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Omkar Sane

Branding and UX

Shuvam founded the company several hundred years ago, and led it from the front till 2017. Today, he provides overall stewardship of the company, influencing its direction and priorities as non-executive Chairman of the Board.

His background is primarily in engineering and technology, which becomes obvious within 10 minutes of chatting with him. He’s learned entrepreneurship and business strategy from the School Of Hard Knocks, and some say he still has a lot to learn.

David Bell

Sales, Marketing & Business Development

Over 8+ years of sales, marketing, business development & leadership experience in the digital marketing/web development industry.

Bachelor of Art & Science in Interpersonal Communication, Career focus in Sales Communication. Bowling Green State University class of 2009

Closed agreements with over 600 new clients, grossing over 1.6 million dollars in new revenue in the digital marketing space. Specifically, in the last 3 years has closed deals with over 80 new clients, grossing over $900K in revenue.

A resident of Denver, CO since 2011. Strong passion for personal growth/development.
Main interests include spending time with my family & friends, snowboarding,
mountain biking, and playing basketball.

Kiran Ajwani

Strategy and leadership coaching

Kiran has been a major catalyst for change and growth for the company. He has acted as a consultant for setting up our business development processes, guided us on business strategy, and provided intense leadership coaching to the top management team members individually.

Yatin Deshmukh

Operations and key accounts

Yatin is Vice President, Operations.  He directly manages our key accounts for India and Middle East. Project Managers and tech leads of various projects report to him. He spends more time on the phone than speaking in person. At least that is what his team members say about him.

Chirag Anand

Technology Consultant

Shuvam founded the company several hundred years ago, and led it from the front till 2017. Today, he provides overall stewardship of the company, influencing its direction and priorities as non-executive Chairman of the Board.

Shraddha Thanawala

CEO

Shraddha is the Head Honcho, the executive head of Merce. She’s that rare breed: a woman CEO in India’s technology industry.

Shraddha is not a programmer, as she takes pains to point out. This endears her instantly to business heads in her customer organisations who then want to discuss their business problems with her. She has been with Merce since 2001, and has worked in business development, project execution, strategic alliance development and management, before moving to a complete P&L responsibility. Today she claims that her Level-2 team is so competent that she does not have much work, but is still seen spending long hours at her desk and in meetings, doing what we do not exactly know. But about one thing we have no doubt: she takes ownership of the entire ship, and enjoys calling a spade a spade.

Sanjeev Gupta

Senior Technology Specialist

Sanjeev is our technical advisor and associate for issues related to networking and Internet infrastructure, and technology standards and processes. He disappears once a year to attend APRICOT and is active on Internet standards bodies. He is also much sought after when large organisations feel nervous about information security and want ISO 27000 audits done. Sanjeev is based in Singapore, and his messages and con-calls seem to indicate an ability to straddle time zones effortlessly — he never seems to sleep.

Kishan Parekh

Senior Technology Specialist

Kishan is a tech wizard who is an associate of Merce, and is brought in when heavy firepower is needed on any area of development, tools or infrastructure. He is reputed to have a photographic memory of the history of the company, having been with us since its inception. He can tell you which technology component caused what sort of problem at which client site in which year, since 1996. Multiple generations of young engineers credit their technology growth to his leadership.

Rohit Nayak

Technology leadership

Rohit is the Elder Geek of the team. He has been associated with Merce for several years, and his hair loss, it is said, is one of the unintended consequences. The fact that he keeps moving between Amsterdam and Mumbai is another factor for hair loss, we say. The general air of gravity he brings to any discussion or photo-op is highly appreciated, specially if the discussion is about development methodologies or machine learning.

Shuvam Misra

Overall stewardship, strategy, technology

Shuvam founded the company several hundred years ago, and led it from the front till 2017. Today, he provides overall stewardship of the company, influencing its direction and priorities as non-executive Chairman of the Board.

His background is primarily in engineering and technology, which becomes obvious within 10 minutes of chatting with him. He’s learned entrepreneurship and business strategy from the School Of Hard Knocks, and some say he still has a lot to learn.

Sachin Divekar

Software Architect

Sachin is our Software Architect. He is pulled into design and architecture of many of our projects. In addition, to keep his claws razor-sharp, he keeps honing them on new technologies, and the more obscure and unproven they are, the better.

Sachin has been with Merce since 2011 or thereabouts, and shows no sign of running away. We admire his resilience, and keep throwing fresh problems at him. He flits comfortably from CouchDB to Google DialogFlow in between meetings with project tech leads to address legacy tech problems.