About Us » Leadership Team
- Mr. Sandeepak G. Natu
Head - Consulting and Business Development - Mr. Ashish A. Kulkarni
Head - Software Development - Dr. Ratnakar Sarwade
Head - Defense Technology Unit - Dr. Damodaran Vedapuri
Head - North American Operations
Mr. Sandeepak G. Natu
Co-founder of Tridiagonal Solutions, Sandeepak heads Consulting, Operations and Business Development. He has Post graduate degree in Thermal and Fluids Engineering form IIT Bombay along with 13 years of experience in Computational Fluid Dynamics modeling and related technologies.
Before founding Tridiagonal Solutions, Sandeepak served Fluent India Pvt. Ltd. for nine years where he was in charge of North American CFD Technical Support teams.
Mr. Ashish A. Kulkarni
Ashish heads the software development activities at Tridiagonal Solutions. He has post graduate degree in Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Sciences from IIT, Kanpur.
Ashish is also a founder member of Tridiagonal and his interest include Computational Fluid Dynamics, Turbulence Modeling, Technical Training and Mentoring along with Open Source Software Development. Before founding Tridiagonal, Ashish worked with Fluent for seven years where he looked after product management responsibilities for Catia and FlowLab products.
Dr. Ratnakar Sarwade
Dr. Ratnakar Sarwade heads the Defense Technology Unit at Tridiagonal Solutions. He obtained his doctorate in Electro Chemical Micro Machining from Warsaw Tech University, Poland. Dr. Sarwade has had very distinguished career as part of the DRDO laboratories, automotive industry and academic institutes
Dr. Sarwade has over 35 years of experience in the area of Design, Research and Mentoring in Mechanical Engineering domain. He has won several awards including the prestigious “DRDO Scientist of the Year”.
Dr. Damodaran Vedapuri
Dr. Damodaran Vedapuri heads the North American Operations of Tridiagonal Solutions. He obtained his doctorate from Ohio University. Dr. Vedapuri has wide experience in Computational Fluid Dynamics, Flow Accelerated Corrosion and solving Multiphase Flow Problems of interest to the oil and gas industry. Before joining Tridiagonal, he was working with a premier research lab. in the US (SwRI) and was an Account Manager at Fluent Inc.