Board of Directors

Mr. Pradip Shah is a non-executive Independent Director and Chairman of Sonata Software Ltd. He assisted in founding Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC) in 1977 and was the founder and Managing Director of Credit Rating Information Services of India Ltd. (CRISIL), India’s first and largest credit rating agency. In April 1998, he started IndAsia, a corporate finance and private equity advisory business. He is also a Director in BASF India Ltd., Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Company Ltd., Kansai Nerolac Paints Ltd., Pfizer Ltd. and Tata Investment Corporation Ltd. amongst others. He is Chairman of IndAsia Fund Advisors Pvt. Ltd. as well as Member of the Audit Committee, CSR Committee, Risk Management Committee and Nomination and Remuneration Committee of some of these companies. Mr. Shah holds a Degree in Commerce and is an ACA, AICWA and MBA from Harvard University, USA.

Mr. Srikar Reddy is the Executive Vice Chairman and Member of the Board of Directors of Sonata Software Limited. A graduate from the Regional Engineering College (NIT, Trichy), and a Post Graduate in Management from IIM Calcutta.

Mr. Srikar has been with Sonata since 1986 and is pivotal in building Sonata as a trusted and reliable IT Solutions company. Mr. Srikar’s philosophy of driving business growth through a single-minded focus on customer and investment in people and technology, has made Sonata one of the fastest growing IT solutions company with a unique and differentiated strategy and value proposition.

In the last 11 years, between 2012 to 2022, since Mr. Srikar was the CEO of the company Sonata has seen its revenues, profits multiply many times and a market capitalization growing over 20 times, enabling the Financial and Industry analyst groups recognizing his focus to conceptualize and execute a unique growth strategy based on IP. This has helped Sonata to be a member of the group of unique Global growth companies at the World Economic Forum (WEF).

Mr. Srikar has set Sonata on a new growth path with a unique proprietary approach to creating digital businesses called “Platformation “

Mr. Srikar is actively involved with NASSCOM and CII, and was the Chairman of the Regional NASSCOM Council. He has been the Speaker at WEF and NASSCOM events. Mr. Srikar was conferred with the distinguished Alumni award by NITT, for his contribution to Industry/Corporate.

Sonata's growth over past 6 years is now widely recognized and Mr. Srikar has been featured recently in the list of India’s 10 most valuable CEO’s in the large enterprise category (2500 crore to 7500 crore) by ‘Business World,’ (Issue dated 18th June 2018). He has also been featured by Business Today (September 2017) as leading one of India’s fastest growing emerging (revenue between 500 to 2500 Cr) companies.

Mr. Samir Dhir is the Managing Director & CEO and Member of the Board of Directors of Sonata Software Limited. As a business leader and technologist, Samir has a proven track record for scaling and leading large businesses and expanding into new industries and markets. He is a client-focused leader who has built and managed business in BFSI, Healthcare Life Science, Telecom, Media, and Hi-Tech industries.

Mr. S.B. Ghia is a non-executive Director of Sonata Software Ltd. He is a Director in Alkyl Amines Chemicals Ltd and Futura Polyesters Ltd. He is a member of Audit Committee, Nomination and Remuneration Committee and Chairman of the Stakeholders Relationship Committee and Corporate Social Responsibility Committee of Sonata Software Ltd.  He is also a Chairman of Audit Committee and member of various committee in Alkyl Amines Chemicals Ltd and Futura Polyesters Ltd.

He holds a B Sc. Degree (Chemistry) from Bombay University and holds a MBA Degree from USA.

Mr. Viren Raheja is a non-executive Promoter Director of Sonata. He is a Director of several companies: Asianet Satellite Communications Pvt Ltd., Innovassynth Technologies (India) Ltd., Hathway Cable and Datacom Ltd. etc. He holds a Bachelors degree in commerce from Mumbai University. He has passed all 3 levels leading to the CFA charter and has an MBA degree from London Business School.

Ms. Radhika Rajan is Executive Vice President at DSP Investment Pvt Ltd., the Family Office of Hemendra Kothari in Mumbai. Her special focus is Private Equity and Venture investments.

Radhika is a results-focused financial-market professional with over 40 years of profit-responsible experience in New York till 2011, and the last 11 years in Mumbai, India, with DSP. 

Radhika has focused on India as an investment destination since 1999, when she made a brief foray into IT and was appointed as the New York based Executive Vice-President of Mphasis, a US based IT services start-up, which is now a leading listed Indian IT services company. Post Mphasis, she joined the TCG Group in New York to set up an Indian Equities Hedge Fund and advising TCG and several other private equity groups on US start-ups and proposed investments in the US-India corridor. Prior to 1999, Ms. Rajan worked as a global-macro proprietary trader at different large financial institutions like JP Morgan (formerly Chemical Bank), Itochu, UBS, Bank of America and Bank of Montreal. As a global macro trader, she traded and took proprietary positions in a range of currencies, in interest rate and commodity futures and in derivatives, with a focus on emerging markets.

She holds an MSc degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and also holds an MBA equivalent degree from India’s top-ranked business school, the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. She was a National Science Talent scholar through her college years.

She serves as an Independent Director on the Boards of Sonata Software Limited (SSL), Sonata Information Technology Ltd. (SITL) and 3M India. She is the Chairman of the Audit Committee of SITL and a member of the Audit Committees of SSLL and 3M India. She is also on the Board of Health & Glow Pvt, Ltd, a beauty products retailer and is a Board observer of a Digital media start-up. Previously she was an independent Director of Tata Advanced Systems Limited, Tata Sikorsky Aerospace, Tata Lockheed Martin, Nova Integrated and TAS-AGT Systems.

Radhika was an invited contributing author of “The Global Internet Economy,” a book published by MIT Press in 2003. She is a Charter Member of TIE Tristate, the New York based chapter of TIE, a global association of entrepreneurs active in accelerating the globalization of Indian business.”

Mr. Sanjay Asher is a non-executive Independent Director of Sonata Software Ltd. Mr. Asher is a practising lawyer. Mr. Asher is a qualified Chartered Accountant, a commerce and a Law Graduate. He is a Solicitor admitted to Bombay Incorporated Law Society. He is a Senior Partner at the law firm M/s. Crawford Bayley & Company. He specializes in corporate and commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and capital markets.