Leadership
Anand has more than 30 years of entrepreneurial experience in building ventures involving enterprise software, solutions, and services. His earlier ventures under the iMetrex Group were acquired by Siemens AG in December 2009. He co-founded Twinit with his brother, Rajeev Mecheri, after a stint at the global HQ of Siemens Building Technologies. With a proven track record to envision, bootstrap, scale and create value in start-ups, Anand brings a wealth of leadership experience and business acumen to the team.
Edwin brings extensive experience in managing global businesses. Having served as the CFO for Siemens Building Automation, headquartered in Switzerland, he comes with domain expertise in building technologies. He also assumed international assignments as CFO in the automotive and energy sectors. Before joining Twinit, Edwin was the Head of Corporate Strategy, Americas for Siemens. His goal at Twinit is to establish a high-performance culture and help the company create sustainable success. Edwin keeps the balance in his life by practicing ancient well-being sciences from eastern cultures.
Vic has more than 30 years of experience leading successful teams across multiple disciplines and industries. He has devoted his career to building successful global commercial businesses, including key roles at Hewlett-Packard, Autodesk, and several startups in the building and manufacturing space. Before joining Twinit, Vic served as a Principal for Ascentage Group, a business development firm, where he helped small to mid-size technology companies scale and realize value. Previously, Vic also co-founded and served as the Chief Operating Officer for OpenBOM, an integrated data management system for engineering teams and supply chains.
Throughout his career Vic has held multiple C-level positions, leading several companies to mergers and acquisitions. Vic heads operations at Twinit, working closely with a global and talented team to build our platform and applications.
Amogh brings a wealth of experience to the table with over 25 years of seasoned expertise in software design, development, innovation, and leadership. Having honed his skills at industry giants like Siemens and BMC Software, he is no stranger to the intricate workings of complex technological ecosystems.
Amogh's passion lies in architecting large-scale frameworks and platforms that streamline and automate software development processes. His career includes transformative contributions to sectors spanning telecom, cloud lifecycle management, and building and construction industries. At Twinit, he spearheads the development of our platform, empowering application developers worldwide.
Marty has helped bring technology products to market for more than 25 years. Before joining Twinit, he served in marketing, product management, and business development roles for a wide range of software companies and founded two consulting firms focused on serving technology companies and their clients. At Twinit, Marty works with partners to develop strategies for technology solutions and ultimately successful projects and compelling stories. He focuses on creating business value with digital twin solutions.
Scott has focused on delivering high quality software to customers for more than two decades. From 2D and 3D mechanical CAD applications to data management and PLM, and now to Digital Twins, Scott has helped build some of the most widely used software in their fields. During his career, Scott has held many different roles in the software development process, giving him a broad and deep understanding of what it takes to bring software to market. At Twinit, Scott leads multiple teams supporting our partners and our open-source community.
Srikanth has diverse experience in the technology sector ranging from channel & partner management, project financial analysis to project deployment and end-customer success. Before joining Twinit, he served in a regional leadership capacity for a multinational scale-up and has experience working in the public sector. Srikanth works to expand our solution partner relationships, enabling them to deliver digital twin solutions. In addition to network expansion, he focuses on the development and execution of go-to-market and sales strategies with our partners.
John has over 30 years of experience. He graduated from Manchester University with a Computer Science degree in the early 90's. He has diverse experience working on different technology stacks in a lot of different settings - including COBOL and Fortran, C and C++, Java and J2EE as well as Perl, PHP, Ruby and JavaScript. He's worked for Fortune 100 companies, medium and small-sized businesses, and startups. He even started his own EV company (from 2008 through leaving in 2012). At Twinit, John works on Applied Research, figuring out revolutionary ideas that can be applied to our core mission of providing the best-in-class Digital Twin solutions. When not coding, John likes to race his Lotus 7 replica at racetracks around the Midwest USA.
Venkatesh has nearly 30 years as an architect in the AEC industry where he designed and managed large-scale construction projects. He spent most of that time at CRN, a well-known Indian design firm. There he worked on several high-visibility projects for Indian and multinational firms, as well as several sports facilities including a Cricket World Cup stadium in the West Indies. Venkatesh’s passion for creative design and excitement for technology led him to creating a construction technology center of excellence in Invicara to support Twinit clients and partners. Venkatesh has a bachelor's and a master's degree in architecture.
