Management Team

Building on many years of business, technology and legal experience, the Pramata management team brings domain expertise and process innovation to our solution and our customers.

Praful Saklani, Co-Founder and CEO

Mr. Saklani co-founded Pramata in early 2005 and serves as its President of Delivery Operations, responsible for Engineering and Operations, as well as general corporate strategy. A management veteran of three startup companies, Mr. Saklani brings a strong track record of entrepreneurial success and management experience, with a specific focus on developing high-technology companies that deliver enterprise process solutions to large corporate customers.

As founder and Chief Executive Officer of Yatra Corporation, he focused on using artificial intelligence techniques and internet technology to optimize travel management processes. There he was instrumental in raising venture funding, culminating with the successful acquisition of Yatra. Prior to Yatra, Mr. Saklani was Co-Founder and Managing Partner of the consulting firm Invotech Systems, where he was responsible for developing Invotech's Groupware and Intranet practice. Mr. Saklani also served as a key executive with WaterHealth International, an IFC and UC-Berkeley supported social start-up focused on bringing affordable drinking water purification solutions to developing countries. He graduated from Swarthmore College, where he received High Honors in Economics and Political Science.

"As an entrepreneur involved in M&A transactions in the past, I was amazed how manual the process of analyzing contractual commitments was, with armies of lawyers and accountants rifling through file boxes and building spreadsheets. With Pramata's straightforward on-demand solution, companies can finally put the ad hoc way of managing critical data behind them."

David Hultquist, Vice President of Marketing and Alliances 

Mr. Hultquist recently joined Pramata ... 

David Bax, Director of Business Development and General Counsel, Asia-Pacific

Mr. Bax brings corporate law and management consulting experience to Pramata. Before joining Pramata, Mr. Bax was a Managing Senior Vice President for MSA/Clark Consulting, a top 20 consulting firm and a national leader in change management and human capital consulting for hospitals and health systems. He personally worked with 175 legal and executive teams on a variety of enterprise projects, including developing, implementing and managing legal and organizational effectiveness strategies.

Mr. Bax has also managed various complex legal matters while representing the Resolution Trust Corporation during the bailout of the U.S. savings and loan industry in the early 1990's. He graduated from the University of Texas with a Bachelor's of Business Administration degree in Finance. He earned his Juris Doctorate from the University of Kansas and is admitted to practice in the states of Kansas and Missouri.

Pramata is exciting because we are attacking an increasingly complex and risky problem in the corporate world. Herbert Simon once said "...a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention..." and he said this in the 1970s. As companies grow, and contracting becomes more complex, the requisite "attention" is under more pressure with more information. Pramata's Contract Intelligence solution provides previously un-reportable data on demand for the appropriate focus and attention to strategic issues that ultimately allows our customers to make better, more confident decisions.

David Munn, Director of Customer Operations and General Counsel

David Munn is a Director of Customer Operations and the General Counsel of Pramata. He joined Pramata after nearly seven years with the legal department at Fair Isaac Corporation, a business-intelligence and enterprise decision-management software company, where he had responsibility for sales contracting and licensing, as well as overall legal affairs for the company's consumer division. Mr. Munn led many of the department's technology and process improvement initiatives, helping to significantly improve the company's sales contracting processes. Prior to that, Mr. Munn spent nine years as general counsel for Pella Corporation, a leading building-products manufacturer. He is an active member of the ACC, the Association of Corporate Counsel, and the IACCM, the International Association for Contract and Commercial Management. Mr. Munn is a graduate of Yale Law School and has a degree in mechanical engineering from Iowa State University.

"Being at Pramata is exciting because we are able to provide our customers with unprecedented access to the information in their contracts. We don't just give the customer a system and let them figure out how to manage the data – we combine our process expertise and experienced legal resources to make sure our customers get the value they expect."

GP Ravikumar, Director of India Operations

Mr. Ravi joined Pramata as its Director of India Operations in 2008. Prior to Pramata, he was the Head of Operations at finEye Software since its launch in 2004. Mr. Ravi has worked as the India Program Manager at Sun Microsystems, as COO of BTI and also as the VP-Operations at Srujana Technology (now Globaledge Software). With a keen interest in education, Mr. Ravi also co-founded and managed a residential school near Bangalore. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from North Carolina State University and an M.Sc. in Statistics from Bangalore University.

"Working at Pramata is exciting because, at our core, we are a company that looks at existing problems in new ways. We're one of the few companies that can say they have successfully created a complete process on-demand solution from scratch, which is a great achievement."

Rajesh Varma, Director of Product Engineering

Mr. Varma is the Director of Product Engineering and is responsible for the architecture and development of the Pramata Technology Platform and Products. A technologist by passion, Mr. Varma has over 13 years of experience in enterprise software engineering and product development. Prior to joining Pramata, Mr. Varma was a senior technologist at Business Objects, where he was responsible for the architecture and development of enterprise analytics software solutions. In addition, Mr. Varma has held technology positions for various leading companies, including Citibank, LG Electronics, Disclosure, PSINet and comScore Networks, and successfully led software development efforts in the US, Europe, India and South Korea. Mr. Varma holds an Engineering Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangalore University.

"After working extensively in companies focused on Business Intelligence, I'm excited to extend the concept of 'intelligence' into an untapped area of enterprise data. The unique technologies we've used to create our data extraction process and reporting interface give customers on-demand access to clean and accurate data to help them make critical decisions."