leadership

Aeturnum's management team comprises of a talented blend of graduates from some of the finest engineering and business schools in the United States, India and Sri Lanka. Our management team offers a vibrant mixture of dynamism, teamwork, business skills, entrepreneurship and technical expertise.

		Rajat Bhakhri - CEO & Founder Rajat oversees Aeturnum's on-site consulting services, business development and provides managerial direction to the software development teams on key client engagements. Rajat hails from a data warehousing background and has designed key systems for the finance, retail, telco and software products industry. Prior to founding Aeturnum, Rajat provided consulting services to Putnam Investments and American Cyanamid. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University.
		Dhanushyantha Hettiarachchi (Hetti) - CTO Hetti oversees all Aeturnum offshore operations; additionally he provides technical and architectural leadership to our clients as well as provides technical thought leadership and strategic technology leadership by keeping Aeturnum team in par with the cutting edge technologies. He heads the process group of Aeturnum which is involved in streamlining the delivery and engineering process to be more efficient and achieve economies of scale. Prior to joining Aeturnum Hetti was at Virtusa Corp. Hetti holds a BSc (Hons) Degree in Information Systems from Manchester Metropolitan University UK.
		Mike Knuts - Vice President of Business Development Mike heads up Aeturnum’s sales and business development efforts. His unique combination of experience as an IT solution provider, a hands-on IT manager and a business line IT user enables him to recommend and deliver strategic solutions to IT problems that meet the customer’s short and long term goals. Mike’s background includes considerable experience in the financial services field as an IT consultant, IT manager and a business line executive at Wells Fargo, CS First Boston Institutional Investment Services, Fidelity and Bank of New England. He was also the principal of Alchemy Consulting, an IT consulting and advisory firm he founded in 1995. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree (cum laude) in Management from Boston College with concentrations in Finance and Computer Science.