PERI first priority is to provide "answers that work" and create satisfied customers in long-term business relationships. Everyone at PERI has a role to play . Our executive team brings years of experience developing software applications for streamlining business processes. We have assembled the best and the brightest group of experts who are committed to delivering the highest quality service, the latest software advancements and a high level of personal attention to each client. Here's a brief overview of the background of our senior executive team, who help to create the PERI difference in every engagement.

Sarav Periasamy, President & CEO 

Sarav Periasamy, CEO and Founder, established PERI Software in 1999 with the goal of making it one of the world's leading technology companies. To achieve this PERI, which is based in Newark, NJ has strategically concentrated on the next-generation technology initiatives. It includes an emphasis on long-term growth opportunities and continuous customer focus. The result has been increased financial performance and enhanced profitability, along with greater value for customers and a stronger competitive position in global IT markets.

Periasamy's leadership, based on modern business perspectives, continuously drives forward the success of the company. His professional experience in R&D of next generation technologies, products and services has transformed PERI from a business based on IT staffing solutions to a multi faceted global technology centric enterprise.

Under Periasamy’s leadership PERI has developed a synergistic portfolio of business units/profit centers across multiple industry verticals with worldwide revenue of more than $50M to date. Through new businesses acquisitions, strategic alliances and partnerships, as well as organic growth Periasamy has created strategies, structure and a culture of productivity to establish PERI as a leading global technology company. PERI has been awarded as one of the U.S. Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce’s fastest-growing Asian-Indian American businesses and was also recognized recently with five awards as one of the top 100 diversity businesses in the U.S. at the 10th Annual Multicultural Business Conference.

Periasamy management style includes a no nonsense approach with tough and fair business decision making and little tolerance for bureaucracy and archaic business ways. The senior management team is given free reign within the parameters of PERI’s ethic to embracing change. They also strive for constant improvement in establishing PERI as the world's leading technology company.

A major strategic factor in PERI’s success has been the intensive “Boot Camp” style training that all the company’s new technology employees go through, including those who already have a graduate level degree in the IT field. Periasamy has taken PERI’s extensive technology training expertise and established a PERI University in Chennai, India to train engineers in computer science, electrical engineering and other technology disciplines. PERI University’s curriculum has been approved by state authorities. The new campus is nearly completed, the faculty is being hired and the first group of students will begin enrollment in 2010. Additionally, Periasamy plans to bring PERI University to the U.S. to train technology workers here over the next two years.

Prior to starting PERI, he held a variety of positions, from architect to senior consultant, in the IT divisions of several leading global financial services firms including Prudential, Citibank and JP Morgan Chase. Periasamy received his bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from University of Madras and then went on to receive his M.S. in Computer Science at New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Jay Paramasivam - Vice President Recruiting 

Jay is responsible for PERI recruiting initiatives.  With over 19 years of IT career reflecting pioneering experience and record-breaking performance in recruiting, marketing software products, hardware products, and project executions. Jay has served as Manager, Asia Pacific Operations with BCC, USA and was responsible for recruiting, consulting, marketing software products, project executions, managing accounts and orchestrating post-sale professional services and resources. Jay held a position as Director Marketing with Apex Computers, a hardware manufacturer - as corporate head marketing where his responsibilities included designing marketing strategies and executing strategic business alliances. Jay holds an Engineering degree in Computer science from the University of Madras.

Perwez Mohamed - Vice President Marketing 

Perwez Mohamed oversees marketing strategy formation and is responsible for all marketing-related activities. He assumed the responsibilities in January 2004. Upon joining PERI management team, Perwez has been instrumental in achieving many milestones in PERI growth. Perwez possesses a wealth of experience in Sales, Business Development, Product Marketing, Brand Management & Marketing Communications gained over 11 years of experience. Perwez graduated from the University of Madras in 1995 with a Degree in Engineering and later gained a Master's Degree in Marketing from the Indian Institute of Planning & Management in 1998.

Kavitha Shetty - Director Financial Technologies 

Kavitha is a graduate in Computer Science and Engineering with 12 years of experience working in the financial industries. She has diverse experience working in various Fortune 500 organizations including Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank. She has strong technical expertise in Financial Technologies related to Fixed Income, Equity, Trading, Settlement etc. She heads the Financial Technologies practice in PERI. She spearheads the work of PERI Financial managers.

Satish Chetty - Director Technology 

Satish is primarily responsible for development, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the technology solutions including engineering services, network, telecommunications, infrastructure, training and global technology operations. Satish has extensive experience in architecting, designing, deploying, and managing global enterprise Internet infrastructure solutions at Red Hat, Netscape, America Online and Sun Micro Systems. He holds an engineering degree in electrical and electronics engineering and Masters in Information Systems from American University, Washington DC. In his spare time, he teaches robotics and embedded systems programming. Satish is based out of PERI Silicon Valley office in San Jose, California.

Peter Wiersma  - Vice President Business Development  

Peter Wiersma is responsible for PERI new business initiatives. Peter is a corporate supplier diversity and public affairs practitioner with three decades of experience developing and managing industry-leading minority business and economic development programs and a record of innovation and achievement across several major industries. For nearly a decade he developed and managed an award winning utility suppler diversity program that is recognized as an industry leader, achieving nearly one-third of its procurement from diverse business enterprises. He has also worked as a consultant on the startup and enhancement of supplier diversity programs to several fortune 1000 corporations including utilities, financial institutions, and automobile manufacturers, as well as government agencies. Additionally he provided ongoing strategic consultation on the start up and growth of several of the nation's largest and most successful minority business enterprises in information technology, specialty construction, engineering and industrial distribution, including a $5 billion energy firm that then was the largest minority-owned business enterprise in the U.S.