Management

Arun Apte

Chief Executive Officer

Arun Apte is a serial entrepreneur and laboratory research scientist specializing in bioinformatics. He founded CloudLIMS in 2014 bringing the benefits of a SaaS product to the laboratory market. This has enabled hundreds of small labs including biorepositories, clinical research and diagnostic labs, and food/beverage/cannabis testing labs to gain the efficiency of a LIMS previously only affordable to large laboratories.

Prior to founding CloudLIMS, he founded PREMIER Biosoft forging strategic partnerships with Thermo, Agilent, SCIEX and other mass spectrometry instrument companies. Arun Apte holds a B.A. in molecular and cell biology and biophysics from the University of California at Berkeley. He has published extensively on bioinformatics.

Shonali Paul

Chief Operating Officer

Shonali Paul has a rich experience of working in diverse industries including IT, heavy engineering and retail. In a career spanning over seventeen years, she has built a long and impressive track record of success in high technology software sales, marketing and professional services, developing operational strategies and directing new business initiatives from conception through execution.

She has helped build the offshore development center in India and is the key driver of the development, operations and product teams. She has been the key person responsible for two corporate acquisitions. She is the chair of Member Relations Committee at ISBER.

Shonali Paul holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from SGSITS, Indore and an MBA from Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar.

Anurag Mittal

Project Manager

Anurag Mittal, in a career spanning over 15 years, is skilled in all the phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC) using both Agile and Waterfall methodologies. He is an expert in translating business requirements into technical solutions; with emphasis on providing quality, usability, security and scalability.

He has worked extensively in data structures, computer architecture and has executed cross platform projects on Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems. He is currently responsible for web-based application development, cloud deployment and server management at CloudLIMS.com. Anurag Mittal holds a Bachelor of Computer Science and Master of Computer Applications degree from SVIM-RGTU, Indore.