Management Team
Our company’s Management team is composed of motivated and enthusiastic individuals who have a vested interest in finding value-driven, quality solutions for our clients while never losing sight of providing the best possible service. These executives take an active role in all aspects of Dhanush business and lend invaluable know-how and unwavering dedication to every client undertaking.
Rod Solomons – Chairman - Australasia
Rod Solomons is the Chairman of Dhanush Operations for Australasia and supports from Brisbane and delivers his duties as one of his post retirement assignments.
Rod handles the overall Dhanush business expansions globally in addition to Australia. He oversees the IT business and promotes the business expansions in a large way. He is also instrumental in identifying the gaps in Indian skill landscape and encouraged in building cross sector training partnership with Australian Vocational Training Providers & Experts in India.
Rod recently retired as Trade and Investment Commissioner for South Asia for Queensland Government. During his tenure he has contributed huge business turnover to the State of Queensland with many Indian Conglomerates like Adani and GVK.
Rod’s professional experience includes a vast 23+ years with IBM India and Australia with his major contributions for their Software Business and Global Delivery Direct Program. In his prior leadership roles, he served for 3 years as Commercial Director & Managing Director for ABN Amro. For about 2 years he served Fujitsu’s for their Australian Retail Business.
Rod is a Post-Graduate in Strategic Management in Retailing from William & Mary University, VA, USA. He also holds a Master’s Degree in International Economics from Lille University, Northern France and a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) from Sydney University, Australia.
Stewart Gow – Director
Stewart Gow has joined Dhanush Infotech Pty Ltd as an Executive Director. He oversees major Dhanush business operations and expansions through planned strategy and implementation.
He is also Director of the Australian Association of Angel Investors Ltd. He is well known throughout Australia for developing the award winning ‘Qld Capital Raising Pipeline’ programs now operating in Brisbane and 13 other regional centers. The pipeline programs direct the commercial growth of growth businesses through counseling, group mentoring, angel investor groups, partnering and access to global networks.
The ‘Pipeline’ programs are regarded as the world’s best practice and Stewart was awarded the 2003 Outstanding Service Award by the Australian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association. In addition Stewart is Industry Fellow to the University of Queensland’s School of Business and a judge of the $100,000 UQ Enterprise Business Plan competition. In 2009 he was awarded a University Citation for Excellence in Lecturing and the 2010 the ALTC National Citation. He spent two years in Silicon Valley, as Australian Vice Consul and Assistant Trade Commissioner for Information Technology.
He graduated in Law (QUT), MBA (UQ), and GAICD and studied public relations at UC Berkeley. Stewart practiced as a lawyer for about 10 years at Deacons lawyers, Cridlands and mid-tier firms in commercial, litigation and insurance law. Clients included Suncorp, AAMI, NZI and the Juniper Group.
DSN Murthy – CEO & President
DSN Murthy is the CEO and President of Dhanush Group. His foresightedness and vision has catapulted in transforming Dhanush into a world class organisation. Thanks to the firm conviction and values, which was laid years back, Dhanush Infotech has emerged as one of the most reputed and highly-reckoned companies.
Having started operations in 2006, Dhanush has ‘Evolved, Emerged, Enhanced and Excelled’ in all capacities and today we are a team over 500 employees across 5 continents, indeed a dream has been realized. DSN oversees all operations across regions and handles them with utmost ideology.
Prior to establishing & pioneering Dhanush, he worked with global businesses and IT organizations such as Colgate Palmolive, Asian Paints, Oracle, GE, Sierra Atlantic & others in various Senior Roles across North America, APAC, Europe and Middle East.
DSN is an MBA graduate from National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai, a premier institute in Systems & Operations in India and has a degree in Chemical Engineering from Andhra University.
Venkatesh Natarajan – Director Oracle Competency
Venkatesh (Venky) heads the Oracle Competency at Dhanush which includes the vertical business development, client relationships and delivery of Oracle projects. Venky has vast expertise in handling extended portfolio of Oracle technologies.
Prior to Dhanush, Venky has held managerial positions at Oracle Corporation therefore enabling him to gain extensive knowledge in the verticals of Development, Consulting & other Alliances. He has worked on Oracle technologies for more than a decade and has successfully managed, implemented, supported on various integration projects using Oracle ERP technologies for clients like GE, Alcoa.
In addition, he has also been part of the Application Integration Architecture Initiative launched by Oracle with an intention to provide a uniform platform for all its applications. This was developed based on the Fusion Middleware Suite of Oracle.
Venky is a Post Graduate in Artificial Intelligence from University of Hyderabad.
Ms. Chandrima - Director Finance
Ms. Chandrima is a member of the founding team and heads Global Finance & Operations at Dhanush InfoTech. She has over 17 years of experience in Strategic Planning, Global Financial Operations, International Taxation, Compliance and Relationship Management in Banking & IT Sector. Her expertise has immensely aided the rapid expansion of Dhanush Infotech across various geographies such as East Africa, South Africa, Australia and the USA.
As Head of Global Finance at Dhanush, her key responsibilities comprise of supporting the company's growth, managing the global financial operations and ensuring adherence to statutory and regulatory compliance requirements. She is actively involved in building relationships with internal and external customers, vendors, stakeholders and industry bodies.
Apart from handling Finance, she has been involved in People's Function, Corporate Communications, Marketing and Training initiatives. She takes time out to mentor young minds.
Prior to Dhanush, Chandrima worked with Citibank where she served in various senior positions. As the branch banking head, she championed operations in terms of Customer Service, Cross Sales, Query Escalations, Compliance, Trade and Relationship Management. She has handled Wealth Management for Citigold customer portfolio. She played a stellar role in handling All India Operation for Liability Products & Processes, Risk Analytics & Containment for All India Credit Card Operations.
Chandrima is a Post Graduate from National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai and graduated as a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering.