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- Dr. Ravi Gopinath
Managing Director and CEO


Dr. Gopinath took charge as Managing Director and CEO of Geometric in October 2006. Prior to joining Geometric, he led the Engineering and Industrial Services (EIS) strategic business unit of Tata Consultancy Services from April 2004 to September 2006. He grew the business substantially during this period, by diversifying its portfolio from primarily PLM and CAx services to a broad based engineering and manufacturing solutions offering, including electronic systems development, asset management solutions, shop-floor automation, geospatial technologies and strategic sourcing. From April 2000 to December 2005, he led TCS' manufacturing practice. He joined TCS at its Corporate Research & Development Center in Pune, India, in 1994, after having spent 5 years in another industry. An active researcher, he is the author of several publications and holds two international patents. Dr. Gopinath graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, with a major in Chemical Engineering in 1989. He holds a Ph.D. in Control Systems from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the United States, which he obtained in 1994.


Dr. Gopinath took charge as Managing Director and CEO of Geometric in October 2006. Prior to joining Geometric, he led the Engineering and Industrial Services (EIS) strategic business unit of Tata Consultancy Services from April 2004 to September 2006. He grew the business substantially during this period, by diversifying its portfolio from primarily PLM and CAx services to a broad based engineering and manufacturing solutions offering, including electronic systems development, asset management solutions, shop-floor automation, geospatial technologies and strategic sourcing. From April 2000 to December 2005, he led TCS' manufacturing practice. He joined TCS at its Corporate Research & Development Center in Pune, India, in 1994, after having spent 5 years in another industry. An active researcher, he is the author of several publications and holds two international patents. Dr. Gopinath graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, with a major in Chemical Engineering in 1989. He holds a Ph.D. in Control Systems from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the United States, which he obtained in 1994.
- Ravishankar G.
Chief Financial Officer

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Ravishankar is the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Geometric. He has over 17 years of experience in the areas of finance, accounting and risk management in manufacturing and financial services businesses. Prior to joining Geometric, Ravishankar was the CFO of GE Healthcare - South Asia. During his tenure with GE Healthcare, he played a key role in turning the healthcare business around and growing it successfully in the South Asia region. Between 1994 and 2002, Ravishankar held various positions in the areas of risk management and corporate financing with GE, India. He started his career with Rane (Madras) Ltd., an automobile ancillary company, where he held various positions in the areas of costing, management accounting and financial accounting. Ravishankar is a Chartered and Cost Accountant with a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry. He is a graduate of the prestigious 'Experience Finance Leadership Program' by GE and has done an executive education program on 'Corporate Financial Strategies for Creating Shareholder Value' from Kellogg School of Management.
- Raja Ramana Macha
Chief Operating Officer


Raja Ramana Macha is the Chief Operating Officer of Geometric. He steers the operations across all delivery centers in India and also heads the engineering services business at Geometric. He is responsible for ensuring multidisciplinary competencies, delivery excellence and scalability of capacity in all our global delivery centers. His experience of 20 years spans building technology and running businesses. His business process expertise includes design process (product development and introduction), production planning, demand planning and forecasting, and Implementation of contemporary management techniques in the manufacturing value chain. Raja is a specialist in the automotive and discrete manufacturing sectors. He has been a consultant practicing "lean" techniques and has executed several product introduction, manufacturing and supply chain solutions. He has been responsible for specific strategic alliances in the manufacturing sector, and directing engineering business globally to help global companies reduce product development cycle time, costs and defects. He has worked on information systems, business process re-engineering and creating unique business models for solving strategic issues faced by global organizations. His past experience includes advising and delivering productivity solutions to various multi-billion dollar companies in manufacturing, utilities and financial services across the USA, UK and India. His past roles include heading the manufacturing vertical related business for a multi-billion Asian consulting organization and being the country head - planning, logistics and information technology of an Asian auto major. Raja holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering. He also holds a MBA and has been trained in Systems and Logistics at the Chrysler Corporation, in the USA and Austria.
- Rajiv Singh
Vice President, Human Resources and Organizational Development
As Vice President of HR, Rajiv is responsible for talent management, acquisition and development, and strategic organization development. He has over 14 years of experience in the area of software development and human resources. Rajiv started his career as a research engineer in Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He joined Geometric in 1993 and has since worked on the development of software products in different areas, ranging from solid modeling and visualization to collaborative engineering. He has also successfully led offshore development teams for various ISV's mainly in the area of CAD. Rajiv joined HR in 2005 as Head of Employee Relations and has been the Head of HR since 2007. Rajiv has graduate and post-graduate engineering degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
- Gargi Sharma
Vice President, Corporate Marketing and Communications
Gargi heads corporate marketing and communications. She joined Geometric in March, 2007 as the Director of corporate marketing and communications, with over 15 years experience in the field of creative design, marketing and commun | | | | | | |