Mr. Ranjan Sinha

biography

Mr. Sinha has founded and directed number of technology and technology enabled service companies in the area of human resources, healthcare services, email and marketing services. He currently serves as the Chairman of Summit HR. Mr. Sinha co-founded Summit HR with the vision of enhancing profitability and service quality of the contingent staffing and payrolling industry through the use of technology, process excellence and outlocation of services to India.

Prior to starting Summit, Ranjan was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Magnifi, Inc., a Cupertino based marketing supply chain automation ASP with proprietary technology and leading position in brand asset management. He was responsible for forging relationships with customers such as CNN, McKesson, VISA, Procter & Gamble, Coca Cola and Philips, and raising three institutional financing equity and debt rounds. The company, which had obtained three key software patents on rich media indexing technology, was sold to Procter & Gamble. Magnifi had technology center and service center in India that provided software development, customer support and digitization services to US clients.

In 1995 Ranjan served as the Co-Founder and President of WhoWhere? Inc., a Mountain View based Internet-based e-mail directory and e-mail outsource services company which was subsequently acquired by Lycos in 1998. Whowhere’s India based service center provided data purification and network management services. Prior to founding Who Where?, Ranjan was the President and CEO of Mindshare, Inc a Mountain View based Information technology contingent workforce services and administrative firm with marquee clients such as Charles Schwab, Sun Microsystems, Providian Technology and Windriver Systems. Ranjan has also held positions of Director of Product Marketing at Lotus Corporation and Senior Product Line Manager at Apple Computer.

Mr. Sinha serves on the board of Summit HR, Benefit Solutions Worldwide and Greenwich Capital Venture Corporation. Mr. Sinha lives in Los Altos Hills, California and is active in his community and is a member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) Northern California Chapter.

Ranjan has a Masters Degree from the Wharton School of Business and a MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He has a B Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.