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Richard S. Garnick
Executive Chairman and CEO
Also serving as Executive Chairman of the Board, Mr. Garnick is a proven global executive and has demonstrated achievements in high-tech, IT/software services, BPO, global service delivery models, e-commerce and telecommunications industries. He was most recently a senior executive at Keane Inc. and was Chief Executive of Americas & EAS for Wipro Technologies, helping to build one of the leading global IT/BPO businesses out of India. During his tenure at Wipro the company grew dramatically in revenue, profits, capabilities & market presence (from global revenue of $300M & 5500 employees to $2B and over 50,000 employees). Over the last 20 plus years he has held leadership positions at Global Digital Media, Avnet, Arrow Electronics, Innovoice and Texas Instruments. He also sits on the Boards of several other high tech organizations.
John Blyzinskyj
President & Chief Operation Officer | menu |
John Blyzinskyj has over 25 years of experience leading divisions and business units. Most notably, while at IBM, he was VP / General Manager for several global businesses up to $1bil in annual revenue. More recently John was SVP / Divisional GM for Patni, the offshore services company, and prior to this held executive Marketing, Sales, and Business Development roles at Motorola and HP.
John has a Bachelor of Science (Honors) degree in Electronic Engineering from Kings College, University of London; and an MBA from the Cranfield Institute of Technology, in the UK.
Brad B. Buxton
President, Avotus eProcurement. | menu |
Brad Buxton has spent the past 25+ years as a passionate client advocate and telecom industry trailblazer. Brad has managed approximately a billion dollars of annual procurement volume on the Internet for his clients, as well as provided extensive, transformational consultation and advice to executives of 200 of the Fortune 500 companies and others. Mr. Buxton was the first, and only person to successfully automate the entire telecommunications procurement process in a web-based, patented, application.
Mr. Buxton has lectured extensively at universities and seminars for industry groups, and is certified by the Texas and California courts as an expert in telecommunications. In this capacity, Mr. Buxton represented clients both in negotiations and as an expert witness in the court room. He has been published in over 100 whitepapers and industry articles and has been quoted in leading industry magazines.
In his career, Mr. Buxton founded or co-founded each of the following companies: Tel-America, Combined Consultants, Service First, Applied Research Technologies, ARTools, LuxuryQuest, and others, and held executive positions at Allnet, Ford Aerospace, Starnet, GTE, and Sprint.
Manoj Aggarwal
Chief Financial Officer | menu |
Manoj Aggarwal is the Chief Financial Officer of Avotus Corporation. He is a financial strategist with more than 20 years experience in financial management in both a strategic and operational capacity across a number of industries including Information Technology, IT Enabled Services, Telecommunications and Manufacturing.
Previously, Manoj served as Chief Financial Officer of a large KPO/BPO company, where he oversaw the Company’s entire financial and operational functions. He previously served as Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of the second largest Strategic Business Unit (SBU) of a big four IT company from India, where he directed five business lines with annual revenues of more than US $460 million. In this capacity, he worked on some of the very large multiyear deals amounting to over US $275 million both for a Fortune 100 company and a large Indian public sector telecom company. He also oversaw key financial activities and managed an 18 member team, with significant international exposure.
Prior to that, Manoj Was Chief Financial Officer of Wipro Technologies, where he managed financial reporting, planning and analysis, and implemented processes, procedures and cost controls for a unit of 1,800 employees with a run rate of US $180 million in operating revenues. Earlier in his career, he served as Senior Manager – Accounts, Tax and Finance at Ericsson HP, and Senior Manager – Accounting, Finance and Taxation of Sona Koyo.