Domain Expertise: Health, e-Governance, e-Governance, Urban local bodies, ICT enablement

Professional Summary: From academics Dr. Sudhakar moved to the corporate world and joined the IT wave in India in 1991. He was a founding director of Tiger Software, an IT products company in Bangalore and moved to Satyam Computer Services as a senior management team member. He then moved to the CEO position at CoOptions Technologies Limited to set up a state wide ICT platform across Andhra Pradesh to reach 10 million farmers in villages to bring about financial inclusion and rural empowerment. After establishing a successful business model, he moved to the role of an advisor at CoOptions in September 2010. He is currently an advisor to a few social enterprises with a double bottom line objective.

Key Engagements: He started EMRI (Emergency Management Research Institute) which pioneered large scale deployment of emergency services for the first time in India, under a public private partnership model. This model is currently operational in 11 states in India.

Academic Qualification Dr. Sudhakar Varanasi had his education at IIT, Kharagpur and at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He is a doctorate in Physics from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.