Dipak Thakkar

COFOUNDER AND CHAIRMAN

Dipak brings over 20 years of experience in operations, management, and general administration. As the Cofounder and Chairman of Stellar iDea Labs, Dipak oversees the executive management team’s strategy and execution.

Early in his career, Dipak rose through the ranks to become a Director at FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority). As a Director, Dipak was responsible for research and development of predictive analytics using regression and artificial intelligence to detect Insider Trading and Fraud in all three major US stock markets - Nasdaq, NYSE and Amex. His team developed many complex predictive models using various algorithms, theories, and statistical analysis, and heuristics.

Dipak is also an entrepreneur in the hospitality industry through his ownership of hotels and food establishments. Dipak currently serves on The Universities of Shady Grove Entrepreneurship Lab Advisory Council.

Dipak holds an MBA in Finance and Investment Management from the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland College Park, an MS in Software Engineering, from Gujarat University in India, and a BS in Math and Physics from Gujarat University in India.

Joshua Sircus

COFOUNDER AND PARTNER

Josh has 20 years of experience in building teams in the finance and technology sectors. As the Cofounder and Partner of Stellar iDea Labs, Josh is an active advisor and investor in several companies based in DC Metro area.

Previously, Josh co-founded fintech company Wild Oak Financial and served as its Chief Operating Officer for 8 years. He successfully negotiated its sale to public company Digital Media Solutions (NYSE: DMS) in 2018.

Prior to his entrepreneurial endeavors, Josh served as a Special Agent for the FBI where he investigated violations of federal law related to complex financial transactions. Previously, Josh worked for FINRA, where he built the first regulatory division charged with investigating matters of fraud and insider trading related to PIPEs (Private Investments in Public Equity).

Josh authored FINRA’s procedures for PIPE investigations and assembled its first investigative team. Josh previously worked in the private sector in the investment management division of Friedman Billings Ramsey (NYSE: FBR) and later as managing member of the hedge fund company Yashar Capital.

Josh currently serves on the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Dean’s Alumni Advisory Board. He holds an MBA from the Johns Hopkins Carey School of Business and a BS in Finance from the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland College Park.

George Abraham

CHIEF STRATEGY ADVISOR

George is a seasoned executive whose career spans more than 30 years across multiple industries creating, growing, and funding businesses. In addition to his engineering and finance background, he has a strong experience in IT/Business infrastructure, overseeing and providing leadership and management.

His expertise encompasses hedge funds, private equity, finance, marketing, operations and executive management. George previously ran a global strategic business development consulting firm, specializing in the areas of finance, technology and healthcare sectors to assist start-ups and new businesses.

George was a Senior Advisor at National Capital Merchant Banking, LLC, and was one of the original team of eighteen that founded Friedman Billings Ramsey (NYSE: FBR) and was a Senior Managing Director. He reported directly to the Chairman in positions of increasing responsibility across securities trading, investment management and its private equity business. He implemented FBR’s asset management expansion internationally to Bermuda, London and Israel. He raised over $350 million from investors globally for multiple investment vehicles. He was also responsible for due diligence, compliance, marketing and investor relations to institutional investors, fund of funds, family offices, and ultra-high net worth individuals. George holds an MBA in Marketing from Southeastern University and a Bachelor of Industrial & Production Engineering from Mysore University in India.

Prabhu Gowda

COFOUNDER AND CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER

Prabhu brings over 20 years of business and information technology leadership experience in healthcare and related verticals across several large corporations as well as start-ups in North America. As a Cofounder and the Chief Technology Officer of Stellar iDea Labs, Prabhu oversees technology design and development.

Prior to joining Stellar, Prabhu has served as Technical Advisor to the Office of the National Coordinator and as Systems Architect for the National Institute of Health (NIH).

Prabhu spearheaded several successful projects for companies such as Deloitte, Northrop Grumman IT and SAIC and has a proven track record of architecting and delivering reliable and scalable systems for clients in various fields such as Bioinformatics, Medicaid, Medicare, and Logistics.

Prabhu has been an active contributor to open-source implementations that involve FHIR specifications and has led high-caliber teams in J2EE software development with open source technologies.

As a Cofounder and the Chief Technology Officer, Prabhu's leadership skills, subject matter expertise, and focus on customer satisfaction continues to strengthen our onshore and offshore services and operations.

Kishore Ramachandran

CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER

Kishore has over 20 years of experience in leading various digital transformation programs including enterprise data analytics, data visualization, big data strategy and modernization using AWS cloud technologies.

Prior to joining Stellar, Kishore worked at FINRA as a Senior Director where he led implementation of data analytics infrastructure, architecture, and analytics query tools for SEC rule 613 (CAT - consolidated audit trail), which is the largest financial database in the world. Leading the build of FINRA analytics ecosystem, Kishore collaborated with functional groups across enterprise and external stakeholders such as, SROs, SEC, broker-dealers & exchanges helping FINRA become analytics empowered regulator.

Previously, Kishore worked at Morgan Stanley as a Business Intelligence consultant and as a data architect for NASDAQ where he engineered data warehousing solutions. Early on, Kishore co-founded Target CASE Technologies, a startup that grew from 2 to 50 employees in a year and developed several turnkey projects.

Kishore holds Bachelor's of Engineering in Computer Science from University of Mysore, India. His other interests include watching cricket matches, playing tennis, and coaching middle schoolers on Lego Robotics.

Sindhu J (Sandy)

DIRECTOR - GLOBAL OPERATIONS

Sandy brings over 16 years of experience in the field of technology consulting and operations.

As the Director of Operations and Staffing, she works with the executive management team for decision making on operational activities, as well as executing on the Company’s strategic goals for consulting and staffing.

Sandy supervises day-to-day operations and monitors staff from different departments of the Company. She oversees customer support and organizes the processes to enhance customer support by managing relationships with external partners and vendors.

Anand Madhav

VICE PRESIDENT - TECHNOLOGY

Anand has 19+ years of experience in technology design and development in various domains.

As a Vice President, Anand leads the processes of Elevate technology and consistently apply best practices for continuous improvement of code quality, scalability and automation which gel well with agile methodology. Mentoring team to achieve rich customer experience and business profitability.

Prior to joining Stellar, Anand worked as a software consultant for Apple UK, based in London. He led the biometric solutions team at Unisys India which was successful in winning the long-term project with DJI( Custodial Institutions Agency, Netherlands).

Manjunatha Shankarappa

DIRECTOR - APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT

Manjunatha has over 20 years of experience in leading many technology projects in healthcare related verticals.

Manjunatha headed the product development (Retention Management System) for Health Clubs and it was acquired by TRP, Jonas Software USA LLC. Later he headed the product development (Appointment booking system & Online Video Consultation) for Your Practice Online Pvt. Ltd,.

As a Director - Application Development of Stellar iDea Labs, Manjunatha oversees design and development activities of Applications.

Manjunatha holds Bachelor degree in Electronics Engineering from Bangalore University.