Mr. Puri is the Chairman and Managing Director of the Spanco Limited. He founded Spanco in 1995 as a Telecom System Integration company and today Spanco Limited is a formidable force in System Integration space. Through streamlining operations, acquiring new businesses, and ensuring that each business under the Spanco umbrella is one of the best in its field, Spanco was able expand dramatically into the BPO space. Mr. Puri has enhanced the company’s corporate governance policies in line with best practices and listed Spanco on the Bombay Stock Exchange.

In addition to chairing the board of directors, Mr.Puri is responsible for managing the company; formulating and executing long-term strategies; and for all interactions with clients, employees, investors and other stakeholders. Mr. Puri is Spanco’s primary decision maker and policy maker, setting the tone for the company’s values, ethics and culture.

His vision helped the group foray into the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry way back in 2000. He was instrumental in setting up “Sparsh” and “Respondez”, Spanco’s domestic and International Contact center brands respectively. In 2005, “Sparsh” was sold to the Blackstone” backed Intelenet, a deal which was the biggest in the domestic BPO space at that time.

Under his guidance, Spanco today has a focused “Government Transformation Services” vertical which works with various state governments and the central government assisting it to become more efficient by the use of information Technology. Spanco is executing large eGovernance project across various states in India and contributing in “Bharat Nirman”.

Mr. Puri is a visionary in true sense and responsible for sculpting a unique business model for Spanco and contributing to the sustained growth over years.

Adarsh Bagaria is the Whole time Director at Spanco Limited.

Mr. Bagaria joined Spanco in 2000 and has been sphere heading several projects across the group. He has been instrumental in the setting up of the BPO business. He has worked extensively across various functions to provide Administrative, Strategy and People support.

Adarsh has more than 17 years of work experience spanning in various sectors including High Technology, Steel and Telecom. He has a keen sense for finance and led a cost effective administrative and people operations across various group companies spanning more than 8000 people. His strong relationship management has led several partnerships and acquisitions across the globe. Adarsh was instrumental in Spanco’s acquisitions in UK and foray into Middle East.

Adarsh holds a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from Mumbai University.

Deepak Bhagchandaney is the Deputy Managing Director. In this role, Mr. Bhagchandaney is responsible for managing Spanco’s operations, new business development and additionally manage the Service provider Business. The role also includes responsibility for strategic planning, inter-agency coordination and policy development, business planning, strategy development and customer care.

Prior to joining Spanco, he worked with large organizations like Tata Telecom, Motorola and Alcatel. He has over 17 years of experience in the field of Networking and Telecommunications. He joined Spanco in 2001 as Director - Sales and Marketing and soon after he was promoted to Deputy Managing Director.

Mr. Bhagchandaney holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, with specialization in Electronics and telecommunications. He has a Masters degree in Marketing from Mumbai University.

Vidur Sehgal is Sr. Vice President of System Integration Division of Spanco Ltd., responsible for the North & East region.

Vidur joined Spanco in as Sales Head and was promoted as Sr. Vice President within a year. He is responsible for the operations and Government Sales in North and East.

Vidur started his carrier in 1992 with Punjab Power Generation Machine Ltd. a (Crompton Greaves) Company. He was promoted as a Design Engineer and was responsible for research on indigenous controller in collaboration with Alternate Hydro Energy Center at Rorkee University. He was deputed to USA for technical Know How. After this in 1996 for two years he joined a Consultancy company as a Project Manager responsible for setting up the Daweoo and Honda Siel Plants. He spent eight years with Redington India where he managed different geographies and helped Redington to grow their business. His last responsibility was as the Strategic Business Unit (SBU) head for Retail. He helped Redignton India to align and grow into this new Business stream of Large Format Retail and other Retail Channel Pan India.

Vidur holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering specializing in Electronics & Communication, from R.V. College of Engineering Bangalore.

Pradeep Prakash Singhal is the senior Vice President, responsible for the network Engineering Division of Spanco Ltd. Mr. Singhal is a telecom expert with more than 35 years of experience in equipment manufacturing and services. He was closely involved in the technology absorption, development of telecom equipments, I & C and services in India while the sector underwent reforms in last decade.

He joined Spanco Ltd. in 2006 to lead Spanco’s Network Engineering business. Prior to Spanco, he worked at senior positions with ITI (the largest telecom manufacturing company in India) and ZTE (leading Telecom manufacturing company of China) as business head.

Mr. Singhal holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering specializing in Electrical engineering, from MNNIT Allahabad, PG Dip (Finance), MDP (GM) IIM Bangalore.

Ravi Bhatnagar is Senior Vice President of System Integration Division of Spanco Limited, responsible for the West & South region of India.

Ravi joined Spanco in as Sales Head and was soon promoted to Senor Vice president. He is responsible in spearheading key e-governance projects while driving and sustaining business models, in the telecom and networking space.

Ravi has wealth of experience spanning over 2 decades, in various domain. He played a key role in understanding and catering to the telecom market. He has high degree of expertise in the various e-governance projects from seeding to successful execution stages. He led e-governance business at Shonkh Technologies International Ltd where he introduced Smart Card based solutions for Driving License and Vehicle Registration Certificates for the first time in the country. During his stint with Vertec Communications Ltd a leading Internet Service Provider he played a pivotal role of introducing internet services in few states of India.

Ravi holds a degree in Arts and a Post Graduate diploma in PR. He has a PG diploma specializing in Sales and Marketing. He enjoys travelling to exotic locations and is an ardent follower of Indian music.

Pravin Kumar is the CEO of Spanco BPO Services Private Limited and a member of the Board of Directors of Spanco BPO Services Private Limited.

