Leadership

Team

Nihal Kulkarni

Founder

Nihal has industry experience in finance, investments, capital allocation, operations, and strategy. He began his career in senior management as Vice President at Kirloskar Pneumatic Company Limited from early 2005 until October 2010.  This was followed by his first stint as Managing Director of Kirloskar Industries Limited (KIL) in October 2010. He took over as the Managing Director of Kirloskar Oil Engines Limited (KOEL) in January 2012.

At KOEL, Nihal’s focus was the transformation of the business from a family-run organization to a professionally managed business. He was instrumental in hiring professionals in top management positions, setting strategy, managing operations and capital allocation. In 2014, Nihal was selected by The Economic Times as one of the top 40 CEOs in India under the age of 40.

Nihal founded Kloudq in 2013 and has been involved in the company since its inception.

Nihal is an A.B. in Economics from Brown University, USA.

Rajesh Phadke

Co-founder and Managing Director

A seasoned entrepreneur with more than 18 years of solid experience in business management and consulting, Rajesh is a Chartered Accountant and has profound expertise in driving customer acquisitions, engagements, operations and key strategies across B2B and B2C environments.

As a Managing Director, Rajesh is responsible for key strategic initiatives at Kloudq and oversees marketing, sales and operations of the company.

Outside of Kloudq, Rajesh enjoys listening to music in any form and playing tabla. A fitness buff at heart, he loves working out and also plays Taekwondo.

Aditya Paranjape

Chief Operating Officer - IoT

Aditya joined us in the year 2017. Prior to Kloudq, he was heading the Kirloskar Generator Technologies business for Kirloskar Oil Engines Limited and was instrumental in implementing the IOT roadmap for KOEL Green Gensets. Aditya has over a decade of experience and has worked with L&T and IBM in the past.

At Kloudq, Aditya heads our IoT operations and plays a vital role in helping our customers build their IoT roadmap smoothly.

An Electrical Engineer from Mumbai University and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, Aditya is also a recipient of the IIM A Gold medal for scholastic performance.

Outside of Kloudq, Aditya is an avid reader and enjoys reading fiction, listening to western music and watching movies.

Vikas Mahajan

Chief Operating Officer - Services

Vikas is contributing as the COO and heading the services business at Kloudq. He takes care of the IT operations, development & dissemination of technology for internal & external customers to help improve the role of technology.

He is a resident entrepreneur at Kloudq, having lead a Cloud Integration and Infosec Services company, Seculibrium, earlier. At the start of his career, he served Jopasana Software, KPIT Cummins & other mid-size services companies, predominately in systems, security and SDLC Administration.

Technology-led innovation is his hobby, him being a research assistant for a few national-level initiatives in IoT, Education & Security.

Aditya Kelkar

Chief Technology Officer

Aditya is a mission-driven engineering leader with 16+ years of industry experience managing and growing technology organizations, strong leadership and communication skills, and a deep understanding of all product life cycle stages. He has rich experience building products along with coaching and mentoring tech teams. He is also well versed in product strategy roadmap, development, and execution with high-quality delivery in the domain of Cloud based SaaS enterprise applications.

He has diverse domain knowledge and has worked with various engineering teams comprised of highly skilled engineers/managers, demonstrating complete ownership. Aditya has done BE in computer science from PICT, Pune, pursued MTech from IIT Bombay and started his career as a developer at Sybase, an SAP Company, on database products. He evolved into a leadership role in Druva Inc, heading their SaaS applications product. As a CTO at Kloudq, he drives technology for IoT products. He demonstrates strong technical leadership with excellent business acumen that covers various aspects of Product, People, and Process for engineering.

Outside of Kloudq, he enjoys playing various kinds of sports, including badminton and football. He is an avid traveler and trekker, exploring different places, and likes to cook occasionally at home. He loves spending his free time with two wonderful kids and family.

Swati Chavare

Senior Vice President, Information Technology

Swati Chavare is Senior Vice President at Kloudq and heads operations, supply chain management, quality, after-sales and service, and project implementations.  

She plays a vital role in building customer confidence with high quality and process standards, automation, and timely deliveries. With over 28 years of work experience in organizations like Cummins India, Forbes Marshall, and Thermax Limited, Swati’s strategic approach, and risk-mitigating capabilities ensure on-time deliveries irrespective of challenging market situations.

Swati holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from S P Jain School of Management.

Rashmi Adsule

Vice President, Human Resource Management

As a Strategic HR and head of HR Sub-BU, Rashmi’s role is to support the business by designing and implementing strategic human resource management and development plans in line with organization’s values. Her primary responsibilities are creating an encouraging work environment, customer-centric workforce, progressive and effective leadership, high-performing teams through different OD strategies and effective change management mechanisms.

