Meet Our Team
We believe in the power of cross-functional teams and the wealth of learning applied through interdisciplinary expertise.
Our team is a strong blend of over 100+ years of product development and manufacturing experience, over 75+ years of architecting scalable cloud solutions and a true forum of decades of scientific prowess helping us take on a challenge for a much needed solution.
Our culture nestled amongst entrepreneurs, engineers, water experts, scientists, business leaders and more, comes from individuals with varied, diverse backgrounds but having one thing in common: we care about water – and the people that rely on it.
As a team, we are committed to enhancing the quality of life for all world citizens, so we leave a planet that can provide safe water for our future generations.
LEADERSHIP
MEENA SANKARAN
Founder & CEO
Meena Sankaran is an accomplished technology executive, business leader and evangelist driving global strategy and innovation for customer success through a variety of leadership roles. She has been a key influencer and executed on product strategy with her unique blend of business and technical acumen to customers worldwide across organizations of varied sizes.
As a Social Entrepreneur, she believes in leveraging technology for challenges that bring about global change and deliver solutions to impact at a grass roots level. She has a BE in Electronics Engineering from India and MS in Electrical Engg from UTA, Texas. Her Leadership in Ketos's engineering innovation, product & business strategy, team discipline and strong culture are instrumental in the path to success. She has been a winner of several awards including being featured on Forbes as one of the awe-inspiring women.
As a Social Entrepreneur, she believes in leveraging technology for challenges that bring about global change and deliver solutions to impact at a grass roots level. She has a BE in Electronics Engineering from India and MS in Electrical Engg from UTA, Texas. Her Leadership in Ketos's engineering innovation, product & business strategy, team discipline and strong culture are instrumental in the path to success. She has been a winner of several awards including being featured on Forbes as one of the awe-inspiring women.
SENTHIL PARAMASIVAM
Vice President, Software Development
KIM SPEISER
Vice President, Finance & Operations
AMAN SEHGAL
Vice President, Sales
Advisory Panel
The power of collaboration and having invaluable guidance from the experts across verticals is crucial to any industry. At KETOS, implementing an approach of building a strong ecosystem of advisors is complementary to the team design and inherent in our DNA while we build and grow the team for increasing customer value.
SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY
DR. PAUL WESTERHOFF
Regent Professor and Fulton Chair of Environmental Engineering, Arizona State University
PhD, PE, BCEE is a Regent Professor and Fulton Chair of Environmental Engineering at Arizona State University and an expert in water quality and treatment associated with drinking water and wastewater reclamation.
DR. UPMANU LALL
Director, Columbia Water Center
Alan and Carol Silberstein Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering,Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics.
Research Areas: Hydroclimatology, nonlinear dynamics, and applied statistics; Natural hazards, water systems, and risk management; Water technologies for developing countries.
DR. LAURA JOHNSON
Director, National Center for Water Quality Research, Heidelberg University
Dr Johnson's performs research in the following areas: water quality, freshwater biogeochemistry, coupled biogeochemical cycles
TECHNICAL ADVISORY
RAGHU NAMBIAR
Corporate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at AMD
Raghunath Nambiar is a distinguished engineer and chief architect of big data and analytics solution engineering. His current focus areas include emerging technologies, data center solutions, and big data and analytics strategy. He is a member of the IEEE big data steering committee, Board of directors of the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC), and founding chair of its International Conference Series on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking
VIJAY DESAI
Distinguished Data Scientist at Accenture
Vijay Desai has over twenty years of industry experience in developing and building advanced analytics based products. Significant experience in credit risk products such as transaction based credit risk behavior scores, brokerage margin risk lending, commercial loan loss forecasting, credit portfolio optimization, and collections optimization.
BUSINESS ADVISORY
MARK PETROFF
Stanford educated senior executive (CEO, COO and CFO) with extensive experience in founding, managing, funding, and leading high technology product development, technology services, water and clean-tech companies from start-up phase to exit. Successfully completed several turn-arounds. Founded or co-founded 20 companies on 5 continents.
JD DAVIS
Jeff (J.D.) Davids has served on the management teams of 8 venture capital backed startups, 3 of which completed successful IPOs, 3 were acquired, and 2 were valuable learning opportunities. J.D. has closed over $1 Billion in financial transactions including raising money from Angel Investors, Venture Capital Firms, Strategic Corporate Investors and completing IPOs and Mergers & Acquisitions from the buy side and the sell side of the deal.
DEVAN BATAVIA
A serial entrepreneur, Devan has spent the past 20 years building sales, business development and customer success teams for young start-ups. Currently, as President of Big Mind Unlimited, he acts as an advisor to start-up founders helping them scale their organization while helping to build & execute their go-to-market plans. Previously, he served as the Chief Revenue Officer at TripActions, a start-up disrupting the corporate travel space. Prior to Tripactions, Devan has held leadership roles for several early-stage companies and has helped a number of them IPO and/or get acquired.