Executive Management

Mr. Suresh Katta founded Saama Technologies in 1997 with a vision of bringing actionable intelligence to masses. Suresh has crafted a solutions architecture utilizing best of the breed software companies offering, identifying and finding micro needles in today’s enterprise digital haystack.

Suresh has taken a very innovative approach in promoting emerging technologies with proven products– to improve the efficiencies by a large multiplication factor. Suresh Katta has founded and co-founded several companies focused on producing innovative software solutions, Suresh was co-founder of GVI, which developed groupware applications and was eventually sold to Netscape in 1995. He was also founder of Multisoft, which developed and marketed high-end graphics products for the Indian market. Before founding Saama, Suresh spent several years at SGI. Suresh is internationally recognized for his pioneering work. He has been a discussion panel member and featured speaker in several IT conferences.Suresh earned his MS in Computer Engineering from the University of Southwest Louisiana and his BS in Electronics Engineering from University of Bangalore in India.

Mr. Rajeev Dadia brings to Saama fourteen years of experience in the field of Business Intelligence. He has been responsible for large scale deployment of Data Warehousing, analytics and applied data mining / predictive analytics systems. Rajeev has also been in involved in analysis, design and deployment of business to business and business to consumer solutions. As Saama's Business Intelligence Leader, Rajeev is focusing on developing strategies, methodologies, and partnerships to further enable the customer's success.

During his time at Saama, Rajeev has led the development of an Indian operation based in Pune to provide offshore development capabilities. Prior to joining Saama, Rajeev worked at SGI in Corporate Information Systems. Rajeev holds an MS in Computer Science from California State University, Chico.

Mr. Stan Knight is responsible for leading Saama’s Life Sciences Practice, ensuring the firms’ Business Intelligence solutions are successfully developed, managed and implemented within its customer base. Mr. Knight has more than 20 years of management experience in a variety of industries, with the past 10 years focused solely on the life sciences vertical.

Prior to joining Saama in 2006, Mr. Knight held senior positions in field and sales operations, commercial analytics, channel strategy and program management, spanning the medical device industry, Bio-Pharma Manufacturing and, for the past 4 years, building the foundation for the Life Sciences practice at Saama Technologies.

Mr. Knight’s industry experience includes serving as Senior Director within the Commercial Information and Sales Operations at bio-pharma leader Genentech. Before joining Genentech in 2003, he spent two years with a medical device start-up company. He also spent seven years with KLA-Tencor, where he led their Sales Operations function.

Mr. Knight’s experience in leading major IT application and Business Intelligence initiatives across a wide range of functional areas has established him as leader on effective strategies to improve ROI on highly sophisticated, data-intensive IT initiatives across a range of dynamic enterprises. He developed multiple methodologies and governance models for establishing Business Value Based outcomes to complex IT/BI strategic initiatives, programs and road maps.

Mr. Knight began his career in the Aerospace industry as a Program Manager and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from the University of Arizona.

Mr. Murali Pabbisetty brings ten years of experience in the areas of Software Development and Consulting.  He has extensive experience in Account Management and Delivery Management (DM) for end-to-end BI Implementations for Fortune 100 Clients.  His focus is specifically related to strategy planning, analysis, architecture and design, and implementation of complex and scalable high-performance business intelligence systems. He has adopted Ralph Kimball and Big Bang approaches for DW/DM to architect data integration strategies in order to integrate Enterprise Resource Planning and Customer Relationship Management data from multiple sources and architect custom star schemas for various Telecom, Call Center, Retail, and High Tech customers.  Murali also has extensive experience in developing presentation frameworks including dashboards and scorecards using various BI Technologies.

Prior to joining Saama, Murali worked in the software wing of Tata's and General Electric. Murali has a BS in Information Science from Bangalore University.

Mr. Samir Dadia has over 18 years of management experience. His experience spans from handling exports for a multi-national organization to managing software start-up firms in India. He has worked for short time in U.S. and Japan to get work experience and better understand the processes worldwide.

Samir is in-charge of Indian operations at Saama Technologies handling all different aspects of the business, with focus on program management processes. With his extensive knowledge of processes, Samir has been key in defining the processes for Saama's ISO and CMM certification. He has contributed to the development of Saama's knowledgeTrak™ methodology and has been instrumental in it's adoption within Saama-India team.

Prior to joining Saama, Samir was director and Chief Operating Officer at a software services start-up Fundamental Info Tech.

Samir has Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical engineering and Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science.