Bob Donaldson is the Vice President of Business Development for AppLabs, the world’s largest software testing and quality management company. In this role he is responsible for managing the company’s new customer acquisition efforts and top line revenue generation in the enterprise market.

Bob joins AppLabs with over 15 years of experience in the IT industry. Prior to joining AppLabs, Bob had extensive sales management experience at two technology start-ups, including ProcessUnity, Inc. and Meridian Data, Inc., in which he was instrumental in revenue growth and customer acquisition. Prior to ProcessUnity, Inc., Bob served in a number of sales management roles for Novell, Inc., where he led both enterprise and new business sales. As Director of Sales for New York he played a pivotal role in the development of Novell’s Global Account program and the execution of Novell’s Open Source ‘go-to-market strategy’.

Bob has a Bachelors of Science degree in Marketing from Elizabethtown College, USA.

Ravi Ramachandran is the Vice President, Strategic Account Management of AppLabs, the world’s largest software testing and quality management company. In his role, he is responsible for managing strategic customer relationships that drive revenue growth globally.

Ravi has over 14 years of experience in leadership positions encompassing Strategy, Business Development and General Management. He has enabled global services companies based in India, China and other geographies to scale their business and grow their footprint in the US market. In these leadership roles, Ravi has driven substantial revenue growth within key multinational accounts that span a variety of verticals including BFSI, Manufacturing, Retail and Media. These account successes include well-known brands like Coca-Cola, Proctor & Gamble, JP Morgan Chase, Credit Suisse, Reuters and BASF.

Most recently, Ravi was SVP, North America Operations at VanceInfo Technologies the largest China-based IT services firm and first to complete a successful public listing in the USA (NYSE: VIT). Prior to this, he spent over 6 years at Cambridge Solutions (recently acquired by Xchanging an outsourcing firm with revenues of over $1 Billion) in various capacities including VP & GM Global Financial Services (IT) and Head of USA Region Sales. Previously, Ravi was a senior consultant with Scient, one of the fastest growing internet systems integration firms, where he advised Fortune1000 enterprises to define business strategies and implement leading-edge eBusiness systems. His past experience also includes positions at Pegasystems and Lewtan Technologies.

Ravi holds an MBA from Clark University in Massachusetts and a Bachelor's Degree from Delhi University.

Scott Andress is Vice President & Global Head, Alliances and Service Lines for AppLabs, the world's largest software testing and quality management company. Scott spearheads AppLabs' global alliances efforts and on building business relationships.

Scott has over 15 years of experience in sales, business development, finance, marketing, strategy and management and has a successful history of direct Fortune 500 account sales and distribution channel development in the areas of collaboration, infrastructure, client/server, web 2.0, web-based and enterprise applications.

Prior to AppLabs, Scott was Senior Director of Business Development at BEA Systems responsible for world-wide business development efforts of the WebLogic Product Line and Business Interaction Division. At BEA Systems, Scott was responsible for the development and management of strategic ISV partnerships from deal inception to deal execution and implementation.

Prior to BEA Systems, Scott was EVP, Business Development and Co-Founder of Compoze Software (acquired by BEA Systems, July 2005). Since it's inception in 1999, Compoze Software was a leading provider of collaboration software for enterprise portals. At Compoze, Scott was responsible for direct sales and strategic alliances.

Raja Neravati is the Vice President of Enterprise Account Management for AppLabs, the world's largest software testing and quality management company. In his current role, he leads key enterprise accounts of North America and is responsible for managing customer relationship and drive revenue growth.  In his prior assignment as an Assistant Vice President, Raj has lead the Solutions Engineering group for North America providing thought leadership and innovative solutions for enterprise customers. 

As an Assistant Vice President for Solution Engineering, Raj has helped  customers in defining and establishing an enterprise wide Test Center of Excellence. His vast expertise in Six Sigma, CMMi & Prince 2 methodologies have helped in designing business metrics with a correlation to engineering metrics primarily driving efficiency and cost savings.  Raj has introduced Factory Model for automation which has benefited a lot of customers reducing the redundant effort on manual and automation. As a technologist, Raj continues to drive innovation and cost effective solutions for AppLabs customers.

