Our Team
MANMOHAN KRISHNAGOPAL UTTARWAR
Founder, CEO & President
Manmohan is Founder, CEO & President of AMERICAN SOFTWARE LLC, an IT Firm headquartered in Metro New York City, NY area.
Manmohan has more than 2 decades of professional technology experience with almost 18 years specifically dedicated to the Capital Markets space working for Buy side, Sell side and Broker Dealer firms on Wall Street.
Most recently, he was a Global Head of Technology for Fixed Income, FX & Alternative Investments at a $300 Billion or Rs. 25 Lakh Crore (AUM – Assets Under Management) or firm in New York, NY with approx. 300-member technology team. He also has equal expertise on the Equities Capital Markets technology at various Wall Street firms having spent almost a decade in that vertical as well. Due to his multi decade leadership experience working directly with
trading floor stakeholders like Portfolio Managers, traders, analysts, etc. he understands both the business and technology sides of the deliverables. He has experience running technology in Equities, Fixed Income, FX, Alternative Investments, Compliance, Commodities, etc.
Manmohan has course equivalency of 4-Masters degrees, 2 in Technology including Masters in Software Engineering from Kansas State University and the 2 on the business side which includes his current CFA L-2 candidature & his further commitment and pursuit of Capital market domain expertise. Besides above pedigree, he has various other over a dozen industry recognized certifications both in technology and capital markets / financial services.
Manmohan is pivotal in providing vision and leadership to the company by tirelessly working towards fulfilling the firm’s mission and acting as a guiding start for the growth of the firm. He continuously capitalizes on his vast experience in technology, management, team and relationship building skills, etc. His list of clients includes HSBC Bank, Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley, PIMCO, Cantor Fitzgerald, Wellington Management, PepsiCo and many more.
His leadership skills goes back to his childhood when he won best in sports and academic performance trophies including being School Cricket Captain, Field hockey captain, School Soccer team and also represented his school in other athletics in his age categories. Later during his Master’s degree at Kansas State University, he was President of Indian Student Association, Graduate Student council representative for approx. 30,000 students and International
Coordinating council steering committee member for approx. 1200 Students.
He is a proud alumni of India’s #1 ranked boys boarding school named Scindia School, Gwalior. He did his 10th, 12th & Bachelors in Engineering in Nagpur and remainder all other 4-Masters in the US.
On family end, besides Wife and Kids, Manmohan surrounds himself with a large circle of smart
people in his family and friends who support him as he leans upon them for advice. He grew up
surrounded by 1st, 2nd or 3rd generations of business family owners. Hence, he has great
appreciation for business owners and their ability to overcome challenges but also to reap the
benefits of their labor
Mrs. Bhakti is Co-Founder, Director of Operations & Marketing of AMERICAN SOFTWARE LLC.
Mrs. Bhakti has an education in Healthcare, Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical, business & finances with over 15 years of experience in helping both small businesses and large industries in improving operational efficiencies, business performance and new initiatives.
She has worked with very very well known clients like Celgene Corp, Mt Sinai Health System, Hackensack Meridian Health, etc.
Bhakti is currently pursuing her MBA in Pharmaceutical Management from Rutgers Business School in Newark, New Jersey. She has a Master in Molecular Biology & Bachelor in Biotechnology from Farleigh Dickinson University in along with multitude of Industry Certifications in Life Sciences & Clinical Oncology.
BHAKTI MANMOHAN UTTARWAR
Co-Founder, Director of Operations & Marketing
SREENI P
Advisor
Sreeni has two decades of professional technology and business experience and significant leadership accomplishments working for manufacturing conglomerates. His financial and business knowledge spans across technology, consumer goods and industrial manufacturing firms with vast experience in marketing, pricing and financial analytics. He has successfully launched several products into new applications and markets and drove value selling and pricing across wide range of market players. While he is adept at marketing and pricing, financial and revenue management remain his specialty. He likes to learn new tools and skills both for his professional development and outside.
Sreeni believes in driving results through consensus and develops his team for success. His teams have successfully delivered on complex projects that added considerable value to the bottomline. Most recent manufacturing cost savings project resulted in 20 Million USD savings to the company.
Additionally, he holds 3 Masters degrees, an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business being the most recent one besides Masters in Software Engineering, Masters in Environmental Engineering, both from Kansas State University. He also completed Six-Sigma training that he applies as he sees fit.
He volunteers for swimming meets and is USA Swimming certified Swim Official. During his free time he likes to go fishing with his two boys.
Tarun is a senior management professional with 25+ years of experience, of which the last 10 years have been at C-level roles (CFO, CEO/MD). He has Board level experience, and has expertise in Investments (Private markets), corporate finance (M&A, private placement) and financial management (strategy, budgeting, reporting and compliance).
He has a successful track record of deal closures (M&A, fund-raising, buy-side and sell-side) in excess of USD 500 million across different sectors. He has participated in debt restructuring of debt in excess of USD 2.5
billion.
Tarun started his career at the audit and forensic practice of KPMG in India and was subsequently with the Corporate Finance practice of Ernst & Young. He joined Millennium & Copthorne Hotels (LSE listed) as the CFO for Middle East & Africa region as one of the first employees in the region and was instrumental in setting-up the finance function, negotiating over 50 hotel management contracts and overseeing the risk and legal functions of the company in the region. Subsequently he was appointed as the CEO of Lakhraim Business Group (LBG).
Tarun is currently the Managing Director of an Advisory firm and based in Abu Dhabi. He is an active angel investor and mentor to tech start-ups. Tarun is qualified as a Chartered Accountant (India), CPA (Australia) and CFA (USA), and he is also a board member of CFA Society Emirates.
TARUN K
Advisor
AMIT R
Advisor
Amit has two decades of professional technology experience and significant leadership accomplishments
working for investment banking giants on the Wall Street. His financial product knowledge span Equities, Credit
Derivatives, Corporate Loans and Asset management. He has delivered various multi-million dollars technology
projects and led large(25+ member) teams. While he is adept in many technical & programming languages and
frameworks, web development and Cloud migrations remain specialty. He likes continuous learning and keeps
himself updated. Most recently he acquired certification from Oracle (Programming for Java) and Microsoft( for Azure cloud).
Amit has a natural affinity for cultivating relationships and persuading and building consensus among diverse teams and individuals. Amit holds multiple degrees, technology-MBA from Columbia University, New York being the most recent one. He also holds PMP certification and a certification from Stanford University. Amit likes to give back to the community and actively drives software projects with kids of a local middle school. He also drives a semester long software delivery project with Senior Year comp-science-major students of the North Carolina State University. He also serves as a mentor on Goodnight Fellows Mentor program.