Vistaar Management Team
Sandy Tungare, Founder and CEO. Sandy is the driving
force behind Vistaar's solution, values and culture. He is an acknowledged
expert in sales and marketing areas such as product forecasting, category
management, portfolio planning, pricing, and promotions. Vistaar is
the result of his vision for powerful and yet easy-to-use analytical
software that sales and marketing decision makers can use to dramatically
improve business performance.
Sandy has a track record of success. He founded Think Systems in 1986,
building it to a 150 person multi-national organization with customers
including 3M, Compaq, General Electric, IBM, Intel, Motorola, Nabisco,
Pfizer, Phillip Morris, and Whirlpool. In 1997 he sold Think Systems to
i2 Technologies for nearly $150 million. He then served as president of
sales and marketing systems at i2 until leaving to launch Vistaar in 2000.
He has a BS from Bombay University and an MBA from Rutgers Business School.
Bill Beecher, President. Bill joined the Vistaar team in 2005, bringing operational leadership at a time of fast growth for Vistaar. His experience in managing growing organizations helps ensure that Vistaar rapidly develops in a sustainable and scalable manner. Bill worked closely with Sandy as an advisor and then as CFO of Think Systems. He played a key role in the company’s acquisition by i2 Technologies in 1997. At i2, he served as executive vice president of operations and was later named CFO. Prior to joining Think Systems, Bill worked in operations and finance roles in industry and practiced law. Bill is a graduate of the State University of New York at Albany and Cornell Law School.
R. "Swami" Swaminathan, Executive Vice President. Swami has a 20-year track record of building successful software operations, including four years with Think Systems as vice president of development and president of India operations, and five years with i2 Technologies as senior vice president of supply chain management and president of i2 India. He managed i2's first Global Solutions Business Unit, comprising over 1000 professionals worldwide. He has prior experience in solutions architecture, software design and development, and customer support. Swami holds a Master of Management Studies from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science.
Milind "MG" Gupte, Senior Vice President, Solution Design & Product Management. MG has spent over 15 years leading teams in the design, development, and management of enterprise class planning applications. His specialty is designing planning applications based on multi-dimensional OLAP technology. Prior to Vistaar he was Vice President Development at i2 Technologies where he was responsible for design and development of the Demand Management suite of applications. At Vistaar, MG has led Product Development and successfully designed and delivered the foundation for Vistaar’s Solutions. Presently, he focuses on solution design, product management, and associated services. MG holds a Master of Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
Shekhar Iyer, Managing Director. Based in Mumbai, Shekhar is responsible for the operations of Vistaar’s India development and sales center. He was previously head of the capital market fiduciary services division for Chase Manhattan Bank in India. He was responsible for creating, marketing and delivering products to corporate clients in 12 years with Chase’s corporate finance and global services divisions. He has 11 years of prior experience with the Bank of India, where he helped create a computerized credit information and monitoring system that later became an industry standard. Shekhar holds a Masters in Administrative Management from Bombay University.
Usha Iyer, Senior Vice President of Product Marketing and Presales. Usha leads Vistaar's global pre-sales team and brings over 15 years of technical and business expertise to this role. Prior to joining Vistaar, she was Director of Application Development with the Demand Solutions team at i2 Technologies. Usha has also held several engineering and solution development positions at Think Systems, which was acquired by i2 Technologies.
She holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Maharashtra Institute of Engineering, Pune, India and a Master of Science in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from University of Memphis.
Bill Huyler, Vice President Pricing Science. Bill brings over thirty years of experience in the pricing industry. His background includes roles as a pricing thought leader in the automotive and transportation industries, as well as an entrepreneur delivering both strategic consulting services and software solutions. He also served as a re-entry vehicle dynamics engineer on the Apollo and Minuteman IV programs for Northrop Aircraft and AVCO Missile Systems, respectively. He has noted that some of same mathematics used to model flight dynamics is used today to optimize prices. Bill is a long-time figure in the pricing community with many distinguished accomplishments, including a US patent in pricing methodology. He has also been a board member of the Professional Pricing Society.
Jim Peck, Senior Vice President of Sales. Jim has more than 20 years of experience in building and implementing successful sales organizations. His experience includes early stage companies such as Savvion, Saratoga Systems, and Vendavo. He has additional experience with public companies including i2 Technologies, American Software, and Amdahl/Fujitsu Corporation. At Vistaar, he is responsible for building a strong field sales organization and expanding the customer base.
Sarvajna Kazi, Vice President of Strategy and Solutions. Mr. Kazi has more than 20 years of experience working in the areas of M&A, corporate and BU strategies, as well as pricing and product strategies for computing, semiconductor, software, and networking equipment companies. Prior to Vistaar, Mr. Kazi was a partner in the Electronics & High Technology Management Strategy Practice at Accenture, where he spearheaded the firm’s Pricing and Profit Optimization services for the high tech industry. Mr. Kazi has a proven track record with Global 500 companies where he has driven numerous transformational projects. Mr. Kazi holds an MBA from Stanford University, an MSEE from The Ohio State University and a BSEE from Birla Institute of Technology and Science.
