Vee Technologies’ Venkat Umakanth Is The SMB CTO Of The Year

IT veteran Venkatraman Umakanth, Senior Vice President, Vee Technologies has been named as the ‘Small and Medium Business CTO of the Year’ at the IT4SMB summit that highlighted the changing landscape of technology and its transformational power held at Bengaluru recently.

The IT4SMB awards are a celebration of sharp and innovative thinking of businesses to overhaul their business model and integrate it with solutions to uncover new market opportunities, driving overall growth.

“This recognition is significant for all of us at Vee Technologies and diverse customers ranging from healthcare in the USA to e-Governance in India. It highlights the value we add by early technology adoption, creation of proprietary tools and providing end-to-end solutions,” said Venkatraman Umakanth, Sr. Vice President, Analytics, IT and Animation. Vee Technologies, the Bengaluru and New York headquartered IT firm.

Chocko Valliappa, founder and CEO, Vee Technologies, said “As a customer-focused company we empower our people to forecast technology trends and be trendsetters for rapid technology adoption to benefit our customers. During Covid our teams co-developed an indigenous seam-sealing machine to make PPE kits, built the VeeTrace app for contact tracing and an AI-proctored solution for conduct of online exams used by scores of Colleges and Universities.”

The awards were given away at the SMB Summit organised by the Economic Times and the Forbes 500 technology company, Lenovo, in the presence of the who’s who of Karnataka Inc. The awards recognise SMBs in Karnataka that have demonstrated exceptional technology excellence. The awardees are individuals and companies that are leading the way for greater tech adoption amongst SMBs.

The jury included Satyavrat Mishra, Head Corporate IT, Godrej Industries; Amit Saluja, Senior Director NASSCOM; Abhay Bapna, AVP IT, Adani Wilmar and Manoj Chugh, veteran IT industry leader.

About Vee Technologies

Bengaluru-New York headquartered IT Services firm Vee Technologies services its global customers in healthcare, engineering and design space, through proprietary platforms.

Vee's software, analytics and strategic IT services clients are made up of leading hospitals including six of the top 20 US hospitals, deploying proprietary platforms and tools.

Vee Technologies’ product engineering team works on Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) design and Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) assignments for global customers that include designing some of the iconic buildings around the world and a large percentage of American Fire engines.

Vee Technologies has also been named as one of the ‘Top Healthcare Employers’ by Modern Healthcare’s Global Rankings 2020, 2021 and 2022. Vee Technologies has delivery centres in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh in India, in the Philippines and in the USA.

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