Management Team

Rana Singh
CEO

Rana Singh is an accomplished entrepreneur and has been a top executive in high-technology services businesses. He founded/co-founded several companies and has domain expertise in Information Technology, Healthcare Business Systems, Business Process Outsourcing and International Trade. Prior to Opson, he was Vice President, Product Development Solutions at Innominds Software, Inc. where he was responsible for overall sales and marketing. Innominds achieved over 150% annualized growth in product engineering services during his tenure. He has been active in private equity (early stage investing) and promoting entrepreneurship in Chicago and Bay area as part of his involvement with Keiretsu Forum.

Rana has a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangalore University, India and an MBA from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

Michael Gruber
COO

Michael has been active as a trusted advisor, executive, entrepreneur, and investor with early stage companies. He founded Cornerstone Angels and was the Founder and President of Keiretsu Forum Chicago/Midwest. He is a Partner in SCIUS Capital, a boutique investment bank. Previously, Michael was a Director at Taproot Ventures, a seed stage venture capital firm. In addition, he served as a VP at InsWeb (NASDAQ: INSW), where he was part of the senior management team that brought the company public and prior to that, he was Product Marketing Manager at Intuit Corp (NASDAQ: INTU) where he led the Quicken product line's online financial services, and an Investments and Strategic Alliances Manager at Motorola (NYSE: MOT). Mr. Gruber also has significant experience with Japanese companies having both worked and studied in Japan

Mr. Gruber holds a B.A degree from University of Pennsylvania, a Certificate in Japanese studies from Nanzan University in Japan, and an MBA degree from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Nived Vats
VP, India Operations

Nived has a background in IT outsourcing and operations. Prior to Opson, he was with UST India, managing the talent sourcing operations. Prior to that, he has with Vishesh Infosystems Limited and was heading the corporate training division. He led the division to be the most profitable one within the company.

Nived has a BE in Civil Engineering from Bangalore University, India and holds a PGDCA from Brainware Bangalore.

Krishna Venkataraman
Director, Engineering

Krishna brings to Opson over 16 years of software development experience and an entrepreneurial spirit. He has extensive experience in the software industry, with a great understanding of both legacy and emerging technologies. He has keen interest in design, development and implementation of web-based solutions. Prior to Opson, he was Professional Services Consultant at Zend Technologies Inc. There he implemented a Global Services Portal and Document Management System, for Zend's internal use used by the Sales, Training and Global services teams. Prior to Zend, he was Sr. Software Engineer (Web Applications) at SimplyHired Inc., a search engine for jobs. Krishna also founded eSearchNet.com LLC in San Jose CA, operating since early 2003. The company owns and operates multiple web properties including www.esearchnet.com, a multi channel content website.

Krishna earned his Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science) from University of Madras, India.