Mr. Abhijit Chaphekar is an industry veteran with two decades of experience in the IT industry. His process-driven approach for evaluating situations; helps identify focus areas and execution strategy for business results. He has successfully built cross-functional (technical) teams that delivered exceptional results for the customers. Under his leadership, strategic collaborations were created with foreign partners to strengthen our capabilities.

Mr. Chaphekar holds a BE (civil) degree in from MIT (Pune). He worked in India and the Middle East as a civil engineer. He switched to IT on his return to India.

His key skills include High end server configuration, HA solutions on Unix Platform, IT Infrastructure Management, System integration, Data Center Migration, etc.

Mr. Chaphekar has unbelievable work ethics and technical know-how. Under his leadership skills, clients keep long term business relationship with Softenger.

Having gained extensive skills in Sales and Management experience, Mr. Abhijit Ranade joined Softenger as a Vice President of Sales and Marketing in 2003. He basically de-risk our business by increasing our client base across India and Southeast Asia.

At Softenger, as a Director of Sales and Marketing, he now formulates business strategies, creates service offerings, develops and maintains relationships with key clients.

Mr. Abhijit Ranade, a fascinating leader of Softenger, is a Mechanical Engineer from University of Poona. He subsequently acquired an MBA in Marketing from Symbiosis, Pune. A Traveler by heart, he spends his vacations travelling to different places of cultural and historical significance across the globe.

Madhav Kolhatkar is the Managing Director of our Singapore operations. He holds a degree in BE (Mechanical) from College of Engineering Pune. He joined Tata Electric as a maintenance engineer through campus placements. During his stint with Tata electric, he managed maintenance of hydropower plant & equipment’ and later moved to Engineering department to work on Thermal Power Plant Projects. With an entrepreneurial dream in mind, he moved to Pune in 1996. After creating a successful footprint in the market while Trading of Engineering Goods & materials, he moved to contribute for building School educational materials, project launched by few eminent scientists to encourage students to pursue career in pure science. In 2001 Madhav happen to meet with our founder Suresh Joshi. Mr. Joshi persuaded him to switch fields to IT. He joined Softenger in 2001 as a technical trainer and progressively took on higher responsibilities. He moved to Singapore in 2005 to take charge of our operations.

His CRM skills, transparent, fair and consistent employee practices, Softenger got success in Singapore and earned the trust of our clients. Madhav admired and followed these words, “It is not important for a person to have answers to all questions asked. It is more important to make honest efforts to find an answer.”

Lakshmi Narayanan (@Naren) is the Director of our Malaysia operations. He holds a Master degree in Computer Applications (MCA) from Madurai Kamaraj University.
Experienced with almost 14+ years into APAC regions like Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, India & Emerging Markets in various industries focusing on IT services & solutions.

A Well-versed and effective global workforce solutions leader with primary responsibility in Business Operations, managing people, Sales & Delivery to provide support to the best practices.
Conduct complex analysis of statistics to determine growth and improve sales performance goals. Develop and manage sales forecasting, reporting and planning processes in line with global framework.
Naren admire and follow words as “If we don’t take care of our Clients then Someone else will do “