About Kony

Abhay Parasnis

President & Chief Operations Officer

Abhay Parasnis leads up all strategy, development, delivery, product management as well as overall marketing functions at Kony, overseeing the company’s move to offer its diverse product portfolio via the cloud.

Prior to joining Kony, Abhay served as senior vice president of Oracle Cloud development.  In this position, he was responsible for shaping Oracle’s overall cloud strategy, driving engineering and go-to-market strategy for Oracle’s cloud offerings as well as strategic M&A activities for the cloud business.  Prior to Oracle, Abhay spent almost a decade at Microsoft where he held various leadership positions in consumer and enterprise businesses. While at Microsoft, he helped create multiple new product lines including Windows Azure AppFabric, Live Mesh and Windows Workflow Foundation. Previously, Abhay was Chief Architect at i2 Technologies, a leading supply chain management vendor, where he co-founded "Rhythm Collaboration Suite", an industry-leading supply chain collaboration suite. He started his career at IBM.

Abhay also holds more than 25 granted patents spanning consumer internet technologies to enterprise developer platforms. Abhay has co-authored two books on Java technology.

Sriram Ramanathan

Chief Technology Officer

Sriram (Sri) Ramanathan is a technology executive who brings more than 20 years of cutting edge experience in the telecommunications, wireless and mobile domains to his role as Kony's CTO. Most recently Sri was an IBM Distinguished Engineer, an IBM Master Inventor, and CTO of IBM's wireless, mobile and communications sector domains within the Global Business Services, where he was responsible for solution strategy, delivery and thought leadership. Prior to his ten-plus year career with IBM, Sri worked as an integration architect at Commercequest, a B2B innovator and at GTE (now Verizon), as a lead architect in the development and deployment of their provisioning and inventory infrastructure and their mobile field force automation initiatives.
 

Sri is a recognized innovator, who has filed for over 85 patents in the mobile, wireless, digital media and smart grid domains, published in multiple publications and is a frequent speaker at industry events. He holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from BITS Pilani in India and a master's degree in Industrial and Management Systems Engineering from the University of South Florida Tampa.

Kelly Enos

Chief Financial Officer

Kelly Enos brings more than 20 years of experience leading the financial, accounting and administrative functions in high-tech, start-up and private-equity-backed companies to her role as Kony's Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Administrative Executive.

Prior to joining Kony, Enos was CFO of EquaTerra, Inc. a global advisory firm providing IT and business process transformation services. At EquaTerra, she was responsible for all financial and accounting activities of the company, as well as human resources, internal IT and legal. She has also held CFO positions with Telseon IP Services, an IP network and bandwidth service provider, and Star Telecommunications, a global telecommunications company. In these roles, Enos has helped raise billions in capital through the public debt and equity markets, as well as through private placements and commercial banks.

Enos is a Certified Public Accountant with expertise in designing, building and managing financial operations, mergers and acquisitions, business development and strategic planning, treasury management and capital fund raising.

Enos earned a bachelor's degree in accounting from Louisiana State University and a MBA from Rice University.

Sam Lakkundi

Chief Mobile Officer

As the company's Chief Mobile Office leader, Sam Lakkundi helps to shape Kony's strategy, business vision and growth by working with Kony executives and engineering worldwide. He is responsible for defining Kony's mobile roadmap, product strategy, business strategy and the overall mobile infrastructure working closely with the office of the CEO and the CTO. Sam helps guide Kony's strategic decisions and ensures that the business units and the divisions are supported by sound operational, strategic, market and financial analysis.

Sam joined Kony from Sybase, a SAP company, where he served in a series of roles in management, business development, pre-sales and training, over the course of a 15-year tenure. Sam has extensive experience working with enterprise mobile software and working with large enterprises to help architect and implement their mobile solutions. Sam attended Harvard, earned a Bachelor of Science degree from MTU and also has a Master's in Business Administration and a Master of Science degree from SNHU.