Vikas Joshi
Chairman and Managing Director, Harbinger Group
Vikas Joshi is passionate about making our lives more effective through interactivity. His vision has inspired a global market for interactivity software. As founder, Chairman and Managing Director at the Harbinger Group, he leads an international organization building cutting-edge technology products and services.
Thousands of trainers, educators, presenters, web designers and other dialog creators worldwide rely on Harbinger’s award-winning products for engaging users more effectively.
Vikas Joshi’s leadership at Harbinger has resulted in groundbreaking product innovations. One of his patented inventions led to Raptivity, the world’s first rapid interactivity builder, which makes e-learning, presentations and websites engaging and fun. Other products include YawnBuster, aimed at enhancing audience involvement; TeemingPod, a social interaction platform; Elicitus Content Publisher and Offline Content Player.
Recognized as a thought leader in interactivity, Vikas has spearheaded Harbinger’s leadership in that space. Harbinger has also emerged as a provider of software product development services to several technology companies including Microsoft.
After IIT Bombay, where he completed his B.Tech., Vikas got his MS from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY on a Graduate Fellowship, working on artificial intelligence. Vikas enjoys creative reflection on work and life through his writings and speeches. Through these he discusses the state-of-the-art of interactivity, interactive learning and innovative entrepreneurship. He lives in Pune, India and hangs out in the Silicon Valley a few months every year.
Swati Ketkar
Executive Director, Harbinger Systems
As Executive Director, Swati spearheads the rapid growth of Harbinger Systems, a global provider of software services. Since 1990, she has held various positions in the organization, involving engineering, project management, business development and leadership roles.
Swati’s leadership in sales and account management has helped Harbinger Systems establish a sound customer base worldwide. To support the rapid growth, Swati led the expansion of Harbinger Systems’ Redmond (WA) US headquarters and established its Santa Clara (CA) satellite office.
Swati believes in going that extra mile to give value to customers and delivering beyond their expectations. This mantra, which has helped Harbinger Systems build marquee customers such as Microsoft and Cisco, has also helped build enduring relationships with several smaller companies and technology startups.
In her successful professional journey, Swati has given a special emphasis to cadre building. She has been passionate about building highly motivated and effective teams, to carry the baton to a winning finish. She has achieved this by creating an environment that is nurturing and supportive to taking challenges for high level of performance benchmark.
She is a member of international honor society, ‘Beta Gamma Sigma’. The Institution of Engineers (India) honored her in the year 2003 with the Woman Entrepreneur award, commemorating Leelawati Mehendale.
Swati holds an MBA from University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the Department of Computer Science, Pune University, India.
Swati is a founder member of the Harbinger Group.
Shrikant Pattathil
Senior Vice President (SVP), Technology Services
Shrikant Pattathil has played an active role in the growth of Harbinger Systems since 1998, when he joined the company as a software engineer. In the years that followed, Shrikant has been instrumental in designing technology solutions for a variety of customers. His solutions have ranged from development frameworks, data architectures, schema designs to test strategies for applications for thin-client, rich-client and desktop. Teams at Harbinger have implemented these solutions using technologies such as .Net, Java and Flash. To customers and to his team, Shrikant has been a source of up-to-date knowledge of shifting technology paradigms such as Web 2.0 and SaaS.
In the course of his tenure, Shrikant has held key positions including Project Leader, On-Site Coordinator and Lead Manager R&D. He has worked out of Harbinger’s offices in Redmond, WA for 2 years and has also completed several on-site customer consultations across the US. Customers value his ingenuity and innovation in designing sound technical approaches to business problems.
Shrikant’s contribution in e-learning specifications has been recognized by the Aviation Industry CBT Committee, where he is a frequent speaker. He has also architected the Offline Content Player, a unique product that enables e-learning for users that need to cope with limited connectivity. Organizations such as Northwest Airlines and Bristol Myers Squibb are using this solution to enable offline learning.
Shrikant holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering. He lives in Pune with his wife, and enjoys a variety of outdoor sports.