Paras Arora (paras@papam.in)
Co-Founder & Executive Director

Paras Arora completed his graduation in Mechanical Engineering from Aligarh Muslim University in the year 1998. He started his career as a Mechanical Engineer with LML Scooters where he worked in Process Management of various manufacturing lines implementing TQM and the latest Industrial Engineering Concepts.

He realized over the period of time that it was not his calling. He quit LML and joined one of the top Indian IT company TCS in the Year 2001. There he worked for various Industry domains like Custody Business, Trade & Logistics, Retail etc and has been associated with few organization wide initiatives. During his tenure, he got a flavor of all the facets of the Software Development Lifecycle from Development, Maintenance, Testing to Implementation starting as a Team member moving on to becoming a Project Manager. He underwent some of the best designed trainings which sharpened his Leadership and Managerial skills.

Paras has almost 9 years of experience. He has been to United States and Germany during his career working with foreign clients. He takes care of all the executive responsibilities at PAPAM.

Manish Pathak (manish@papam.in)
Co-Founder & Executive Director

Manish has a Masters degree in Computer Applications from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra. He has 6 years extensive experience in the field of Software Development, Project Estimation and Project Management. He also posses 2 years experience in retail activity as channel sales partner of a leading brand in India. He has been associated with C-DAC, TCS and HCL Technologies before venturing into www.papam.in.

He has worked in different domains including Telecom, Retail, Education and Finance. Manish has expertise in Project planning and strategy.

Pankaj Bansal (pankaj@papam.in)
Co-Founder & Executive Director

Pankaj received his BTech in Electrical Engineering from Aligarh Muslim University. He has gained rich experience (10+ years) in renowned IT organizations including Information Technologies India Ltd (Espire Infolabs) and Infogain India. He is a highly skilled professional with strong business perspective to technology in services based scenarios. He has gathered sufficient expertise in architecting, developing intelligent solutions and efficiently managing the relevant resources and technologies.

He has brilliant ability to transform complex business needs into fabulous real time solutions.

Veerendra K Jaitly (veerendra@papam.in)
Mentor and Director

Veerendra K Jaitly had an illustrious career serving in the Indian Navy for over 22 years. He holds an M.Tech degree in Sat Comm and a B. Tech (Hons) degree in E&ECE from the prestigious institute of IIT Kharagpur. He was the commissioning crew of INS Viraat and was actively involved in Computerization and Networking in the Navy including the installation of First LAN onboard Indian Aircraft carrier, INS Viraat in 1987. He developed the multi-media technology and produced about 100 training modules and a few documentaries in 1989-92 for the use of Indian Navy. He received the best instructor award as a young Lieutenant.

As a Govt. and Defence Consultant - India and SAARC of Cisco Systems he was actively involved with the e-Governance and Defence Networks. He delivered a number of lectures on Network Centric Warfare to create awareness on the subject in three services. He was the Founder Dean of Jaypee University of Information Technology, Distt Solan. At present he is the President of AstroWix, a pioneer in the field of Project Management training and consultancy. He has been instrumental in creating a platform and network of Project Management professionals through a monthly event- PM Insight Lecture Series at Delhi and Bangalore. He is also the Chief Editor of "PM Xpressions" a monthly newsletter on Project Management news and trends. Jaitly has been also actively involved with the Customer Value Management concept and has been instrumental in spreading the message that Customer holds the key to the success of any business.

He is an exceptional speaker, coach and a trainer and is known for his motivational and leadership skills. His trainings are well-known for being informative, interactive, action oriented and inspiring. His training programs are based on the latest industry trends. His extensive knowledge in varied fields has helped professionals at improving their leadership, communication, team building and business skills.

Mr. Jaitly has to his credit a number of articles and has delivered lectures widely in India and abroad. He has presented at National and International Seminars from the forums like CII, ASSOCHAM, AMCHAM, C-DAC, Common Wealth Countries Forum for e-Gov, CSI, Cyber Media, and Defence Officer's Conferences on diverse topics. He has been invited to more than 30 Technical/ Management institutes including IITs and Nanjing University at China to deliver lectures.

Mr Jaitly is an extrovert, proactive, a change agent and an organizer of events at the national level with remarkable success. He had been a mentor for entrepreneurs at a session organized by TiE and PanIIT. He has been instrumental in the creation of PanIIT India as its Founder Board Member. He has given interviews on Radio, TV and Internet. Jaitly has traveled to US, UK, China, Australia, Italy, Egypt, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Maldives and thus has a global exposure and understanding, He had been the Leader for an All India Motor Cycle Rally and was Oi/C for a Car Rally. He loves to trek, plays Golf and devotes some of his energies for promoting education in the tribal areas.

Dr. P.K.B.Menon
Advisor Board

Dr. P.K.B.Menon was formerly Adviser to the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. He was also the Secretary, National Science and Technology Entrepreneurship development Board, Government of India until his superannuation from the government service on 31 May, 2003. He was responsible for initiating and implementing the Science and Technology Entrepreneurs Park and Technology Business Incubator programme of the Government of India. He has more than three decades of experience in entrepreneurship development. He is currently the Chairman of the Indian STEPs and Business Incubator Association of India. He is also associated with the National Business Incubator Association of America, Global Network of Business Incubators and Founder member of the Asian Association of Business Incubators.

He is an Adviser to a few institutions in India for setting up, operationalising and successfully running STEPs and Business Incubators and also a mentor/adviser to a number of start-up companies.

Vivek Mungali
Advisor Board

Vivek is a PMP certified professional. He is a 1992 B.Tech from IIT Delhi. Over the course of his career he has been a part of SAP supply chain transformation programs at some of the top Fortune 100 companies while working for Ernst & Young, Capgemini and Accenture.

Currently he is settled in USA.