N R Panicker
Chairman & CEO

N.R.Panicker is the visionary behind Accel Group. When everybody cherish to become a top executive in a corporate company after completing professional education, Panicker quit his well-paid job at the peak of his career in 1991 to setup his own company in a humble way with a group of 5 professionals who worked with him and a vision to create one of India’s most respected IT Services Company. In a span of 20 years he has moulded Accel into an institution that is currently employing over 4000 professionals operating from 7 countries. A professional to the core, he attributes his success to the initial training and experience he had while working for HCL Group for over 14 years and his ability to see a big picture of every situation.

N.R.Panicker is a graduate engineer from CET, Trivandrum of the 1976 batch. Apart from being a mentor and CEO for Accel, he is active in professional organizations such as TiE, Nasscom, CII and several charity organizations. Accel Charities Foundation, which he founded in 2011 focuses on education for the poor and geriatric care.

K R Chandrasekharan
Director

A Chartered Accountant with over 30 years experience in the IT, engineering and finance industries with reputed groups such as Tata, HCL and TVS. As Chief Financial Officer of Accel Frontline Ltd, he is entrusted with the job of successfully adding real value to the organization by providing dependable strategic leadership, a consistent financial perspective, and an active contribution to critical management decisions.

A P Parigi
Non Executive Director

Amba Preetham Parigi, 62 years, joined Accel Frontline Limited's board on 29th September 2011. He has 35 years of experience spanning across several sectors including telecommunications and Media & Entertainment. He serves on the Boards of several Times of India Group companies including Times Innovative Media Limited (out-of-home), Times Internet Limited (internet), Times Now (television), and WorldWide Media (a joint venture with the BBC). Mr. Parigi has held a number of key positions including that of the CEO of BPL Mobile Communications (a joint venture with France Telecom), Mumbai and MD & Group CEO - India operations, Eros International Media Limited. Mr Parigi is Member, The Oxford University, Said Business School, Business Advisory Council since June 2010. In July 2010, he was elected to the Advisory Board, Fordhan Graduate Business School, New York. Mr Parigi is an alumnus of the Delhi School of Economics and Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi.

Steve Ting
Independent Director

Steve Ting is a veteran in the information communication technology industry with more than 25 years of experience. He is currently a Partner at Gryphus Capital. Steve was Executive Chairman and Director of BT Frontline from 2008 till 2010. Prior to that, Steve was the Founder and Executive Chairman of Frontline Technologies Corporation Limited. He has held several management positions in various multi-national corporations such as Hewlett Packard and Mentor Graphics Inc, USA. Steve has served in various committees and boards in tertiary institutions, government organisations, and listed and private companies in Asia Pacific. Mr. Ting holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the National University of Singapore, and was conferred Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration by Wisconsin International University, USA in 2002 in recognition of his entrepreneurial achievements. In the same year, Steve was also awarded the prestigious Ernst and Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Awards Singapore (Business Services & Technology).

Mr. Suresh K. Sharma
Independent Director

Mr. Suresh K. Sharma, Independent Director, 56 years, joined the board of Accel Frontline Limited on April 11, 2006. Co-author of a business book on "Global Outsourcing", an inventor and a successful serial entrepreneur for past 7 years, Suresh also has over 20 years of prior global business leadership experience across multiple industry domains in well-known Fortune 500 corporations of US, Europe and India. He set up, and was responsible for operating major facilities in manufacturing, R&D, engineering services, IT, retail, BPO and healthcare in USA, India, Mexico, China, Canada, EU, Eastern Europe and Asia. He is currently the President & CEO of Hydro Phi Technologies Inc. His leadership experience includes working with General Electric Company, USA, British Aerospace PLC and Rolls-Royce in England, MATRA in France, and NASA at Hampton VA. Suresh has an MS from University of Florida, Gainesville, Management of Technology Courses with British Aerospace, PLC, and BE (Honors) in Mechanical from BITS, Pilani.

