Dr. Venkat Srinivasan | CEO

Dr. Venkat Srinivasan brings his rich academic background in credit, working capital management and knowledge-based technology architectures along with his entrepreneurial successes to lead CreditPointe as its CEO.

In 2001, Venkat founded Rage Holdings LLC, CreditPointe's parent, with the idea of creating and leveraging a knowledge-based business process automation platform to incubate capital efficient, process aware businesses. Rage's 1st such effort, Corporate Fundamentals, Inc., which over the past 3 years has become the most efficient producer of structured financial information on public companies in the U.S., was merged with Hemscott, plc, a leading provider of corporate fundamental information solutions, in November 2005.

Prior to Corporate Fundamentals, Venkat was the Chairman and CEO of eCredit.com, the leading provider of credit, financing and receivables management solutions for business-to-business and business-to-consumer commerce. Venkat founded eCredit in 1993 and led the company to a sale in 2000. Venkat is a uniquely experienced executive with substantial expertise in many diverse functional areas. Venkat is an internationally renowned expert in credit and working capital management, knowledge-based systems architectures, and financial strategy. Venkat has spent the last 20 years contributing his research and acting as a thought leader to both the business community and the academic world.

Prior to founding eCredit.com in 1993, Venkat served as an Associate Professor of Finance at Northeastern University's Graduate School of Business in Boston, MA. Prior to his academic tenure, he worked for Union Carbide, where he was responsible for all aspects of cash management for the company's vast operations in India.

Venkat holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio and is a Certified Chartered Accountant [equivalent to a CPA]

Srinivasan Bharadwaj | VP, Client Services

Srinivasan Bharadwaj ['Srini'] is currently VP, Client Services, at CreditPointe. In this capacity, Srini is responsible for developing a world class group of professionals who will manage the company's ongoing relationships with its operating companies. Srini's responsibilities include growing and maintaining strategic relationships with clients in the investment sector. His role facilitates the successful management of relationship between the offshore team and the client. Srini's tenure at eCredit has provided him with a range of experiences well suited to his current responsibilities.

Srini has had a long and rich tenure at eCredit in various capacities and was most recently, VP, Professional Services responsible for implementing eCredit products worldwide. His responsibilities included implementation, training and customer support as it related to eCredit customers and products on a global basis. Srini also managed eCredit's implementation partners, Deloitte and Touche, KPMG, etc.

Srini joined eCredit as a project manager working initially on a large implementation at Liberty Mutual. He has independently managed significant client relationships very successfully, the most notable one being the development of a new product for eCredit for the automotive industry in collaboration with the Mercedes Benz Credit Corporation.

After developing the automotive industry product, Srini was promoted to manage the company's Strategic Opportunities Group [SOT]. The SOT group was charged with nurturing and developing eCredit's next generation products in existing or new markets. During his tenure, the SOT group developed eCredit's most prominent product launch in its history, the Global Financing Network. Srini's team worked under extremely challenging circumstances with respect to new technologies and customer commitments to deliver the product to Gateway.

Prior to joining eCredit, Srini worked for Global Software Inc. as a consultant providing companies like Olivetti with Jetform front end to report data from DNIX servers.

Srini holds a MBA in Global Management from University of Phoenix and a Bachelor's in Electronic and Communication Engineering from the University of Poona [India].


James DeWaele | VP, Sales

As VP of Sales, Jim is responsible for creating CreditPointe's sales organization and driving the sales of its products and services. Jim led the sales efforts at Corporate Fundamentals, Inc., Rage's 1st operating company.

Jim brings 25 years of sales and sales management experience to the CreditPointe team with 10 years focused within the credit market. During his career he has specialized in establishing and structuring solution oriented sales organizations geared towards multinational organizations both in the corporate and financial services markets.

During his 10 years at eCredit Jim excelled at a variety of sales and business development positions. As the company's first sales executive, he established the eCredit's initial direct sales team in the trade credit industry and grew the company out of its start-up mode. In 1997 he led the company's entry into the financial services industry establishing the Diversified Financial Services sale team. He later went on to play a leading role in eCredit's Strategic Opportunities Team. His tenure and cross industry experience provides for a deep understanding of the role credit plays in various types of businesses.

At Mergent International Jim held sales management roles for the company's financial services offering for large national financial institutions. While at Siemens Nixdorf he was responsible for the sales and marketing of vertical solutions of the company's accounting and MRP applications. Working with Product marketing Jim was responsible for the company's entry into the Industrial Distribution vertical through direct sales and industry marketing activities.

