Management Team

OAT has been setting the standard in RFID for over half a decade and has assembled the industry's most respected team of experts. OAT has a world-class management team with extensive experience in RFID, early-stage software companies, and leading supply chain solution providers.

Prasad Putta
Vice President and General Manager

As Vice President and General Manager, Prasad Putta is responsible for leading OATSystems’ operations in its new structure as a division Checkpoint Systems. A co-founder of OAT, Prasad was instrumental in establishing the company’s initial vision, recruiting the management team in support of that vision, developing key strategic partnerships, and serving in a leadership role in growing the company to over 100 customers worldwide and a dominant position in the RFID industry.

Prior to co-founding OAT in 2001, Prasad started Auripay, a company that provided secure, flexible e-commerce payment solutions. Auripay was sold to Cyota in 2001. Previously, he worked at i2 Technologies, innovating and implementing supply chain solutions.

Prasad holds a masters degree in mechanical engineering from MIT, and an undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras.

Dr. Venkat Krishnamurthy
Chief Technology Officer, OATSystems, and Vice President of Advanced Technologies, Checkpoint Systems

Dr. Krishnamurthy is responsible for Checkpoint Systems' technology strategy and solution synergies across Checkpoint’s portfolio of products. As OATSystems’ CTO, he continues to play an active role in the company’s product management and innovation.

Prior to Checkpoint Systems' acquisition of OATSystems, Dr. Krishnamurthy served as Vice President of Engineering and Product Management. In this role, he was responsible for productizing OAT's industry leading Foundation Suite, now in use by over 100 customers worldwide. Before joining OAT, Dr. Krishnamurthy was VP of Engineering at Metris (EBR:MTRS), which provides hardware and software products for dimensional quality control for manufacturing industries. He previously founded Paraform (acquired by Metris) which created Digital Form Development software products for the Entertainment, Auto and Consumer Product industries. Prior to Paraform, he founded Align (NASDAQ: ALGN), a technology innovator in the area of orthodontic appliances.

Venkat's achievements include a Technical Achievement Academy Award from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences for his pioneering inventions in the area of three-dimensional scanning software. He was recently recognized by the Boston Business Journal as one of the top "40 Under 40" business leaders in the Boston area.

Dr. Krishnamurthy holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur where he was a President's Gold Medalist.

Paul Cataldo
Vice President of Marketing

Paul Cataldo is responsible for leading OATsystems’ marketing efforts and developing its product marketing strategy.

A seasoned software industry executive with more than 20 years of experience, Paul Cataldo has held a variety of senior technical and marketing positions in start-up and later stage organizations, including two of them in retail technology over the past 10 years.

Prior to OATSystems, Paul served as vice president of marketing for IntelliVid Corporation (acquired by Tyco International (NYSE: TYC; BSX: TYC)), a provider of intelligent video analysis solutions for the retail industry. Before that, he served as the vice president of marketing for DataSage (acquired by Vignette), which provided customer analysis and personalization software to retail and e-commerce enterprises. In addition, he has held senior marketing positions with companies such as Borland International (client/server business unit) and SunGard Financial Systems.

Paul graduated cum laude from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst with a bachelor’s degree in business.

Peg Kastner
Vice President of Client Services

Peg Kastner is responsible for leading OATSystems’ professional services team in implementing solutions that deliver solid business benefit for customers.

Peg has over 15 years’ experience in leadership roles in professional services and consulting services organizations in growing enterprise technology companies. Prior to joining OATSystems, she was responsible for service planning at Kronos, the leading provider of workforce management solutions. In this role, she led the organization responsible for developing and executing plans to expand the Service organization into new products and services, and for improving the overall efficiency, effectiveness and expertise of the service organization.

Prior to Kronos, Peg led the professional services organization at TempoSoft, a provider of retail scheduling solutions, where she was responsible for building the US presence and professional services operations. Before joining TempoSoft, Peg led the professional services organization at Interlynx Technologies, a leading provider of web- and voice-based human resource applications serving the Fortune 500, where she led the services organization transformation from custom solutions to product-based implementations. Peg also spent ten years with CGI Information Systems and Management Consultants, a large Canadian IT consulting organization, where she held various technical and management positions.

Peg holds an MBA from Babson College, and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Vermont.

Sridhar Ramachandran
Vice President of Engineering

Sridhar Ramachandran leads the Engineering team and plays a key role in architecting and developing solutions based on the company’s technology. A co-founder of OATSystems, Sridhar developed the company’s foundation technology and initial architecture upon which the company’s industry-leading solutions are built.

Prior to co-founding OAT, Sridhar co-founded Auripay, a company that provided secure, flexible e-commerce payment solutions. Auripay was sold to Cyota in 2001. He also spent several years working at MIT on the design and development of a DNS-based global object tracking service, and building Savant, the open source systems at the heart of the Auto-ID Center's EPC network.

Sridhar received his masters in computer science from MIT, and holds an undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras.

Dr. Sanjay Sarma
Technology Advisor

Professor Sarma is credited with defining and developing many of the standards and technologies that form the foundation of the commercial RFID industry. He is a frequent industry speaker and serves on the Board of Governors of EPCGlobal, the worldwide standards body he helped create. Sanjay is also an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. In 1999, he co-founded MIT's Auto-ID Center and has served as its Chairman of Research.

Professor Sarma was appointed a MacVicar Faculty Fellowship for excellence in undergraduate teaching at MIT. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Chair at MIT, the Ferry Award, the Den Hartog Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Keenan Award for innovations in undergraduate education, the New England Business and Technology Award, the Boston Business Journal Top 40 Executive under 40 Award and was selected to Business Week's 'e.biz 25 Innovators' list. He has over 50 publications in computational geometry, virtual reality, manufacturing, CAD, RFID, security and embedded computing.

Professor Sarma received a Bachelors degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, a Masters degree from Carnegie Mellon University and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.

Michael Trubatch
Vice President of Sales

Michael Trubatch is responsible for leading OATSystems’ global sales and business development activities.

Michael has nearly 25 years of driving market adoption of innovative technologies, and selling solutions to solve complex business problems. Prior to joining OATSystems, Michael served as president of IdMLogic, an identity management and security solutions provider. In this role, he led triple digit sales growth and established key partnerships with the industries leading vendors.

Prior to IdMLogic, Michael was Vice President of Sales for Entrust and previously held senior sales positions with companies such as Synomos, Business Layers (acquired by Netegrity/CA) and Novell, where he was Vice President of Sales Development and Strategy.

Michael graduated from Pace University with a bachelor’s degree in computer science.