The team

Software doesn't transform a business. People do.

Every Xamun engagement is led by principals who have each done what your transformation asks of you: built the software, run the enterprise change, and scaled the business. A mix of forward-deployed leaders and a remote delivery network — senior accountability and the capacity to deliver at pace. Not a licence you're left to operate alone.

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Arup Maity
Co-Founder, President & CEO · builds the software

Twenty-five years building software at scale. Chairman of BlastAsia, a software product engineering company that has delivered product development and innovation for independent software vendors worldwide for over two decades, and Chairman of QuickReach. Adjunct faculty at the Asian Institute of Management for over twenty years, teaching Innovation Management, Digital Transformation and Project Management across its executive and graduate programmes.

Director of the Philippine Software Industry Association. Published author and a Certified Scrum Master and PMP. Has delivered for mid-market and enterprise across the Philippines, UK, US and Singapore.

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Neil Rowatt
Co-Founder · runs the transformation

An enterprise transformation leader from global finance. Former UK CTO and European Head of Technology at Deutsche Bank (Deutsche Asset Management), on the IT executive team through the business's growth to £100bn under management. IT Director at Aberdeen Asset Management, where he led the migration of Deutsche Asset Management's UK systems, processes and people.

Corporate & Regulatory Enterprise Programme Director at FTSE-100 Quilter, delivering Brexit, SMCR and MiFID II. Founder of consultancies Adroit and Silverminute. A specialist in business change and operating-model transformation.

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Anish Srikrishna
Board Director & Operating Advisor · scales the business

A decade as CEO of TimesPro (Times Professional Learning, Bennett Coleman & Co.), scaling it from a difficult start to a profitable operation across five business units at roughly 75% compound annual growth. Three decades building and scaling consumer, education and hospitality businesses.

Senior brand and marketing leadership at Pearson (SVP & Business Head, Higher Education; CMO), Spicejet, The Oberoi Group, Samsung and Coca-Cola. AIM MBM; Independent Directors certification from IIM Bangalore. Board director and operating advisor.

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Siddharth Wadehra
Operating Partner, UAE · the Gulf market

An innovation and digital-transformation specialist across the Gulf and Southeast Asia, now in enterprise account leadership at du in the UAE. Led Digital Transformation Consulting and Business Development at QuickReach, and Innovation & Digital Transformation at Aster DM Healthcare in Dubai. Earlier roles at IBM and Sun Microsystems.

A doctoral candidate in Information Systems and Business Analytics at IIM Ranchi, an Asian Institute of Management MBA, with a Digital Transformation Strategy diploma from Boston University's Questrom School of Business. An award-winning case writer who brings the UAE and Gulf market into the network.

Between them: the build, the transformation, the growth — and the Gulf. These principals set the delivery standard and stand behind every engagement.

The engineering backbone

25 years of engineering practice behind every build.

The principals set the standard; a deep engineering practice executes it. BlastAsia — a software product engineering company that has built and shipped products for independent software vendors around the world for over twenty years — is the engineering foundation beneath the Xamun Software Factory. Certified experts and a delivery network across the Philippines, India and the UAE deliver under that standard: forward-deployed senior accountability, and the remote capacity to deliver at pace.

Engineering practice by
BlastAsia, Inc. — software product engineering
25 yrs
of software product engineering, building for ISVs worldwide.
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delivery geographies — Philippines, India, UAE — plus expert engineering teams.
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standard — senior accountability on every engagement, forward-deployed and remote.

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