Mr. Kumar is an Industry veteran with more than 35 years of experience during which he has been credited with the creation of three large business empires. Mr. Kumar today is widely respected name in the Business Process Outsourcing space and is regarded as a pioneer in the Domestic Call Center Services in the Country.

Praveen Kumar started his career in 1974 with the Flowmore group for 12 years. He was instrumental in conceptualizing and setting up diverse businesses like Capital Goods, Power and Polyester firms. He spent 19 years with the Dalmia group where he spearheaded various business units ranging from Cement to Textiles to paging services. He was the Managing Director of DSS Mobile Communications; which was a JV between Dalmia's, Samsung and Sunkyong of South Korea. DSS, in 2000 was the largest domestic call center in the country.

Mr. Kumar is also credited with the creation of the "Mobilink" paging brand in India. In 2002, he was one of the shortlists for the Ernst & Young Manager of the year award. Just before joining Spanco, Mr. Kumar was the CEO at Omnia BPO Services, the BPO arm of the Spice Telecom group.

Mr. Kumar is a MBA from BITS Pilani specialization in Finance, Advertising & Sales. He was the first President of Indian Paging Services Association & was also an active member of the Telecom Committee of CII.

Anil Wadhwa is CEO & Executive Director of Spanco Respondez BPO Pvt Limited and CEO & Director Spanco Europe Limited (Respondez UK).

Mr. Wadhwa joined Spanco Group in July 2000 as Head of South India region to set up and grow system integration business in Hyderabad, Bangalore and Chennai. Worked extensively on the network side with leading ISPs and set up technology for over 15 International call centers pan India. Since January 2007 he took over as CEO of Respondez and further established the business with partnerships across the United States and acquisition in UK. He grew Respondez successfully from a single site in Mumbai to two sites and doubled the revenues with a consistent & enviable profit making record.

As a part of the founding team of Spanco’s Domestic BPO business was instrumental in acquiring & sustaining key clients for the domestic BPO division in the first year. Also set up the domestic BPO facility at Bangalore employing 300 call center professionals. As Chief Operating Officer for Respondez built a team in HR, Training, Operations & Quality which delivered consistently resulting in increased revenues from Year 2003-04 to Year 2005-06.

Mr. Wadhwa holds a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. He has over 16 years of experience as an independent entrepreneur. In 1993 he founded a company in Hyderabad involved into office automation and telecom system integration space. He was awarded and recognised as the youngest entrepreneur and highest performing partner pan India with key Office Automation & Paging companies through 1994 – 1996. In the year 1999-2000 the company had a turnover of 31 million INR.

Tejinder Singh Bhatia is Director and CEO of Spanco GKS, in Qatar.

Tejinder joined Spanco in May, 2006 and has played a key role in growing the Spanco GKS business. He built two BPO units Qatar and Oman respectively.

Prior to joining Spanco, he was COO & Business Head; Godrej - Upstream Ltd. He has spent 18 years in various senior management positions. Under his leadership, these businesses achieved significant growth faster than the market average.

Mr. Bhatia is a postgraduate in Commerce & economics from Delhi University, and holds a Master's degree in Business Management. He has also completed MCSE+I, PGDCA & Six Sigma – black belt.

His interests include; Cricket, Swimming, Reading, Traveling, Cooking, Teaching, New Technology and gizmos.

Mr. Bhatia has won a number of Honors and prestigious awards. Some key awards include Gold award in service category by Oman Web Awards, Largest OSP (>300 Seats) in Middle East by Insights, Best Internally developed application; all are testament to his dedication and industry expertise.

Kamal Maheshwari is Senior Vice president, and National Technology Head.

Kamal Maheshwari joined Spanco Ltd in 2003, as General Manager IT and was promoted as Senior Vice President IT and National head of Technology. He has a sound background of Networking, BPO, software and IT project management. He is also responsible for Spanco’s foray into Power segment.

Kamal Maheshwari has a strong techno commercial background and is a dynamic leader with good command on IT management skills. He has wide exposure to complex solution designing and implementation of Large LAN and multi location WAN setups. His vast experience also includes BPO and Call center technologies and has a track record of successful execution of big projects with 5000+ seats.

He is also instrumental in setting up the capabilities in solution designing for OSS BSS for telecom players and software for business process automations.

Mr. Maheshwari brings to Spanco 16 years of Technology experience.

Mr. Maheshwari holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering.

Kaustubh Dhavse heads the Business Strategy Group (BSG) at Spanco Limited. In his role, he leads a team of technology, business and financial strategists who help in defining the Business and Financial strategy across all Spanco group companies.

Prior to joining Spanco Limited, Kaustubh was head of the ICT consulting practice for South Asia and Middle East at Frost & Sullivan In that role he was responsible for the overall growth of the consulting business across this region.

While at Frost & Sullivan, Kaustubh has worked with CEO's of several IT/ITES and Telecom Companies helping them with their growth strategy. His work on development of a Product Strategy for a large Indian IT MNC and Go to Market Strategy for the world's largest network equipment manufacturer was well recognized.

Kaustubh is a well known speaker and has been featured in prominent business TV Channels, newspapers, and Industry related magazines.

Apart from Business and Strategy consulting, Kaustubh has been associated with the IT Outsourcing Industry for more than 8 years. He has worked with EDS and helped setup the Workplace Support Services Program in India for several fortune 100 clients. He was also head of operations with Respondez (Spanco's International BPO arm).

Kaustubh has an Engineering degree from the University of Mumbai and has a PGDM from S.P.Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR). He achieved the distinction of featuring in the Dean's merit list while doing his PGDM from SPJIMR.