Shirish Purohit, CEO & Director
Shirish is a founding director of Midas and is currently the CEO of the company. Shirish oversees business development, customer relationships and relationships with technology partners.
Shirish has a strong track record in managing development activities in the technology space and in managing a company through its early evolution. He has over 20 years experience managing design and development activities in industrial automation, monitoring & control systems, telecommunications and networking products.
Shirish is a serial entrepreneur. He started Texel Systems, focused on automated test and measurement systems, in 1987. The company was subsequently merged with Cutfast I-Tech (P) Ltd. In 1991, he started X-Controls, a products company focused on control systems, automobile electronics and telecommunications. In 1994, Shirish co-founded Midas. Shirish is a recipient of several awards and was recognized as a Young Leader for Science & Technology and given the National Leadership Award 2005 by the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, India.
Shirish holds a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Power & Electronics from Regional Engineering College, Nagpur and a Master’s in Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras, specializing in integrated circuits and system design.
Rene Abraham, CTO & Director
Rene is the Chief Technology Officer at Midas. He manages Operations, Product Development Lifecycles and Research & Development. Rene provides hands-on leadership and strategy for new cost effective telecommunication solutions. A co-founder of Midas, Rene has nurtured a team of engineers since inception into leaders of Midas' product development efforts.
Prior to Midas, Rene worked with Shirish at Texel Systems and then in Cutfast I-Tech Pvt. Ltd. As an embedded systems design engineer, Rene's skills cover low power system design, real-time software development, analog and digital IC design. He has 17 years of experience at senior management levels in the electronics industry.
Rene holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication from IIT Madras.
G. Rajaretnam, Vice President - Finance
Rajaretnam holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Physics and is a Chartered Accountant by profession. He has 27 years of experience in the Banking and Financial domains and handling operations in the manufacturing & software Industry. With a rich corporate experience in finance, accounts and taxation.
Prior to Midas, he worked in senior management functions in the BPL group of companies for 24 years.
Rajesh Jain is the Managing Director of Netcore Solutions Pvt Ltd. Rajesh has a Bachelors degree in in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay (1998) and a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, New York (1989). He worked at Nynex Science & Technology for two years before returning to India in 1992. Rajesh launched India World in 1995 and grew it to be one of the largest collections of India-centric websites comprising Samachar, Khel, Khoj and Bawarchi. India World was acquired by SIFY in November 1999 for USD 115 million in one of Asia's largest Internet deals.
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