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Meet Our Team

Our executive leadership team averages 20 years of experience with Global IT Skills.

Our Board of Directors

CEO & MANAGING DIRECTOR

 is the founder of Global IT Skills Technologies. He is a Computer Engineer and alumni of IIM, Bangalore.

His experience spans over 25 years in the area of Security and Networking Training. Before starting Global IT Skills he was associated with Jetking and IIHT as Technical Manager for a total period of 5 years.

He has offered Training to many corporates in India and abroad like Microsoft, IBM, HP, Data craft, SUN, AT&T, Erickson, Nokia, Cable and Wireless. He is qualified with advanced International Certifications such as CNE, MCT, CCNA, CCNP, CCSE, CCSI, ISS, CEH, CHFI, and is also a BS7799 Certified Lead Auditor. Now he manages the strategic planning and operations at Global IT Skills.

 is a Science Graduate and the co-founder of Global IT Skills Technologies. He started his career with the inception of Globle IT Skills in 1999.

Nandagopal handles the Corporate Training division of Global IT Skills and has trained more than 10,000 corporate students on higher-end technologies such as Firewall, VPN, Intrusion Detection, Virtualization, Cloud Computing etc.

With over 15 years of experience he is personally credited with International certifications such as MCSE, CCNA, CCSE, ISS-CS, ISS-CE, VCP and VCI.

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Board of Directors

Name

CEO & MANAGING DIRECTOR

Is the founder of Global IT Skills Technologies. He is a Computer Engineer and alumni of IIM, Bangalore.

His experience spans over 25 years in the area of Security and Networking Training. Before starting Global IT Skills he was associated with Jetking and IIHT as Technical Manager for a total period of 5 years.

He has offered Training to many corporates in India and abroad like Microsoft, IBM, HP, Data craft, SUN, AT&T, Erickson, Nokia, Cable and Wireless. He is qualified with advanced International Certifications such as CNE, MCT, CCNA, CCNP, CCSE, CCSI, ISS, CEH, CHFI, and is also a BS7799 Certified Lead Auditor. Now he manages the strategic planning and operations at Global IT Skills

Name

CO-FOUNDER & CTO

Is a Science Graduate and the co-founder of Global IT Skills Technologies. He started his career with the inception of Globle IT Skills in 1999.

Nandagopal handles the Corporate Training division of Global IT Skills and has trained more than 10,000 corporate students on higher-end technologies such as Firewall, VPN, Intrusion Detection, Virtualization, Cloud Computing etc.

With over 15 years of experience he is personally credited with International certifications such as MCSE, CCNA, CCSE, ISS-CS, ISS-CE, VCP and VCI.

Board of Directors

Our Advisory Board provides high level intellectual and strategic guidance to the team.
Its members are leaders in the world of think tanks, globally and in their own regions.
All members of the Advisory Board participate in their personal capacity

Prof. S Sadagopan

DIRECTOR, IIIT- BANGALORE ELECTRONICS CITY

Professor Sadagopan is currently the Director (President) of IIIT-Bangalore (a PhD granting University). IIIT’s represent a set of new generation universities started in India in late 90’s with special focus on IT; IIIT-Bangalore is one of the first such Institutes; as the first Director of IIIT-Bangalore he is involved in the visioning, planning and executing the growth of this Institute that is counted as one of the premier Institutes in India.

He obtained his MS & PhD Degree from Purdue University, USA in 1979 and BE (Hon) Degree from Madras University, India in 1973. He had taught at IIT Kanpur (1979 to 95) and IIM Bangalore (1995-99).
His research interests include OR, Multi-criteria optimization, Simulation and Enterprise computing.

Syam Appala

ENTREPRENEUR

Syam Appala is an entrepreneur with 15+ years of experience in IT and 5+ years of experience in energy and energy efficiency realms, with proven track record of incepting and delivering solutions that have multi-billion-dollar potential. Syam serves a key Architect at Cisco Systems, Inc in San Jose, CA and has the unique track record of delivering solutions that generated more than $60 billion dollars in revenues in the last decade. He pioneered and contributed to Internet standards in cyber security with 10 issued patents and several pending at USPTO. Syam possesses entrepreneurial skills that amalgamates business strategy, business and product management and technology development, required to build successful companies and consistently take valuable products to the market.


Syam serves on the local California board of US Selective Service System (SSS), appointed by President of United States. Syam serves as an advisor to Science & Technology Park, Pune, that has successfully incubated more than 80+ companies in the last 7 years and is the most reputed incubator in India. Out of passion for building value and taking innovations to the market, Syam advises several startups and non-profit organizations in Silicon Valley and India. Syam owns a multi-million dollar hedge fund (Lorven Funds) in USA that has successfully invested in 50+ IPO stage US startup
companies.

Syam completed product and engineering management from Stanford University and Haas school of Business and MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Tennessee Technological University.

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