Lakshman (Laks) Narayanan

Chief executive officer (CEO)

Laks brings strong expertise in architecting, designing and implementing end­ to­ end high­ performance, high ­volume, distributed applications. Prior to co-founding Tekizma, in his role as a consultant, he helped successfully implement high-profile government projects, including IRS, Small Business Administration, Virginia Department of Health and New York Health Exchange. Laks has a consistent proven successful history of building various large scale enterprise systems from scratch. He is well respected by Clients and peers for his exceptional leadership, including hands-on, pragmatic, and innovative approach to leading large scale teams and problem solving. Laks has over than 19 years of successful track in the IT industry in various engineering and leadership roles. As co-­founder of Tekizma, Laks is striving to revolutionize the healthcare sector by providing high­ quality solutions that benefit customers at a grassroots level. Laks has a Master’s degree in Computer Applications and loves architecting and designing large scale applications.

Rajneesh Bhandari

President

Rajneesh has a strong passion in applying innovation and technology to build systems that can help consumers get access to healthcare easily and accurately. He is a technologist with complete focus on customers’ needs and priorities. He is passionate about software architecture and has been working with product companies to lay foundations for scalable and flexible products.

Rajneesh led the team in New York Health Exchange and had been instrumental in its successful opening in October 2013 and ongoing operations thereafter. He had been part of the leadership team from day one.

Rajneesh has over fourteen years of experience in building products for small and large enterprises. His experience spans working in leadership roles for product and professional services companies. He has a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Thapar University and loves architecting and designing large scale applications. Rajneesh's interest include hiking, current affairs and social support.

Ajay Mishra

Chief product officer (CPO)

With a proven successful track record in leading various products to its completion from scratch, Ajay brings innovation and state of the art research in technology to Tekizma Team. He joins Tekizma as its Chief Architect - Products and is responsible to create roadmap for Products and lead all the aspects of Product Management. He is passionate about building products that are simple and powerful using the latest advancement in technologies.

Prior to Tekzima, Ajay was involved in building New York Health Exchange right from the beginning. He played a key role in making NY Health Exchange operational successfully. He has been involved in creating roadmap, designing, and architecting large scale products in financial and healthcare domain.

When not thinking about Products, Ajay can be seen reading books, doing meditation or spending time with family. He holds B-Tech degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering from IIT Guwahati, an MBA from Alvernia University, and is awaiting his CFA Charter.