Maneesh Gupta

Managing Partner

Maneesh brings with him 20 years of engineering and management experience in enterprise software industry. He has deep understanding of software development and implementation challenges in large companies. He posses solid technical and domain expertise in the areas of Sales Performance and Incentive Compensation Systems. Prior to launching Spectrum, Maneesh worked at Apple Inc for six years, in various senior management roles. At Apple, he was responsible for all of Apple’s Finance Systems and led the world-wide roll out of Callidus' TrueComp software.

Prior to Apple, he held management and engineering positions at Unisys and Nucleus Software. He was responsible for setting up Thailand operations for Nucleus Software and took the business from zero to $4 Million in less than 18 months. Under his leadership, Spectrum has had five consecutive years of increasing revenue and growth.

Maneesh holds a degree in engineering from I.I.T. Delhi and an MBA from Santa Clara University.

 

Jeffrey Saling

Principal Partner

Jeff Saling brings with him 20+ years of experience in building, and operating technology businesses, along with deep expertise in the area of Sales Performance and Management (SPM) and Incentive Compensation Systems (ICM). As Sr. VP of Sales, Jeff lead the global sales for Callidus Software (Nasdaq: CALD), a leading provider of SPM solution. He was instrumental in the success of Callidus’ SaaS offering, which now has over 150,000 sales subscribers in 135 countries. Jeff has worked with more than 150 companies, in both SaaS and On-Premise models helping them with their sales incentives and performance management. Prior to leading sales, Jeff was leading the design and building of Callidus’s on-premise solution to Software as a Service (SaaS) model.

Before joining Callidus Software, Jeff served as  Americas Vice President of Field Operations, leading professional services, sales engineering, and sales operations activities in the Americas at Chordiant Software (Nasdaq: CHRD, now Pega Systems). Before Chordiant, Jeff held a senior management role at Accenture. Prior to Accenture, Jeff served as Vice President, and Director of Operations for call center and Internet and call center based start-ups.

Jeff holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration, Production & Operations Management, from California State University, Hayward (East Bay). He is a sought after speaker on the topics of SaaS and SPM.

 

Alok Chandra

GM India Operations

Alok brings 20 years of executive and entrepreneur experience. In 1999, he cofounded SpearMail, now a leading provider of a email server for Asian markets. Prior to that, he was the CEO of a $100million company. He headed the India operations of Swagelok and had many years of senior management responsibilities at ICI.

Alok holds a degree in engineering from I.I.T. Delhi and post grad in management from I.I.M. Ahmedabad, India.