Coimbatore, India – January 29, 2020 – Kovai.co – a premier enterprise software and B2B SaaS company from Coimbatore, India and London, U.K. has expanded its leadership team by hiring Sunil Krishna Pillai as Vice President of Marketing and Suprej Venkat as Director of Engineering. The new leadership hires are a crucial step in accelerating Kovai.co’s growth strategy globally. Through this move, the company will increase its focus on new product development and rising the global demand for its Microsoft Azure & BizTalk Server Management & Monitoring products – Serverless360 & BizTalk360, and the Self-Service Knowledge Base Product – Document360.
Reflecting on the new hires, Saravana Kumar, Founder & CEO of Kovai.co said: “We are constantly evolving and bettering ourselves each day. The addition of Sunil and Suprej will be invaluable to our leadership team as we continue to grow and build a highly impactful SaaS company for our employees and customers. Having watched their growth over the years, we are sure their fresh perspectives will help us have better customer retention and increase capabilities in new product R&D.”
Sunil Krishna PillaiSunil is an accomplished and experienced marketing leader who comes with over a decade of experience in digital transformation. He graduated from Middlesex University, London in Network Security and will be responsible for executing the vision and strategic direction of all Kovai.co products and will work from our UK office. Under his guidance, the marketing team will be data-driven, and it will be a digital-led function.
“While 2020 has been heavily disturbed for many businesses, Kovai.co is moving in to 2021 with a strong balance sheet and I look forward to take advantage of the number of marketing opportunities and scale the products”, said Sunil Krishna, Vice President, Marketing at Kovai.co.
Over the last ten years, Suprej Venkat has successfully founded & built Webtek SharePoint Solutions in the U.K, with a development centre in Coimbatore. The focus of the company was building Microsoft SharePoint solutions for clients across the world. In 2015 he moved back to India and sold the company in 2017 and started Hubfly, a company that specialised in building software products including an Intranet solution for Enterprises, a Governance tool that helps manage clutter that gets created when Office365 is scaled by Businesses and Hugz, a corporate gifting platform. He will be primarily focusing on creating a world-class SaaS product for Kovai.co in the coming years. Suprej holds an IT and Engineering degree from the University of Birmingham.
“Kovai.co has been growing faster than the most, thanks to the team’s in-depth domain knowledge and the company’s investments in R&D. Addressing the pain points of customers by developing smart SaaS products has always been my area of interest. I am thrilled to be a part of the innovation-driven Kovai.co team, which has been developing some amazing products from an emerging SaaS city like Coimbatore,” said Suprej Venkat, Director of Engineering, Kovai.co.
Besides hiring talent for their leadership team, Kovai.co has also been consistently increasing their employee headcount. Last year, Kovai.co grew steadily and increased by 100+ to scale-up the organization.
