The Tumri team consists of industry veterans with deep experience in online advertising, knowledge representation, large-scaled optimization, search engines and catalog/content management.
Hari Menon
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
As Chief Executive Officer, Hari is responsible for defining the strategic vision and direction of Tumri’s technology solutions. A serial entrepreneur before launching Tumri, Hari founded two startups, Accordia (acquired by Bristlecone Inc.) and SixthDimension (acquired by Comverge Nasdaq: COMV). Prior to the entrepreneurial ventures, Hari was responsible for strategic and product marketing at Aspect Development (acquired by i2 Technologies). Prior to Aspect Development, Hari was a member of the Strategy Practice consulting team at Accenture.
Hari holds an M.B.A. from Carnegie Mellon University and an M.S. in industrial engineering and operations research from Oklahoma State University. At CMU, Hari won the Faculty Award for Academic excellence and the Thomas Murrin award for Operations Management.
Pradeep Javangula
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Pradeep is responsible for Tumri’s core technology and strategy. He also leads the company’s technology solutions and integration with advertisers, agencies and publishers. Before founding Tumri, Pradeep was at the Emerging Technologies R & D team at Verity. Prior to Verity, he served as Director of Engineering at Inktomi. He also co-founded iLeverage (acquired by e.Piphany), a real-time messaging platform company. He is an accomplished search and information retrieval architect.
Pradeep holds Masters and Post-graduate Research degrees in Number Theory from Oklahoma State University. He also holds double majors in Mathematics and Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani (BITS Pilani) in India.