Management

Ravi Ravichandran - Co-Founder

Mr.Ravichandran has more than 35 years of US and international experience in Finance, Accounting, ERP and Information Technology. He is a proven leader with substantial experience in guiding companies through the business life cycle. Most recently he held senior management position at Oracle Corporation in On Demand Services. During his 15 years tenure at Oracle, he has provided leadership in Business Development, Consulting, Alliances, Marketing and Product Engineering. He has extensive hand on experience with ERP systems and enterprise applications.

Ravi also practiced as a Public Accountant for 8 years with Global accounting firms.

Ravi is a past member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, and has MBA from University of South Dakota, MS (MIS) from Texas Tech University and a Bachelors degree from University Of Madras

 

Navin Chugh - Co-Founder

Mr.Chugh has more than 18 years of US and international experience in the Information Technology industry.  He has held senior management positions in sales and marketing of products and services (direct and indirect) in small and large companies, in the software industry. Mr. Chugh has hands on experience in managing all phases of enterprise applications (ERP) deployment. With the combined experience of application software sales and implementation services, he has the unique capability to understand the customer needs quickly and address it effectively.

Most recently Navin was a Vice President in Global Alliances & Channels at Oracle where he was responsible for growing revenue by defining, building and managing global partner programs for Oracle Application products. During his 7 years tenure with Oracle he has provided leadership in Alliances (partner management, applications integration), Business Development, Consulting and offshore team building and management.  Prior to Oracle Navin held executive management positions at Vertex Ventures, VerticalNet (Tradeum) and Vastera.

Navin has MBA from San Jose State University (CA), a MS degree in Industrial Engineering from Alfred University (NY) and B.Tech in Metallurgical Engineering from IT-BHU (IIT Varanasi, India).

Petra Davis - Director F&A Services

Ms. Davis has over 20 years experience in Finance and Accounting in public and private companies with a focus on high-tech, financial services, winery and property management industry. She has held senior management positions at Sun, and other companies, including Paul Masson Winery, Anderson Jacobson, GCA, and American Savings and Loan, Meteramics and San Martin Winery. She has in-depth experience in all  aspects of Finance & Accounting, HR and operations. She has worked with and has detailed knowledge of  systems like Oracle E-Business Suite, NetSuite, Quick Books, Hyperion, Business Objects and Essbase. Prior to joining FAonDemand, Ms. Davis owned and successfully  managed  a property services company.

Petra has BA (Economics) from Stanford University.