Leadership & Advisory Team

Anand Mecheri
Anand Mecheri
Chief Executive Officer

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 Invicara 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 Blos
Edwin Blos
Chief Financial Officer

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 Sanchez
Vic Sanchez
Chief Operations Officer

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 Chitnis
Amogh Chitnis
Chief Architect

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 through cutting-edge Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solutions.

Marty Chobot
Marty Chobot
Vice President, Solutions & Partnerships, Americas

Marty has helped bring technology products to market for more than 25 years. Before joining Invicara, 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 Invicara, 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.

Claire Penny
Claire Penny
Director, Solutions & Partnerships, UKI

Claire brings to Twinit a combination of her passion, experience, and learning from the past 25 years, enabling her to effectively work with our partners to deliver Digital Twins to their clients. She previously worked at IBM for over 19 years where she was the Global Industry Leader at IBM for the Watson IoT for Cognitive Buildings group. She has a record of successfully converting innovation projects into commercialised, revenue generating products, and driving results across matrixed global teams. Known for her passion, ‘go-getter’ attitude, and love of evangelizing, she is also a prominent international speaker on IoT, PropTech, Smart Buildings, FM and Real Estate.

Claire serves on the boards of CITA (Construction IT Alliance) Ireland and PRL (Producer Register Ltd). She graduated from Liverpool John Moores University where she received a PhD and she earned an MSc from Imperial College London.

Srikanth Mantha
Srikanth Mantha
Director, Solutions & Partnerships, EMEA

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 Invicara, 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.

Strategic Advisors

Andre M Boisvert
Andre M Boisvert

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 Chatelain
Jean-Luc Chatelain
Senior Managing Director, Verax Capital Advisors

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
Darya Nasr

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 Schory
Doron Schory

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.

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