Before getting into consulting, she worked with a few mid-size organizations and MNCs like Infosys, ITAD and Cambridge Solutions. In her last stint, she worked as a Senior Business Consultant with MindSpeak Consultants and was heading their Ops – Consulting and Training Division.

She is a DiSC certified Soft Skills and Behavioural Trainer and AVLI certified HRM trainer with more than eight years of experience in corporate training. In her free time, Rashmi pursues dancing, having learnt Kathak and Latin dancing.

Rohit Pandita

Vice President - Product Management

Rohit is the Vice President of Product Management and Solutions, leading our Tor product roadmap, go-to-market, and customer engagements. Leading a team of product managers and industry subject matter experts, he plays a vital role in helping customers and organization build the IoT landscape and product roadmap. Before his current role, Rohit has been leading our Customer Success department since 2017.

Rohit has more than 12 years of work experience, having worked with IT giants like TCS and Tech-Mahindra on multiple product portfolios to digitize manufacturing and education operations.

Rohit holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Mumbai University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering.

He enjoys listening to and singing Sufi songs and Shayari when not working.

Ashish Bharadwaj

Vice President - Marketing

Ashish joined us in 2021 as the Vice President of Marketing. He has over nine years of diverse experience in marketing and operations in established companies like SAIL and various startups.

At Kloudq, Ashish works on all things marketing and branding. He is instrumental in supporting Tor’s product roadmap, actively leading our products’ go-to-market strategy while defining and improving the customer journey experience.

Ashish holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from IIM Ahmedabad and a Bachelor’s degree in Metallurgy and Material Science Engineering from NIT Jamshedpur.

Outside of Kloudq, Ashish is an avid reader and enjoys watching movies and listening to western music.

Priyanaka Agarwal

Senior Manager, Legal & Finance

Priyanka joined Kloudq Technologies Limited in June 2021 as the Finance Head with experience in Finance and accounting for around 20 years across industries. She is a CA (2003), DISA, with an MBA in Finance.

Her work exposure includes being a guest faculty in NIT(Financial and Cost management), a financial expert consultant to PSU(Mini Ratna) and the BPO industry (client revenue management), and a practicing CA as an accounting and financial consultant(manufacturing/service industry). In Kloudq, she is responsible for streamlining the accounting and reporting process and cost management at the corporate level.

She enjoys walking, jogging, and playing sports as a pastime activity.

Jatin Bhole

Vice President - Platform Development

Joined in 2018 at Kloudq, Jatin heads IoT Platform Development and takes care of high-level design choices related to overall system structure, response, and DevOps. As a founding architect of the platform, he understands the nuances of the process flow and tech solutions mapping.

With a Computer Engineering background, Jatin brings over 15+ years of experience in product design, development, and delivery. In his earlier assignments, he developed a few complex business transaction systems with good exposure to enterprise application integrations.

Before his current role at Kloudq, he contributed significantly as a software architect for the SaaS business, addressing the sales force mobilization and automation based on ToC.

Jatin enjoys new learning platforms apart from playing and watching cricket in his free time.

Board of Directors

Anshoo Gaur

Director

Anshoo Gaur is CEO and founder of Praavega Systems, India’s first start-up Incubator. Till July 2016 Anshoo was the President and MD of Amdocs Ltd. India (NASDAQ: DOX), and a member of the Amdocs’ Global Management. Prior to joining Amdocs, he has held a variety of leadership roles at EDS/Mphasis and Sabre Inc.

Anshoo is the winner of several awards including Bloomberg-UTV CXO IT MNC Business leaders of the year Award 2010. He is a regular speaker at various industry forums, organizations and educational institutes and a founding curator of World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Community hub in Pune, India. Anshoo is also actively involved with NASSCOM, CII, IMA, PMA and SEAP Pune. At Kloudq, Anshoo plays an advisory role as a Director on the board of the company.

Anshoo holds a Master’s degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Arizona, Tucson and a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, India.

A realist to the core, Anshoo believes in building a fact-driven, transparent, objective and scientific culture to drive innovation.

Makarand Gadre

Director

Mr. Makarand Gadre has 33+ years of extensive experience in Software Design, Architecture and Engineering. Prior to Kloudq, he has worked with Microsoft and has a rich experience in development of Word 2.0 (Windows 3.1), Excel 95 to Excel 2007 and various other Office products. He has also worked with Persistent Systems Limited as Associate Vice President – Engineering Excellence and he is Founder Partner of Place factor, LLC since April 2012 till present.