Management Team
Vellore "Vetri" Vetrivelkumaran (CEO & Co-Founder)
Vetri is a successful executive who has run $200+ million/year businesses at Microsoft. He is a business savvy, technical, hands-on leader who has both created innovative and award winning products/services, and has turned-around existing businesses. He spent 14 years at Microsoft where he held several senior business and product leadership role.
Vetri was responsible for the Visual Studio for Devices and Visual Studio Platform. The Visual Studio Partner Ecosystem became significantly stronger under his leadership and Visual Studio 2005 won the Best IDE award (from InfoWorld). He led the turnaround and growth of the Systems Management Server (SMS) business. The team under his leadership delivered SMS 2003 release that turned around the business by dramatically improving the product quality and customer satisfaction, leading to very significant growth in revenues. SMS 2003 was the eWeek Excellence award finalist.
Prior to SMS, Vetri defined and delivered the very first version of Microsoft Windows-based Server Appliance and played a key role in first release of MSN (re-architected MSN to run on IP networks instead of X.25).
Vetri has an MBA from University of Washington, MS in Computer Science from University of Iowa and B.E. in Computer Science from College of Engineering, Guindy, India.
Vetri was responsible for the Visual Studio for Devices and Visual Studio Platform. The Visual Studio Partner Ecosystem became significantly stronger under his leadership and Visual Studio 2005 won the Best IDE award (from InfoWorld). He led the turnaround and growth of the Systems Management Server (SMS) business. The team under his leadership delivered SMS 2003 release that turned around the business by dramatically improving the product quality and customer satisfaction, leading to very significant growth in revenues. SMS 2003 was the eWeek Excellence award finalist.
Prior to SMS, Vetri defined and delivered the very first version of Microsoft Windows-based Server Appliance and played a key role in first release of MSN (re-architected MSN to run on IP networks instead of X.25).
Vetri has an MBA from University of Washington, MS in Computer Science from University of Iowa and B.E. in Computer Science from College of Engineering, Guindy, India.
Madhan Subhas (Co-founder & Managing Director)
Madhan is responsible for the architecture and technology infrastructure at Chronus.
Prior to co-founding Chronus, Madhan held many leadership roles in product development during his 10 year tenure at Microsoft. During his time at Microsoft, Madhan successfully drove the definition and execution of various V1 products including: Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Visual Web Developer, HomeAdvisor Loan platform, and MSN Ad Server platform. In addition to the product contributions, Madhan personally orchestrated Microsoft drive towards consistent customer engagement framework by defining and introducing Windows Technology Adoption Programs.
He holds a B.E. in Computer Science from the College of Engineering Guindy, India and an M.S. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech.
Prior to co-founding Chronus, Madhan held many leadership roles in product development during his 10 year tenure at Microsoft. During his time at Microsoft, Madhan successfully drove the definition and execution of various V1 products including: Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Visual Web Developer, HomeAdvisor Loan platform, and MSN Ad Server platform. In addition to the product contributions, Madhan personally orchestrated Microsoft drive towards consistent customer engagement framework by defining and introducing Windows Technology Adoption Programs.
He holds a B.E. in Computer Science from the College of Engineering Guindy, India and an M.S. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech.
Murali Bhoopathy (Co-founder & VP of Client Services)
Murali is responsible for Indian market and also runs our Development Center in Chennai, India.
Prior to Chronus, Murali was the Director of Development at Oracle Corporation in San Francisco, California. He was one of the key architects of Oracle's flagship data center management product called Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control. He was responsible for several successful releases of the product in the span of 10.5 years. As director of development, he lead the Architecture and Core Framework features of the product which were instrumental in making the product highly available, scalable and extensible resulting in successful deployment and wide spread adoption of the product among customers. He is a proven technical and management leader and has extensive experience in building and managing talented teams both local and remote.
Prior to Oracle, Murali launched his career in software industry with Larsen & Toubro Info Tech Ltd and spent 3 years in executing several onsite and offshore development projects.
He holds a B.E. in Computer Science from the College of Engineering Guindy, India.
Prior to Chronus, Murali was the Director of Development at Oracle Corporation in San Francisco, California. He was one of the key architects of Oracle's flagship data center management product called Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control. He was responsible for several successful releases of the product in the span of 10.5 years. As director of development, he lead the Architecture and Core Framework features of the product which were instrumental in making the product highly available, scalable and extensible resulting in successful deployment and wide spread adoption of the product among customers. He is a proven technical and management leader and has extensive experience in building and managing talented teams both local and remote.
Prior to Oracle, Murali launched his career in software industry with Larsen & Toubro Info Tech Ltd and spent 3 years in executing several onsite and offshore development projects.
He holds a B.E. in Computer Science from the College of Engineering Guindy, India.