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Home : About Sikka : Executive Team
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President and CEO
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Vijay Sikka is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Sikka Software Corporation. He is a healthcare informatics expert with more than 18 years of software development and quality experience including large scale projects with National Institutes of Health, Glaxo Smith Kline, Roche and UCSF affiliates. In 1996, Vijay founded IBrain Software, Inc., a business intelligence company, and served as its CEO until its acquisition in 1998 by Entigen Corporation, that later became part of Roche.
Vijay holds an M.S. degree from Syracuse University New York, pursued graduate studies in neurosciences at Stanford University, and is a Registered Continuing Education Provider with the Dental Board of California. He is a speaker in quality conferences and participates in W3C standards groups. Vijay's book on Maximizing ROI on Software Development was published by Taylor and Francis in 2004 and is available in Sony ebooks and Amazon Kindle electronic edition.
Click here to visit Amazon and review the book.
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Financial Officer and Chief Controller
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Michael Alexandrea is our Financial Officer and Chief Controller.
Michael has over 20 years of business experience in the areas of marketing, finance,
accounting and business development. Michael served as Cost Accounting Director
and later Business Development Manager at EMU Systems. His role at EMU included
developing new markets and managing major relationships with Fortune 500 companies
and partners. He was the co-founder and CEO of a company called Intelligent Sound,
Inc. where he successfully negotiated and acquired the exclusive rights of the company’s
technology from the University of Illinois and National Center of Supercomputing
(NCSA). Prior to joining Sikka Software, Michael worked for a management consulting
firm that specializes in assisting small businesses with their financial management
and oversight. He holds a MBA in Marketing and Finance and a B.S. in Business Administration
in Marketing and Accounting from the University of Phoenix.
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Training and Professional Services
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Tony Bojorquez is our Director of Training and Professional Services and has completed 3
years with Sikka Software Corporation. He completed undergraduate work at Santa Clara University
and received his Graduate degree in Jurisprudence (J.D). Tony has worked in dentistry for 16 years
as office manager and group administrator both at solo practices and also group practices including
Interdent. Tony is certified by ACLD, WCLI, DOCS and PAC LIVE. He uses his experience in consulting
and advising dentists in the management of practices through his leadership and one on one role as
training and professional services department.
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Customer Service and Inside Sales
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Deanne Paredes is Customer Service/Inside Sales Manager for
Sikka Software Corporation. Deanne has over 20 years experience in sales and marketing,
having worked with both Fortune 500 and start-up companies. In the past, Deanne
was Inside Sales Manager for Dexis Digital Radiography, where she was responsible
for inside sales. While at Dexis, she worked closely with senior management to achieve
revenue targets, was responsible for implementing innovative sales incentive programs
and oversaw all hiring of inside sales personnel. Immediately prior to joining Sikka
Software, Deanne was Inside Sales Manager for a leading group of surgical centers,
where she, among other things, was responsible for introducing freestanding ambulatory
surgical center methodology to Europe, specifically London.
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Information Technology and Channels
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Roger Telegan heads our Channel Partnerships Group. Roger
received his Bachelor's degree from U.C. Irvine. Following that he worked for nearly
a decade with AT&T and subsequently as an entrepreneur for analyzing and meeting
information technology demands. Roger strives to analyze customer needs, recommend
appropriate cost effective solutions and quickly implements changes. Roger has managed
a very successful local dental practice for several years and is active in charities
and missions. Roger brings a lot of energy and dynamism to help other dentists and
staff members through training and personalized one to one coaching.
Roger resides in the Central Valley of California with his wife and newly born sweet
son - Nicholas. Our training, account and communication specialists includes more
than 8 practicing dentists through out the United States.
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National Account Executive
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Nilesh Pathak is National Account Executive. Nilesh has worked in dental software industry
for more than 5 years. Nilesh holds Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from
Pune University. He started his career as a systems engineer in BPL Mobile. Following that
he has worked in C-DAC, which is one of the most renowned research centers for advanced
computing in India. Prior to National Account Executive Nilesh was the head of software
development and engineering. He has sound knowledge of the US Dental domain and technology.
Being with SIKKA from last five years he has hands on experience on SIKKA products and help
enterprise clients to fulfill their needs and requirements proactively. He is responsible
for identifying and analyzing customers’ needs, automate the processes through software
application, choose the technology and platform, and deliver quality products to Sikka enterprise customers.
Nilesh resides in Silicon Valley with his wife and a cute daughter.
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Technology
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Our technology team includes experts on learning and optimization.
Our team has education background from Stanford University Computer Science Ph.
D. and IIT. We have 35 talented software developers who are world class and have
experience building high quality software products for Fortune 500 and NASDAQ listed
companies. Our software development team is certified in Microsoft, Sun and Brainbench
independent learning and certification courses.
Our mission includes focus on quality and our quality assurance lab includes all
major testing platforms, large scale multiprocessor servers and test tools. The
software quality specialists include people with CMM Level 5 and ISO 9001 experience.
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