Team


Princeton Blue’s Senior Advisor

Don Springer
Don Springer

Don Springer is a successful three time entrepreneur whose previous companies have returned more than 500% to his investors. Dante Software was a venture capital-backed company acquired by webMethods (WEBM) in the fall 2003. Don led WEBM’s business process optimization unit, achieving more than 40% in consecutive quarterly revenue growth and an annualized run-rate of $30M.

He has an MBA from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, and a B.S. in Systems Engineering at the University of Virginia.

With three successful startups under his belt, Don, in his capacity as Senior Advisor for Princeton Blue, provides guidance and shares his experience on numerous entrepreneurial topics.
Our sincerest gratitude to Don for his time, passion and his desire to see Princeton Blue succeed.


Princeton Blue’s Thought Leadership Team

Pramod Sachdeva
Pramod Sachdeva

Pramod Sachdeva is the Managing Director (and founder) at Princeton Blue. Pramod has been supporting clients globally with their Integration, BPM and SOA requirements for the past 12 years. With over 22 years of IT experience involving management of over 1000 integration and BPM projects, Pramod brings boundless knowledge and best practices to the table, to support his clients’ strategic initiatives.

Pramod’s experience has touched on many aspects of the integration space, from running an architecture and implementation delivery organization for 8 years at a prominent integration technology vendor (webMethods, now part of SoftwareAG), to rolling out SAP based integration solutions as part of a large systems integrator organization (PricewaterhouseCoopers). Pramod has been an evangelist in the BPM and SOA space in helping many solution providers develop integration and BPM based vertical solutions.

Prior to integration, Pramod was at the heart of ERP rollouts in the 90’s leading functional and technical teams. Pramod has many years of experience in the Financial Services and Pharmaceutical industries, primarily supporting clients in the north-east United States.

Pramod began his career as a Professor of Computer Science after completing his MS in Computer Science in New Zealand. His research and thesis were focused on development of Artificial Intelligence techniques, specifically, the business application and value of Expert Systems.


Prashanth Brahmandam
Prashanth Brahmandam

Prashanth Brahmandam is a Principal Architect at Princeton Blue, with experience in designing and managing integration, BPM and SOA projects for large firms across several industry verticals. He is a recognized expert on Business Process Transformation & Management, Enterprise Architecture, Product road-maps and Development methodologies. He uses current trends and technologies and best practices from various domains and methodologies in crafting world-class IT strategies for clients.

Prashanth has a proven history of managing and successfully executing huge development initiatives worth millions of dollars, spanning several teams across multiple countries. These initiatives involved business process analysis and orchestration, architecture, design and development for large-scale EAI applications, B2B/B2C applications and Portal based applications. Prashanth has expertise on Lombardi Teamworks, webMethods Designer and ARIS Business Architect - three of the top BPM tools in the industry, and has also led BPM initiatives in the Supply Chain domain.

In May 2007, Prashanth co-authored a white paper titled "Business Driven Integration" on SOA and BPM for the Integration Consortium, which was ranked in the top 3 of the SOA category. Prashanth is currently assisting clients like TD Bank, Johnson & Johnson, Sony Electronics, etc. in their Supply Chain initiatives and aligning them with their Enterprise Architecture.


Sushil Nanda
Sushil Nanda

Sushil Nanda, Director of Enterprise Solution for Princeton Blue, is a highly versatile, creative and dedicated individual with over 15 years of experience in program management, consulting, technology solution delivery, outsourcing, and business development for companies in North America. He leverages his extensive industry experience to provide service oriented enterprise solutions for Princeton Blue’s clients.

Prior to joining Princeton Blue, Sushil was webMethods practice Lead for Cognizant Technology Solutions for North America and was instrumental in their EAI, B2B, SOA and BPM practice growth by evangelizing and simplifying the concepts of ESB, BPM, EAI, EII, SOA Governance through robust design and implementation. His strengths and weaknesses are that he can go to any extent to get the right solution to address the customer’s issue regardless of whether it is a technical issue, a business challenge technical or an organization roadblock, thus creating a win-win situation for all.


Gowrishankar Shankar
Gowrishankar Shankar

Gowrishankar Shankar (GS) is an Enterprise Architect with a wide range of technological skills on multiple platforms and more than 11 years of experience in progressive architecture, consulting, BPM and EAI that includes Lombardi Teamworks 6.2, webMethods 7.1, TIBCO, See Beyond and Oracle BPEL BPM.  GS also has extensive experience in managing large delivery operations across multiple geographies.

Before joining Princeton Blue, GS worked with Cognizant, Wipro and Mahendra Satyam.  He was instrumental in building enterprise solutions for large scale projects that demanded exceptional technical acumen and tremendous communication prowess.

Before joining Princeton Blue, GS worked with Cognizant, Wipro and Mahendra Satyam.  He was instrumental in building enterprise solutions for large scale projects that demanded exceptional technical acumen and tremendous communication prowess.