Puneet Pushkarna

Mr. Pushkarna serves as managing director of Headstrong responsible for the Asia-Pacific region. Prior to Headstrong, he was co-founder and managing partner of TechSpan, which merged with Headstrong in October 2003.

Mr. Pushkarna has over 25 years of experience in the software services and consulting business. At TechSpan, in addition to running US Operations, he was responsible for setting up the collaborative partner program and establishing key strategic partnerships. Prior to TechSpan, Mr. Pushkarna was Head of Sales and Business Development at InfoGain, a business solutions consulting organization focused on e-business value chain management. Before that, he spent 11 years with HCL in a variety of sales and management positions.

Mr. Pushkarna is a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), a non-profit network with over 10,000 members across 44 chapters in 9 countries. TiE fosters global entrepreneurship through mentoring, networking and education. Mr. Pushkarna is a frequent speaker at industry forums dealing with entrepreneurship and distributed consulting. He has a B.Tech in Engineering from India and an MBA from the State University of New York at Buffalo.