Company

Our vision is to see the pawaaFILE format (.paw) as widely used as the well known formats like .pdf- Prakash Baskaran- Founder and CEO

pawaa Software is primarily focused in addressing security challenges in the form of information security threats from data leaks caused by Users due to negligent and malicious user behaviours. pawaa is redefining the approach to information security solutions by focusing on the root cause in the problem space and then by redesigning the solutions space with a more practical, generic process and a more efficient, standardized
technology. pawaa’s portfolio of security products and solutions shall deliver comprehensive lifecycle information security for enterprise, cloud and consumer IT applications and systems.

MANAGEMENT

Anand Talwai

Board of Directors

Mr. Talwai has 30 years of rich experience in Information and communications industry. He’s currently the Executive Director of NextWealth Entrepreneurs Pvt. Ltd. whose promise is “Social Uplift through Entrepreneurship”. NextWealth identifies business opportunities with a social intent and helps entrepreneurs to build such companies by providing them with angel funding, mentoring, incubation etc. Till recently he was with e4e Inc. As a founding team member of e4e, he helped create portfolio company in Tech support and Managed services space and as its CEO scaled it up organically and inorganically. As President, e4e India, he helped integration of e4e portfolio companies into lines of business to achieve economies of scale and skills. He also actively promoted entrepreneurship activities in Bangalore as part of e4e Labs and TiE. He was involved with Wipro since its very early days. He was heading Quality and customer satisfaction function, created and led Communications division and was CTO of Wipro Technologies. He helped create and was CEO of Wipro BT Ltd and Wipro Net Ltd in satellite communications and VAS space. He started his career with ISRO Satellite centre. Mr. Talwai has a Master of Technology degree from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and is a graduate of IIT Madras.

Prakash Baskaran Founder and CEO Prakash Baskaran

Founder and CEO

Prakash Baskaran is a serial entrepreneur who returned to India after 17 years of work and valuable business experience in the USA, Prakash’s previous ventures were in the fields of IT consulting and telecom services.
He graduated with a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Akron, OH, USA and M.B.A. from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA.

Reinforcing Pawaa Software’s mission on the DLP global platform, Prakash says, “The space of Data Leak Prevention is still evolving and there are multiple approaches to solve the problem.
With our approach of using monitoring as a fundamental control and on-demand policy enforcement companies not only protect their confidential and corporate information but they also have complete visibility on the endpoints – where most of the user behavior is becoming responsible for data leaks and other risks.

“Our mission is to ensure that our customers have greater CONTROL over their end points, are able to PROTECT their data, and provide FREEDOM to their users. We are excited with our product roadmap that will help us fulfill the mission.”

Alex Skorohod

VP Technology

Alex Skorohod has over 25 years of experience in the technology field, especially in security, encryption and banking related products.
He has vast experience in design, architecture and delivery of large systems such as core banking, branch automation and payment gateways. He has also architected and integrated several banking systems and extended them over the internet.
He has worked in multiple countries including, UK, New Zealand, Germany and India, and speaks fluent Russian, German and English. He received his BA and MBA degrees from Technical University of Berlin, Germany. He has guided several companies and acted as technological advisor. He has also provided cross-cultural training for companies such as Texas Instruments and Intel.
“Before joining Pawaa Software I was unaware of the magnitude of the damages caused by data leakage through authorized users. What is even more surprising is that although there are hundreds of products to protect companies/individuals from data leakage through hackers/intruders, there are no serious products to protect from intentional or unintentional information disclosure by trusted users of an organization. We are pioneering in this space with amazing ideas and unique and patented IP”

 

ADVISORY BOARD

Dr. Sridhar Mitta

Dr. Mitta, for over 36 years has been an internationally recognized expert in the management of Research and Development in Information Technology. He brings extraordinary technological and strategic depth.

Dr. Mitta is the Managing Director and Founder of NextWealth Entrepreneurs Pvt. Ltd. whose promise is “Social Uplift through Entrepreneurship”. NextWealth identifies business opportunities with a social intent and helps entrepreneurs to build such companies by providing them with angel funding, mentoring, incubation etc.

He is one of the Founders of e4e Inc. whose vision is to add business value to its customers through services. He was involved with Wipro Limited since its inception in 1980 and played key role in Wipro achieving technology leadership. As its Chief Technology Officer and President of Wipro Global R&D, he spearheaded strategies which transformed the captive R&D unit into a growing and profitable business. He pioneered global delivery of outsourced product development services to technology companies like Intel, Cisco Systems, Tandem Computers etc. Wipro became the highest valued company in India during his tenure.
He was also the Founder EnThink Inc., an Your browser may not support display of this image. Intellectual Property design and licensing start-up. He was President of ‘The IndUs Entrepreneurs (TiE)’, Bangalore Chapter for over four years and now elected to Board of Trustees of TiE Global. He serves in several Boards of companies located in the United States and India.
He began his career with Electronics Corporation of India, Ltd. Dr. Mitta holds a PhD and MS from Oklahoma State University , US ; He is being inducted into CEAT Hall of Fame of Oklahoma State University; an M Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur; and an undergraduate degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Andhra University.