Manjunatha Kutarahalli, is a veteran with 30 years of experience in technology and product management. He has had a strong management career providing leadership and building client value in the Enterprise IS, Software Products, Internet and e-commerce areas. He has deep experience in large scale operations, building competencies in niche technology areas, turnaround and high growth companies that develop leading-edge applications for diverse industry channels and client needs.
An email marketing expert, Manjunatha had worked earlier with an US based email marketing company named Bigfoot Interactive in Bangalore and went on to establish a successful technical team and managed all aspects of engineering, infrastructure and business processes which later got acquired by Epsilon. Prior to this, he was with Hewlett Packard for more than 6 years and before that he worked at Bharat Electronics Limited for 10 long years. At BEL, he was with the Research and Development wing building several indigenous systems for Indian Navy. In between, he was with VeriFone for 2 years and was responsible for building new generation systems for online/offline payment fostering solutions. While his stay at HP, Manjunatha held multiple roles and responsibilities both in India and in US including building enterprise solutions, handling pre-sales activities pursing large offshore contacts, building the delivery centre for Proctor & Gamble in Bangalore and even developed a competency centre of performance and scalability of large enterprise solutions.
He brings together entrepreneurial drive and vision with exceptional technology know-how to launch new products, build new competencies and penetrate lucrative market niches. When the ecommerce was just catching up, Manjunatha got motivated to form Aghreni Technologies in 2008, a niche marketing solutions provider. . He went ahead and co-founded Kenscio Digital Marketing, a digital direct marketing company, catering services to world’s largest players in 2009 and managed to get 50 clients in its very first year. After that there is no looking back.
A rank holder in BE Electronics from BU university, Manjunatha has done his M.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Madras and then one year senior management program from IIM Kolkata. He is an electronic gadgets freak and enjoys writing blogs whenever not at work.
