Executive Leadership & Technology Practice Heads

Our executive leadership and certified practice heads guide enterprise architecture and mission-critical technology delivery across our six core technology pillars.

Board of Directors

Executive Leadership

Guiding long-term capital allocation, national-scale OEM governance, and enterprise AI transformation with four decades of proven industry stewardship.

Sanjiv Krishen - Chairman
Chairman & Founder

Sanjiv Krishen

Chairman, Iris Waves Group
40+ Yrs IT Veteran Group Founder Strategic OEM Alliances

Acknowledged icon and four-decade veteran of the Indian IT distribution and enterprise systems integration ecosystem. Built enduring national-scale alliances with Dell Technologies, HP, Cisco, Lenovo, and Microsoft, powering mission-critical digital infrastructure for Fortune 500 enterprises and government ministries across India.

Key Strategic Mandates
  • Board Stewardship & Long-Term Capital Allocation
  • Tier-1 Global OEM Alliance Governance
  • National Scale Institutional Partnerships
Himanshu Chawla - Director & Co-Founder
Director & Co-Founder

Himanshu Chawla

Director & Co-Founder
Ex-Microsoft Leader Ex-Sun Microsystems Enterprise AI Coach

Seasoned technology executive, enterprise AI coach, and former business leader at Microsoft and Sun Microsystems. Spearheading Iris Waves' AI-first mission to operationalize high-density GPU infrastructure, private enterprise LLMs, and sovereign hybrid cloud systems for high-concurrency BFSI, healthcare, and public sector accounts.

Key Strategic Mandates
  • Enterprise AI & High-Density GPU Practice
  • In-Country Sovereign Cloud & DPDP Roadmap
  • High-Impact C-Suite & Board Digital Advisory
Kamini Talwar - Director
Director

Kamini Talwar

Director
Operations Pioneer Pan-India Logistics SLA Governance

Steering organizational excellence, operational benchmarks, and pan-India supply chain logistics. Under her leadership, Iris Waves orchestrates seamless national hardware staging, rapid Level-3 RMA dispatch, and sustains a verified 99.98% uptime SLA track record across mission-critical enterprise accounts.

Key Strategic Mandates
  • Pan-India 4-Hour On-Site RMA Logistics
  • Organizational & Financial Governance
  • 24/7 Enterprise NOC Operational Oversight
Technical Advisory Bench

Specialized Engineering Practice Heads

Certified principal architects with hands-on OEM master accreditations leading mission-critical delivery across each core technology pillar.

Data Centres & Modern HCI

Director of Datacenter Architecture

Designing turnkey hyper-converged clusters on Dell PowerEdge, Cisco UCS, Nutanix Cloud Platform, and Pure Storage all-flash NVMe fabrics with 99.999% availability.

Nutanix NCSE VMware VCP-DCV Cisco CCIE DC

Cyber Resilience & Zero Trust

Head of Cybersecurity Advisory

Enforcing micro-segmentation, immutable air-gapped ransomware vaulting, CERT-In compliance audits, and India DPDP Act 2023 data fiduciary safeguards.

CISSP Certified CISM Fortinet NSE-7

Smart Sovereign Cloud & FinOps

Director of Cloud Modernization

Engineering hybrid sovereign multi-cloud architectures across Azure India, AWS, and in-country MeitY-empanelled clouds while slicing compute overspend by up to 35%.

Azure Solutions Arch AWS DevOps Pro FinOps Certified

Managed Print & Smart Fleet

Director of Fleet Solutions & MPS

Engineering zero-trust secure pull printing, automated supplies telemetry, Pan-India SLA governance, and enterprise fleet optimization on HP and Canon ecosystems.

HP Master MPS Specialist Canon Solutions Certified PaperCut MF Certified

Security & Surveillance Practice

Head of Security & Surveillance (SecurX)

Designing integrated IP video surveillance, access control, perimeter protection and command-centre platforms, and running them through managed support across India.

IP Video Systems Access Control Command Centre

Enterprise Mobility Practice

Head of Enterprise Mobility

Delivering Apple, Samsung and Microsoft device programmes with unified endpoint management, secure access and lifecycle support for a mobile workforce.

Apple & Samsung Microsoft 365 UEM / MDM

Enterprise AI & HPC Practice

Principal AI Architect

Orchestrating multi-node NVIDIA HGX H100 clusters, 400G InfiniBand fabrics, Slurm job schedulers, and private RAG model pipelines with sub-microsecond latency.

NVIDIA Certified Associate Kubernetes CKA Slurm HPC
Executive Advisory

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