Peter Chacko

As the founding technologist and the principal value merchant, Peter drives the mission and vision of the company and integrate R&D, marketing, and sales departments as a cohesive force. Peter has more than 18 years of well-rounded experience as a hands on technologist around networked/distributed/cloud storage and related system software. Before starting Athinio, Peter worked for Calsoft Labs for 3 years where he started a new CoE for storage networking R&D and as the intrapreneur, he also led the business development/marketing efforts to sell the IP created( network file virtualization technology pluggable to any L4-L7 switch). Before this, he was running NetDiox computing systems, which he founded in 2005 to create new technology break through around clustered and grid storage research and and finishing educational services to experienced professionals/spare time researchers. Prior to NetDiox, He had been consulting in the US for 6+ years for companies like Bell communications research(Wireless networking group), IBM(SAN filesystems group), HP etc. He was also part of couple of startups (Matisse networks(distributed L2/L3 switching) and InMage Systems(Data protection &Disaster recovery).

Peter holds a Masters degree in Computer Science & Applications(MCA, from Department of Computer Science, Madras university campus), and a Bachelors in Physics(St.Peter's college, Mahatma Ghandhi University,Kerala,India).

M S Prasad

MS Prasad is a network/information security veteran of 30+yrs of exp, who is renowned in the industry and trusted by Indian government departments to oversee security for their computer networks. Prior to Athinio, he was with NeoAccel India , a pioneer in virtual SSL VPN solutions, and grew the company to a team of 40+ people which later acquired by VmWare . At NeoAccel, he led all engineering development, product management, developed channels and drove sales and marketing organizations . Prior to NeoAccel, he was a data security scientist at DRDO for 24+ years, where part of his assignments includes as a security auditor of different Government organisations & writing Mil standards for SW engg and security. Prasad is the recipient of the DSP Design Innovation Award (1987) and Best Scientist Award (1989 and 1998). He is a fellow of IETE, M-IEEE, M-IEE. He also leads the Indian chapter of Cloud Security Alliance(CSA). He holds a B.Tech(ECE) from IIT –Kharagpur and M.Tech(CS) from IIT -Kanpur.

T V Renitha

Renitha is a founding Engineer at Athinio, having 10+ years of exp in systems, storage and application software.At athinio she built most of the software for cloud integration components, SSL/HTTP Stack/compression, windows client systems, data protection and mmanagement/UI components and later started working on further extensions of file storage platform and object storage components. Prior to Athinio, she was with NetDiox, a storage research venture for 3 years, leading all systems and storage research projects with a special emphasis on data structure extension libraries, storage replication components and Databases interfacing frameworks.Prior to NetDiox, she was with California Software company Ltd for several years, working on Dr.DWG suite of products. Renitha is passionate about developing software, with her hands on approach and running QA and software management processes. She holds a B.Tech from Govt.Engineering College, Trichur, affiliated to Calicut University.

V. Ranganathan

Mr.Ranganathan has been a technology entrepreneur for 25+ years, with his Network /Data center infrastructure integration/consulting company, BNA India which he bootstrapped from scratch. BNA india is now executing many government projects as well as from large customers, with integrated R&D division to deliver customized solutions. He is also well versed in distributed data bases, storage networking, IP-Video surveillance markets and related level-0/1/2 technologies thats is burned deep in the mud. He is also an adjunct faculty at IIIT-B and holds a B.Tech and M.Tech in ECE.(Both degrees from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore). Ranganathan is a passionate technologist, who enjoy talking about new innovations, and look at technology innovation as his religion and enjoy supporting, guiding other technology entrepreneurs who are very ambitious, bold, and having a die-hard attitude to win, during his purpose-made-spare time.

Uday Dhanikonda

Uday brings 18+ years of progressive management experience in the US, dealing with multi site, multi geo operations to Athinio. Uday worked for Workday Inc, where he joined as an early stage startup member, and involved in hiring and building various engineering teams, worked with Security, SaaS data management, Operations and IT infrastructure/Cloud operations teams . Before Workday, Uday was with Sun Microsystems Inc where he worked for 13+years, and was also involved in Engineering Management, QA Engineering, marketing and evangelism activities for Java technologies. Uday is adept at leading and managing distributed teams, having cultural diversity and different geographical bindings.
Uday holds a Masters degree in Computer Science & Applications( from Department of Computer Science, Madras university campus), and a Bachelors in Electronics Science.Uday owns 3 US patents.