MAVA Team
Our Leaders
Zach Varghese
Co-Founder
Zacharia Varghese (fondly known as Zach!), jumped into the software field from clinical medicine, ...
Zach Varghese
Co-Founder
Zacharia Varghese (fondly known as Zach!), jumped into the software field from clinical medicine, public health, and ministry. Adept at unearthing valuable connections, he and his colleague Bipin Cyriac develop resource bases abroad, scoping out cream-of-the-crop for US-based clients. Founding MAVA Partners in 2014 alongside tech guru Shiren, he’s responsible for business development, contracts, relationship management, and strategy in collaboration with Curt Hamner. Born and raised in Texas, his favorite barbecue is seasoned with just salt and pepper!
Shiren Mathai
CTO and Co-Founder
Shiren Mathai, a seasoned Senior Product Manager with over seven years of experience, stands as ...
Shiren Mathai
CTO and Co-Founder
Shiren Mathai, a seasoned Senior Product Manager with over seven years of experience, stands as a fervent advocate for customer-centricity. His diverse skill set encompasses an entrepreneurial spirit, technical prowess, business acumen, and a robust design background, which he strategically employs in several key principles. Foremost, Shiren champions the prioritization of the Voice of the Customer. He unswervingly places customer needs and preferences at the helm of product development and decision-making, regardless of external influences, laying a solid foundation for product success. His influence extends across cross-functional teams, effectively connecting and guiding them with the aid of his design and technical expertise. This fosters collaboration and synergy among diverse groups. Moreover, Shiren proactively forges strategic alliances, seeking to cultivate valuable partnerships with both internal and external stakeholders, ultimately enhancing product success and market dominance. His commitment to ongoing improvement cultivates a culture of constant evaluation and enhancement, ensuring sustainable growth and a competitive edge. He encourages critical thinking within teams, posing thought-provoking inquiries that lead to well-informed decisions and groundbreaking insights. An iterative approach, marked by calculated risk management and continuous problem-solving, underpins his strategy, consistently seeking opportunities for improvement. Lastly, Shiren identifies successful strategies and applies them consistently, a practice that leads to market dominance and unprecedented success, maintaining a strong and repeatable track record. Through these strategic actions, Shiren Mathai ensures not only sustainable growth but also fosters a remarkable team in any rapidly expanding business.
Bipin Cyriac
Partner
With over two decades of experience, Bipin Cyriac is a seasoned professional in consultative ...
Bipin Cyriac
Partner
With over two decades of experience, Bipin Cyriac is a seasoned professional in consultative business development and management, currently based in Kochi, India. He specializes in orchestrating offshore and outsourced product development projects across various technology platforms. Bipin excels in aligning clients with offshore teams, aiding in partner selection, and offering flexible hiring options for short-term and long-term projects. Notably, he nurtures startup projects from MVP development to securing funding and provides strategic consulting to establish captive India Development Centers. His expertise covers design, development, testing, maintenance, support, and migration across multiple platforms. Bipin's partnerships span various technical skills, including Social, Mobile, Cloud, Analytics, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence. What distinguishes Bipin is his teams' location in Tier II cities, offering remarkable technical skills at competitive rates. His guiding philosophy is Collaborate and Flourish, emphasizing teamwork and partnership for success.
Curt Hamner
VP Software Delivery
Curt Hamner has been serving as the VP of Delivery for MAVA Partners for four years now. His primary ...
Curt Hamner
VP Software Delivery
Curt Hamner has been serving as the VP of Delivery for MAVA Partners for four years now. His primary objective was to align the company with agile processes and delivery methodologies. After identifying the right set of tools to match their requirements, they rolled out a straightforward process. As a result, MAVA is now an Agile Scrum shop, delivering projects on time. With 23 years of experience in the software field, Curt has learned a lot about business and people. Despite having little college education, he started his career in software and worked his way up from the ground floor at IBM as a customer support representative for OS/2 version 2. He quickly discovered his passion for finding issues in software and transitioned into a software testing position, where he stayed with IBM through two full OS releases. During that time, he learned about ISO 9001 and the waterfall methodologies, which he found to be a slow and tedious process. Eventually, he moved to Charles Schwab, where he worked his way up to a Senior Manager position over Quality Assurance, both manual and automation. After almost 18 years at Schwab, he decided it was time to move on and found MAVA Partners. Curt left corporate America for a family-run business where everyone knows each other and their families. When he's not working to help clients achieve their goals, Curt spends his time on the race track with his son. They race remote control gas-powered cars, and his son holds many sponsorships in the sport. They love to travel and hang out with each other, and they are a racing family always looking forward to the next challenging event.
Kishore George
AVP Software Delivery
Kishore brings over two decades of IT experience to MAVA's software services division...
Kishore George
AVP Software Delivery
Kishore brings over two decades of IT experience to MAVA's software services division. He leads with expertise in diverse technologies and frameworks, leveraging his proficiency in a wide range of tools to deliver high-quality, cost-effective software development services to MAVA's global clientele. Kishore spearheads the delivery of these services and shapes the technical and architectural direction of MAVA's software service portfolio, staying abreast of the latest technological trends to ensure the division remains at the forefront of innovation. Prior to joining MAVA, Kishore held influential leadership roles in the Middle East and Singapore, notably serving as a Project Director with the Royal Oman Police and as a Project Manager with the Thales Group.