Our Leadership Team

Antony Xavier is CEO & President of SimpleSolve, co-founding the company with Sam Serrapede in 2000. SimpleSolve was founded with a vision to create an innovative and feature rich insurance administration software platform for small to mid-size P&C Insurance Carriers and MGAs. Antony provides the company’s product vision, direction and thought leadership. After his educational pursuits, from the time he began his professional career in 1979, Antony has been building software products for the financial industry and has been an entrepreneur on multiple ventures.

Antony began his career in 1979 as a programmer with a startup Data Processing center, developing an Accounting System to process the financial accounts of the company’s clients. He was their Operations Officer when he left them. In 1984, he started a Data Processing center, grounds up, on behalf of an industrial group. The center provided BPO services to process a variety of financial and manufacturing transactions for large corporations. He was the CEO of the company. In 1988, Antony started his first venture, a company which provided PCs packaged with a self-developed General Ledger system, to small & mid-size businesses on a monthly lease. The company also provided training and support. In 1993 he sold the business and migrated to the USA. In his first job in the USA, he was part of a team of system architects who designed and developed an integrated Professional Liability Insurance Admin System. In 2000, he and Sam started SimpleSolve.

Antony’s education, primarily from Madras University, India, includes a BA with an Economics Major, Bachelor of Law, MBA, Pilots License and a Diploma in Computer Programming.

Apart from being very hands-on at work, Antony is also a handyman at home. From building a chicken coop to repairing car fender benders, as father of three, he is truly the father figure to the SimpleSolve family.

With 40 years of industry experience behind him, Brajesh leads the operations of SimpleSolve and focuses on growth by providing leadership and direction to the Sales & Marketing activities. 

An executive with several years of experience in driving revenues, growth, profitability and operational excellence, Brajesh has strong experience in building global businesses from nascent stages into multi-geography, multi-million-dollar operations across industry verticals.

Prior to assuming his present role at SimpleSolve, Brajesh was President at Datamatics, a very established BPO/IT services organization. Prior to this he has held several senior level global positions, including long term leadership roles at Birlasoft and Satyam where he successfully managed multiple large client relationships and led company transitions into new territories and services. He has launched and managed large teams and processes across continents resulting in aggressive growth in scale with a clear focus on execution impacting enterprise profitability.     

Brajesh has successfully created strong corporate cultures with focus on performance, accountability, ethics and customer service. He has established best practices to bring in consistency and improve efficiency and has a proven record of achieving results leading multi-function and diverse teams worldwide.

With interests ranging from light reading to long road trips, on an ideal day at home Brajesh loves to fire up his barbeque grill and spend time with family and friends in his back yard.

Formerly the Chief Customer Experience officer at Travelers, Henry is a P&C expert with more than 30 years of experience in underwriting, claims, marketing, operations and digital transformation. He holds multiple patents from his 29 year tenue at Travelers.

Bala is a seasoned leader in technology and management consulting, bringing over 30 years of experience to his roles as Global Partner at Deloitte, Accenture, and Cognizant, as well as CTO and CIO at major enterprises. He excels in spearheading business transformations, scaling operations and providing technology-driven solutions for medium to large enterprises

Delanea brings more than 25 years of P&C insurance expertise. For nearly a decade, she co-led the market research function at Travelers before launching her own consulting firm in 2017. She currently leads research initiatives for international, national and regional carriers while tracking the latest trends in InsurTech

Barbara Schwarz is SimpleSolve’s New Business Development Manager responsible for the sales and marketing department.  Marketing functions include developing and executing strategies to promote the SimpleSolve brand, products and services, and monitoring trends to develop strategies for the Company and build advertising campaigns.  The sales functions include revenue generation, client acquisition, setting sales goals & quotas, building a sales plan, analyzing data to drive results.  

Barbara has spent her entire 40+ year career in the P&C insurance industry with the first 26+ years working for a large nationwide insurer where she was trained as an IT programmer, advancing through the ranks to front line and middle level manager positions.  Due to the merger of that carrier Barbara moved out and joined a consulting firm specializing in process improvement studies and strategic system selection and remained there for 10 years.  Barbara’s last position before joining SimpleSolve was as a consultant with assignments ranging from data analytics analysis and project management. In her career Barbara has worked on and managed many large system development initiatives and led teams responsible for support functions for multiple applications.

An eager and constant learner Barbara has stayed current on trends in the P&C insurance industry as well as in technologies & methodologies via various trainings throughout her career - which include courses in various programming languages, P&C specific data model design; implementation methodologies, Agile scrum methodology, and Six Sigma principles.  Barbara obtained various Insurance related certificates including from the CPCU Society (for insurance and management disciplines) and Boston University (for project management courses).

In her spare time, Barbara enjoys cooking, gardening and spending time with her family and friends.

Jayanarayana Bhat, “JB” to our clients and employees, is the VP of Implementation Services. 

JB earned his bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Madras and then started his career in 1999 as a developer working with various projects in the banking and financial domain including an engagement in the Indian Income Tax Department. 

JB joined the SimpleSolve team in our operations in India in 2003 to create SimpleInsure which was SimpleSolve’s earlier generation insurance administration product suite. Since transferring to the US office in 2011, JB plays an integral role in supporting our clients in implementation of our products, managing product configurations, data mitigation projects, and heading the productions support team. 

