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OCTOBER 12, 2026
JK Tech, a specialist
artificial intelligence and data solutions provider, has appointed Mahesh
Ramakrishnan as its Chief Technology Officer (CTO), strengthening its
technology leadership as enterprises increasingly shift from AI experimentation
to large-scale business transformation.
Ramakrishnan, who
brings 26 years of experience spanning software, product engineering,
technology strategy and emerging technologies, will lead the company's
technology vision and execution during its next phase of growth.
A key priority will
be integrating JK Tech's three flagship platforms — JIVA, Ontologos and Orbiee
— into a unified technology ecosystem designed to deliver intelligent,
personalised and outcome-driven enterprise solutions.
The integrated
platform will combine JIVA's generative AI orchestration capabilities,
Ontologos' semantic and ontology-driven intelligence, and Orbiee's engineering
capabilities to help businesses address complex operational challenges and
derive greater value from their technology investments.
Before joining JK
Tech, Ramakrishnan founded Tataatsu Idealabs and led the company for more than
13 years, developing natural language processing products CollabLayer and Seer
well before large language models gained widespread adoption.
He also served as
Global Head of Sell-Side Research Products at Thomson Reuters. At Capco, where
he was Principal Consultant, he led the Compose product business through its
sale to Thomson Reuters.
At JK Tech,
Ramakrishnan is also spearheading JIVA's evolution from retrieval-based
capabilities towards reasoning-driven AI agents that can navigate structured
and unstructured enterprise knowledge to solve multi-step business problems.
His mandate includes
strengthening technology foundations, advancing platform capabilities,
fostering engineering excellence and developing differentiated solutions to
meet evolving enterprise requirements.
Sameer Nagpal,
President & CEO, JK Tech, said, "Technology is central to JK Tech's
ambition and to the value we create for our clients. Mahesh brings the
experience, product mindset, and breadth of technology perspective needed to
shape our next phase of innovation. His leadership will help us strengthen our
technology foundations, accelerate our capabilities, and translate our vision
into solutions that create meaningful business impact."
Talking about his new
role, Mahesh Ramakrishnan said, "I see an opportunity to build on JK
Tech's strong technology and domain capabilities and create a clear, cohesive
technology vision, one that delivers lasting, measurable ROI for our clients.
Most enterprises already hold the answers to their own questions. Those answers
sit across databases, documents, mail and decades of code, and getting at one
still means waiting for an analyst to build a report. We want to shorten that
path, so that people in the business can ask a question and get an answer drawn
from both structured and unstructured data. That depends on doing the
groundwork on the data properly, and it is where much of our effort is going.
JIVA is the platform for it. The knowledge graphs we extract give our agents
the meaning behind the data, and with that they can reason through a problem
across many sources. We will build it with domain-specific agentic workflows
and small language models that run inside a client's own environment, so their
data stays with them and each answer costs less. The same capability lets us
read legacy enterprise code and recover the business rules buried in it, often
the slowest and riskiest part of any modernization."
The appointment comes
amid growing enterprise demand for scalable AI solutions that translate
technological innovation into measurable business outcomes.
