Virima Leadership
Palaniswamy Rajan
Mike Bombard
SreeRam Royyala
John M. Lee
Palaniswamy Rajan
Palaniswamy Rajan
Chairman and CEO
Palaniswamy “Raj” Rajan co-founded Virima Technologies and serves as the company’s Chairman & CEO. With more than 15 years experience in the technology industry, Rajan has a deep understanding of current technologies and has the ability to articulate the application of these technologies in various business contexts and models. A highly versatile and proven entrepreneur, Rajan also founded Vigilar, Inc, a leading network security technology firm; eLaunchpad, LLC, an early stage venture capital firm/incubator focusing on Internet infrastructure and network security technologies; and Emerald Systems, a boutique technology consulting firm. During his tenure at Vigilar, he grew annual revenues to $32M from 2000 to 2005, during the most difficult technology industry climate. Another previous success, financial aggregator VerticalOne was sold to S1 in 1999 in a deal valued at $166 million.
Rajan previously served on the Board of Directors for Vigilar, currently serves on the Board of Directors of Virima and serves on the advisory boards of several early-stage technology firms around the country. A leader in the business community, he is involved in several professional and community organizations. Rajan was instrumental in establishing the Atlanta CEO High Tech Council, where he serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors, and he co-founded and serves on the Board of Directors of the Atlanta Chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TIE). Rajan was honored as Georgia Trend’s “40 Under 40” Rising Stars in 2000. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the Florida Institute of Technology.
Mike Bombard
Mike Bombard
Chief Operating Officer
As COO Mike Bombard oversees Virima’s sales, marketing and support organizations. Mike joined Virima in 2010 after the merger with data center consultancy S2N Solutions of which he was a principal. Mike leverages his 20-plus years of experience with building great solutions and teams to solve clients’ complex technology needs. His deep understanding of the challenges faced by today’s IT professionals helped him guide the development of Virima ITAM/ITSM built on powerful asset discovery and dependency mapping technology. Prior to joining Virima and S2N, Mike had account executive and sales management roles with TippingPoint Technologies, Roving Planet, Southern Business Communications, and Enterasys Networks/Cabletron Systems. Mike has a Bachelor of Science in Aviation Management and Flight Operations from Daniel Webster College and is a licensed pilot. In his free time Mike enjoys boating and RVing with his family and dogs.
SreeRam Royyala
SreeRam Royyala
Chief Technology Officer
SreeRam Royyala has more than twenty years of leadership experience working in a broad set of environments including Fortune 50 companies, SMBs, start-ups and non-profit organizations. He has expertise in managing, architecting and developing enterprise applications with a diverse set of technologies, frameworks and specifications. Prior to Virima Technologies, he was founder and CEO at ZeroTouchWare, a provider of Enterprise Service Management solutions. At ZeroTouchWare, SreeRam conceptualized and delivered two major product lines in the areas of IT Service Management based on ITIL and Federated reporting for large enterprises. Previously, SreeRam held technical and management positions at Tata Consultancy Services, Manhattan Associates and AT&T. SreeRam’s software industry expertise includes ITSM, SaaS services, information security and large-scale infrastructure management solutions. He is ITIL-certified and has a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Andhra University and M.S. from NIT, Warangal, India.
John M. Lee
John M. Lee
Chief Financial Officer
John M. Lee is Virima’s Chief Financial Officer and is a certified public accountant. John brings more than has more than 20 years of accounting and financial reporting to the company. Prior to joining Virima, John honed his financial management expertise at positions in several Atlanta-area firms including The Covenant Group, eLaunchpad, Ellison, Boshell & Salmon, Houston & Company, and Hersch & Associates. John is a graduate of the University of West Florida with a B.A. in Accounting and was awarded his C.P.A. license from the state of Georgia in 1995.
About Virima
In 2007 Virima Technologies began operations in Atlanta, GA with the concept of creating an “ERP for IT Ops” platform to enable timely and accurate decisions throughout all levels of the organization. The platform was called “Ecosystem Manager” and its first focus was on automating the discovery and collection of IT asset inventory and configuration details. Next was mapping the assets’ relationships and application dependencies to correlate them to the greater business services they support. Finally, we wanted to innovate a way to turn elusive “tribal knowledge” into structured, shareable, collaborative and consumable data through a process we call Autonomic Social Discovery.
In 2010, to accelerate the vision for Ecosystem Manager, Virima acquired a group of data center consolidation practitioners to help guide development of the platform. Our consultants needed to understand the clients’ environments better than they themselves did. Even with the plethora of technology investments many clients had made, so much was still unknown, or at least undocumented, and what was known was often siloed away and unavailable to us and other organization stakeholders. This often led to IT projects and the release of critical new services taking longer to complete and costing far more than budgeted.
In 2015, after a few years of use within our data center transformation programs, we officially released Ecosystem Manager SaaS and acquired our first customers. As our development team expanded to support those customers, so to our ideas for the platform. ITIL processes, IT service management (ITSM) and IT asset management (ITAM) were rapidly catching on in the enterprise market which were logical additions to Ecosystem Manager.
In 2016 the data center consultancy was spun-off to refocus the company on the original vision of being an innovator of IT management software. Since then the platform has been rebranded as simply “Virima” and our customers in healthcare, manufacturing, entertainment, professional services and technology range from midsize to the enterprise
