LEADERSHIP

Built by Practitioners

A global team that has spent a decade in the trenches of enterprise legacy modernization — not advising on it, but delivering it.

10+
Years in business
50+
Enterprise deployments
500M+
Lines transformed
Global
Scale

Leadership Team

The people who have built IONATE's platform, signed its customers, and delivered its results.

AD Amol Dharmadhikari

Amol Dharmadhikari

CTO & Co-founder

San Francisco, CA

Amol co-founded IONATE and leads the company's engineering and research vision. A holder of multiple U.S. patents — including granted patents in multi-tenant identity cloud architecture and application management — he spent 15+ years in a senior leadership role at Oracle's Identity Cloud Services organization before co-founding IONATE. A published author on legacy modernization security, and a lifelong chess enthusiast whose analytical instincts show in how he architects complex systems.

SK Sujatha Kasturirangan

Sujatha Kasturirangan

VP Engineering & Co-founder

San Francisco, CA

Sujatha co-founded IONATE and leads its engineering organization across all customer deliveries. A holder of multiple U.S. patents in enterprise security discovery and legacy modernization, she spent 15 years at Oracle as a Principal Member of Technical Staff before co-founding IONATE. She has driven 50+ enterprise deployments and the transformation of 500M+ lines of legacy code globally. Outside work she tends a flourishing garden, experiments in the kitchen, gives back through social causes she cares about, and recharges by exploring new places around the world.

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Marinês Ritzel

VP Sales & Customer Success, LATAM

São Paulo, Brasil

Marinês leads IONATE's commercial growth and customer success across Latin America. Before joining IONATE in 2019, she served as Regional Business Director at OneSpan Brasil and Commercial Manager at Axur, accumulating 15+ years of enterprise sales expertise in fintech and cybersecurity. A dedicated mentor for women entering Brasil's technology industry, she volunteers her time to professional development programmes and is a passionate connector across Brasil's growing tech ecosystem.

JP Jaime Pacheco Matte

Jaime Pacheco Matte

VP, Commercial — LATAM ex-Brasil

Santiago, Chile

Jaime brings 45+ years of enterprise technology leadership across Latin America. A former Managing Director of Oracle Chile and long-standing board member of ACTI AG — Chile's national IT industry association — he leads IONATE's strategic commercial expansion across the region's largest financial services and government institutions. An avid reader of economic history and a devoted family man, he finds inspiration in the long view that great enterprises are built one trusted relationship at a time.

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Ajanta Adhikari

Founder, CEO & President

San Francisco, CA

Ajanta founded IONATE in 2016 to solve one of enterprise computing's hardest problems: modernizing mission-critical legacy systems to cloud-native architectures without disrupting business continuity. A co-holder of multiple U.S. patents in modernization and security technology, and recipient of Akamai's Danny Lewin Award for intellectual honesty and innovation, he brings over two decades of enterprise technology leadership across organizations including Akamai and IBM.

Global Presence

Engineering, sales, and customer delivery teams across three continents.

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San Francisco

HQ & R&D

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Redwood Shores

Core Engineering

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Mexico

R&D Center

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Kraków

R&D Center

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São Paulo

LATAM Sales

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Santiago

LATAM Sales

Join the team

We're looking for people who want to solve hard problems in enterprise modernization — not just talk about them.