Prior to his elevation as Assistant Vice President, Raj worked as an Account Manager managing the entire BFSI (Banking Financial Services & Insurance) customers across North America. As an Account Manager, he was able to build relationships and provide guidance to delivery providing a full 360 degree services to customers. Raj has played several delivery roles as Manager, Lead, Architect before taking up the Account Management role which helped him manage sales and delivery groups effectively.

Raj has over 13 years of experience in the IT Industry and his last 10 years of experience has been primarily in BFSI space with 3 years in Banking, 5 years in Financial Services and last 2 years in Insurance. As part of his banking career, Raj has primarily worked on retail consumer loan systems for Spain, Peru and Brazil. His financial services experience is in managing Bond Trading and Asset Management systems for Wall Street firms. The last few years Raj has been a relationship manager with oversight into delivery for several industry leaders in North America within the insurance industry.  Prior to joining AppLabs, Raj worked at Kale Consultants where he worked for clients like Citibank, Standard Chartered and Reserve Bank of India.

Raj has a Masters in Computer Applications from S.K. University, India.

David Leabeater is the Vice President of Business Development in the UK for AppLabs, the world’s largest software testing and quality management company. He is responsible for managing the company’s new customer acquisition efforts and top line revenue generation in the UK market.

David joins AppLabs with over 15 years in business development and management roles much of which has focused on outsourcing powered by integrated offshore-onshore solutions.

Prior to joining AppLabs, David held senior business development roles in Xansa plc (acquired by Steria Groupe) over more than 7 years. Before that he held senior business development roles in Computer Sciences Corporation. Prior to that he held senior business development and management roles at Ernst & Young.

David was responsible for setting up and running a joint venture consultancy and services business backed by Deloitte & Touche and the National Consumer Council (sponsored by the Department of Trade & Industry). He won and managed programmes for the BBC, leading UK utilities, government departments and agencies.

David has a 1st class BA and PhD from the University of Sydney.

Sai Chintala is the Vice President for Retail, Travel and other verticals at AppLabs, the world’s largest software testing and quality management company. He has been with AppLabs since December 2002.

Sai has over 16 years of IT experience. He has worked with Fortune 500 companies in US for over 12 years. He began his career at William Telecommunications, where he worked on building applications for NeXT desktops. Later he got into developing X-windows applications at Schlumberger Well Services. Sai was part of key Legacy to Client server implementation at Fidelity Investments & Brokerage services, before contributing to SAP implementation at Phillips Lighting in New Jersey. For over 6 years, Sai worked very closely with utility deregulation phenomenon in US. As part of utility deregulation implementation (while working at NSI, Exolink, and Alliance Data), Sai has contributed to utility deregulation implementation at NYSEG, NIMO, PECO, PSEG, Duquesne, Penn Power, CSP, CNGE, TXU, and HP&P.

Sai has an MS in Computer Science from Lamar University, Texas and a BS in Civil Engineering from JNTU, Hyderabad.

Kalyana Rao Konda is the Vice President, Technology vertical and Process function at AppLabs, the world’s largest software testing and quality management company. He has been with AppLabs since early 2005.

Kalyan has over 12 years of IT experience in diverse areas including global delivery management, talent development, test management and non-functional testing. After securing a B.Tech in Electronics and Communication engineering from Pondicherry University, he started his career in the field of software testing, and soon built an impeccable track record of managing large scale complex testing projects across a wide variety of organizations. Prior to joining AppLabs, Kalyan has worked with Virtusa and BaaN. Kalyan has also published several papers and presented at international testing conferences.

Arun Rao is the Global Vice President, Human Resources of AppLabs, the world’s largest software testing and quality management company. In his current role, Arun oversees the HR operations and people development initiatives globally.

Prior to taking up his current position at AppLabs, Arun was the head of the HR function at Intelligroup Asia, an IT Services Firm based out of Hyderabad, where he was responsible for post-recruitment HR operations as well as the Learning & Development functions. He also worked with Satyam Computers in leadership positions in HR and at Mascon Global, where he worked in their offices in India and the US, to manage their Business HR functions.

Arun started his career with Steel Authority of India Ltd as a Management Trainee in 1989, where he worked with them in various capacities in their Personnel and HR teams till 1999, post which he opted for Voluntary Separation.

Arun has a post graduate diploma in Personnel Management & Industrial Relations from the XLRI, Jamshedpur, (Class of 1995), and a Bachelor Degree in Science from the University of Delhi (Class of 1987).