Jagdish Mitra

Jagdish leads CanvasM’s bid to become the leading VAS enabler for the global communications industry.

Jagdish has over 15 years of experience in the areas of business development, IT project management and marketing in the global information services market. Jagdish has worked in building strategic relationships and business with key telecom accounts worldwide for Tech Mahindra. His telecom expertise spans design, development and domain knowledge of IT systems for the telecommunications industry. In his immediate past role he was responsible for building and growing the Global Managed services business. Managed Services in specific areas, is Tech Mahindra’s foray into complete outsourcing of services combining operations and software solutions and delivering a combined service offering. Prior to moving to this role Jagdish was the head of the Global Marketing and Corporate Communications function in Tech Mahindra. Jagdish holds a masters degree in Computer Applications from Birla Institute of Technology and an MBA from the University of London.

Amar Agarwal
Delivery, Operations and Infrastructure

Amar heads the overall Delivery and Operations at CanvasM. He has over 16 years of IT industry experience with a majority of them in the telecom vertical leading large delivery and operations functions. Prior to joining CanvasM, Amar was responsible for setting up a large offshore development center in HCL Technologies with a multinational Telecom Product Company in the VAS domain.

Amar holds a bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Computer Science) from the Birla Institute of Technology.

Nagesh Madhwal
BD – APAC/MEA/SAARC

Nagesh leads the business development efforts for CanvasM across Asia and ANZ. He holds additional responsibility for forging the marketing and alliances program at CanvasM.

Nagesh has over 14 years of experience in business development of which the last 6 years are in telecom. Nagesh has successfully designed and executed complex deals related to total outsourcing and hosted revenue share models.

Vivek handles the key function of defining the portfolio and partnership strategy for CanvasM. Vivek has over eleven years of experience in the telecom domain and specializes in innovating VAS products, platforms and related technologies. Vivek has managed large complex telecom and VAS projects spanning strategic planning to partnership management to business modeling. Prior to joining CanvasM he has worked in leadership positions with tier 1 Indian service providers Bharti-Airtel and Idea as well as with telecom vendors like Lucent and Siemens, in India and abroad.

Vivek holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics & Communication engineering from REC Kurukshetra and his hobbies are equity analysis and traveling.

Bertrand Gatellier
Business Development - Europe

Bertrand has over 20 years of experience in the IT and Telecom industries, including 6 years with Lucent Technologies where he was Regional Director EMEA for the Messaging Business Unit. Bertrand also spent 10 years with Equant (now known as Orange Business Services) where was responsible for the development of consultancy and marketing programmes as well as product realisation and service definitions.

Bertrand has been the President of the VMA since 1999, a trade association that promotes enhanced voice services within the telecom industry in Europe and USA. He holds a degree in Computer Science from Arts et Métiers, Paris and an MBA from the Henley Management College (UK).

Brian Charles
Business Development - US

Brian brings around 20 years of experience in sales, business development and technology transfer to CanvasM. He has held significant positions in companies like Canon USA , a U.S. government high energy physics research laboratory and also in two outsourced IT services companies in the telecom space. His expertise spans areas of R&D, operations and the sales sides of applications development, testing and systems integration for telecom OEMs, service providers and ISVs.

Brian holds a BA from the University of Iowa , an MS from Roosevelt University in Chicago and an MBA from the Illinois Institute of Technology's Stuart School of Business.

Suresh Sarawagi
Manager Finance and Company Secretary

Suresh is responsible for Financial, secretarial and legal functions of CanvasM. He has 8 years wide experience in the field of accounts, finance, legal compliance, taxation, transfer pricing and has worked with eFunds Corporation and Dhanuka Group prior to joining CanvasM.

He is a qualified Company Secretary and Cost Accountant.

Phanendra C. Yalamanchili
Delivery, Bangalore

Phanendra is responsible for delivery management at Bangalore. Phanendra has over 13 years of experience in telecom software engineering domain in various roles such as Product Management, Project Management, and Solution Architecture. Phanendra’s professional experience includes Motorola and Lucent Technologies in Illinois, USA.

Phanendra has received Bachelor’s of Science in Electrical Engineering degree from University of Michigan and is currently pursuing MBA from ICFAI, Hyderabad.