Management Team

Amar Reddy
Nagesh Reddy Gouravaram
Siva K Tata
Bob Tackels
Kenneth Kurk
Pavan Yogender
Prashanth Mitta
Satya Mokkala

Amar Reddy, CEO
Mr. Reddy brings over 15 years of experience as a technology professional, with wide-ranging roles in architecting and implementing large enterprise solutions in Telecommunications, Pharmaceutical, Insurance and Finance/Banking industries. He has deep experience in systems, applications and unified communications that he brings to Smart IMS, where he leads the services offerings to small, medium, and large customers. Till recently, he held senior techology leadership roles at Merrill Lynch where he led solutions implementation for ML Private Clients at over 700 branches, and was an integral part of the M&A practice that included many acquisition projects for ML. He has held senior positions in Marsh and McLennan, AT&T, Hoffman-LaRoche, and other public companies.

Mr. Reddy holds an MS from the City University of New York, is a published author and has received awards from the City University of New York for his research work.

He is a charter Member in TIE – NJ-PHL chapter, and is the founder of the Fluorosis Awareness Movement in US for A.P, India, on water contamination. He frequently conducts school literacy development programs in rural India.

Mr. Reddy was also a co-Founder of INVAGEN Pharmaceuticals, and is a Co-Founder of Symphony Pharma & Life Sciences, a high-growth CRO company with global offices.

Nagesh Reddy Gouravaram , COO
Nagesh is the Chief Operating Officer with Smart IMS. He has been with Smart IMS for more than 9 years and has been instrumental in the steady growth of Smart IMS. Nagesh is responsible for taking Smart IMS into the global market and has helped the organization penetrate into multiple domains with specialized services. He has been an able leader to the Smart IMS team, while establishing efficient operational methods within the company and with our partner firms.

Nagesh holds a Bachelors degree in Mechanical engineering from Kakatiya University, India. He has entrepreneurial expertise encompassing over 12 years apart from leadership experience in Information Technology services. Prior to his engagement with Smart IMS, Nagesh founded a technology services company in India, which specialized as a single source solutions provider for all technology needs for then emerging IT services.

He brings extensive business consulting experience in large enterprises, with relevant deep-domain expertise in diverse technologies, and delivers extensive capabilities as the COO in client engagement delivery.

Siva K Tata , CTO
Siva brings more than 17 years of experience in information technology with proven expertise in managerial as well as technical roles. Prior to Smart IMS, he has had a successful track record of working with Fortune 500 companies to implement large-scale enterprise systems, drive the technical design, strategy and road map of several valuable projects. After having graduated from Jawaharlal Nehru Technology University, Hyderabad in 1986, Siva began his career in engineering and software development with large corporations in Hyderabad. Later working for companies like Tata Consultancy, Deutsche Babcock, Amdocs and Deloitte consulting, he made valuable contributions to clients’ bottom lines by leading the consulting practice in senior management positions. Siva has been instrumental in steering the software engineering methodologies and delivery practices for solution deployments at Smart IMS.

Bob Tackels , Business Development – Professional Services

Mr. Tackels worked within IT Staffing and professional Services for over 20 years for industry leaders such as Modis and Comsys. He joined Smart IMS in 2009 and has been championing business development efforts with existing & new clients . Bob's long standing client relationships, dedication to customer satisfaction and sales methodology have been a welcome addition to our company. He also assists with partner and vendor relationships and has been active with several industry forums”.

Kenneth Kurk , Head (Federal Sales)
Mr. Kurk has over 10 years of experience completing bids and negotiations of over 200 million dollars in prime and sub-contracting for the Federal Government Contracting.

He was medically retired as Service Disabled Veteran after serving 12 years in the Air Force. Mr. Kurk received 31 medals and decorations as a Command and Control Operator. His military career provided a wealth of experience in all facets of voice and data communications utilizing satellite, radio, radar and aerospace assets. He has served in Operations IRAQI FREEDOM, ENDURING FREEDOM, ALLIED FORCE and DESERT FOX.

Ken graduated from Embry Riddle University with a B.S degree in Aerospace Science.

Pavan Yogender, Manager (NOC)
Pavan Yogender holds master’s degree in computer science from University of Nebraska, Omaha. Mr. Yogender instrumental in setting up Smart IMS MSP practice and leads the managed services division. Mr. Yogender brings in rich experience in diverse domains including application development, distributed computing and Infrastructure architecture. He specializes in system integration, network design & implementation, systems security and Unix based systems. He has significant experience in developing and providing network monitoring solutions for large enterprises. Mr. Yogender has extensive research background and has worked on projects related to DoD and NSF. He has published several research papers on VPN and network security. Mr. Yogender has executed several projects in IP Telephony and has worked with several clients for successful implementation of Voice, Video and Data integration projects.

Prashanth Mitta, Head (Operations, India)
Prashanth Mitta is the Head of Operations for Smartims India office. An MBA from New Delhi, He has spent over a decade in advancing through a series of Leadership positions. He has gained significant global experience by heading operations and Business Development of Two Start up Firms and has led multiple process and outsourcing Programs.

More recently, Prashanth held the position of Asst. Vice President at Coretree Solutions taking care of the entire gamut of Operations Activities including HR, Commercial and Corporate Communication functions.

Prior to Coretree, Prashanth was General Manager at GISystems.org - the Indian arm of Global Info Systems, where he was instrumental in bringing visibility to the company through branding initiatives in India besides streamlining Operations, HR & Recruitment processes.

Satya Mokkala, Co-Founder
Satya holds a masters degree in Communications and Information Studies from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She also has a Masters degree in Communications and Journalism from SV University, India. She is an experienced professional implementing technique of human factors engineering into information systems and user interface design. She also has considerable experience working in the Telecommunications Industry. As a Systems Engineer, she works closely with network operations team in the systems analysis, design and reporting of traffic data for various network elements. She has a keen insight into the needs of business through extensive customer interactions and delivery of working solutions.