INTERUPS - Key Persons


DR. RAJ BODEPUDI

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Vice Chairman
  • Vice Chairman - CSR
Dr.Raj Bodepudi is the Vice Chairman and a Director of SIRI, the Registrant's affiliate. assisting SIRI with business development since May, 2013. Prior to that, Raj was the Founder/CEO of Lotus Partners, Inc. a business development company, and worked for a nonprofit organization from 2010 to 2013. From 2004 to 2009, Mr. Bodepudi was the Managing Director at MASI, Ltd., an M&A firm (from 2003-2008), based in Chicago. During this time he provided strategic advisory and investment banking services to several firms that included global business development and M&A integration. He had recently advised the City of Detroit on its revitalization strategies and also worked closely with professionals at GE and Intel Capital on several investment banking projects. During 1998-2002, Raj was the Founder/CEO of Oak Brook Technologies, Inc. ("OBT"), a technology solutions provider that was sold to Alpha Thought, a Chicago-based company. During 1994-1997, Raj negotiated a $150 Million joint venture between Coal India and the world's largest coal-washing firm, from concept to completion. During this time, Raj had advised two Prime Ministers of India on reforms related issues and negotiated contracts between U.S. partners and Indian Government officials as well as working with the Bank of Tokyo on project financing. During 1981-1994, Raj was a First Vice President at Morgan Stanley, Managing Partner with Manas Research and was the Founder/CEO of Wall Street Financial, Inc., the first financial services company owned by an NRI in the US. Raj was awarded a Ph.D. (and Blum Award for the best preliminary Doctoral Exams) in Economics from Wayne State University, an M.A in Economics from Osmania University (Gold Medal-First in Class) and won the prestigious National Merit Scholarship Award.

DR.SATYENDRA THAKUR

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director - High Value Transactions & Government Liaisons - India

Laxmi Prasad

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Management Team
  • Group Chairman & Chief Business Architect
Mr. Prasad, designated asGroup Chairman & Chief Business Architect, is a professional with expert knowledge in corporate structuring, taxation and cross-border transactions. He structured more than $3 billion in client assets, while also encouraging entrepreneurs from Asia to list their businesses in U.S.

LIKHITHA PALAYPU

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Management Team
  • Director - Corporate Communications
  • Head of Corporate Communications & New Business Initiatives
  • Head of Corporate Communications & New Business Initiatives / Vice Chairman - CSR
Likhitha Palaypu is an honors graduate from the University of St Andrews in Scotland, where she studied International Relations with special interest in conflict theory and environmental politics. In the frame of her studies, she has worked as a political analyst for Frontier Horizons, a securities and political risk analysis firm based in London, studied conflict at the Galtung Institut in Germany and reported for the Foreign Affairs Review, a rapidly growing online journal for international affairs. While developing reporting and journalistic experience, she has also taken on roles as a negotiator alongside UNCITRAL and the Office of the Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Guinea Bissau to strategize the passage of key trade agreements. Her involvement in the financial services and asset management fields began in 2011, when under the guidance of her father, Mr. Laxmi Prasad, she began independently managing and building client relationships with IRA customers and various state governmental bodies. With these reporting, negotiating, and interpersonal skills in hand, she has been serving the board of the Interups since 2014. Ms. Palaypu has accepted executive responsibility to handle relationship management for Interups and will be collaboratively working with the Board to handle media and public relations, and corporate internal and external affairs.

MAHESH VELLABOYINA

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Management Team
  • Vice Chairman & Group CTO
Mahesh is a strategic investor for various companies and manages operations in those companies as well. Armed with passion about new technologies, markets, sectors and its use in everyday life, Mahesh has evolved to be a startup enthusiast, helping companies in early stage to capitalize the opportunity and derive appropriate valuations.

Mr. Murali Kuppa

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Management Team
  • Chief Executive Officer - ASEAN
A cogent personality, vividly knowledgeable, and extensively deep in networking, Mr. Murali Kuppa is rightly designated to the coveted post as Head of Retail Placement Network to en mark and oversee and establish a 1,000-member strong Placement Agent Network for the Group across the world in US, UK, Middle East, India, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan and Australia over the next 3 years that would help the firm solidly penetrate Foreign Individual Investors & NRI Retirement Assets as "Foreign Portfolio Investor" [FPI] accounts for distributing company introduced structured financial products as well as of third party institutions globally. Murali is also deeply specialized in project management, investment consulting, fixed Income & structured product distribution, energy, commodities, equities, distressed asset solutions and emerging markets. He previously served as Director of Fixed Income, Derivatives and Income Fund at Fidelity Investments.

SIVAPRAKASAM SIVAKUMAR

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Management Team
  • VP, Stressed Assets & MD India

SURYANARAYANAN VENKATARAMAN

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Management Team
  • Chief Corporate Secretary & Head of Global Governance
As Chief Corporate Secretary Surya collaboratively works with the Group's GOH, CEO and CAO and as their internal face in the organization. Carrying this critical responsibility, he builds a strong, trusting partnership across the group handling all internal communication flow as well as external representation of top leadership before third parties - clients, partners, and affiliate leads etc. He strategically advises the leadership effectively setting priorities for them for an optimized decision-making and composes and manages correspondence that deals highly sensitive matters. Additionally Surya also manages board and leadership travel arrangements; organizes meetings and conferences, and maintains media relationships. Innovative problem solver with more than 20 years' of experience and as a mentor for mid level managers, Surya continues to excel and inspire organizational spirit for achieving excellence. With strong leadership skills, recognized expertise that he gained as Vice President at SAP SE in building organizations and teams globally that provided solutions to customers, Surya aptly fits into this extremely challenging 24/7 job handling. Hands on in nature, he was also a founding member for 2 consulting startups.