a function. He has done his Graduation from Delhi University and MBA from Faculty of Management Studies, Lucknow and an Executive MBA from IIM Bangalore,
Jitender S Mehrok
Jitender S Mehrok leads the business development Initiative at Avana Partners He has been a CEO and Business Head running his own firm for brand expansion and go to market strategy for family owned businesses. He is adept at business development, has been a sales and marketing professional and currently an entrepreneur with 29 years of experience in Solar, Entertainment, Telecom, Consumer non-durable (FMCG) and Hospitality domains. He has a track record of setting up, scaling, and turning around both greenfield and brownfield businesses. He has held Profit & Loss responsibility while delivering revenue and market leadership goals. Further, he has had a high success rate in commercially capturing a lead position while developing tier II and III markets. A strong ability to build & lead cross-functional teams across work streams.
Anand Ganapathy
Principal Software & Product Engineer with 27+ years of experience designing, architecting, and delivering large-scale enterprise SaaS and collaboration platforms, primarily at Oracle. Expert in system architecture, secure integrations (SAML2, OAuth2, SSO), and service-oriented design. Proven leader in building scalable, high-performance solutions, mentoring distributed teams, and delivering high-impact features across CRM and collaboration products.
Pramod Kumar
At Jnanik AI, Pramod leads the design of secure, on-premise Agentic AI platforms and workflow automation solutions that are built for medium and small enterprises seeking cost-predictable, high-accuracy AI adoption. Previously, Pramod held leadership roles at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Robert Bosch, where he drove large-scale cloud, IoT, and telematics initiatives for global enterprises, building a strong track record in delivering business outcomes from advanced technology programs.