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EDWARD HOOFNAGLE, CFA, CPA
Group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

With significant experience in technology related management consulting, Ed combines industry thought leadership with deep technology expertise to design core strategies that ensure the success of eBusinessware and its client companies.

Prior to launching eBusinessware, he was the Director of eBusiness in the Global Financial Risk Management Practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers where he advised wholesale financial institutions on the design and implementation of ebusiness strategies and technology deployment. Ed was a founding designer of Financial Products Markup Language (FpML).

Past experiences also include the implementation of firmwide intranet based risk management applications and global derivatives trading systems. Before joining PwC, Ed was the Director of Risk Infrastructure for Group Santander where he led several cross-border technology implementations in a multi-cultural, multi-linguistic environment. He also served as the Head of Market Risk for the Investment Bank. Prior to joining Santander in 1995, Ed was a principal consultant in Pricewaterhouse Financial Services Industry Practice. Ed graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B. S. in Accounting from The School of Management at Syracuse University. He maintains active CFA and CPA designations.

Ed is leading authority in the market and credit risk management field along with Credit Derivatives Trading and Credit Derivative Straight thru processing. Ed is foremost pioneer in procuring and later conceptualizing eBusinessware's leading Reference Data Management Workflow System and taking it to the end-to-end business process management outsourced service.

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SANJEEV MIDHA
Group President and Chief Technology Officer

Sanjeev has been building complex financial applications for last twenty years. His areas of expertise include forming teams, project management, financial systems, system architect and data architecture. Sanjeev specializes in working with geographically remote teams to implement large scale projects that employ proven design and project management methodologies. Before joining eBusinessware, Sanjeev was a principal consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Financial Risk Management practice where he advised Fortune 500 clients on issues relating to ebusiness and information technology. Before joining PwC, he was the head of the IT unit at the investment banking arm of Santander Investment.

Throughout his career, Sanjeev has worked in different countries, spread over five continents. He has a successful track record of getting quality projects done in a timely and cost effective manner. Sanjeev taught several programming languages at the New School for Social Research, NY on a part-time basis. While at Citibank and Santander Investment Inc., he taught a financial-basics curriculum to developers. Sanjeev earned his undergraduate degree in Engineering in India in 1981. He holds a Masters in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology and an MBA from The Stern School of Business at NYU. He has also attended the Executive Development program at Wharton. Sanjeev is the author of various white papers on topics ranging from Uni-RAD project lifecycle methodology to offshore development strategies.

Sanjeev has been building state of the art risk management systems including market and credit risk management. He also directed the architecture team to develop Credit Derivatives Trading System and Credit Derivative Straight thru processing application. He worked closely with Industry group to create a leading Reference Data Management Workflow System which was later productized as a tool kit and business process management outsourced service from eBusinessware's India offices. He has also been instrumental in creating Sales CRM system along with data warehousing and data mining solution for Annuity businesses and an Order Routing and Trade Management system.

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RAJESH ABHYANKAR
Director, Annuities and Sales CRM

Rajesh has dedicated over 12 years in mastering the art of software development and delivered innovative solutions to clients around the world in various domains ranging from Financial Services, Engineering, Travel, Telecom, and Media. He has made numerous contributions to the organizations in building our offshore Center of Excellence, the world-class UniRAD Process Framework and most notably his recent strategic approach in setting up a practice with focus on the Annuities business domain and the Sales CRM domain.

With this focus, Rajesh's practice has recently successfully developed and deployed two major systems for the Annuities division of one of our Fortune 100 clients. The first system is an integrated large data warehouse solution based on the Oracle platform used for standard reporting as well as analytical needs for strategic decision making. The second system is a Sales CRM system based on the E.piphany platform. Both the systems are now in production and eBusinessware, inc. continues to enhance and maintain them.

Rajesh continues to architect new products and consult on IT strategy for our emerging MNC clients as part of our Entrepreneurial Offering. One such exciting new products for strategic planning is based on the cutting-edge .NET platform. The first version of this product has been deployed at a Fortune 500 company in New York.

