Board of Directors:
Maha Mahadevan, President & CEO
Maha is
responsible for the overall vision, leadership and direction of BOSS.
With over 25 years of experience in the IT industry Maha has positioned
BOSS to be a leader in the network infrastructure visibility business.
This includes inventory discovery and management, compliance
regulations, and mitigating risks for his customers with a fully
integrated Service Desk. Maha’s leadership style puts the customer
first and focuses on the achievement of results in challenging, dynamic
technology environments. He has attracted highly talented people to the
company and has won their trust and confidence.
Maha
co-founded the company as an Atlanta-based solutions company and has run
the business for the past 17 years serving customers worldwide. BOSS is
a Microsoft GOLD Certified Partner and ISV with competency in Advanced
Infrastructure Solutions. The product suite is aligned with the ITIL v3
framework (de facto standard for service desk management).
BOSS is a
SBA 8(a) certified small business organization and our certificate is
valid through 2011. Maha has provided the company’s solutions to over
100 government agencies across USA including universities, colleges,
public schools & libraries.
Prior to founding BOSS, he was with Tatas, a prestigious
consulting house in India and later on consulting with Unisys
Corporation providing services and solutions to several major banks
in US & Europe. Under his leadership, BOSS steered itself successfully
to be a products and solutions company from being a Professional
Services firm.
He is an active participant in the local business community activities
and is a member of the board of directors of Southeastern Software
Association of the Technology Association of GA. He holds a
Bachelors degree in Electronics & Electrical Engineering from the
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India and a Master’s degree
in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology,
Bombay, India.
Benn Konsynski PhD
Benn Konsynski is the George S. Craft Professor of Business Administration for Decision & Information Analysis. He arrived at the Goizueta Business School in 1993 following seven years on the faculty at the Harvard Business School where he taught in the MBA program and several executive programs. Prior to arriving at the Harvard Business School, he was a professor at the University of Arizona, where he was co-founder of the university's multi-million dollar group decision support laboratory. He was named Baxter Research Fellow at Harvard in 1989 and named Hewlett Fellow at the Carter Center in 1995.
He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University. Professor Konsynski specializes in issues of digital commerce and information technology in relationships across organizations. This work involves extensive domestic and international field work on interorganizational systems, digital commerce, electronic data interchange (EDI), channel systems, electronic integration, information partnerships, and the electronic marketplace.
He is the author of "Information Systems and Decision Processes". He has published in such diverse journals as Communications of the ACM, Harvard Business Review, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Journal of MIS, Data Communications, Decision Sciences, Decision Support Systems, Information Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. He has served as a consultant on management and technology issues with many organizations including UPS, IBM, AT&T, Northern Trust, Texas Instruments, U.S. Army, Bestfoods/Unilever, Northwestern Mutual Life, Ernst and Young, Bank of Montreal, Plasti-line, J.C. Penney, Aetna, TESSCO, and Dillard's Department Stores. He also serves on boards of directors and senior management advisor positions.
Klaas Baks, PhD:
Klaas Baks is a Professor of Finance at The Goizueta Business School at Emory University and the research director of the Emory Center for Private Equity and Hedge Funds. His research and teaching focuses on issues in venture capital, private equity, entrepreneurial finance and investment management, and he has published papers in a number of academic and business journals. Dr. Baks serves on the board of Triton Value Partners, an Atlanta based private equity firm, and on the board of a number of start-ups.
A doctoral graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in finance, Dr. Baks also holds a master's degree in economics from Brown University, a master's degree in econometrics from Groningen University, The Netherlands and a diploma in Japanese language and business studies from Leiden University, The Netherlands. Prior to joining Emory University, Dr. Baks held positions at Fuji Bank in Tokyo, Japan and Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong.