July Systems




Rajesh T.S Reddy
Founder & CEO   July Systems
  • Founder - CEO of Unimobile Inc.  which developed world’s first mobile internet messaging service  (acquired by VeriSign)
  • Named among MIT - Technology Review’s Global TR 100 innovators
  • Conceptualized and created the first global wireless internet messaging network across 500 mobile operators in 130 countries used by Motorola, Citibank, Cisco etc
  • Winner of the Golden Mouse award for contributions to internet in India
Kelvin Rowlette
President and General Manager
  • VP of 3rd Party Sales and Alliances at Amdocs
  • Head of International Telco Sales, Sun Microsystems
  • President of Broadband Advisory Group
  • BS from University of New Hampshire
  • Business Management Studies at Lesley University
Gopal Rangachary
CFO
  • Head of Finance for Unimobile Inc (acquired by Verisign)
  • Managed one of India’s first cross border venture capital financing in 1998
  • Managed Global Finance Legal and Administration across multiple geographies
  • MBA from Indian Institute of Management and BE Computer Science from BITS Pilani
Prem Bhatia
President
  • Prem brings over 14 years of experience in Advertising, Sports Marketing and the Sponsorship business in India
  • He is the Managing Director of Sports Media Limited, a company he co-founded in 2003
  • Prem’s experience ranges from Athlete Management for sports icons like Sachin Tendulkar, Saurav Ganguly, Ajit Agarkar, Shoaib Akhtar, Ravi Shastri, Robin Singh and Sanath Jayasuriya ; to production and distribution of television rights for BCCI - India, BCCSL - Sri Lanka, BCB - Bangladesh, and CBFS – Sharjah
  • He has represented cricket boards on sponsorship sales for Cricket Australia, Cricket New Zealand and the West Indies Cricket Board; and has played an advisory role to some of India's biggest advertisers on maximizing Return On Investment in sports across media. Some of the big names include: Hero Honda, LG Electronics and Nokia
  • Between 1996-2002, Prem served as the as the Senior Vice President of WorldTel
Randy Ahn
Senior Vice President, Strategic Programs
  • Randy Ahn joins July Systems after successfully delivering strategic growth of mobile business for CBS Sports, CBS College Sports, and MaxPreps
  • He is known for creating the first made-for-mobile video and picture alerts service in the U.S
  • Randy has built an industry-leading sports mobile website and launched the CBS Sports iPhone application
  • He has played a key leadership role for the entertainment vertical for CBS Mobile
  • Prior to joining CBS, Randy performed multiple roles in Business Development and Account Management, at iTouch Asia Pacific, a global mobile entertainment company listed on the LSX
Julian Phillips
Vice-President, Marketing and Product Management
  • Over 10 years of experience in mobile and internet
  • Prior to July, was part of the early team at Unimobile Inc (acquired by VeriSign )where he managed Product User Experience  and Marketing Communications
  • Has managed teams that designed products in Paging, Voice, SMS J2ME & WAP  domains including the Unimobile Messenger,  the world’s first internet to mobile Instant Messenger
  • Managed global direct - to - consumer marketing programs and has experience in marketing mobile technology products and services to Operators & Media segments in the US, Europe, & Asia-Pac regions
Vikas Murthy
VP Product Engineering
  • Has over 13 years overall experience with 11 years in managed mobile services
  • Prior to joining July Systems, was the CTO of Unimobile Inc. where he was responsible for architecting and delivering various mobile consumer products including the world’s first global cross-carrier 2-way internet to mobile messaging virtual network
  • Was also responsible for building a virally propagated mobile integrated Instant Messaging service that had over a million users
  • Holds multiple patents for key innovations in the mobile space
  • Follows his own brand of agile development methodology to build cutting edge products that can be continuously adapted to different customer needs, without sacrificing the pace of product development.
Yudhishter Gopalkrishna
Vice President, International Sales and Business Development
  • Has over 13 years of experience in consulting and working for Fortune 100 companies and small enterprises, driving revenue through building and managing strategic relationships worldwide
  • Most recently, he was the founding partner of A&Y Partners, a boutique business consulting firm. Prior to this he was part of the Microland Group of Companies, managing key accounts in the US and India for their IT solutions group, handling on-site and off-shore multi project teams in driving delivery and operational efficiency.
  • Has previously worked with Nortel Networks in France as part of their Marketing and Business Consulting team focusing on the EMEA markets. Consulted for General Electric, Coca Cola and Astec International among others in the Philippines.
  • Received an MBA in General Management from the Asian Institute of Management, Manila and a Masters Degree in Economics from the Madras Christian College. Additionally, he has an Advanced Diploma in Asia – Europe Business and International Relations from the Sciences Po, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, France.
Sudarsan Parida
Head, Platform Engineering
  • Architect of one of the world’s first cross geography real-time video alert platforms
  • Early adopter of Semantic Web technologies
  • Architect of User and Service Analytics Platform
  • Developed FACTS - Fingerprint Analysis and Criminal Tracing System at CMC, currently operational in many countries
  • Implemented one of the first convergent telecom billing systems to handle both voice and data at Trygene