Mr. Alok Sharma
Independent Director

Alok Sharma has had diverse experience of 21 years in IT & Consumer Electronics industry, which spans across consumer markets, direct account sales, industry development, developer programs, channel management, retail management, brand and business management. He has been credited in building businesses for some of the top global technology companies in India. Alok turned an entrepreneur in 2009, and has co-founded and invested in four companies namely, PC Visor focused on Automated Managed Services; Allgreen Ecotech focussed on Energy Management; Cartridge Cafe providing managed print solutions, and Vittal Innovation City,a 300 acre innovation led city being set-up near Hyderabad. Prior to turning an entrepreneur, he had served as the Managing Director for Apple India, wherein he grew the revenue from less than $10M to over $100M in 5 years. He is credited with setting up the retail, distribution and enterprise business for Apple in India, and built a balanced revenue portfolio across IT, consumer electronics and telecom businesses. Prior to Apple, he was the Director, Partner Development (India & South Asia) for Sun Microsystems based out of India and later at Singapore. He was credited for building the Sun channel structure in India, and later helped bring the best practices across South Asia. Prior to Sun,Alok was the driving the education industry for Apple in India and the Regional Sales Manager at Wipro, responsible for a line of business for Northern India. He is recognized as an expert on building strategic alliances and distribution in the technology sector in India.He serves as an independent director on Glodyne Technoserve. He is on the jury of the EMPI Indian Express Innovation Awards. He supports multiple projects in the social sector and education sector in the non-profit area

Sam Santhosh
Independent Director

Sam Santhosh is the Promoter & CEO of SciGenom Inc. - a genomics R & D organization that conducts research work aimed at understanding the role of DNA sequence variation in human health and disease.
Sam Santhosh was the CEO and Managing Director of California Software Limited (Calsoft) from 1992 –Feb 2012
He founded Calsoft in 1992 and under Sam's vision Calsoft rapidly grew from a niche player in the Silicon Valley to a global player with over 1200 employees and presence in 8 countries. Sam took Calsoft Public in 1996 and the company is listed the in Indian Stock Exchanges. Sam oversaw the growth of Calsoft in all key areas - Finance, Strategy, Customer acquisition and inorganic growth through eight acquisitions including companies in U.S, UK, Japan and India.
Sam is passionate about science and technology and believes that harnessing the power of science is critical to innovation and wealth creation. Just as technology was the key driver of business in the 20th century, he believes that Science will directly drive economic development as well as social and environmental well-being in the 21st century. It is this strong belief that has led him to make the move from Software Services where he spent the last 20 years of his career to a future that blends Science and Technology with Business.
He has been constantly retooling himself and has attended various training programs in different U.S universities including MIT. In 2010, he completed the Executive Education program at the Singularity University in Sunnyvale, California. Sam has an engineering degree and an MBA (majoring in Management Information Systems) from India's premier institute, IIM Calcutta.
Sam is based in Pleasanton, California but visits India every alternate month.
For more information please visit www.samsanthosh.blogspot.com

R.Ramaraj
Independent Director

Ramaraj was the Co- Founder and CEO of Sify Limited, Sify was the first Indian Internet company to be listed on the Nasdaq National Market in the US (NASDAQ: SIFY).
Ramaraj was recognized as the 'Evangelist of the Year' at the India Internet World Convention in September 2000. And in 2001, in a CNET.com poll in India, Ramaraj was voted the IT Person of the Year 2000.
Currently Ramaraj is the Senior Advisor at Sequoia Capital. Ramaraj is the first Indian to be invited to the Board of directors of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). He was a member of the Global Board of Trustees of TiE. (The Indus Entrepreneurs),
Ramaraj is a Member of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.
In 2010, CII recognized R.Ramaraj with a Life Time Achievement Award for nurturing the Spirit of Entrepreneurship and inspiring and mentoring numerous entrepreneurs.
Ramaraj is on the board of Olympic Gold Quest (OGQ) a Not for Profit organization. OGQ is committed to bridging the gap between the best athletes in India and the best athletes in the world thus helping Indian athletes to win Olympic Gold medals.
Ramaraj is the Co-founder and Director of Coaching Foundation of India, an organization that trains and certifies CEO Coaches.
Ramaraj worked in Johnson & Johnson in Sales & Marketing for over 7 years and subsequently co-founded Computer Point & Microland.
R. Ramaraj holds a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from the University of Madras and a M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.