Pervinder Johar is the Chief Executive Officer of EdgeVerve. He comes to EdgeVerve from Steelwedge Software Inc, where he served as the President and CEO. Pervinder helped position Steelwedge as the market leader in Supply Planning and Sales & Operations Planning. Under his leadership, Steelwedge successfully orchestrated a merger with E2open to form the largest purely cloud-based supply chain software company in the world. Prior to Steelwedge, Pervinder was at HP, where he served as Vice President of Global Supply Chain Systems. In this role, he was responsible for strategy and execution of worldwide supply chain management, manufacturing, product life cycle management, order-to-cash, and procure-to-pay business processes and IT systems for HP’s supply chain, one of the largest in the world. Pervinder previously held the position of CTO at Manhattan Associates, a leading provider of supply chain execution solutions, where he was responsible for global research, development, and quality assurance. He also held senior positions in strategy, marketing, technology and finance with large companies including State Street Bank, and Fidelity Investments. In addition, Pervinder served as CTO for two successful startup companies.

Pervinder holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Villanova University, an MBA from Boston University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee.