Management Team
Niranjan Chintam
Niranjan is a recognized leader and innovator in the area of middle market Mergers and Acquisitions services. He has advised an array of clients on a broad spectrum of strategic transactions, acquisitions, mergers and divestitures. His clients have included a wide breadth of companies in mid and small cap public firms and privately owned businesses. A financial and strategic leader with domestic and international experience. He has lived and worked in 3 Continents and 8 Countries. He is a Serial Entrepreneur. Prior to forming Kellton, he was the Vice President of Corporate Development and Head of Mergers and Acquisitions Group for one of the fastest growing companies in the United States. Niranjan brings to Kellton more than 19 years of M&A, operations, business development, and telecommunications experience. He has held various positions including senior positions with Concert Communication, Cincinnati Bell and SecureInfo. Currently as President and CEO, he is advising clients in US and around the globe on many broad based corporate finance and M&A assignments. He has managed and closed M&A transactions in North America and Asia. Niranjan received his M.B.A from Wharton Business School.

Rajendra Naniwadekar
Rajendra is an investment strategist with over 20 years experience in the Indian securities market. He was the President of the Hyderabad Stock Exchange and was a member of its Governing Board for over a decade. He played a key role during the crucial period over which the Indian Capital Market experienced a structural change in Market Regulation and the Trading platform changed from physical to electronic form. He is an independent consultant to corporations on issues of valuation, capital structure and acquisitions. He deals extensively with clients in the technology, financial and power sectors, providing corporate finance advisory services on topics ranging from capital structure, valuation, M&A, capital market access and corporate governance. As an advisor and/or independent director on the Board of a few Indian companies, he plays an active role in improving the shareholder value. He holds an MBA in Finance.

Krishna Chintam
Krishna Chintam has about 20 years of experience in Information Technology, Strategy, Marketing, Finance, and Operational management of companies. Krishna has solid experience in IT Product Development, IT Program Management, Consulting and Software Application Development. He also has domain expertise in Financial, Telecom, Federal, and Bioinformatics. Krishna led and managed worldwide IT teams comprising several hundreds of employees, with annual revenues of over hundred million dollars. Krishna is a serial entrepreneur and currently sits on the Boards of a number of companies both public and private. Under his leadership the companies have grown from locally operated organizations to worldwide organizations with operations in United States, India, China and Latin America. His companies have been acquired by a well-reputed BSE Trading companies and by globally reputed organizations. He received his MBA from the Kellogg School of Business, Northwestern University, Chicago. He holds a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech, Virginia, USA; and a Bachelors degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Andhra University, India.

John Linton
John has more than two decades of experience in corporate development and operational management. As an entrepreneur, he owned an emerging Internet and software company. With more than 19 years experience as a business owner and mergers and acquisitions specialist, John knows how to structure and negotiate contracts in many markets; giving John the ability and experience to structure deals for both public and privately held businesses. Over the years, he has gained reputation as a top corporate and business development consultant with numerous successful strategic partnerships, mergers and acquisitions under his belt. John has advised clients and managed M&A transactions in virtually every industry and has particular experience in emerging Internet, software & high-tech start-up companies. He has himself founded and developed several profitable Internet-based companies prior to his consulting career. Some of the companies include iWebspawn.Inc, EZ Domain Auction and Countycorner.com.

Mihir Shah
Mihir Shah brings to Kellton over 18 years of experience in the financial services industry. His expertise spans across many streams in this industry such as Merchant Banking, Primary Market Operations, Distribution, Issue Management, Project Finance, and Secondary Market Operations. During his almost-two-decade career, he has created niche markets, set up branches and played crucial roles in the growth stories of some of the well-reputed brokerage firms in India. His current areas of focus are methodologically optimizing returns for clients and relationship management. Financial advisory and wealth management are his core service areas. He is an excellent team leader and understands the dynamics behind driving a team towards success.

Srinivas Potluri
Srinivas Potluri has over 18 years of global experience in engineering and technology services with a special focus on systems integration and large systems deployments. His diverse experience includes working in the automotive, financial, healthcare, telecommunications and commodities industries. His professional career has been focused on working for top-tier organizations such as Parsons, Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) and France Telecom. At Parsons, Srinivas was involved in various projects for the Department of Defense, Department of Treasury, EPA and state public departments. At PwC, Srinivas was a management consultant focused on addressing the IT needs of Fortune 500 clients such as GM, Keebler, Warnaco, and TetraPak. In the financial sector, Srinivas has consulted with Citizens Bank to set up their on-line banking system. With France Telecom, he has previously developed, managed and maintained their business services systems and was instrumental in setting up a captive to transfer IT operations from centers around the world to India. Srinivas received his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He also has a Masters degree in Environmental Engineering from Virginia Tech and Bachelors in Environmental Engineering from Bombay University. Prior to his appointment as COO of Bluenovo, he was the COO of Links Group International, an IT service provider that was acquired by a publicly traded company.