Ananth Siva
General Manager, Asia Pacific Division

As General Manager, Asia Pacific Division, Ananth Siva provides leadership over the @Road Asia Pacific team and leads expansion efforts in the Asia Pacific region. His hire in fall 2005 reflects @Road strategy to fuel long-term revenue growth through accelerated global expansion efforts and international market penetration.

Mr. Siva is a 19-year veteran of International Business Machines Corp. Prior to joining @Road, he was IBM's Asia Pacific Software Group Executive in charge of Industry Solution Sales. In this position, he managed a team of more than 250 software sales representatives and developed a successful track record selling into Global 1000 companies. Earlier, he was the IBM Asia Pacific Sales Executive responsible for building the company's highly successful business development program with Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). Under Mr. Siva's leadership, numerous alliances were established with a number of leading Asia Pacific ISVs who serve as the cornerstone of IBM's application software portfolio. This drove regional IBM ISV revenues from about $100 million in 1998 to more than $1 billion in 2003.

Mr. Siva holds a bachelor's degree in electronics from University of Bombay, India and a master’s in business administration (international business focus) from University of Sydney, Australia. He is also a certified Wharton Business School "Major Deal Maker."