Axero Solutions Management Team

Vivek Thakur – Managing Partner

Vivek Thakur is the author of the widely popular book titled ASP.NET 3.5 Application Architecture and Design (Packt Publications). Vivek has 8+ years of experience in ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET, AJAX and SQL Server, besides numerous other technology tools. Vivek’s passion for ASP.NET has been formally recognized with the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award by Microsoft in April 2007, continued in 2008 as well. He is also a Subject Matter Expert For Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 Certification Exams. He is MCAD.NET certified and received his engineering degree (B. Tech) from one of the top ranked colleges in the world, the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT).

Vivek is an All-Star contributor in the ASP.NET forums and also the leading contributor and moderator in the CodeAsp.Net forums. Though his expertise lies in Microsoft's .NET platform, Vivek has also worked in J2EE and C/C++. He has a deep interest in programming, chaos theory and artificial intelligence, and is a strong advocate of the Chaos Theory in software systems and management.

Highlights:

• Skilled in adapting business ever changing requirements and converging them on feasible technical platforms
• Experience in latest technologies including ASP.NET 3.5, SharePoint, WPF, LINQ, SOA, WCF, WWF and SilverLight.
• Expert in designing globalized websites which are based on scalable and robust n-Tier architecture.
• Hands-on experience in detailed project planning and co-ordination using SCRUM methodology to achieve goals on time and mitigate potential risks.

Tim Eisenhauer – Managing Partner

Tim Eisenhauer has 11+ years of website architecture and development experience with a focus on usability design, user interface, and web engineering. Tim is skilled in creating state-of-the-art GUI designs for the ASP.NET platform, built for SEO optimization design, along with a pure-CSS design structure. Tim also has practical hands-on experience in developing content management systems, CRM, ERP, innovative web design ideas and SEO friendly web applications. He also specializes in branding and marketing consulting to help Web 2.0+ businesses succeed and strengthen their position in the extremely competitive e-commerce, B2B, and B2C markets.

Tim has strong exposure to linking creativity and usability with ever changing modern day business scenarios. Strong visual branding and sharp reasoning skills coupled with in-depth technical know-how places Tim amongst a rare breed of technical leaders who can not only help shape businesses up from ground-zero but also help them stand distinctly apart from the crowd.

Highlights:

• Complete product concept, design, and development, for Acquireo.com, Franchiselogix.com, Universalfaqmanager.com, Daytimenews.com, Zoomonga.com, Surferbay.com, A-19.com
• Skilled in the areas of ASP.NET development, usability, user interface design, naming, brand building, graphic design, idea generation, information architecture.
• Proven results in SEO, Link building, keyword analysis, analytics
• Detailed planning and task management

Bill Henthorn – Director, Marketing

Specializing in direct response marketing with expertise in copywriting, Bill brings to Axero’s clients an entire integrated system of sales, marketing, advertising, and public relations developed since 1986, when he first began running his own brokerage firm in the super-cutthroat world of commercial and resort investment real estate. Utilizing then-bleeding-edge database marketing, he used technology to drive rapid penetration, massive implementation, and automated follow-on marketing. Henthorn’s first integrated system achieved 10% market share against national brand-name competitors like Century 21, Coldwell Banker, Prudential, and Remax, generated 2,500% ROI on his direct-mail marketing budget, was proven repeatedly by putting the system into place for his agents, and built a roster of clients from 13 countries.

Recent Highlights:

• Protection from Disruptive Foreign Competition: Created and directed the marketing strategy for US manufacturer to protect itself from China’s rapid penetration and disruptive cost innovation, while other industry manufacturers close operations, leading to:
  • Competitive advantage that shifts the market dialog away from price
  • Increasing profitability
• Product Launch: Created and directed the marketing strategy of new software product Universal FAQ Manager, resulting in:
  • Landing page visitor-to-lead conversion ratio: 33%
  • 4,500% annual ROI
• Business Launch: Created and directed the marketing strategy for online business-for-sale listing marketplace Acquireo leading to:
  • rise from obscurity to become one of the crowded industry’s top 5 players
  • paid subscription product with one of the industry’s lowest acquisition costs and longest retention periods
• Customer acquistion: Created and implemented ultra-low-budget customer acquisition strategy for surfing marketplace SurferBay.com, resulting in 220 new accounts with an automated, turnkey system
• Interim management: Served as Interim Director of Sales and Marketing for a Oracle database consulting firm, creating and implementing a completely turn-key, integrated sales and marketing system in three months

Henthorn has an B.A. in Economics from UC Berkeley, and graduated from Honolulu’s elite preparatory school, Punahou School.

Neelmony Pannu – Manager, Operations

Neel Mony Pannu brings with her a wealth of entrepreneurial experience including Primary Research, Strategic Planning / New set-ups, Training, Knowledge Management, Product Development, Project Planning & Management, Man Management & Client Servicing. Ms. Pannu has been associated with firms in the ITes domain which included spearheading Research Operations of New York based Gerson Lehrman Group in the Asia Pacific region where she successfully coordinated pan region projects with team members in Shanghai, Hong Kong, New York, Austin, and London offices. She is an expert in process optimization and QA benchmarking and has extensive experience in Channel Management, Customer Service, as well as Business Development.

Neel Mony Pannu is responsible for managing the business operations of Axero Solutions and spearheading the company’s expansion plans.

An engineering graduate and an IIT-Delhi certified project management professional, Neel has a range of creative interests. She has been a national level fencer and is actively pursuing dramaturgy as a part of an IIT-Delhi based theatre group; Dramatech.