Dr. R Swami Narayanaswami Chairman & Managing Director

CSM owes its success and growth to the vision of Dr. R Swami Narayanaswami, who is amongst the "who's who" of NASTRAN researchers worldwide. With more than 35 years of experience in CAE, he is globally recognized as a Scientist, Researcher, Educator and a successful entrepreneur.
 
A Post Graduate from Indian Institute of Technology, and a PhD awardee from Texas Tech University, Dr. Swami went on to get his Post Doctoral Fellowship from the prestigious National Science Foundation at NASA Langley Research Center. Dr Narayanaswami was one of the scientists who originally worked with NASA on development of NASTRAN. Besides NASA, he has also worked with Rockwell Corporation where he was involved in the development of the B1 Stealth bomber and the MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation. 
 
In 1982, Dr. Swami formed CSAR Corporation to focus on training and consulting to the NASTRAN community. He wrote the first commercial, general-purpose structural optimization software products using a major FEA code. CSAR was merged with MSC Corporation, USA in 1999.
 
 Dr. Narayanaswami oversees all business aspects of CSM and provides guidance on all matters of running the company.

Saraswathi Narayanaswami Director - Finance

''Sarasa' as she likes to be called, has been on the Board as the Director - Finance, of CSM, since its inception in 1992. Previously, she served on the Board of CSAR Corporation, from its inception in 1982, till its successful sale in 1999 to a company listed in the New York Stock Exchange. She holds double Master's degrees in Mathematics, from University of Kerala in India, and Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. After starting her career as a teacher in advanced topics in Mathematics, both in the colleges of Kerala, and at the high school level in USA, she entered the US workforce as a computer programmer. Later she moved to manage the Finance and Administration departments of CSAR Corporation. In this position, she worked with Certified Public Accountants and Bank officials to successfully meet the finance and tax aspects of CSAR Corporation with the multi-State and Federal levels in USA. She coordinated the due diligence process and the development of the agreements by working with the legal and financial teams of both the buying and selling companies during the sale of CSAR Corporation in 1999. She presently manages the finances and tax aspects of CSM Software USA, LLC.

Satya Srikanth Chief Executive Officer

Srikanth as he is known to all is the Chief Executive Officer at CSM Software. He is responsible for the operations of five Business Units of CSM. He oversees all aspects of business operations including Corporate Planning and Organization Building while maintaining thrust on Operations Excellence. Before rejoining CSM in 2003, he headed CSM India operations from 1993 to 1999 and was instrumental in expanding India Operations, building the team & propagating the use of cutting edge CAE technologies in Singapore, Malaysia, Korea and Indonesia.

Between 1999 and 2003, he was in the top management positions of IT organizations helping them build large & complex Offshore Delivery models. He was also actively involved in building Partnerships & Joint Ventures with Organizations across the world. His strong experience in the Global Services market, and CSM's Strategic Vision to be a leading Global Engineering Services provider, were compelling reasons for CSM to invite Srikanth to come back as the Head of Engineering Services Division in 2003. In May 2004 he was appointed the CEO.

He started his career with Sonata Software and moved to Wipro Technologies where he was an integral part of the team that introduced Engineering Applications to the Indian market. Srikanth received his Bachelors degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India.

A K Balasubramanian Vice President - Delivery (Engineering Services)

A K Balasubramanian holds a M.Tech degree from IIT, Bombay, and has over 19 years of experience in CAE projects. 'Bala' as he is called, in his current role is responsible for Customer Delivery. His technology & application experience in domains of automotive / aerospace Project Management for domestic and international clients adds value to his current profile. Budgeting, estimating, measuring progress and risk management are also activities that require Bala's expertise. Additionally, he supervises quality management activities and contributes to process improvements over time.

He also plays a vital role in managing the resource requirements in terms of hardware, software and people ensuring optimum utilization of resources; monitors process compliance, through sample checks and takes corrective actions in case of non-compliance; acts as a mentor, and ensures that the team works effectively.

Bala has vast professional experience in Structural Dynamics Analysis and Computational Fluid Flow.

Shashidhar Sharma Vice President - Business Development (Engineering Services)

Shashidhar Sharma holds a Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering From University of Texas, USA with a specialization in Finite Element Analysis. He has been associated with CSM Software from 1995 and has worked in various capacities. He has provided high level technical support to many advanced users in Europe and other global users in the areas of NASTRAN & DYNA.

He has over 15 years of experience in the software simulation industry. He also carries a strong domain expertise in the areas of Automotive Engineering, NVH, Durability, Crash, General non-linear and Dynamic simulations.

Prior to joining CSM, Shashi worked with several renowned automotive majors like Volkswagen, Ford and Daimler Chrysler.

N K Sherman Vice President - Finance and Admin

N K Sherman has over 30 years of experience in managing finance functions in the service economy. A graduate in Commerce from the Madras University, Sherman is a qualified Company Secretary & a rank holder chartered accountant. Prior to joining CSM Software, Sherman commenced his career with VST Industries Ltd, Hyderabad handling Corporate Finance, Accounting and Software development. Later at Price Waterhouse Coopers he spearheaded ERP implementation in large business houses. He moved as Director, Finance & Admin of PartsRiver Technologies Pvt. Ltd. and was promoted as Chief Operating Officer, followed by a consulting assignment with Satyam Computer Services Ltd, Hyderabad, where he successfully initiated & rolled out their intranet site. Since July 2003, Sherman has been with CSM, Bangalore as Vice President, Finance & Admin. His responsibilities include Finance, Accounting, Legal, Information Technology, Systems and Office Administration.

Mahadevan V S Vice President - Product Sales

Mahadevan, a Mechanical Engineer with over 15 years of experience in CAD/CAM & CAE Support and Sales functions

His core experience of over 7 years in Pre and Post Sales Support functions for various CAD/CAM & CAE Solutions like Ideas, Unigraphics, Pro-Engineer, CAMAND, NISA etc., blended with over 6 years of experience in Product Management, Geography Management and Business Vertical Management, makes a powerful combination for heading Product Sales

His prior assignments were with leading systems integration organizations like OMC Computers Limited & Tata Elxsi Limited

Bharath Mani Vice President - Business Development - USA

Bharath Mani, 1974 born, obtained his bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Madras. His interest in CAD related field was evident even in his engineering days, when he chose to do "Gear Design" project through AutoLisp programming in AutoCAD as a part of the curriculum.
 
He joined CSM as a "Marketing Executive" in 1998 and got promoted to "Territory Manager - North India" within a span of 13 months through his excellent sales performance . At CSM, Bharath Mani was spearheading the sale of high end CAE products including NASTRAN, STAR CD to name a few in the northern region of India. After the stint at CSM, Bharath Mani got an opportunity to work with a start up firm as the Business Manager heading two sales team, one for I-DEAS Artisan Series and the other team for selling VxWorks - the real time operating system. Bharath Mani did put up another splendid performance in this unique assignment that catapulted him to international sales.

Bharath Mani relocated to United States in the year 2000 when he got an opportunity to work with the US operations of a large SEI-CMM level 5 certified IT consulting company. His 5 years of business development experience in United States includes IT consulting, offshore consulting and SAP consulting with couple of IT companies before he decided to return to his first love, Engineering consulting.

He joined CSM LLC as Vice President - Business Development, US operations in July 2004 and is currently based out of Farmington, Michigan.