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Our Executive Management Team

Daniel Dargham President & CEO
Stuart W. Abrams CFO
Andrey H. Hankevych CTO & EVP Engineering
Prithvi Kandanda Vice President, Sales and Marketing
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Daniel Dargham brings 20 years of international experience in a diversified range of software engineering, marketing, sales and general management experience to Lohika, from both established and high-growth companies at the cutting edge of software development.
Daniel comes to Lohika from KLA-Tencor, where he held full P&L responsibility for the Test and Analysis Software Division, including the management of the Custom Software Development and Client Services departments.
While at KLA-Tencor, he achieved 250% growth in revenues in three years and developed the annual Strategic Plans for his division. He is also credited with turning around the Test Software product line, making it the most profitable in the company. Prior to KLA-Tencor, Daniel was at IBM, where he held several software engineering and engineering management roles in data analysis application development. Leading an IBM-Siemens (now Infineon) joint venture team, he was instrumental in introducing and ramping up IBM's Advanced Memory Manufacturing Line in Paris.
Daniel holds an MBA from Stanford University and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from
INSA Lyon, France.

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Stuart W. Abrams CFO

Stuart brings 25 years of finance and accounting experience from both large and small Silicon Valley companies. His professional background spans companies across computer hardware, software and professional services industries.

At VERITAS Software, Stuart led the Worldwide and Americas sales finance function, with responsibility for revenue and expense
planning, forecasting, and control. As VP of Finance at Ceon Corporation (a venture capital-backed software start-up), Stuart had
responsibility for all finance and accounting functions. Prior to Ceon, Stuart managed the financial planning and analysis functions for International Network Services and Synopsys. Stuart's finance leadership helped both companies transition from small, pre-public companies to mid-sized NASDAQ-listed corporations. Prior to Synopsys, Stuart held a variety of finance positions at Tandem Computers.
Stuart earned his Bachelor's degree in Business/Economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and his MBA from the Kenan-Flagler School of Business at UNC - Chapel Hill.

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Andrey H. Hankevych CTO & EVP Engineering

With over 20 years experience in the software industry and 15 years managerial experience with an emphasis in financial services and e-commerce, Andrey brings extensive technology management experience to Lohika, providing strategic guidance in technology, as well as leadership for the company's engineering resources.
His work experience includes 5 years as Executive Vice President at Ameropa Capital Markets/Deutsche Kapital Anlagen, Ltd., where he was responsible for US operations of a joint German/US venture

capital and real estate investment consulting firm. More recently,
Andrey held the position of Chief Technology Officer for LiquidityLINK.com where he was responsible for the architectural design and implementation of the company's transactional financial product, a B2B e-commerce site and online trading system for Commercial Paper.
LiquidityLINK.com and its product were successfully acquired by Reuters and made part of the Reuters family of web financial markets sites. Andrey also spent seven years at Coopers & Lybrand where he developed the Structured Finance practice and directed the design and development of CMO/Asset-Backed Securities computer models.
Andrey received his B.E.E. in Computer Engineering from Manhattan College in New York.

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Prithvi Kandanda Vice President, Sales and Marketing

Prithvi brings to Lohika over 19 years of experience in software sales and marketing with a focus on software product engineering services. He firmly believes in building a long lasting, value driven relationship with his customers.
Prithvi comes to Lohika from Aztecsoft, a Mindtree company, where he played key roles in sales and business development. In this role he nurtured key client relationships resulting in long term business for Aztecsoft achieving over 140% of the annual goal. Prior to Aztecsoft, Prithvi was with Syntel Inc where he managed a $20M business relationship. Prior to Syntel he was a founder and VP Business Development at Prodapt corporation.

Prodapt specializes in software development services and under his leadership acquired key US based clients like Sun and ACS. Prior to Prodapt he was the founder CEO of Silera corporation, a venture capital funded technology provider for the travel industry. Prior to Silera, he was the CEO of Kirloskar software services. Under his leadership the company achieved a revenue run rate growth of over 300% every year. Prior to Kirloskar he was with HCL - Hewlett Packard ( now HCL Technologies) for many years in various sales and business development roles.
Prithvi holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from University of Calicut, India and has studied strategic hi-tech marketing at Stanford University.

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