With a deep interest and knowledge of the Open Source world, Rajesh has been instrumental in designing our Open Source offerings. With a judicious integration of tools like Tutos, CVS, QMail, IMP, Compiere and Drupal we have created a compelling offering to deploy the entire IT infrastructure required to support operations of a small to medium sized firm.

As the organization's Thought Leader, Rajesh continues his pursuit of continuously scanning the innovation landscape to deliver solutions to acute problems that our clients trust and share with us.

Rajesh earned his engineering degree from India and a Masters from the UK. He has worked in India, UK and USA.

At eBusinessware, Rajesh is now managing a practice with the portfolio of some of the most interesting projects in the industry -

• Sales CRM practice that implements E.Piphany as well as our open source based proprietary CRM solution - He directs Asheesh Sharma, associate technology partner, to run this Sales CRM practice.
• Emerging MNC practice for our successful Entrepreneurial clients that specializes in providing compact fast acting solutions even with smaller onsite and offshore teams - He directs Srikant Tamatam to provide these services.
• eBusinessware's Open Source Suite of offerings for variety of clients to streamline and stabilize their technology projects and take them to the next level.
• eBusinessware runs a very successful Technology Platform Migration practice that helps clients transition from legacy platforms like VB, C, Perl, Python, COBOL to .NET, J2EE solutions. It often involves emphasis on Reverse Engineering, Re-engineering, and Re-architecture - Rajesh directs Vipul Prashar to run this practice effectively.

eBusinessware's Project Management, Business Analysis, and QA Practice - Rajesh directs Rakesh Singal, Associate Partner, to run this integrated practice.

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ASHU CHADHA
Managing Director, Chief Administrative Officer and Managing Partner (Asia Pacific)

Ashu is one of the founder members of the offshore unit of eBusinessware in India. She played a pivotal role in conceptualizing and initiating the eBusinessware "Center of Excellence".

Ashu, at eBusinessware, India, facilitates all activities of 'People Service Center', Business Development and assists in monitoring quality of work across global locations. She leads the mammoth tasks of Global Human Resource Functions, Client Development and Co-ordination, as well as manages the office management with overall administrative, account responsibilities. Human Resource Management Strategies, Job analysis, Orientation and Placement, Organizing trainings and Quality Circles and overall development of Asia Pacific Support Sales Team are her key areas of responsibilities. In addition to this, co-ordination amongst US, Australia, India, Singapore, and UK teams, as well as liaison with vendors, agents, suppliers and government organizations is also handled by her.

Ashu has an extensive experience in the field of Administration. Prior to joining eBusinessware, she was working with D.P.Y.A. in Mumbai as a senior member. She also served as a senior consultant for 'WinWins' Consultancy Group, looking after various administrative issues for MNCs.

M.Phil with honors in English Literature and Psychology, Ashu was adjudged as the All Rounder Organizer in the year 1985 at National Youth Conference in India. Throughout a scholarship holder at University level, she was also the winner of many awards in elocution.

In the year 2003, she was felicitated with “Role Model of the Company” award.

Ashu has also been overseeing eBusinessware's Singapore and Australia Practice working closely with our eBusinessware teams.

Entire organization including so many of our clients have complete faith in her recruitment ability which is unmatched when it comes to hiring sharp technology minds with financial industry experience including but not limited to Market Risk Management, Credit Risk management, Credit Derivatives technology, Asset management, Wealth management, Portfolio Management, Securities Lending, Annuities Business, Insurance Technologies, Fixed Income Trading, FX Derivatives, Electronic Brokerage, Sales CRM, Single Sign-on expertise, Reference Data Management, Trade Management, Order Routing, Portfolio Reconciliation, Business Process Management, and Knowledge Processing Skills.

Ashu has been responsible for streamlining our India Center of Excellence to high grade by leading the e-HR practice.

