Who We Are

President

Dr. Jayadev Vellanki M.E., Ph.D

Dr. V Jayadev holds a Ph.D in Information Technology from George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA. He is currently retired after working in many positions of senior responsibility in IT. Prior to relocating to USA in 1990, he worked as a faculty in Siddhartha Engineering college - Vijayawada, Bapatla Engineering College and Koneru Lakshmaiah Engineering college - Guntur. His interests are global travel and reading, He now lives in Hamilton, NJ, USA. He is married with two children. He and his wife, Dr. Vijaya Atluri, Professor, Rutgers University are both passionate about the upliftment of women, orphans and other charitable activities.

Vice President

Subu Garikapati M.S.

Subu Garikapati hold's Master's degrees in Physics & Electrical Engineering from UMASS and NorthEastern University in Boston. Prior to coming to the US, he is a proud Alumni of the esteemed Osmania University in Hyderabad majoring in Physics. He is currently an IT Java Consultant who has worked & lived in Boston, New Jersey, and now in New York. He is married to his wife Seetha, who is also an IT professional and has two children. He imbibes his very nature and attributes to the Master's teachings that Service to humanity is the only way to be a valuable citizen. He likes long walks all alone preferably and listens to all kinds of Indian music in all languages and constantly writes on Facebook.

Secretary

Abhinay Venuturumilli M.S., MBA

Abhinay has an M.S. degree in ECE from University of Cincinnati and MBA from Arizona State University. He is Manager at Microchip Technology for Worldwide Engineering Team for software and hardware, specializing in Security and Wireless Technologies. He is also Head of Product Security Incident Response team and Chair of Corporate Security Council at Microchip Technology, aligning security initiatives across the company. He previously held multiple roles within Microchip in Product development, Product Marketing, and Business Development. His interests are hiking and travel. He lives with his family in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.

Treasurer

Raghu Vamsi Gondi M.S.

Raghu has an M.S. degree in Computer Science from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is currently a Data Scientist at IBM. He has been an ardent supporter of KEATS India projects in the past and is an integral part of KEATS USA since its inception.

Honorary Trustee

YS Subrahmanyam M.E.

YS Subrahmanyam is a Consulting Structural Engineer and Builder by profession, who feels that he is fortunate enough to get associated with KEATS which gave a platform to serve the society.

Honorary Trustee

Dronamraju Venkata Giridhar B.E.

Dronamraju Venkata Giridhar after graduating from JNTU College of Engineering, Kakinada in Electrical Engineering , started his career in EHV Transmission Line construction in 1979. He served in various capacities in both Private and Public Sector companies like NTPC, POWERGRID, Lanco, Tata Projects Ltd etc equally -almost 18 years each and finally took early retirement from M/s GMR Energy as Vice President in 2014.

He is co-founder of Live Wires a Consultancy firm from Hyderabad helping the Transmission Line fraternity all over the world. He is married to Santha, a Post Graduate in Commerce and they have one daughter Keerthana, who lives in the US. All the family members are serving KEATS India since its inception in 2014.