Sandeep is the Chief Executive Officer and founder of Ajira Software LLC, a technology company based in the Chicago area. He launched the company in July 2017 to drive innovation in P&C Insurance through digital transformation and artificial intelligence. Prior to Ajira Software, Sandeep founded and successfully exited two technology companies that were acquired by publicly traded companies. His professional background spans insurance, healthcare, banking, and telecommunications. Known for his results-driven approach, Sandeep excels in strategy, planning, and execution.
Sandeep previously co-founded and served as CEO of PCS, a premier IT consulting and application development firm founded in Chicago in 1990. Over nearly three decades, he grew PCS organically to more than 100 employees and a client base that included 26 Fortune 500 companies. In 1997, he established an offshore presence in India to tap into the country’s diverse pool of technology talent. Under his leadership, PCS thrived through three economic recessions, growing steadily and sustainably without taking on debt.
In 2000, Sandeep and his business partner, Steve Pazol, launched nPhase LLC as a spin-off from PCS. After growing the company organically for four years, they secured $3 million in funding in late 2003. nPhase went on to develop proprietary software products for the emerging machine-to-machine (M2M, now IoT) market, including patented technologies that positioned it as an industry innovator. In 2006, Steve and Sandeep sold nPhase to Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM), a Fortune 200 company, delivering strong returns to its shareholders.
In 2004, PCS was engaged by a Fortune 50 company to design and implement a workers’ compensation claims system. Following the project’s successful completion in 2006, Sandeep recognized that workers’ compensation and broader commercial insurance markets were highly fragmented and underserved by quality software solutions. Seizing this opportunity, between 2007 and 2009 PCS developed InsuranceExpert, a fully integrated, multi-line software platform. The platform’s first business line, workers’ compensation, was launched in 2010.
In 2010, Sandeep founded Vikaran Solutions to bring the newly developed InsuranceExpert platform to market. He guided the company from concept to execution, taking the InsuranceExpert platform from a ‘back of the napkin’ idea through successful product development and launch; customer acquisition and award winning implementation to a successful sale. Vikaran primarily served workers’ compensation carriers, with plans to expand into additional commercial insurance lines. InsuranceExpert was a state-of-the-art insurance value chain platform spanning Policy, Underwriting and Rating, Billing, Claims, Premium Audit, Payment Processing, Reinsurance, and multiple stakeholder portals (Agency, Customer, Business Partner, and Claimant). In 2015, Vikaran was acquired by a publicly traded company in an accretive transaction for shareholders. After fulfilling a two-year post-acquisition commitment, Sandeep resigned in 2017 to launch Ajira Software LLC.