About Us

Kris Canekeratne co-founded Virtusa in 1996 based on his core belief that software development practices could and should embrace the same efficiencies achieved by mature industries such as automotive and manufacturing. Kris oversees Virtusa's strategic direction and all day-to-day operations. His stewardship has been the driving force behind one of the fastest growing software services firms in the US with ten years of consecutive growth. A large part of this growth is a direct result of Virtusa's highly differentiated Productization methodology.

Kris has had an inspiring track record of creating and growing three highly successful business ventures. In addition to Virtusa, he co-founded edocs, a leading provider of electronic account management and customer care. Kris was one of the founding team members at INSCI Corp., and was on the executive management team that took the company public in 1994. Prior to INSCI, Kris worked for IECA, a wholly owned subsidiary of ADP, where he held technology management positions in the critical areas of software product development and systems architecture. A graduate of Syracuse University with a BS in Computer Science, Kris lives in Westborough, MA with his wife and two sons.

Marc Hebert is responsible for corporate strategy, positioning, branding, public relations, analyst relations and lead generation programs. He also drives alliance relationships for the company and heads its West Coast operations.

From 1999-2005, as Executive Vice President, Marketing and Alliances for Sierra Atlantic, Marc was responsible for defining and implementing corporate strategy, marketing, lead generation, public relations and alliances. He was also responsible for maintaining a continuous flow of enterprise level opportunities for sales to pursue, and for creating strategic relationships with category-leading software companies. Prior to his appointment in 1999, he served on Sierra Atlantic's Board of Directors for three years.

Previously, Marc was vice president of Enterprise Platforms Division for Oracle Corporation where he was responsible for the delivery of Oracle's products on the Hewlett-Packard, Sun, and Compaq platforms. In his eleven years at Oracle, he also pioneered several other Oracle organizations: the Chief Information Officer role, the Internal Audit division, Oracle Manufacturing product development, and Worldwide Alliances Technical Services. Prior to Oracle, he spent eleven years with Andersen Consulting managing large systems implementation projects for health care providers.

Marc is a recognized expert on offshore outsourcing, the author of many publications and has given dozens of invited presentations on the subject to a variety of audiences. He has appeared on CNN’s Lou Dobbs Tonight, interviewed in Investor’s Business Daily and has been widely quoted in major media publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, Financial Times, New York Times and Boston Globe about offshore outsourcing.

Marc received a Bachelor of Science degree in experimental psychology from Harvard University, and an MBA from Stanford University.

Izhar joined Charles River Ventures in 1997. His investment focus is on the enterprise software and services areas. He is currently a director of Yantra, Proficiency, ThinQ, iPhrase, ThinkFire, July Systems, and Virtusa. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Invention Science Fund. Previously, he served as a director for iBasis (NASDAQ:IBAS), invested in Oberon, which was acquired by OnDisplay (NASDAQ:ONDS), Guardent, acquired by VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN), Global Food Exchange which was acquired by Instill Corporation, and Celarix, acquired by GXS.

Prior to joining Charles River Ventures, Izhar was with Onyx Interactive, an interactive training company based in Tel Aviv where he served as vice president of marketing and business development. Izhar also served as an officer in the Israeli Army for four years prior to Onyx.

Izhar earned an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an MA in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Tel Aviv in Israel.

Bob Davoli has 20 years of experience in the high technology industry. He joined Sigma in 1995. Previously he was President and CEO of Epoch Systems, the leading vendor of client-server data management software products. He sold the firm in 1993 to EMC for $141 million. Earlier, he was the Founder, President and CEO of SQL Solutions, a leading purveyor of services and tools for the relational database market. He sold SQL Solutions to Sybase for stock eventually worth over $100 million. Today the SQL Solutions consulting and system administration tools division of Sybase has over $300 million in annual revenues. He served as an executive officer of Sybase for over two years.

Mr. Davoli has a B.A. in History from Ricker College and studied Computer Science at Northeastern University for two years. He has been responsible for Sigma's investments in Aprimo, CapitalEngine, Cerulean Technology, Context Integration, Dazel Corporation, edocs, Virtusa Corp., Excara, Excelergy, Global Food Exchange, Idiom Technologies, Internet Business Advantages, Internet Security Systems, Octane Software, Riverton Software Corporation, ServiceSoft Corporation, StorageNetworks, Tradex Technologies, Versata, Vignette Corporation, Vettro, Viveca Software and Visual Mining.

Andy is Executive Managing Director of Globespan Capital Partners and is based in the firm's Boston office. He serves or has served on the boards of Ocular Networks (acquired by Tellabs), Silknet (NASDAQ: SILK), edocs, Idiom Technologies, Incipient, Silicon Dimensions, and Virtusa . Andy has also led investments in Aptis Communications (acquired by Nortel Networks), Argon (acquired by Siemens), Cerulean Technology (acquired by Aether), Net Perceptions (NASDAQ: NETP) and Pirus Networks (acquired by Sun Microsystems).

Prior to Globespan, Andy was Senior Managing Director of JAFCO Ventures, where he established the Boston office in 1997. Previously, Andy directed Trans National Group's venture investing. Andy negotiated TN's investment in Infoseek (NASDAQ SEEK), Interzine (acquired by TimesMirror), and International Data Response Corporation (acquired by Telespectrum; NASDAQ TLSP). Earlier, Andy worked in the Corporate Development Department at Kikkoman Corporation's Tokyo headquarters for four years. Andy has also worked at Booz-Allen & Hamilton in the Marketing Intensive Group and at OPTA Food Ingredients. Andy received an AB in East Asian Studies and Economics, magna cum laude, from Harvard College and received an MBA, with Distinction, from Harvard Business School . Andy serves on the Board of the Institute of Contemporary Art as well as on the fundraising and admissions committees of Harvard College . Andy is also fluent in Japanese.

Since retiring from PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, [PwC] in July of 2002, Ron’s principal areas of focus have been membership on public and private boards and not-for-profit boards and activities. As a senior partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Ron fulfilled diverse roles within governance, operations and client services. He served from 1980 to 1998 as Chairman of the National and Co-Chairman of the Global Technology Industry Programs. He also cofounded and was co-chair of the firm’s Government Contractors Industry Program (1976-1980). His extensive client experience includes significant engagements for both public and privately held companies from startup to integrated regional, national and global enterprises, as well as governance activities for public, private and not-for-profit institutions. An effective communicator, Ron has written on broad topics affecting the industry, and his speaking experience includes congressional testimony.

Ron has an MBA from Boston University (1969), an MS in taxation from Bentley College (1977) and a BS from the College of the Holy Cross (1964).

Rowland also serves as Chairman of the Board, Wright Express Corporation (NYSE). From 1981-1992, he was a professor at Harvard Business School. He is also a Director of Trammell Crow Company (NYSE) and Staples (NASDAQ).

He holds a D.B.A. from Harvard University, an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business and a B.A. from Rutgers University.

Martin brings over three decades of leadership experience to Virtusa’s board. He has served as a member of the board of directors of Staples since 1987, where currently he is a Lead Director. He is also the President of Brandot, LLC, a holding company with equity interests in thirteen companies making apparel and textile products. From 1978 to 2003, Martin was a member of the board of directors of Limited Brands and also served in the capacity of Cleared Advisor to the United States Department of Commerce on textile trade related issues. Prior to that, Martin was the founder, President and CEO of Mast Industries, Inc., one of the largest international producers of apparel with annual sales of more than $1.5 billion.