LEADERSHIP TEAM

Jag Kapoor
Chief Executive Officer

A serial entrepreneur, Jag Kapoor is acclaimed as a "Guru" in the Franchising business with a reputation of creating strong retail brands and turning around distressed businesses into profitable ventures. Starting with one convenience store in 1980's, Jag is the Chairman of Kapoor Enterprises, which as a "Franchisor" has 60+ locations, which include C-Stores, Restaurants and General Retail stores.

Jag’s involvement in the software development industry started as a primary investor in Silicon Valley based companies. He founded XProtean in 2003 to fulfill a lifelong passion to bridge the technological void present in the small format store retail industry.

Manav Misra
Chief Operating Officer

In his most recent role prior to XProtean, Manav was a Co-Founder and VP of Strategy for StorePerform Technologies which was sold to RedPrairie Corporation. StorePerform helped establish the space of Store Execution Management: software that helps retailers successfully manage the execution of tasks and initiatives across their whole chain of stores. StorePerform counted some of the largest retailers among its customers, including six of the top fifteen retailers in the US.

Prior to co-founding StorePerform, Manav was the Senior Director of Strategy at KBToys.com and was actively involved in the acquisition of eToys. Manav also had the role of Senior Director of Business Intelligence at KBToys.com during which time he led the BI team in building a data warehouse, decision support system, and analytics tools.

Earlier, he was a professor of computer science at the Colorado School of Mines where he performed research in Intelligent Systems and High Performance Computing. His specific interests were in data analytics, and mining large data sets. He has a BS from the Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur) and a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California.

Vikas Jain
EVP Business Development & Corporate Marketing

Vikas joined XProtean with an exceptional track record in the technology and consulting space. Prior to joining XProtean, Vikas was part of the founding team at Systech Integrators (acquired by ACS in Oct 2006). At Systech Integrators, he managed business development activities for the West Coast and led marketing/alliance initiatives for the entire organization. Under his leadership, the West Coast business was the No. 1 revenue producing region from inception to acquisition. Before Systech, Vikas was a strategy management consultant in a high profile internal consulting group that reported directly to the CEO of American Express. He has a BS from the Punjab Engineering College (India), an MS from Tulane University and an MBA from Yale University.