Ramesh Ananthakrishnan, B.Eng. MSc, Managing Director - India Ramesh is the founder and director of DSM Soft (P) Ltd in India. He has grown the company from a staff of 3 in 1991 to its present levels of 600 plus. Educated in the USA he worked there for a time assisting companies to improve their production flow lines. His contribution to DSM is delivering in India, a world-class geospatial and engineering production resource.

Ganesh Ananthakrishnan, B.Eng, Director - India Ganesh is Co-founder and director of DSM Soft and jointly with Ramesh has been responsible for the development of the business to its current size. Ganesh is responsible for the financial management and administration of the business in India.

Duncan Robinson, BSc, Dip Cartography, Director - UK Duncan graduated and worked for some years as a geologist throughout Asia. He subsequently studied Cartography at post-graduate level. He has worked as the Production Manager for a cartographic production company in London and then for six years as the Cartographic Manager of Harper Collins Publishers in Glasgow. He contributes very significant map-making knowledge and production management skills to DSM GeoData.

Ravinder Prasad, B.Eng. Vice President - Support Services - India Ravinder graduated in Civil Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Rajasthan, India. He has been with DSM since 1994. At DSM he has been instrumental in successfully managing various GIS data conversion projects. He has broad experience on cartographic and topographic mapping projects and has significant experience of utilities mapping, cadastral mapping and mapping from satellite imageries.

Avinash M.V., Associate Vice President, Operations – India Avinash is a civil engineer with a master’s diploma in GIS and has been working with DSM Soft for the past 9 years. He is a very dynamic and extremely capable leader, who believes in adopting latest techniques and technologies in every aspect of work. Avinash started his career in DSM as a project leader and over the course of his stint here, he has played a key role in building and nurturing a strong application development team and has now progressed to holding the position of Associate Vice President - New Services Development. The New Services Development team under him is now engaged in building a range of service offerings to a wide variety of GIS and internet communities.

Vinu Dhanapalan, Associate Vice President, Operations - India Vinu Dhanapalan holds a Masters Degree in Marine Geology and Post Graduate Diploma in GIS, before joining DSM Soft in 2001. He is now a Associate Vice President – Operations and now heading the Geospatial SBU of DSM Soft. Having successfully organised and worked on large Mapping projects over the years, Vinu has a good understanding of all the Photogrammetry process and excels in Photogrammetry and GIS domains. He is responsible for coordinating all project activities, customer communication, ensuring cooperation, cohesion, collaboration and teamwork between the production, technical and consulting functions of the project

B. Jagannath, B.A. (Honours) Economics, and MA (Economics),
Chief Operating Officer - Publishing Services - India Jagannath acquired his Post-Graduate Degree in Economics from University of Delhi. At the initial stages of his career he worked as an Economist in premier consultancy institutions and trade bodies. With a strong experience of 20 years as an operations executive in ITES sector, he ventured into publishing support services when he found that there was a great demand for such services, and India with its second largest English-speaking population was ideal to service the European and American markets. He had also served two big Publishing service providers before joining the Chief Operating Officer of the Publishing Unit of DSM Soft Pvt. Ltd.