Bhopi Dhall: Founder and CEO
Bhopi Dhall, as President and Chief Executive Officer of Cyber Group, Inc. USA, is a respected and well-known technology leader in the high tech industry with more than 30 years of industry experience, including working at Texas Instruments (TI). His experience in successfully leading high tech product engineering efforts coupled with his understanding of the technology marketplace enable him to guide Cyber Group Inc. as the company provides engineering solutions for a range of companies in an array of industries.
Bhopi founded Cyber Group Inc. in 1998 to provide comprehensive engineering services, including design, development, implementation and integration for software and electronic products. Successfully turning ideas into high tech products, from definition and development to delivery. Establishing an embedded software and electronics design & implementation core competency in India.
Bhopi has a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Bombay, India, as well as a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Tech University. He has completed coursework for a Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Texas at Austin.
Saurajit Kanungo: Executive Vice President
Mr. Kanungo brings more than eighteen years experience in effectively aligning strategies, people, and technologies, within large businesses and IT organizations. Mr. Kanungo specializes in providing strategic and tactical leadership in architecting complex application development and maintenance solutions.
Previously, in executive level positions, Mr. Kanungo has earned a solid reputation for ensuring large scale automation projects to be completed on-time and within budget, as well as establishing project management methodology and structure to handle 150+ team of developers globally (onshore/offshore). Prior to joining Cyber Group, he served as a Principal at Pariveda Solutions and VP of Operations at Software Professionals Inc.
Mr. Kanungo has an MBA in Information Systems from The University of Texas at Arlington, as well as a BS in Physics from Utkal University in India. He graduated in the Top 1% of his class at The Institute of Chartered Accountants where he earned his CPA in India. Mr. Kanungo is also a PMI Certified Project Management Professional (PMP).
Dr. Hugh Plumlee: CTO and Vice President – Engineering Services
Dr. Hugh Plumlee serves as Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of Cyber Group Inc. With more than 30 years of industry experience, Dr. Plumlee provides technical project leadership and strategy for all of Cyber Group’s engineering projects.
He is an internationally recognized expert in the development and use of computer modeling for simulation of new concepts, system operations and system performances. Prior to joining Cyber Group, Dr. Plumlee was a Senior Fellow at Texas Instruments (TI). He also has ten years experience as an independent engineering consultant. Dr. Plumlee has authored industry white papers and other publications, and he holds several patents in areas including micro-machine accelerometers and silicon based thermal printing technology.
Rama Vangipuram: Vice President – Technology
Rama Vangipuram serves as the Vice President of Technology for Cyber Group. He has over 10 years’ experience architecting robust solutions for Fortune 500 companies. He has led several successful technology based architectural and transformational initiatives that helped his clients decrease their time to market.
Previously, Rama spent over 8 years with Accenture managing large scale integration projects with a track history of delivering projects on time and on budget. In that timespan he has managed a team of up to 60 resources (onshore / offshore) across multiple regions across the world; building development processes and standards.
Rama is a well known SOA architect, who has been a featured presenter for software companies like Microsoft and SAP. His industry knowledge extends to various domains such as travel and transportation, retail, industrial equipment, and consumer goods.
Julianne Churches – CFO
Julianne Churches serves as Chief Financial Officer for Cyber Group, Inc. In this position she oversees all facets of the Company’s operations. Julianne is responsible for overall financial management of the company, financial reporting and for multiple corporate functions including Controller‚ customer relations, new business pursuit and strategic development. She directs all administrative‚ financial‚ HR‚ compliance and management functions. Her experience and expertise enable her to work closely with all departments to optimize efficiencies across the organization.
Julianne’s fifteen-year career combines extensive experience overseeing business performance and strategic growth initiatives‚ financial‚ business process improvement and customer service management‚ with overall global operations management. Prior to Cyber Group, she served in similar positions of increasing responsibility to include corporate controller‚ manager of accounting and HR Director. Through a variety of senior executive positions‚ Julianne has vast experience in managing multi-shore operations for U.S.-based companies with operations in Asia and Europe.
