Palanivel founded Dexterity in 1999 to provide technology and analytics solutions for Information savvy businesses. Over the years, he built strategies that established the company as a leader in Marketing and Customer Informatics space. Pala brought in thought leaders in the areas of Market Research, Data management and Analytics to build these practices at Dexterity at world class standards.

Pala made Dexterity to be among the Best employers in India and a winner of Smart work places in India, which attracts and retains the best talents. Under his leadership, the company experienced a tremendous growth and was among the “Technology Fast 50 India” and “Technology Fast 500 APAC” for three consecutive years.

Prior to Dexterity, Palanivel handled assignments with MR Industry leaders like ACNielsen and NMR. He has worked with Dun & Bradstreet, Satyam Software, Cognizant Technology Solutions at client facing and solution development roles. Palanivel is a Management Post Graduate from Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Indore and an Engineering Graduate from the Government College of Technology (GCT), Coimbatore.

Ashok Bala Seshadri
COO & Practice Head – Data mgmt

Ashok has more than 20 years of experience of which 14 years were spent in the United States, architecting and delivering data management solutions for fortune clients. He is extremely customer centric and his passion at work is contagious. He has built winning teams for Top 10 Indian IT firms, and has been Practice Head for DW and BI at Satyam and HCL.

Ashok has managed large virtual teams and driven business results for companies like ITT Industries, Valley Media and Stryker Corporation. At Dexterity, he provides thought leadership and mentorship on Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence solutions. Ashok comes out as naturally result driven person and enjoys building performance driven culture and teams.

Ashok holds a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from University of Madras and also a Diploma in Systems Management from NIIT.

Steve von Bevern
VP - Client Relations & Practice Head - MR

Steve brings over fifteen years experience as a researcher, with significant time spent working in areas like FMCG, software and wireless technology for Fortune 500 clients.

Prior to Dexterity, Steve managed online panel data collection in over 50 countries for Synovate—where he oversaw several thousand online research projects annually. He also headed up Synovate’s global data processing centers, where he managed five offshore data processing in Asia, Europe and North America. Mr.Steve von Bevern is based in Chicago.

Steve also brings about fifteen years of enterprise clients experience as well—rising through a series of product management positions at HJ Heinz and Sandoz, as well as several years working for a consulting practice that specialized in market research, brand positioning, and new product idea generation for Fortune 500 consumer oriented clients.

Academic degrees include an MBA in brand management from Indiana University and a BSJ in Advertising Research.

Nimit Trivedi
Director, Client Services (Europe)

Nimit brings to Dexterity, over 9 years of Operations, Consulting & Client Servicing experience. At Dexterity, Nimit is responsible for building and managing relationship with our clients in Europe across all of our service offerings – MRO, Analytics and Insights and Data management.

Formerly, Nimit headed the Online Survey Programming teams on SPSS Data Collection Platform [now PASW Data Collection Platform] at Ugam for 6 years. He serviced, managed and led the survey programming relationship with clients across geographies; US, UK and APAC; some of which are among the Top 10 MR companies globally. He developed and headed the Technical & Process Consulting unit spanning whole of Survey Programming Division. He also conceived, designed and led the development of various automation initiatives. Formerly, he was at Stream International, for over 3 years where he led the technical troubleshooting and support teams for various Hewlett Packard product lines.

Nimit holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering from Mumbai University.

Prasanth Reddy
Associate Vice President

Prasanth heads Analytics and Insights Practice at Dexterity. He has excellent expertise in solution building. Prior to joining Dexterity, Prasanth worked with Wipro Technologies building technology solutions for Fortune 500 organisations.

Prasanth is known for his strong leadership skills, technical proficiency and a good understanding of research business. A quick learner and multi-tasker, Prasanth led the development and marketing of Dexterity's flagship research solution - MR Anywhere. He builds high performance teams for key client accounts and does process optimisation for smooth deliveries. He is also an accomplished guitarist and has performed with numerous rock bands across Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata. His other interests include culinary arts and archaeology.
Prasanth holds a Bachelors degree in Engineering from IIIT Calcutta.