Our Team

Satish Vankayalapati

Founder, Chairman & CEO

Prior to founding Orvito, Satish Vankayalapati was a partner at McKinsey & Company, where he co-led key initiatives for Fortune 500 clients across the globe in the telecom, datacom, engineering and software services sectors. He successfully led pioneering efforts in next generation technologies, smart cities, and convergence.

Previously, Satish was a founding member of a telecom subsystem/components company that achieved a successful listing on the BSE.

Satish holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering.

Rehan Atiq

Founder and Member of the Board

Prior to founding Orvito, Rehan Atiq was the Vice Chairman & Co-CEO of Capri Global Capital, the international arm of a leading US-based private equity firm, where he participated in development ventures/transactions in excess of $2 billion in the United States and Middle East.

He spent the early part of his career in product development at aerospace and automotive companies, and subsequently in Silicon Valley where he built businesses focused in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) space. He has served as an advisor to Qatar Science and Technology Park's venture capital fund, as well as various early stage businesses in the U.S. and Middle East.

He holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and an M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Cornell University.

Mohan Vellanki

Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer & Head of Business Development

Mohan Vellanki brings over 14 years of experience in product sales, business development and engineering. Prior to founding Orvito, Mohan worked at Motorola in a variety of functions including Systems Architect, Program Manager and Technical Marketer. As a Technical Specialist at Motorola, he played a key role in launching nine different mobile phones and their variants.

Mohan also worked at Redpine Signmals, where he developed new product lines, corporate alliances and sales partners. Through his work, he delivered multi-million dollar revenue growth aross North America, Europe and Asia. In addition to his demonstrated expertise in delivering cutting edge technology innovation and driving technology roadmaps, Mohan is a proven leader who has overseen several integration initiatives that span operations in several countries, and managed multiple vendors and distribution channels.

He holds an MS in Telecommunications Engineering from Columbia University and an MBA from the Indian School of Business.

Clementine Culot

Member of the Board

Clementine brings 10 years of consulting experience from McKinsey & Company, where she worked across multiple sectors with a particular focus on Marketing and Sales for business-to-business companies. Previously, Clementine worked for Agfa-Gevaert in Chile, where she supported sales strategy and planning for the medical imaging and IT division of Agfa-Gevaert Latin America.

Clementine holds a Master degree in Commercial Engineering from Universite Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. She currently resides in Singapore.

Dr. Javaid I. Sheikh

Member of the Board

Javaid I. Sheikh, M.D., M.B.A. has led Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) as Dean since January 2010. Dr. Sheikh is an internationally renowned medical executive, academician, and a widely sought after leader in global medical education.

Dr. Sheikh is a well-recognized authority on anxiety and aging, and conducted first studies in 1990s to delineate impact of aging on anxiety disorders, with detailed phenotypic characterizations and identification of risk factors. During the last decade, he and his group investigated the interface of central fear circuits and sleep architecture in patients with chronic anxiety disorders, using low burden assessments in naturalistic settings. Most recently, his group is investigating biomarkers and risk factors associated with perinatal depression. He has published around 140 scientific articles.