Leadership Team

The Claritics Team includes engineers, marketeers and seasoned executives with decades of experience delivering customer value and success.

Raj Pai, CEO

As CEO and co-founder of Claritics, Raj is pioneering the development of innovative analytics apps that enable deep insights into social and mobile behaviors. He was previously on the executive team at Aster Data (acquired by Teradata), powering big data solutions in social graph analysis, gaming and advertising. He also led the global product management team at Informatica, developed and launched portal solutions for Tibco, and worked on the design team at Intel. Raj has an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, and a B.Tech in Electrical Engg. from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

Jay Bala, CTO

Jay is a seasoned product visionary with hands-on experience in Analytics and Data Warehousing built over two decades in leadership roles at enterprise companies and startups. Most recently, Jay led the customer success team of a SaaS-based customer behavioral analytics company, Quantivo Corporation, driving successful implementations at Fortune 500 companies like Comcast, Metlife and Party City. Previously Jay spent 8 years at Informatica (Nasdaq: INFA) where he managed a global PM team in building the metadata management product line that grew from 1 to 200+ customers over 3 years. Jay was an early employee of Influence Software (acquired by Informatica), a startup that built packaged analytic applications for SAP customers like Honeywell and Johnson & Johnson.  Jay has an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta and a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Sanjath Shringeri, VP Engineering

Sanjath is a technology industry veteran with deep expertise in social and mobile games and big data analytics. Most recently he served as the engineering manager for Tapjoy, a leading mobile applications network. Previously he led engineering teams at Informatica (NASD: INFA) and LucidEra, a pioneer in on-demand Business Intelligence in the cloud. At Informatica, Sanjath spearheaded development of the company’s first web-based analytics platform and holds two key patents—one for value chained queries in analytic applications and another for ranking query optimization in analytic applications.

Sanjath graduated with an engineering degree in computer science from Mysore University in India.