Strategic Advisors
Mr. Boisvert has been in the technology field for over 35 years. Boisvert started his career with IBM in 1976 where he held senior management positions in sales, marketing and R&D. After leaving IBM, Boisvert held executive positions in some of the best respected software companies in the technology industry, such as Cognos Corporation and Oracle Corporation where he served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and was a member of Oracle’s management committee.
In 2000, Boisvert was recruited as the President & COO of SAS Institute Inc., the world’s largest privately held software company. In 2001, Boisvert joined one of SAS Institute Inc.’s’ investments as Chairman & CEO of Sagent Technologies Inc. and successfully completed the sale of Sagent to Group 1 Software Inc. In March 2002, Boisvert became a director of VA Software (NASDAQ: LNUX), the creator and owner of SourceForge, the world’s largest repository of open source projects. He then co-founded Pentaho Corporation in October of 2004, the world’s most popular commercial open source business intelligence platform. Pentaho was subsequently acquired by Hitachi Data Systems in 2015.
Jean-Luc is an accomplished technology and corporate strategy executive with over 30 years of experience driving innovation and digital transformation for global companies.
As the founder and managing director of Verax Capital Advisors, he provides strategic advisory services focused on AI and data-driven digital transformation.
Recently, from 2015 to 2023, Jean-Luc served as the managing director and global chief technology officer for applied intelligence at Accenture. In this role, he set the technology vision and product roadmap for Accenture's AIP (artificial intelligence platform) and pioneered new enterprise digital twin solutions. He also acted as a trusted advisor for Accenture's global 2000 clients, guiding their AI and analytics modernization journeys.
Earlier in his career, Jean-Luc held various executive leadership technical roles where he drove breakthrough innovations in medical imaging, high-performance computing storage hardware, and enterprise information management. Throughout his career, he has co-invented patented technologies related to data protection, code certification, instrumentation planning, and more.
Darya Nasr is a successful international executive with over three decades of experience in the High Technology Industry. She is a software developer by education and has worked for large organizations such as NASA and IBM, as well as startups, where she helped build and manage revenue in several successful companies, focusing on their market development and strategic positioning for capital investment and acquisition. Her recent position was Chief Revenue Officer at a state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence and Analytics company focused on mobile operator and financial sectors.
She is co-founder of TechStartAfrica, bringing technology and coding skills to high school curriculums in Africa, and serves as an advisor to several emerging technologies. Nasr serves as Vice-Chair on the board of Refugees International, an independent humanitarian organization that advocates for better support for displaced and stateless people. She is also a member of the Washington DC Leadership Council for the Brady Campaign, a nonprofit that advocates for gun control and against gun violence. Darya is fluent in English, French, Italian and Persian. She lives between Paris and Washington DC with her husband and three children.
Doron brings decades of experience as an entrepreneur, advisor and investor in the technology domain focussed on AI/ ML, Communications, Energy & Utilities, Facility Management, Big Data Analytics for Life Science HC and Genetics, Cybersecurity and Claude Computing / SaaS systems. Through his deep domain knowledge and hands on experience across hardware, software and IT services, he has served multiple global companies as a 'change agent' leading all the way to IPO. He is currently serving as an interim C-Suite executive, specializing in innovative technology, 'Go-to-Market' strategy and M&A with leading System Integrators.
Non-Executive Board
Louise is the Managing Director of Kingspan Ventures. As former Director of Digital, Louise established Kingspan’s ambitious multi-million euro group wide customer and digital experience programme. She has worked in a range of roles for Kingspan during her tenure. Louise was named to the 2017 Women’s Executive Network List of Ireland’s most powerful women.
Mike Stenson is Project Director for the Building Materials Technology Campus. Before this role, he was Head of Innovation at Kingspan, where he set the innovation agenda for the company in research and development, new products, and future technologies. Prior to that he was Regional Operations Director for Kingspan for more than 11 years. Mike has an MBA in Business from The Open University, and a BS degree in Physics from the National University of Ireland, Galway.
With more than 25 years of experience in the building technology and services industry, Rajeev and his brother Anand co-founded India s leading security, safety and building automation solutions company. Together they founded the iMetrex Group and completed the acquisition and transformation of an Irish security technology company, which resulted in the introduction of industry leading IP based solutions for integrated security management for global markets. Siemens acquired the group in December 2009.
Rajeev is currently managing the interests of Mecheri Holdings within India, with a focus on angel investment, manufacturing and managing three joint ventures with Italian, New Zealand and Australian companies in the fields of Security and Aviation. Rajeev is the honorary consul for Ireland in Tamil Nadu, the founding president of EO Chennai, and the former regional chair of YPO South Asia.