Board of Directors

Prahalad H. Achutharao

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Prahalad drives the overall strategy and business execution for Geschickten    Biosciences. Before Geschickten, he was working with SETLabs, the R&D wing of Infosys Technologies, India. While at Infosys he was working in the areas of HPC and Grid Computing.

Prahalad has patents in Distributed Processing and Data Grids. Prior to this appointment, Prahalad worked with @labs at the University of Alabama and SURA (Southern University Research Association) Grid in collaboration with University of Michigan and University of Vanderbilt focusing on Grid File Systems, Authentication/Authorization and Grid Security.

Before joining @labs, Prahalad worked with Verari Systems Inc, focusing on development of methods / tools to measure performance of HPC applications. Prahalad specializes in Systems Software and High Performance / Cluster Computing (HPC) & Grid Computing. Prahalad did BE (Electrical & Electronics engineering) from Karnataka University and MS (Computer & Information Sciences) from University of Alabama at Birmingham.

 Dr. Asoke Talukder, Ph.D

 Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer

Asoke K Talukder is an author, serial entrepreneur,  and a professor; he has contributed in the field of Omic sciences, Information Technology, Telecommunication, Mobility, Information Security, Creative Arts, Research and Education. He is a think-tank with wide breadth of knowledge. He worked in India, USA, UK, and Singapore in the domains of Research, Product Engineering, and Management for companies like ICL, Fujitsu-ICIM, Microsoft, Oracle, Informix, Digital, Hewlett Packard, Sequoia, Northern Telecom, NEC, KredietBank, iGate, Cellnext, etc. He Internet enabled Microsoft PowerPoint, reengineered Informix database for 64 bit DEC-Alpha, engineered Oracle Parallel Server for Hewlett Packard HP-FX, Sequoia Fault Tolerant computer, and developed many killer technologies and products. He setup the first X.25 network in India for Department of Telecommunications (currently BSNL & MTNL), and the first Java Competency Centre in India. He engineered the Network Management System for Queen’s Award winning PDMX. He setup many IDC (India Development Centre) and built many successful start-ups. He built wireless technology and content company Cellnext that defined the mobile Web and mobile content in India; also, helped Tyfone to build its mobile payment and SD-card based NFC Credit card products as a start-up. He is co-founder of Geschickten Biosciences a leading Statistical & Computational Quantitative Biology company engaged in Omic sciences service and product development. He is recipient of many international awards for innovation and professional excellence including All India Radio/Doordarshan Award, ICIM Professional Excellence Award, ICL Excellence Award, IBM Solutions Excellence Award, Simagine GSMWorld Award etc. Asoke has been listed in “Who’s Who in the World”, “Who’s Who in Science and Engineering”, and “Outstanding Scientists of 21st Century”. He published about 50 technical research papers, authored two popular textbooks, edited three books, and authored book chapters. Asoke did M.Sc Physics with Biophysics major and Ph.D (Computer Science & Engineering). He was the DaimlerChrysler Chair Professor at IIIT-Bangalore and Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, NIT Warangal. Currently he is Adjunct Faculty at Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management, Gwalior; Adjunct Faculty at National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal; and Chief Scientific Officer at Geschickten Biosciences.