Murrali Rangarajan has twenty-five years of experience in the technology industry, focusing on outsourcing, operations, e-business and supply chain management. Prior to his current role as COO of e4e, he has previously served as President and CEO of Arula Systems, a venture backed network management company that was sold in a cash and stock transaction. Prior to this he was President and CEO for about 8 years of iLogistix, a large global, private integrated supply chain and outsourcing company with approximately $650M in revenues, 2000 people, 21 locations in 10 countries with global customers such as Compaq, IBM, Apple, HP, Johnson and Johnson, Adobe, etc. He has also served for many years in a variety of senior positions with Digital Equipment Corporation in their Corporate, Storage and High Performance Systems groups and with the Ford Motor Company of Europe.

He is also an advisor, consultant and board member for a number of start-up companies and a frequent speaker in the areas of outsourcing, B2B business process innovation and improvements, business operations scaling, supply chain design and corporate culture in high growth and high performance organizations. He is well known for his work in emphasizing culture and importance in growing organizations and is a student, speaker and teacher of high performance management principles for individuals and organizations.

Murrali Rangarajan holds a Bachelor's degree from IIT Madras, a Masters degree from Arizona State University in Industrial Engineering and an MBA from UCLA in marketing and finance. He is a charter member of TIE Silicon Valley and a Co-Director of TIE Institute, whose initial focus is soft-skills and is designed to teach entrepreneurship.