Our Story

How a full parking lot sparked the idea of Attest

Several years ago, Chennapan and Ramesh were engaged at a Fortune 500 client to roll out a large ERP implementation. Halfway through the project, they suddenly started finding it difficult to find parking in a normally uncrowded parking lot at the client's office.

This continued for several weeks. Upon inquiring, they found that testers from all over the world had arrived at the client offices to execute integration and user acceptance testing. Digging deeper, they found that such a large roll-out had very little end-to-end testing planned or included due to several integration issues. This lack of a comprehensive and continuous testing resulted in many production issues after go-live.

The founders thought that there had to be a better way to test—not as an after-thought, but as a way to ensure the business was not thrown out of gear and into jeopardy. They realized that the existing methods of testing would not cut it for IT organizations. What IT organizations needed is a Business Assurance Platform and not just a testing solution. This led to both of them firmly deciding to approach the problem from a business continuity angle—what changes in any business process impacted when, where, and how, and what were the downstream issues that would create challenges or business disruption.

ATTEST was built from ground-up to provide a robust platform to effectively assure the business operations of enterprises.

Our People

Chennapan Padmanaban

President and Co-founder

Chennapan Padmanaban has over 30 years experience in software development, consulting and support. He has led teams in CMC, Oracle and Kintana (later acquired by Mercury/HP) in Development, Support and Consulting Organizations. He has designed and developed solutions in the CAD/CAM, Oracle Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Financials areas for several Fortune 500 companies including Western Digital, Applied Materials, Agilent Technologies, Intuit, Marvell Semiconductors, Sunkist, Seagate, Cisco and Gilead Sciences. He has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with Honors from College of Engineering, Guindy, Chennai, and an M.S. in CAD/CAM from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Ramesh Padmanabhan

COO and Co-founder

Ramesh Padmanabhan has over 33 years experience that includes Software Consulting, Project Management, Corporate Finance and Public Accounting. He has held positions in Public Accounting, Corporate Finance at Applied Materials and Software Application consulting at Oracle Corporation. Ramesh has been involved in the deployment of numerous IT systems at Fortune 500 companies such as Applied Materials, Cisco Systems, LG Electronics, Agilent Technologies, Qualcomm, Network Appliance and Gilead Sciences.

Ramesh holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Statistics from Madras University, is a Chartered Accountant and holds a M.S. in Accounting from the University of Texas, Arlington.