Anil founded Attra in 1995 with the objective of building a company that would embody his ability to fathom customer sentiment and his passion for delivery. Anil is a truly global person: born in Sri Lanka and educated in the UK, Anil worked in Europe, the subcontinent, the Middle East and Australasia.

After transitioning the CEO role to Prasad Guntupalli in 2008, Anil has focused his attention on three areas close to his heart: technology, delivery and quality. In championing these causes, Anil enjoys working closely with the younger generation of the Attra team, sharing knowledge and passing on his experience.

Background and History
Anil has over 25 years of experience in the IT and financial services industry. Prior to founding Attra, he was a keen student of large scale computing. Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s Anil drove the installation of mainframe-based solutions for clients in Asia and Australia. While mainframe computing had evolved, a key test in the early 1990s was how to create an integrated business solution by connecting a patchwork of systems. In response to this challenge Anil founded Attra in Melbourne in 1995.Over the next three years, he quickly grew the company into a 30 people niche consultancy, providing specialised business and IT expertise to the credit cards industry.

At the turn of the century Attra evolved further, focusing on delivering end-to-end solutions and growing to a team of 120 people by 2003. This was an exhilarating period in which Anil directed large-scale projects through his passion for delivery.

Following Attra's success in the Australian market, Anil turned his attention overseas. Anil's objective has always been to be a world citizen, and to make Attra into a culturally rich company with a diverse employee base. With this in mind, Anil expanded Attra's leadership team to enable the creation of a development center in India and several offices around the globe in 2004. Since then, Attra's client base has evolved with it, becoming truly international and serving the global market.

Anil has an engineering degree in computer sciences from the University of Essex.

"What drives me is a passion for technology, delivery and quality. Combining these core values with a specialized focus on the financial services domain is the Attra differentiator. I am grateful for the opportunity to share my experience with a new and global generation of the Attra team and see people learn and succeed through curiosity and by keeping an open mind. This is what Attra is about: we believe it can be done, so we make it happen."

Prasad, over the course of 5 years, has been responsible for shaping Attra, from an Australian financial services consultancy firm in the domestic market into a consumer financial services company in the European, Asian, Middle Eastern and Australian markets. In 2007 Prasad took over as the global CEO of the company after having been the CEO and co-founder of the Indian subsidiary since 2005.

Prasad's current focus is to expand the company's range of existing financial services in the consumer finance and core banking markets. He is also focused on expanding Attra's presence in the African and American markets and further developing relationships with consumer finance product and processing institutions around the world.

Background and History
Prasad's experience in building and managing large businesses & clients is extensive as his professional history across 22 years in Birlasoft, Pentasoft, IBM and DCM reflects.

Prior to joining Attra he was a senior vice president at Birlasoft for the Asia-Pacific region, charged with creating an Asia-Pacific business division and generating $30 million in revenue within the first 2 years .He was a senior vice president at Pentasoft for the Asia-Pacific region, generating $10 million in revenue within the first year and a half. He was an account manager at IBM managing global accounts. Prasad's career in IT services began with the DCM group in 1987, where over 9 years he earned a reputation while becoming the youngest area, branch and regional manager in the company's history.

In 2004, Prasad independently relocated to Bangalore and together with Attra started Attra Infotech in India.

Since 2005 Anirudh has been responsible for creating, developing and managing operations & delivery for Attra Infotech. In 2009 he became head of strategic accounts managing businesses of five million dollars.

Anirudh is currently responsible for global customer acquisition and managing client relationships in all regions barring Australia.

Background and History
Anirudh's professional experience is in marketing & sales and spans the course of 19 years across Netpro, Megasoft, Oracle, Datapro and DCM. He has setup IT businesses and operations in Europe and Asia. He has been involved in contract negotiations and sales with defense, banking and government establishments. Anirudh's history with Attra began in 2005 when Prasad and Anirudh met as former colleagues in Chennai, India. After two successful ventures in setting up new operations Anirudh wanted to focus on an entrepreneurial endeavour.

Prasad and he discussed the creation of a company that would create a niche for itself in the financial services area and from there, Anirudh became one of Attra Infotech's first employees. He began his career in Attra as head of operations, marketing & sales and delivery. In 2008 Anirudh was responsible for securing, building and developing a testing centre of excellence in Bangalore for one of Attras largest clients.

Anirudh has an engineering degree in Electronics & Communications from NIT, Kurukshetra and a post-graduate diploma in Foreign Trade Management from the Indian Management Academy.

Since 2007 Ravi has headed & managed operations, human resources development, infrastructure and domestic sales for Attra Infotech.

Ravi is currently responsible for marketing & sales for the domestic market and operations for Attra Infotech in India.


Background and History
Ravi's professional experience is in marketing & sales and operations. His career spans the course of 20 years across Changepond, RAMCO Systems, Fujitso-ICIM and DCM. He was the director of operations and sales at Changepond, an IT services company, and headed the operations division from 2000 till 2007 where he was responsible for building an employee base of 500 people. He was the head of channel sales for RAMCO, from 1995 to 2000.

