T.N.C. Venkata Rangan (Venkat) is a Technocrat Businessman. He is the Founder & Chairman of Vishwak Solutions. Under his leadership, Vishwak has grown into a multi-million dollar software services company. Venkat enjoys playing the dual role of Businessman and Technology expert; he has been the key strategist behind Vishwak's flagship Media Publishing solutions - VPF (Vishwak Portal Framework) which is powering the online properties of many a leading News and Media companies.

Venkat believes in the power of delegation and follows his signature style of transparent management. He encourages his team to first listen and put yourself on customer’s shoes before thinking about technology. In today's highly competitive Software Solutions market, this has ensured that Vishwak gets repeat businesses year on year.

Venkat is an active speaker and has presented in various industry events and conferences. He is the Microsoft Regional Director for Chennai – an honorary title from Microsoft that he holds from 1999.

One of the areas he is very passionate about is Tamil language computing and he formalizes this by being the Chairman of International Forum for Information Technology in Tamil (INFITT), a Non-Profit Non-Government organization registered in California, USA. Apart from Vishwak, Venkat serves as the Director in LIFCO Publishers Pvt. Ltd, a 80 year old book publishing firm in South India.

Venkat has a Bachelors Degree in Engineering from University of Madras. Venkat is a regular globe-trotter and a passionate book-reader. Being a voracious blogger, Venkat can be easily reached at his popular blog at www.venkatarangan.com/blog or in Twitter @venkatarangan.

Aravindan brings on board over 17 years of rich experience in sales of IT consulting and services. Before joining Vishwak, Aravindan has held various positions at Times Internet (A Times of India Enterprise), ChennaiOnline & WebDunia. He is instrumental in setting up the Sales infrastructure and he holds an MBA degree. Aravindan holds an MBA from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India.

S.Vaidyanathan brings with him international work experience of about 37 years in the fields of banking, Finance and manufacturing sectors both in India and abroad. He had been with Indian Bank for 15 years dealing in loans/advances, foreign exchange, legal, and other administrative functions. He resigned as Senior Manager in charge of a big branch to work for a finance company in Nairobi, Kenya as Chief Manager/General Manager for 5 years. Prior to joining Vishwak he was working as General Manager (Finance) in an export Manufacturing Company.

In addition to being a graduate he holds professional qualifications of C.A.I.I.B (certified Associate) from Indian Institute of Bankers, Bombay and post graduate diploma in Financial Management from Annamalai University and Business Management from Datamatics Institute, Bombay.

At Vishwak, Johann plays an advisory role contributing to product placements, presale, product requirements elaboration besides market research in the Media and Broadcasting space.

An expert in MPEG-2 ad insertion technologies with experience in projects such as iBaker, platforms such as Liberate and programs such as VOD, he specializes in IPTV, ETV/DTV, Linear Broadcast, New Media and Set Top Box Stack Integration. His career spans the past decade in U.K working with major broadcasters in the U.K, EU, U.S and Hong Kong. Prior to immigrating to U.K, he has successfully built and ran his own company in Cape Town, South Africa that provided technology services to SMEs.

He has played diverse client facing roles for global clientele such as Singapore Government, Virgin Media, TeleWest, and Redbee Media etc. He has managed major programmes requiring trans-continental team-building and system engineering to server level, broadcast servers, multiplexer configuration, setting up play out streams. He is Prince 2 Trained, speaks Dutch and English. He enjoys structured methodologies, supported by ISO 9001:2000 Service Adoption program. He is an Executive and Business Coach having been trained by The Academy for Chief Executives (ACE) and is a member of the Academy. Johann has an academic background in Human resources and Labour Relations (ILO) and lives in London, UK.