Jim graduated from Bryant University with a Bachelor's of Science in Finance and Accounting and received a Masters degree in Economics and International Trade from the University of Connecticut.


Aashish Mehta | Vice President, Operations

As Vice President of Operations, Aashish heads the company's Operations worldwide. Additionally, Aashish leads CreditPointe’s financial research and automation group. He has been instrumental in planning and managing the company’s growth and setting up appropriate capacity and operationalizing the company's product vision.

Prior to assuming this role, Aashish was a Vice President of Business Development for Corporate Fundamentals, where he was responsible for developing market for company's products and services and forming strategic business alliances. Prior to Corporate Fundamentals and RAGE, Aashish spent six years at eCredit.com where he held various management positions in sales, business development, product management and operations.

Aashish started his career at eCredit.com in product management, managing 3rd Party integrations. In October 2000, Aashish played a key role in establishing eCredit's subsidiary in Japan and forming reseller / investor partnerships with leading Japanese Systems Integrators, including: NTT Data, Hitachi Ltd., Toshiba IT Solutions and Intec. He then assumed a senior sales position at eCredit.com where he successfully sold the company's automated solutions to Fortune 500 companies like Philip Morris USA and Continental Airlines.

Aashish holds a MBA in Business and Finance from the Oklahoma City University and Bachelors in Industrial Engineering from the Karnataka University, India.


Rummana Alam | VP, Finance, HR & Admin

Rummana Alam serves as CreditPointe's VP of Finance, HR and Administration. In this role, she is primarily responsible for corporate governance, devising financing strategies, managing the company's finances, human resources and administrative activities. She also assists in the formulation of the company's business strategy; conducts and coordinates diligence activities on prospective application markets and acts as a legal liaison between internal/external parties.

Prior to joining CreditPointe, Rummana served in the same capacity at Corporate Fundamentals, Inc. [Rage's 1st operating company]. She also spent a year at SRR Solutions, Inc., a consulting organization which provided technology diligence services to Boston area venture capitalists. In this capacity, she assisted in the technology diligence of many companies in different stages of growth looking for venture financing.

Prior to that, Rummana worked at eCredit.com, Inc. for over 7 years in various capacities ranging from Customer Support Management to Product Management and Intellectual Property Management. In her longest stint at eCredit, Rummana served as Manager, Global Customer Support for all of eCredit's products worldwide. In this role, Rummana's responsibilities included the management of customer relationships, interfacing with sales, marketing and technology groups with respect to customer issues and growing an effective customer care organization for eCredit. During her tenure, she introduced a number of innovative customer care programs and maintained customer satisfaction at high levels.

Rummana has a B.A. in English from the University of Delhi, India.


Mahantesh [Monty] Kothiwale | Chief Technology Officer

Mahantesh Kothiwale is the Chief Technology Officer at CreditPointe, Inc. In his capacity as CTO, Monty is responsible for setting the technology strategy for the company and for evolving the core architecture of Rage Technology platform. He manages the design and development of the Rage Technology platform and related products.

Prior to joining CreditPointe, Monty served in the same capacity at Corporate Fundamentals, Inc which merged with Hemscott, plc. He took the lead in integrating legacy US and UK data collection systems to evolve a next generation global fundamental collection system.

Prior to that Monty had a long and successful tenure at eCredit.com, most recently as the company's Chief Technology Officer. Like the rest of the founding team, Monty's experience at eCredit uniquely qualifies him for his current role at Rage Frameworks.

As eCredit's CTO, Monty was a member of eCredit's senior management team and was responsible for setting the company's technology strategy and all technology development activities both here in the U.S. and its offshore development center in India. He was also responsible for developing and maintaining the company's world class IT infrastructure in the U.S. and abroad.

Monty has had many significant accomplishments during his long tenure with eCredit. He joined eCredit as a senior technologist initially working in an individual capacity on a knowledge-based automation engine for credit. Subsequently, he provided technology leadership as well as architecture guidance to create the company's Process Automation Engine, a rules-based flexible framework that is central to all eCredit products.

Another notable technological accomplishment during Monty's tenure at eCredit was the successful development of the infrastructure and technology for the company's Global Financing Network. Gartner recognized the Global Financing Network recently as an example of visionary early web services technology.

Before joining eCredit.com, Mahantesh worked as a Project Manager at Intercope, India. He holds a Bachelor's in Computer Science from the University of Mysore.