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SANDEEP SINGH GHUMAN
Director, Solutions & Services

Sandeep has more than ten years experience in design and delivery of enterprise IT solutions for the Financial, Retail, Data and Engineering industries. His engineering background and diverse work experience helped him gain insight into cross industry business processes and solution methodologies. He specializes in bringing our proven UniRAD process-oriented approach to highly specialized fields with complicated subject matter knowledge.

Sandeep brings to the table a unique mix of subject matter, technology/process expertise and a hands-down approach to problem solving-vital to designing solutions for complicated and demanding environments typical to the Financial industry. He is an expert at harnessing technology to deliver innovative solutions for business problems.

At eBusinessware, Sandeep manages a growing practice with diverse projects:

• Equity Trading Solutions:  instrumental in architecting and delivering our unique set of low latency and high throughput scalable solutions for the equity high performance front and middle office. Deploying solutions in brokerage arms of buy-side money market banks, currently working on a solution set for the sell-side.
  • Trade Manager^TM: Is our full featured enterprise equity middle office Trade Management System (TMS)
  • Equity Trader^TM: Is our full featured enterprise equity front office Order Management System (OMS)
  • Innovation Platform^TM: The Innovation Platform^TM encapsulates and solves technological problems in designing high-end financial applications – configurability, reliability, performance and scalability. The Innovation Platform^TM enables the fastest possible time to market – from design to deployment.
• Wealth Management Solutions: manage eBusinessware’s state-of-the-art Sigma platform that forms the basis of our wealth management solutions via Questionnaire Hub, Managed Solutions Hub, D3 Hub and MAS Hub
• Design, re-engineering and implementation of Credit Derivatives portfolio management tool at a Fortune 500 Investment bank. The portfolio contains everything from standard derivatives (Credit Default Swaps) to exotics (First to Defaults, Index Tranches etc).
• Design and implementation of a credit/pricing curve management solution at a Fortune 500 Investment bank capabilities - Design and implementation of a comprehensive reference data management suite (CreditDimensions.com) being used in a Fortune 500 company.
• Reference data research and management services at eBusinessware state of the art Data Center of Excellence in India for a number of clients.
• Entrepreneurial services for small/medium sized businesses that need trusted technology expertise without the hassle.

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VIVEK CHANDOLA
Director, Risk Modelling & Credit Derivatives Straight Thru Processing

Vivek has been working on complex software development for a long time. He has been the architect of large number of Java - J2EE systems ever since it became a mainstream technology. At eBusinessware, he has been hands-on architect and developer of Credit Derivvative Applications and Capital models. One of his primary strength has been the handling of onsite and offshore teams working on diverse applications.

At eBusinessware, Vivek runs the practice of Credit Derivatives Straight Thru Processing Systems.

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GAURAV MALIK
Director, Reference Data Practice

Gaurav designs, develops and implements application software with focus on providing solutions to minimize operational risks of the financial institutions. He is passionate about designing state of the art solutions to consolidate legacy databases while creating the centralized repositories for better reporting and interfacing with the heterogeneous external systems. He has been developing workflow-based tools for analysis and treatment of counterparty data.

He is also instrumental in providing technology-based solutions to the ERM wing of a leading insurance company in the US. Some of his solutions helped this company to dramatically automate the process increasing the productivity.

Gaurav was a core team member that architected and developed eBusinessware’s flagship Product Tool Kit called CreditDimensions.

In eBusinessware’s Wall Street office, Gaurav runs the practice for the development and integration of Reference Data Management suite and Reference Data Research and Maintenance. He is well supported by team members located at onsite and offshore (eBusinessware, India) and (London, UK). He divides his time at advising multiple large sized financial institutions in the area of credit risk data management technologies.

Gaurav’s diversified technology knowledge is obvious from the fact that he has certification in software technology and system management along with the Sun Microsystems as well as Microsoft certification.

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ASHEESH SHARMA
Director, Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence (United States)

Asheesh has been successfully delivering software projects to the clients across the globe, ranging from entrepreneurial organizations to the fortune 500 companies. He has rich experience in various client server, Web and data-management technologies, with specialization in Data Warehousing, Business intelligence, Data Mining, Data Integration, Sales CRM, and has played a major role in architecting, planning, developing and integrating the various solutions in different heterogeneous enterprise environments.

