Manohar is the founder of e-cognosys, based in Minnesota USA. Manohar has more than two decades of experience in Enterprise Data Management, Distributed Architecture, SOA, Data Mining, Datawarehouse, Business Intelligence, web and internet technologies. He has extensive experience in strategizing, architecting and designing solutions in vertical makets like Healthcare, Insurance, Retail, Airlines, Manufacturing, online services, e-commerce, e-business and personalization (Collaborative Filtering).

His earlier stints included working for organizations like Unisys, Anderson Consulting (Accenture), and Net Perceptions. As an Enterprise Architect & Strategist spearhead projects with companies like United Health Group, Ameriprise, Lowes, JC Penny, EDS, Deutche Bank, Univita Health, AmCom, Pearson, and Minnesota Department of Education.

Manohar holds an M.S in Computer Science from University of Minnesota, USA and a Management (MMS) degree from B.I.T.S Pilani, India.

Shantanu heads Global sales operations of E-cognosys and drives its overall business growth. He has been associated with E-cognosys since July 2010.

With over 18 years of global experience in IT sales and business management, his career includes all aspects of managing high-growth in competitive IT Solutions and Services industry globally. Shantanu has pioneered IT outsourcing services/products positioning strategies and have experience in successfully define strategies to enter new markets and industries, global alliances and partnership strategy and was instrumental in establishing Joint Venture in France.

He has a proven track record in strategic planning, business expansion and creating customer-centric delivery solutions. He has managed several large P&L portfolios with complete responsibility for total business operations.

Before joining e-cognosys, he has been associated with global companies like Prescient Infotech, Blue Star Infotech, Datamatics Ltd, Akshay Software for managing overseas operations in USA, Europe, UAE and India.

Shantanu has done his Master's degree from IIT Roorkee and Business Administration from IIM Bangalore.

Dr. Prabhakar is a Professor of Computer Science at Purdue. His main area of research is database systems. Dr. Prabhakar's research focuses on performance and privacy issues in large-scale, modern database applications. He is currently working on uncertainty management and efficient execution for high-update database applications such as moving object and sensor databases, enhancing privacy and digital rights management for databases, and the development of advanced databases for bioinformatics.

Dr. Prabhakar has vast interest in research areas like Managing data uncertainty, Sensor and Moving Object databases, Biological Databases, I/O optimizations for modern applications, QoS in Multimedia Databases, Database Privacy, Security, and Watermarking, Shape Similarity Retrieval for CAD databases, Distributed and Multimedia Databases etc.

Dr. Prabhakar received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1998, and a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Techonology, Delhi. Since August 1998 he has been with the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University. Prior to joining Purdue, Dr. Prabhakar held a position with Tata Unisys Ltd. from 1990 to 1994.