Meet Our Team

Meet the brilliant minds behind our AI-centric innovations to know why we are committed to empowering our clients.

Sowri Krishnan

Chairman & Founder

A seasoned industry stalwart, Sowri has been exploring and adopting ways to infuse technology and innovation into everyday business. With close to three decades of experience in digital engineering, he has held various senior leadership positions at Cognizant and Cloudmed in the U.S.

As a hands-on leader, Sowri has been successfully transforming business outcomes using cloud-native technologies and practices to transform organizations. Currently, he is the founder and board member of enterprises such as Diamondpick, CX Studios, 7th Century, PeerIslands, and Synergize Partners.

Rajesh Rajagopalan

Chief Executive Officer

Rajesh is a seasoned technologist and natural problem-solver with over 25 years of industry experience. As a technology evangelist, he blends technical expertise with business acumen to deliver transformative results.

 

As co-founder of PeerIslands, Rajesh has been instrumental in establishing engineering and delivery practices that attract top-tier talent, enabling teams to achieve 10x productivity while solving complex, business-critical challenges. He has spearheaded the development of an industry-first AI app modernization suite, Peer.AI, and built a robust intellectual property portfolio.

 

Now serving as CEO, Rajesh partners with customers to navigate AI and data transformation, reimagine their products, and drive innovation in the GenAI era.

Sanjay Anugula

Chief Operating Officer

A passionate and prolific leader, Sanjay possesses a highly strategic mindset and in-depth knowledge of P&L Management, Startup Operations, Finance Sales, and Marketing. He is tasked with leading planning and finance to support the fast-paced growth across the US, Cayman Islands and India. 

 

Having two decades of experience across sectors such as semiconductors, automotive, food, and e-commerce, Sanjay brings a wealth of expertise through his past leadership roles. He has an MS from Stanford University and his previous stints include working at organizations like Intel, Cognizant, General Motors, Amazon, and Eurofins.

Krishnakumar S

President & India Head

Krishnakumar has over 20+ years of experience in tech industry and has led multiple large scale engagements for Fortune 100 customers.

 

At PeerIslands, Krishnakumar has been involved conceptualizing and implementing the transformation journey for several PeerIslands customers. These engagements span from data engineering, building complex mobile applications to solving specific MongoDB related asks from customers.

Anandaraman Sivanandan

Vice President - Technology Delivery

Anand has specialized in IT service delivery and client management for close to 24 Years. He has successfully incubated, grown and managed large scale Digital transformation programs for multiple Global Fortune 500 clients. He brings expertise in developing strategy and vision, execution and collaboration with IT and business stake holders while managing teams across various geographies.

 

As the VP of technology delivery, Anand is focused on growing our delivery capability while working closely with our alliance partners. At PeerIslands, Anand and team are focused on transforming our clients’ technology landscape and helping them drive efficiency through Data engineering and AI.

Merina Currie

Director - Talent

Merina has nearly two decades of experience in training and development, human resources management, and customer experience. She is a Chartered Professional in Human Resources through CPHR B.C & Yukon in Canada. Based in the Cayman Islands, she has spent the last 6 years in the technology field.

 

As the head of People Operations, Merina is focused on the employee experience (EX) and developing transformative strategies to unleash talent and innovation. She drives HR service delivery through automation, cloud solutions, and human connection, and cultivates a community culture using a collaborative, cross-functional approach to strategic engagement initiatives.

Mani Prabha

Technology Leader

Prabha is an experienced technology leader having played various techno functional global roles in her 20+ year career. She is committed to represent the voice of her customers and technical stakeholders to drive product delivery for value creation.

 

In PeerIslands, she serves as a Client Partner who provides customer centric product strategy and leads her team to own end to end solutioning and delivery. She also drives our recruitment efforts, securing top-tier talent to grow our high-performing collaborative team.