Ajit Nair

CEO, Founder
Chairman of the Board

Ajit Nair is the Founder, Chairman of the Board, and CEO of ProV International. In addition to his success with ProV International, he was honored as the Best MIS & IT Executive in the 2006 International Business Awards (Stevies) and was a finalist for the Best Executive Award in the 2006 American Business Awards.

Nair was raised in India, where he focused his studies in the area of engineering and technology. In 1991 he came to the US and worked in marketing and technology, initially in Michigan and then in California. In 1998 he founded a computer integrations firm in San Jose, California and later sold this multi-million dollar business to a technology giant in 2003.

In 2003, Nair relocated to Tampa, Florida and founded ProV International. ProV International is a premier Information Technology services provider. From its inception in 2003, the company has experienced phenomenal growth by working with industry leaders to resolve business issues through comprehensive IT sourcing, services, and customer driven solutions.

Nair is an active member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TIE), a group of successful Indian entrepreneurs who focuses on ideas to grow businesses and contribute back to their communities.

Ajit Nair holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Bombay University and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Utah State University.

John Flavio

Board Director
Varolii Corporation

John Flavio, is Varolii Corporation’s Chief Financial Officer. Prior to this appointment, he served as a member of Varolii Corporation’s Board of Directors for more than a year. He brings with him more than 30 years of financial achievements. Flavio recently served as CFO of Postini, an on-demand communications security, compliance and productivity solutions company. He was also SVP and CFO for Keynote Systems Inc., a provider of Web performance measurement, testing and management services, where he lead a successful IPO and secondary offering. Flavio has also served as the CFO for Mosaix Inc., where he was instrumental in the company’s sale to Lucent Technologies.

John is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), with a strong professional and academic background that includes a bachelor’s degree in finance from Santa Clara University.

Jim Lynch

President & COO
Board Director

Jim Lynch , ProV International’s co-Founder, President and Chief Operating Officer, is a former Corporate Officer for AT&T. During his 22 year career at AT&T, Mr. Lynch held various sales and operations management positions. Representing AT&T to its largest clients, Mr Lynch had numerous interactions with C-level executives of Fortune 1000 corporations. When Jim retired from AT&T in 2001, he was Vice President of a global sales organization responsible for AT&T’s largest corporate accounts, which collectively had annual billings of more than $4 Billion (USD).

In 2001 Mr Lynch formed Executive Rainmakers Enterprise LLC, a privately held corporation engaged in sales consulting and executive relationship building. As the Founder and President of ERE, Jim leveraged his wide range of executive relationships to help small businesses grow their markets. It is through this business that Mr. Lynch met Mr. Ajit Nair, who was then the owner of Aces International. Aces became a client of Executive Rainmakers and in the process Mr. Lynch and Mr. Nair formed a strong business relationship.

After Aces was sold to a technology giant in 2003, Lynch and Nair started a new business venture which is now called ProV International.
Apart from his current management responsibilities at ProV International Mr. Lynch is also a Member of the Board of Directors of the following organizations: Hunterdon Medical Center, Hunterdon Healthcare Partners and Hunterdon Healthcare Systems.

Jim Lynch, lives in New Jersey with his wife of 31 years. They have raised eight children and have one grandson.

Timothy Murray

Board Director
EVP, Cross Match Technologies

Tim Murray is the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Cross Match Technologies. Prior to joining Cross Match in November 2002, Murray was the CEO of RiverSoft Technologies, a leading network management software company listed on the London Stock Exchange.

He previously spent 21 years at AT&T, where as President of the Business Network Services division he was responsible for the $20b dollar voice and data business of AT&T's business customer segment.

Tim Murray holds an M.S. in Management and Industrial Engineering and a B.S., cum laude, from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Vikesh Mahendroo

Board Director

Vikesh Mahendroo is the President of William M. Mercer, Inc., a $1.6 billion global consulting firm that helps its clients use the power of their people to enhance business success. With a spread over 30 countries and 17,000 clients, it is among the top HR consulting firms in the world.

He joined Mercer in 1984, working in the human resource and finance areas in New York. In 1987, he transferred to the Cleveland office as an executive compensation consultant and became office head in 1988. He was appointed U.S. Northeast region head in 1992 and executive vice president in 1993. He served as president of the U.S. company from 1996. In addition, he regularly meets with HR executives in various parts of the world to better understand their issues and challenges as well as how Mercer can most effectively be their partner.

Mr. Mahendroo has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University, India, and an MBA from Columbia University. He is a member of the American Compensation Association.

Before coming to the U.S. in 1983, Vikesh Mahendroo was a member of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and served in Pondicherry and Mizoram.

Mahendroo is a member of the New York Chapter of the NNL Club, a group of leading professionals of Indian origin; the club’s objective is to enhance the profile of India/Indians in the U.S. through sponsorship of selected Indo-American activities. Vikesh and his wife Kiran live in Ridgewood, New Jersey. They have two daughters, Shivani and Aditi.