Gopal, a lifelong entrepreneur, is the backbone of the Drivestream team responsible for its creation and growth, conceiving innovative ideas and leading the company from a startup to a mature organization. He led the Drivestream business by defining strategic direction and offerings, formulating and executing growth plans, managing the company's investments, guiding profitability, overseeing sales, marketing and service delivery.

Gopal’s primary focus now is formulating and executing market-focused acquisitive and organic growth strategies; integrating business through joint ventures, alliances and acquisitions. Drivestream’s recent phenomenal growth is attributed to Gopal’s sound business acumen and timely business judgment for pioneering new and innovative solutions that effectively meet the consulting industry demands, uniquely differentiating Drivestream in a competitive market. Since Drivestream’s inception, Gopal has been, and remains, the visionary leader and driving force positioning Drivestream for exponential growth.

As Executive Vice President & Managing Partner of the Enterprise Applications Practice, Jacob is responsible for overseeing client service delivery and practice development activities. He is also responsible for executing Drivestream's corporate strategy to realize its vision, by developing and establishing organization wide initiatives aligned with the vision. Recognized as an industry thought leader, Jacob brings a unique blend of strategy and business leadership experience coupled with hands-on implementation expertise. In this regard, Jacob is responsible for evangelizing and spearheading Drivestream’s next generation delivery model, UC@F (Unlimited Consulting @ Fixed Price).

Jacob was an Associate Partner at IBM, Human Capital Management Practice leading practice developmentas well as implementation of complex global projects. Jacob has an extensive track record of successes in visioning, strategy, leadership, team development, sales, customer relationship management, negotiations, project management, andimplementation of large, multi-million dollar complex global PeopleSoft and IT projects. Prior to IBM, Jacob was Global Managing Director at Unisys where he held several leadership positions leading Unisys global outsourcing efforts. He traveled the globe serving as business advisor in several high profile rolesfor global corporations establishing IT vision and driving strategy, demonstrating the executive art and science of building high performance teams to achieve results. Prior to Unisys, Jacob was a PeopleSoft practitioner and advanced to a practice director role at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Jacob is an Electrical Engineering graduate from the University of Maryland.