He has also been a senior sales executive at Fujitso-ICIM, from 1993 till 1995 and DCM, from 1989 till 1993.

Ravi's history with Attra began in 2007 when Prasad was searching for a head of operations for the Indian subsidiary. Ravi and Prasad's professional relationship spanned the course of 20 years and with his experience in operations and sales, Ravi was the preferred choice as head of operations.

One of Ravi's goals for the Attra working environment is balancing out the skewed gender distribution seen typically in the Indian IT service industry. His target is a 1:3 female to male ratio across the company and an equal ratio in management positions.

Ravi has a post graduate degree in Mathematics from Loyola, Chennai.

Rajat joined Attra in 2007 and looked after Business Development for the Australian and New Zealand market. In 2008, Rajat took over as the Head of the Australian business unit looking after sales and operations and has been responsible for doubling the revenue of the Australia unit in the first 12 months . Rajat now runs a AUD10 million + portfolio.

Background and History
Rajat's professional experience has centered around the finance and financial services industries since 1995 in Australia. Prior to joining Attra Rajat was in senior roles at IBS, GE Australia and New Zealand, Westpac Bank, Stgeorge Bank and Coles Myer group.Rajat's history with Attra began through his various interactions with the company during his time at GE Money lead him to the opportunity of being a business development manager at Attra.

Rajat has a bachelor's degree in IT from Sydney. He has also a certified Six Sigma Green Belt from GE Money and holds an advanced diploma in Asia Pacific Marketing from TAFE, Sydney. Currently, Rajat is pursuing his MBA from Melbourne Business School.

Ranjith began his association with Attra in the year of 2005 as the Global Leader of Quality. His main area of responsibility in Attra is on Quality Assurance and Information Security in all operational processes of Attra. Ranjith has established a strong robust Quality Management and Information Security Management Systems within Attra, complying with international standards. His main focus is on continual improvement of all operational processes taking Attra to further heights of excellence utilizing most advanced continual improvement tools.

Background and History
Ranjith is an engineer by profession, a graduate from The Loughborough University of Technology UK and a PhD in engineering from The University of Leeds UK. Ranjith has a long experience in Quality Assurance in the manufacturing sector and in the higher education sector. Ranjith's Passion is to do research in many aspects of science and technology. He is also currently a senior research fellow and visiting senior tutor at the University of Melbourne. He is currently engaged in advance research in application of Nano Materials in the sustainable Built Environment .Ranjith is also a Senior Advisor - Special Projects - Sustainable Nano Materials & Energy Solutions to the Sri Lanka Institute of Nano Technology.

Ranjith has obtained numerous professional training in the field of quality, sustainability and information security. Ranjith is trained consultant in Environmental Management by the United Nations Development Programme and Balance Score Card by the International Labour Organization. Ranjith is also a Trained Lead Auditor in ISO 9001 Quality Management and ISO 27001 Information Security and ISO 14001 Environmental Management.

Ranjith's work experience commenced from Post Doctoral fellow ship at the University of Leeds UK, and extended to a Research Engineer at Ransome Hoffman & Pollard UK and then as a National Consultant in Mechanical Engineering to United Nations Development Programme.

As Head of Middle East, Venkitachalam Sarma is responsible for Attra's Middle East Business Development. Attra considers Middle East as one of the emerging markets with already existing client base that includes two of the large card processing organizations.

Background and History
Venkitachalam Sarma has over 25 years of experience in Information Technology Sales and Business development. He has held senior management positions in various companies in India, USA and Middle East. He has been managing Services business for IT Infrastructure services organizations and has led large team. His experience spreads to various vertical services including Managing P&L divisions, Developing Managed Services and Outsourcing business. One of Venki's goal is to add new customers to Attra's client base from Middle East.

He holds a degree in Computer Applications and started his career as a programmer. He has worked in India, USA and Middle East on various technical and sales assignments.

Gordon joined Attra in October 2011 as the General Manager of Asia based in Singapore. In his role, Gordon's focus is to expand Attra's client base in the banking and financial service markets across S.E. Asia and Greater China, as well as the range of IT solutions and services.

Background and History
Gordon has extensive IT management and delivery experience in the financial service industry across Asia. He spent 13 years with GE Capital (8 years as the IT Director in charge of common platforms for credit card and consumer finance mission critical systems across Asia, and 5 years as the Asia CIO). While with GE Capital, Gordon also acted as the strategic IT integration advisor for GE's banking joint ventures in Asia. Besides GE, Gordon has worked in Citibank for 8 years in the deployments and portfolio migrations to Citibank's global platform for credit and debit payment products across Asia and Middle East as well as the core consumer banking systems for Citibank Singapore.

In the corporate banking domain, he has acquired a total of 8 years of IT experience from JP Morgan Chase (Hong Kong and Singapore) and OCBC Bank of Singapore.

Gordon has a bachelor degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Illinois, USA, and a masters in Software Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology, USA.