Sudhakar Shenoy

Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer

Sudhakar V. Shenoy is Founder, Chairman and CEO of Information Management Consultants, Inc. (IMC) located in McLean, Virginia. IMC is an internationally recognized systems and software development firm serving both the governmental and commercial sectors. Two of IMC's projects have been recipients of the prestigious "Golden Hammer Awards" given by the Office of the Vice President of the United States. The company was also listed in the top 20 "Ones to Watch" list in 1998. IMC is one of the nations leading bio-informatics software developers and is partnered with NCR Teradata in bringing state-of-the-art information technologies to solving problems in the genomics area.

Mr. Shenoy is a frequent speaker in the information technology, bio-informatics and business process re-engineering area, and has been a university lecturer. Mr. Shenoy was selected by the U.S. Small Business Administration as the Washington Area Minority and Small Business Person of the Year in 1995, and is the winner of the 1998 Greater Washington High Technology Entrepreneur of the Year award sponsored by Ernst & Young, NASDAQ and the Washington Post. In the local community, Mr. Shenoy was recognized in 1999 as Citizen of the Year. He was recently named one of 40 influential Global Players in the Washington region by Business Forward magazine. He was also named by TIME magazine (August 14, 2000 issue), on a list of movers and shakers in the Washington D.C. area. Nature Magazine (May 2002 issue) did a feature article on the application of commercial technologies to bio-informatics and mentioned the contribution of IMC and Mr. Shenoy in this field.

Mr. Shenoy was selected to accompany the Honorable Ron Brown, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce, with 24 other CEO's of Fortune 500 companies on a Presidential trade and development mission to India in January 1995, Spain in November 1995, and with Secretary Daley to Berlin in 1999 for the Trans-Atlantic Business Dialogue. In 1996, Mr. Shenoy was inducted into the University of Connecticut's School of Business Alumni Hall of Fame and was recognized as a Distinguished Alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, India. Mr. Shenoy is on the University of Connecticut's Foundation Board and the School of Business Overseers Board. He is also on the Board of Advisors for George Mason University School of Engineering, and was appointed by the Governor of Virginia, the Honorable Jim Gilmore, to the Board of Visitors at this university as well. In 1998, the Governor appointed Mr. Shenoy to the State of Virginia Technology Commission. He has also been appointed by the Governor to the Board of Directors of the Innovative Technology Authority as the Chairman of the Center for Innovative Technology. In 2000, the Speaker of the Virginia State Legislature appointed Mr. Shenoy to a five-member committee on the Virginia Legislative Process. Mr. Shenoy is on the Board of Directors of several private and public companies including the INOVA hospital system. He was also the 2000 Campaign Chairman for the Fairfax-Falls Church United Way. Mr. Shenoy is the Chairman of the Northern Virginia Technology Council and was recently sworn in as a commissioner of the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority tasked with the job of bringing biotech companies to the county amongst others.

Mr. Shenoy received a B. Tech.(Hons) in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, an M.S. in electrical engineering and an M.B.A. from the University of Connecticut Schools of Engineering and Business Administration respectively. He resides in Great Falls, Virginia with his wife Bina, and daughters Sushma and Divya.