Ramana M Reddicharla, Co-Founder & CEO, plays a key role in defining the company strategy in using technology and innovation, to maintain company's leadership in the industry continuously. Ramana spent several years in Internet startup firms including Indias-Best Pvt. Ltd. largest chain of Indian portals. He worked for Dell (India) as consultant, where he provided the technical vision to complement the business vision, setting the tone and direction for the company's technologies. In his initial carrier he worked with Satyam Computer Services Ltd, Bangalore as a software engineer and soon rose to a technical lead there. Ramana holds MBA in Information Technology and Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communication.
R. Kumar, Co-Founder & President, is also the founder and Chairman of Cosmic IT Services Pvt. Ltd., one of the leading IT & ITES provider in Bangalore which is well known as the silicon valley of India. He has broad experience in Business management across a range of financial services, and management roles.
Kumar continues to share responsibility for day-to-day operations with Hasten on the strategic planning and management. Strategy formulation, business development and business planning are amongst his strengths. He has considerable experience in developing business in North America, United Kingdom, and also in Asia Pacific regions.
Kumar's experience of business building from the ground up, is very much a self-starter, flexible, quick thinking and possess entrepreneurial flair. An appetite for risk, a sense of humor and a tendency towards the unconventional are some of the traits that would accurately describe Mr. Kumar.
He holds a bachelor's degree in science from Bangalore University.
R. Kiran Kumar, Co-Founder & MD - is also the founder and Managing Director of Cosmic IT Services Pvt. Ltd.,, one of the leading IT & ITES provider in Bangalore. He has broad experience in business management across a range of financial services and marketing verticals. He held responsible positions in several infrastructure companies.
His experience as a smart working, handling hi-tech projects and executing with international standards has given more benefits to Hasten. He strongly believes as a Team we can execute any work no matter in any sector.
He holds a Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering. He was the President of National Students Union of India and Secretary for Rotaract Club Bangalore.
Frank Leiber, PhD : Frank is a structured finance and derivatives expert, and founding partner of Leiber Associates Inc., a corporate finance and capital markets advisory firm. He is a member of the Executive Management at GeoGenesisGroup, an investment banking firm specializing in servicing companies from emerging markets and transition economies. He is also Director at Capital-Affairs, Inc., an executive education firm, providing online and onsite delivery of training services to clients worldwide on capital markets and finance. Dr. Leiber’s investment banking experience includes several years in London, where his team engineered OTC risk management solutions and issued structured notes for Mitsubishi Finance International. He has led capital markets and risk management consulting teams at Price-Waterhouse in New York, and he established the consultative training team QUEST for Moody's-KMV, training financial professionals on economic capital, Credit-VaR and advanced credit risk management software worldwide. Prior to establishing the Swiss market and economics research function for JP Morgan in Zurich, Frank began his career on the derivatives exchanges in Chicago, where he developed and implemented GARCH models to forecast volatility in the foreign exchange markets while advising institutional clients on risk management in FX, equity and fixed-income markets. Frank was Professor in Financial Engineering and Program Director in the Department of Management at Polytechnic University, and he was Director of the Cornell Theory Center's Manhattan branch, which provides large-scale and high performance computing services to the trading and risk management communities on Wall Street. Frank regularly gives seminars to professional audiences from financial institutions, and supervisory authorities, and he also teaches graduate courses at NYU as Adjunct Professor in advanced corporate finance, portfolio and risk management, credit derivatives, CDOs and securitization techniques. Frank holds a B.Sc. degree in mathematical economics and business from the University of Lausanne (HEC). He studied as a Postgraduate Fulbright Scholar at the University of Chicago, and earned his Ph.D. in financial economics at the University of Geneva (HEI).