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

Venkatesh Prabhu.C, Manager, Engineering services - India Venkatesh Prabhu, a Mechanical Engineering graduate has been one of the long serving members in the DSM-Engineering Services team. He has a consistently proven growth path along with DSM for the past 10 years. This track of work has provided him the challenges of working in diverse applications and domains in all respect. He has working experience in projects for various industries like Automobile, General Mechanical, Heavy Equipments, Pressure Control Devices, Special purpose machines etc. He is good at managing projects, satisfying customer needs and expectations through resourceful problem solving and accurate communication.