JB’s intensive knowledge of the P&C Industry, his expertise in technology and training in Program & Project Management have ensured very successful Client implementations creating a fan following among SimpleSolve client base.

An avid photographer, and a father of one, JB likes to travel and tries his hand at cooking.

Tessy Antony is the CFO and Treasurer of SimpleSolve, joining the company at inception in 2000. Tessy has successfully managed and navigated the company through financially challenging times in the initial years of the company. She is particularly adept at pro-actively managing and monitoring the financial strength of the company, timely filing of returns, audits and ensuring financial compliance. 

Tessy’s education was primarily from Institutions in India. She began her career in finance in 1988, as an accountant in a software company. Tessy migrated to the USA in 1993, took a break until 2000, to be a stay home mom to her three children.

Tessy is a very “People Person”, spending a lot of time with employees on a very personal basis. She brings employees together truly making them feel like a family.  Employees are often treated to home cooked goodies from Tessy’s kitchen and a share of the produce from a very elaborate backyard garden.

Chandra Mouli “Mouli" has over 30yrs experience working with Global technology providers in Senior technology & management roles. Over the last 2 decades, he has led transformation programs by building leading-edge systems for P&C, Enterprise Risk Management solutions & Life Insurance-related sectors and delivered solutions to Global insurers in around 65 countries. Experience of managing YoY R&D budgets of over $250m, he brought in best practices in Product Management, and implemented RAD processes leveraging mart coding Tools & AI, leading to a saving of over 30% in budgetary spending besides accelerated product releases for global markets. A few of the Insurance technology products have been world leaders with significant market share and with a global footprint.  

Mouli has been recognized as top 100 Eminent CIO of India for four consecutive years for his pioneering work for a transformation program with a not-for-profit and India’s largest eye hospital. His mission was to innovate at scale and deliver sustainable and affordable healthcare technology for the masses leading to lowering costs and predictable outcomes. His work on democratizing eye screening by leveraging AI and cloud-based Tele medicine solutions was transformative and brought digital eye health to the mainstream and created a new revenue stream besides affordable care for the masses touching human lives the most during these pandemic times.

As Head of Innovation at SimpleSolve, Mouli’s vision envisioned and crafted SimpleINSPIRE and evolved it into the next-generation digital ecosystem for the insurance enterprise. 

The author of SimpleSolve’s PEAR methodology, Mouli is on a mission to “automate the routine and humanize the exceptional” which is giving the thrust to SimpleINSPIRE product leadership that very few competitors can challenge. The roadmap and plans ensure that SimpleSolve stays ahead of the curve in terms of technologies and practices and that teams continue to stay ahead and operate these technologies besides providing resilience, and agility to business.

Mouli is a commerce graduate from the University of Madras, a self-starter and a problem identifier and solver.  He believes in finding a path and taking a road less travelled and leaving a trail for others to follow. He is regularly featured in Technology forums and his transformation lecture series “Living on the EDGE” and the “ART of Care” are practical examples of how technology touches lives and had been an inspiration to budding technologists and innovators to work on technology that matters. As an honorary member of Industry forums, he provides mentorship to innovators and budding entrepreneurs and is a JURY in many of the hackathons.

Tara Antony is the Vice President of Customer Service at SimpleSolve. Tara is responsible for overall leadership, planning, and execution of all customer service-related functions and activities. She strives to ensure her clients have a system that works for them and not the other way around. 

Tara earned a bachelor’s degree in Graphic and Web Design from Rider University in 2013. She interned at SimpleSolve during college in 2010 and accepted a full-time position in 2013. She started in the quality assurance department, then quickly grew into her current role. In the 12 years she has been with SimpleSolve she has been able to build her career and sharpen her professional skillset. 

 When she is not working, Tara is exploring new restaurants and exploring different cuisines. She is our resident foodie and can always recommend a good restaurant in town!   

Rajesh Doraiappa heads the Delivery Center of SimpleSolve. Rajesh oversees the development of the SimpleSolve product development, and implementation as well as operations of the Development & Delivery Centre.

Rajesh earned his Master of Computer Science from Bharathidasan University, India in 1999. He started his career a year earlier in 1998 as a developer and has since massed up a rich experience in technology working on projects in various domains like Healthcare, Education, Energy, Insurance, Banking and Finance. Prior to SimpleSolve, he was working for QuScient as General Manager, Delivery, managing Energy and Education clients in the US and the UK. 

Rajesh joined SimpleSolve in 2013 and provides an important role in the creation and design of SimpleSolve products such as SimpleInsure and SimpleINSPIRE.

A family man and a dad to a daughter, Rajesh enjoys playing cricket and badminton, and loves an open road - forever ready for road trips.

Shankar is a seasoned HR leader with close to 15 years of experience across multiple industries and is the Head Human Resources at SimpleSolve.

He has extensive experience building out and executing HR strategic road maps, leadership hiring, coaching programs and talent development practices to help organizations scale up.

An Empathetic leader, Shankar is a key driver in enforcing strong people practices that has resulted in strong attraction and high retention of our Human Capital - and is moving towards distinguishing SimpleSolve as an employer of choice. 

Prior to SimpleSolve, Shankar was the HR leader and member of the Core team at iV Support Technologies. 

Shankar is an alumnus of Hindustan Institute of Engineering Technology, Chennai with a degree in Aircraft Maintenance Engineering and holds a master's degree in Human Resources.

Beyond work, Shankar is an enthusiastic reader, loves music and enjoys long travel.