Asheesh also specializes in various domains including Annuities, Payment gateway, Publishing and Logistics. He attributes his success to the basics of software development life cycle and religiously following UniRAD processes. Due to his process-oriented approach, leadership qualities, domain expertise and strong analytical skills; he is currently advising on of the leading financial institutions in United States.

At eBusinessware, Asheesh manages Sales CRM, Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence practice comprising of:

• Data Warehousing and Data Mining Practice.
• Complex Data Integration Practice.
• Business Intelligence Practice.

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RAKESH SINGAL
Director, Project Management Office

Rakesh has more than 20 years of experience in the global IT, financial services and manufacturing industries. At eBusinessware, he has been actively involved in various projects as a Project Manager and Business Analyst for some of the world's largest financial services organizations. He runs the integrated practice of Project Management, Business Analysis and QA at eBusinessware as a Partner. Prior to joining eBusinessware he has worked closely in key management positions with Japanese MNCs in India. He also founded and ran a privately managed, profit making IT company of his own. He brings with him an all round experience in Corporate Planning, Project Management, HR and Administration, Operations, Sales and Marketing. Rakesh earned his undergraduate degree in Engineering from a premier technology institute in India.

At eBusinessware, Rakesh manages Project Managent Office practice comprising of:

• Project Management Center of Excellence.
• Business Analysis Center of Excellence.
• Quality Assurance Center of Excellence.
• Staff Supplementation Practice (eBusinessware's US and European Operations).

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MANDEEP SINGH
Director, Americas Staffing Solutions

An accomplished professional with outstanding technology skills and a proven track record in technology management, project leadership and enterprise solution architecture. Over 14 years of experience in information technology and currently working as a Project Director for multiple clients. Lead several multi million dollar projects involving integration with multiple applications.

Highly performance oriented individual with a strong project execution and implementation skills. A proven technical leader with an ability to handle a large, diverse and distributed team.

Successfully lead and managed multi team application integration projects on time and within budget that spanned multiple platforms and technologies.

Effective communicator and skilled at developing and maintaining relationships between organization, departments and customers.

Strong hands on technological background and instrumental in creating innovative business and technical solutions. Excellent background in architecting and designing highly scalable, n-tier applications for the Web front-end and backend processes.

Meticulous in implementing various software development processes (UML methodology, SEI etc).

Effective in providing the strategic direction for various enterprise level initiatives. Formed a study groups for J2EE development standards and technical forum for Technical Architects. Currently leading an initiative on Target application framework and partnering with various management groups.

A technical expert in providing consulting to various other projects.

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GARY JONES
Director, Wealth Management Solutions

eBusinessware, provider of innovative services and solutions to top-tier financial services firms, today announced that it has hired well known wealth management industry consultant Gary Jones to help drive the growth of its wealth management technology business line.

“We are committed to growing our wealth management technology business line and offering the wealth management industry a range of top-quality services and solutions that help the industry achieve greater efficiency,” said Ed Hoofnagle, president, eBusinessware.

“Gary’s knowledge and experience in the industry and support of the Money Management Institute (MMI) effort make him a great addition to our team and the right person to help us achieve our goals.”

eBusinessware offers a range of products and services for the wealth management industry, as well as a proven ability to deliver on client-defined projects. The Questionnaire Hub™, a web-based application that eBusinessware is currently piloting, offers investment managers an efficient solution for the quarterly questionnaire process required by sponsor firms. The company is also developing capabilities that will help support adoption of the MMI – MASS Committee industry messaging standards effort.

Jones joins eBusinessware with more than 20 years of experience in the managed solutions industry. Through his own consulting firm he continues to support the MMI effort to bring greater efficiency to the managed solutions industry, as he has since 2006. Prior to joining the MMI effort, Mr. Jones was a member of the management team leading the Merrill Lynch managed solutions business. He has served in various leadership capacities and brings significant experience in leading multiple technology and operations projects, product development, website development and data mining.