LOGISTIMO - Key Persons


Amit Akkihal

Job Titles:
  • Director - Strategy
Amit co-founded Logistimo after a career spanning financial mathematics at Moody's while a student at Columbia University, to consulting for... Amit co-founded Logistimo after a career spanning financial mathematics at Moody's while a student at Columbia University, to consulting for Microsoft and Cambridge Networks. He has coordinated business research, led strategic planning, and currently also leads business growth for Logistimo's Third Party Logistics (3PL) business known as Tusker.

Anup Akkihal - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive
Anup is an action researcher focused on inclusive value chains., with two decades experience crafting strategy and engineering complex systems. ... Anup is an action researcher focused on inclusive value chains., with two decades experience crafting strategy and engineering complex systems. Eight years ago, he co-pioneered Logistimo - the team effort designing and applying novel value networks across frontier markets in Asia & Africa. Anup studied at Johns Hopkins University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Arun Ramanujapuram - CTO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Technology Officer
Arun brings >20 years experience building technology and products, suited for low resource environments. Prior to co-founding Logistimo, and leading... Arun brings >20 years experience building technology and products, suited for low resource environments. Prior to co-founding Logistimo, and leading the technology and product teams, Arun led Yahoo! Labs in India. Arun completed his Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.

Babu Reddy

Job Titles:
  • Senior Architect
Babu is a veteran with over 25 years of diverse software engineering experience. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronics... Babu is a veteran with over 25 years of diverse software engineering experience. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from BangaIore Institute of Technology and has worked across USA, Japan and India. At Logistimo, he is involved with building full-stack web applications, mobile applications, and Logistimo's distributed data and analytics platforms.

Charan Malemarpuram

Job Titles:
  • Chief Technical Architect
Charan builds the high-performance engineering organization at Logistimo. He is a techno-functional director responsible for the architecture, design, and quality... Charan builds the high-performance engineering organization at Logistimo. He is a techno-functional director responsible for the architecture, design, and quality of Logistimo's platforms. Charan brings 15 years of extensive software engineering experience that includes building multiple web scale search, analytics and enterprise systems. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering from JNTU Hyderabad.

Kumar Gaurav

Kumar is a hands on software architect with over 10 years of experience in software development. He's involved in the architecture, design, and implementation of distributed systems, microservices, service-oriented and entreprise architectures. At Logistimo he owns platform services and works on building distributed and scalable systems. He is inspired by Logistmo's SCM product which incorporates cutting edge technologies to improve the vaccine supply chain across aspects like immunisation coverage, equity, and significant cost reduction.

Logistimo SCM

Job Titles:
  • Health Workers
Logistimo SCM is enabling health workers in 27 facilities across the deployed region in Somaliland to maintain real time stock information of 300 health commodities (vaccines, essential drugs, lab equipment & nutritional supply). Real-time data flows up the supply chain, gets aggregated and visualized across multiple dimensions. This increases visibility into the supply-chain and provides decision makers the necessary tools for data-driven decision making. Logistimo SCM has been implemented in Senegal in the French language. It allows for real-time monitoring of vaccine quantity and quality, with an ultimate aim to improve vaccine coverage at the last mile. In association with Empower School of Health a local presence has been established in Senegal, to provide leadership in rolling out Logistimo's technology for Senegal's EPI program.

Mrinalini Menon

Job Titles:
  • Director - Finance & Operations
Mrinalini is responsible for Logistimo's financial analysis, operations, reporting & compliance processes. Prior to joining Logistimo, she worked with HSBC,... Mrinalini is responsible for Logistimo's financial analysis, operations, reporting & compliance processes. Prior to joining Logistimo, she worked with HSBC, TCS and Tidewater Shipping. Mrinalini graduated from ICFAI Business School with an MBA in Finance, and a Bachelor's degree in Finance from St. Joseph's College of Commerce.

Neeraj Thakare

Job Titles:
  • Director - Research
Neeraj works on qualitative and quantitative research at Logistimo across public health and last-mile transportation. He is interested in leveraging... Neeraj works on qualitative and quantitative research at Logistimo across public health and last-mile transportation. He is interested in leveraging imperfect data to design and deploy interventions for greater impact. Prior to Logistimo, Neeraj worked as a Data Scientist at Fair Isaac Corp., and as a Program Manager at Avanti Learning Centres. He holds a Bachelor's and a Master's in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Bombay.

Ranjeet Singh

Ranjeet currently works on Customer App API's at Logistimo. He graduated from NIT-Uttarakhand before joining and worked at Furlenco as a Developer prior to joinng the Tribe

Sharath Chandangoudar

Job Titles:
  • Director - Operations
Sharath brings 12 years experience in operations, consulting and program leadership. He co-founded Logistimo, and played pivotal roles across reseach,... Sharath brings 12 years experience in operations, consulting and program leadership. He co-founded Logistimo, and played pivotal roles across reseach, deployment and technical assistance programs. He co-led the formation of Tusker, an initiative addressing some of the most pressing challenges of rural transportation. Sharath completed his degree in Business Management from Jain University, Bangalore.