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AskMe Corporation Senior Leadership Team |
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Udai Shekawat, Chief Executive Officer & Co-founder
Anil Kumar, General Manager, Enterprise Business
Bradley Krugh, General Manager, Services
Steve Eisner, Vice President of Engineering
Digvijay Chauhan, Co-founder
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Udai Shekawat, CEO, Co-founder
Udai Shekawat is chief executive officer and a co-founder of AskMe Corporation, a multi-million dollar enterprise software company that
provides Employee Knowledge Network software solutions to many of the world's leading Fortune 1000 companies, including Ford Motor
Company, Honeywell International, Proctor & Gamble, Gerber (a subsidiary of Novartis), ABN AMRO Bank, among others.
With an extensive background in ERP, CRM, knowledge management and collaboration software, Udai recognized the tremendous unmet need of
connecting employees with business problems to employees with solutions and pioneered "Employee Knowledge Networks," a
new class of software that is enabling today's leading Global 2000 organizations to gain significant business value by leveraging the
intellectual assets of their employees.
He founded AskMe Corporation in 1999 and in just three short years, led the company from inception to profitability, effectively navigating
AskMe through the dot-com fallout that destroyed the majority of technology start-ups. His strong leadership and incessant
focus on delivering customer value have established AskMe as the undisputed category leader based on the company's strong list of
blue-chip customers and financial condition.
Prior to founding AskMe Corporation, Udai provided strategic guidance as a senior technology consultant to industry giants that include SAP,
Microsoft, Oracle, HP, Yahoo and AOL, where he was instrumental in helping to develop their product, marketing, direct sales and
channel strategies. Udai is a frequent industry spokesperson. Udai is a graduate of Stanford University.
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Anil Kumar, General Manager
Anil joined AskMe Corporation in January 2000. He has been highly involved in the design and development of AskMe Enterprise and managed implementations at a number of Fortune 500 companies, including Procter & Gamble, Honeywell, Pfizer and Novartis. Anil has also worked on developing AskMe's professional services methodology for implementation of AskMe Enterprise.
Prior to joining AskMe, Anil worked at Microsoft Corporation where he was a lead developer on the Windows2000 family of products. Prior to Microsoft, Anil worked at Siemens A.G developing software for telecommunication access networks. Anil holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science and Engineering.
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Bradley Krugh, General Manager, Services
Bradley joined AskMe Corporation in 2004. He currently manages the Professional Services department for AskMe and oversees the delivery of custom software applications to a mix of F500 companies and independent software vendors. Prior to managing the Professional Services group Bradley was involved with sales and consulting projects for AskMe Enterprise.
Before joining AskMe Bradley worked at a leading IP security video software company where he built distribution channels with global systems integrators and formed strategic distribution alliances with hardware companies such as Sony, Toshiba and Panasonic. Additionally, Bradley spent 2 years as a technology consultant and advised global logistic companies on how to design and implement customer facing web portals. Bradley holds a B.S. degree in Environmental Economics.
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Steve Eisner, Vice President of Engineering
Steve joined AskMe Corporation in January of 2000. As Vice President of Engineering, Steve oversees all AskMe product development efforts. Under Steve's watch, AskMe Enterprise has become the most advanced and most used system in the expertise management space.
Prior to AskMe, Steve spent 8 years in Microsoft Research, where he worked directly for Microsoft's Chief Architect developing more intuitive and powerful programming languages and development tools.
Steve holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA.
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Digvijay Chauhan, Co-founder
Digvijay has over 14 years of experience delivering both world class consumer web sites and mission-critical enterprise applications in diverse areas such as wireless communication, and corporate information delivery systems.
Prior to starting AskMe Corporation, Digvijay spent six years at Microsoft where he built and led engineering teams, which enabled Microsoft to penetrate and win major market share in strategic enterprise software market segments such as digital streaming media and the corporate desktop browser. He played a key role in enabling UNIX interoperability with core Windows technologies.
He continues to be involved in AskMe in an advisory capacity.
Digvijay has an M.S. in Software Engineering from Seattle University and a B.S. in Electronic Engineering from Punjab University in India.
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