Manav Garg- CEO & Founder

Manav Garg is the CEO and Founder of Eka Software Solutions. Besides the overall responsibility of managing Eka, Manav oversees the areas of business strategy and corporate finance.

Manav founded Eka after a brief stint as a trader with a large global commodity trading house. It was during his trading days that he saw the deficiencies in traditional trading and risk management software. Realizing the market opportunity, and combining this with his passion for technology, Manav setup Eka with venture capital funding.

The first few years of organizational building at Eka were an invaluable experience, helping him gain deep and unique insights into all aspects of the business, and the needs of customers across the globe. Today, with Eka having shown significant growth in revenues, profitability, customer base and employees, Manav provides leadership and overall direction in such strategic areas as talent management, product direction and growth strategy. He constantly strives to achieve ever higher levels of organizational excellence and customer satisfaction by encouraging responsibility and accountability at all levels.

Born in 1974, Manav graduated as an engineer from REC (Regional Engineering College) Jalandhar, and followed this by an MBA from IIFT (Indian Institute of Foreign Trade), Delhi. He was recently awarded the Star Entrepreneur Award for 2008-09 at the 2nd Indira International India Innovation Summit.

N. Karthikeyan- Chief Operating Officer

As Chief Operating Officer, Karthik oversees Eka’s delivery of Products and services to clients across the globe with a high focus on its customers, people, process and technology. He is responsible for Product Development, Professional Sevices, Deployment, Data integration, Infrastructure services, Training and Support.

Karthik has over 20+ years of technology experience covering Product implementations, Global delivery & Consulting Services with Fortune 500 corporations in multiple geographies. Prior to joining Eka, Karthik has held leadership and senior management positions with Sterling Commerce (formerly Yantra Corporation), GE, Sapient and Honeywell. Karthik is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institute of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineers, and holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering from University Viswesvarayya College of Engineering, Bangalore.

Rick Nelson - Head of Global Sales

Rick is responsible for Eka’s global sales organization. Based in New York, he is in-charge of all sales, presales and marketing activities around the globe.

Rick comes to Eka with over 20 years of experience in the commodities market. In his career that spans organizations as diverse as ICE, Louis Dreyfus, Triple Point and Enron, he has repeatedly demonstrated the ability to understand customers and businesses, and achieve high levels of sustainable business growth.

Prior to joining Eka, Rick was Vice-President Global Sales at Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), where he was a member of the Executive Management Team and was responsible for growing existing energy and soft commodity markets. Before that, he was Head of Sales with Triple Point Technology for more than six years, where he built top-tier professional sales and sales support teams and expanded the market outside the firm’s traditional focus.  Rick has held senior and leadership positions in other leading commodity companies.

Rick has an MBA from The Ohio State University and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Villanova University.

Daniel McEvoy – Global Head of Metals & Mining

Dan is responsible for Eka’s global metals & mining industry practice covering industry strategy, new business and product development, sales and marketing. Based in Eka’s USA office, he has more than 20 years of experience in the financial and commodities industries. His international trading and deep industry knowledge will help grow Eka’s metals & mining practice to the next level.

He joins Eka from Brady PLC where he served as President of Brady USA, Inc. Prior to this, Dan has held senior management and leadership roles with two other software start-ups. Earlier in his career, he worked for Credit Suisse and Citibank where he gained experience in precious metals, derivatives, project/trade finance and with two trading companies, Amalgamet and Cargill, where he traded physical non-ferrous metals, ores and concentrates. Dan is a former Special Advisor to the U.S. State Department during the U.S. participation in an international commodities agreement composed of producing and consuming countries, a former Director of The Gold & Silver Institute, and is a member of the Copper Club and International Precious Metals Institute.

Dan graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing and Finance.

Shobhit Mathur - Vice President - Global Marketing and Presales

Shobhit oversees the business development , marketing and presales activities for Eka. He applies his extensive knowledge of global markets and sales to spearhead Eka’s growth in international markets.

In his 10+ years of experience, he has developed and executed strategies for new market entry, key account management, sales team expansion and business development. In his previous assignments, he was involved in origin sourcing, processing and international marketing of various agriculture products to clients in food service, retail and distribution businesses. Shobhit is an alumnus of IIFT New Delhi.

Vinayak B.M - Chief Architect

Vinayak is responsible for product engineering at Eka. He has been part of the Eka project since its inception, and is today involved defining and shaping the product’s architecture and driving technology initiatives. He leads a team of dedicated architects who are responsible for enhancing and constantly innovating the technology architecture and workflow in Eka.

Vinayak has over 15+ years of experience in building and managing technology teams with leading national and multinational IT companies, including HP and L&T Infotech.

Amit Sureka - Chief Financial Officer

Amit is responsible for Eka’s global financial activities and leads several related functions including budgeting, analysis and reporting, regulatory compliances and all related activities worldwide. Amit has extensive knowledge and experience in finance, having joined Eka from Jubilant’s Group’s Retail business where he was the Group CFO.

Prior to this, Amit was the CFO & Director of MphasiS BPO (MsourcE), where as a key member of the leadership team he helped grow the organization into one of the larger players in the BPO & IT sector. He has held top positions with various organizations across different geographies including USA where he worked with one of California’s largest banks as Vice President. Amit started his career with KPMG.

Amit is a Fellow Chartered Accountant and has completed advanced certification courses relating to finance from leading business schools in India and USA.