The pandemic sounded the death knell for the business of corporate rides. However, four years later, Sriram Kannan has taken his doomsayers for a ride by growing Routematic over seven times. Meet the computer scientist who steers the corporate transport of Infosys, and 174 other companies
It was 2017. For Sriram Kannan, a computer scientist from the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru, it had been more than one-and-a-half decades of well-conceived, well-planned and a well-executed life. The physics grad from the University of Madras started his professional innings as a software designer with Texas Instruments in 2000, and went on to add many firsts to his name—launched the world's first telemedicine application on touch phones that helped doctors and specialists review and diagnose medical images on-the-fly; developed Verayu, a location intelligence platform for enterprises that worked without data and GPS; and rolled out Yantra, a 65 gram, high-end GPS tracking device. Nivaata, a company Kannan started as part of a golden handshake from Texas Instruments in 2007, had a successful run for nearly a decade. Everything was going according to plan.