HOV Services - Board of Directors

Par Chadha

In a career that has evolved from a technology entrepreneur to the creator of global service enterprises privately held or publicly traded on US and Foreign Stock Exchanges, Mr. Chadha’s accomplishments include more than 80 mergers, acquisitions and public offerings. In addition, through his vision, multiple private equity funds have been created and profitably deployed to acquire a myriad of assets ranging from mergers and acquisitions of businesses to the purchase of billions of dollars of commercial and consumer debt.

Before launching HOV, Mr. Chadha was Chairman and CEO of OSICOM Technologies, Inc., a technology company he founded with his wife, Sharon Chadha, in 1981. OSICOM was an innovator in the transition from mainframe-based to server-based networking technologies, and later from overlay networks to converged data, voice and video networks. OSICOM became a public company in 1987 and, as a result of 14 technology acquisitions, became the incubator to three leading public technology companies: Sorrento Networks, Inc. (the pioneer in metro optical networking); Entrada Networks, Inc. (a leader in local area, wide area and storage area networking); and Netsilicon, Inc. (a pioneer in networking systems-on-silicon). OSICOM commanded a market value of more than $1.5 billion in 2000 when they again embarked on a venture to build through acquisition a portfolio of potentially synergistic businesses at HandsOn Ventures, LLC.

Mr. Chadha holds a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Punjab Engineering College, India, and completed graduate-level coursework in computer science at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Sunil Rajadhyaksha

He co-founded Codec Pvt. Ltd. in 1989, an HOV acquisition and now a publicly traded company. With more than 30 years executive leadership experience, Mr. Rajadhyaksha has served as COO or Global President of companies deployed in the US and India. Mr. Rajadhyaksha’s achievements include launching international operations for Bay Area Credit Service and its 1000 plus seat call center, and creating and deploying strategic and operational direction for Merit Optical Communications.

Mr. Rajadhyaksha holds a B.S. degree in telecommunications and electronics from University of Pune, India, and a M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology.

Surinder Rametra

In 1983, Mr. Rametra founded Sun Computers and Software, Inc.; took that company public in 1994 under the name Ateck and as Chairman and CEO transformed the organization into a pharmaceutical enterprise, Interpharm Holdings, Inc., now traded on the American Stock Exchange. In a career that encompasses leadership to private enterprise and public charity, Mr. Rametra has been a director of Montana Life Assurance Company and Healthnet LLC; and founder of Silver Oak Hospital, Shanti Fund and Seva Bharti—charitable organizations.

Mr. Rametra holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Punjab Engineering College, India, a Master's degree in Industrial Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology and an MBA in Finance from New York University, where he studied under visiting professor Peter Drucker, a luminary icon of Business Branding and Process.