Our Expertise and Experience
Over 300 years of combined industry experience
Raja Kasilingam Ph.D.
Raja provides executive leadership and strategic direction to RTS. He has over 35 years of combined experience in consulting, software solutions, and IT services in the transportation industry. Raja has held senior management positions at companies such as Pros, Sabre, CSX Transportation, and American Airlines and has been a consultant for major travel solution providers such as Capgemini, JDA, and PWC. His specialization includes revenue management, pricing, and scheduling for both passenger and freight businesses in the airline, cruise ferry, and rail industries. Raja led the very first revenue management and pricing solutions implementations in the air cargo industry. He has been involved with almost all major airlines in the world on solutions consulting, technology roadmap, business process design, and software implementation.
Raja pioneered some of the early research on cargo revenue management forecasting and optimization models and has published more than 25 articles in international journals. He has also authored a graduate text book on Transportation and Logistics (Kluwer Academic Press). He is currently very active on research and development of innovative approaches and methods in pricing and revenue management including AI/ML applications.
Solutions and Consulting
Mukundh Parthasarathy
Mukundh is at RTS Dallas office leading our global Airline, Cruise Ferry and Rail practice for cargo, an area of passion and interest that is reflected in his client work. His work in the sector cuts across functions, industries and geographies. Much of his work focuses on driving step changes in operational, financial and organizational performance in airlines, cruise ferries, and rail players in the U.S., Asia-Pacific, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. During the last 20 years in the industry, he has worked with over 50 plus airlines and dozens of players in the cruise ferry, general aviation, and travel space. Prior to joining RTS, he led teams at Sabre, KPMG Consulting (Bearing Point), Protection One and Dell in travel, CRM and call center technologies. Mukundh is a regular editorial contributor on the state of the airline industry and country specific issues for various trade magazines, as well as a speaker at various International conferences and chaired the AGIFORS Cargo Study Group for several years. He has a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from University of Arkansas and Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical and Production Engineering. In addition, he currently serves as the advisory board member at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
Jason Codd
Jason is in Cape Town, South Africa and heads up the Passenger Solutions portfolio at RTS, covering all relevant solutions for the passenger industry, including Airline, Cruise Ferry, Rail and Coach. He took responsibility for this role after being actively involved in the product growth in various guises, from initial technical experience through to heading up the services arm of RTS, over the past 20 years.
Jason was involved in a range of activities in the airline industry with Link Airways, Airlink and Gulf Air, including reservations, airport handling, operations, scheduling, rostering, IT, marketing, and leading the Revenue Management organization at SA Airlink just prior to joining RTS. This background allowed an easy transition into RM application in other transportation types, and Jason has worked with over 25 Cruise Ferry organizations in his tenure at RTS, in addition to over 50 airlines. Jason is perfectly geared for expanding the solutions to meet the current and future needs of the passenger transportation industry.
Bharat Kumar
Bharat is at our Chandigarh office and leads our Airline Passenger Solutions Practice. He has over 24 years of experience in the Airline industry, with specialization in Airline Revenue Management, pricing, and distribution. Bharat has a wealth of experience from some of the top companies in the industry. With a background that includes stints at Amadeus, PROS, ITC Infotech Private Limited, Wipro Limited, and IBM Consulting Services (with Cresco International), he is primed to drive innovation and success at Revenue Technology Services (RTS) Private Limited.
Bharat has worked with airlines such as Kingfisher Airlines, British Airways World Cargo, Finnair, and AirBaltic, and brings a unique perspective that will be instrumental in shaping strategic initiatives and technology solutions for the Passenger Airline Revenue Management, IATA NDC, Dynamic Pricing, Merchandising and Retailing.
Mahesh Vemula
Mahesh is at RTS Dallas office leading our Airline and Cruise Ferry practice for cargo solutions. He is responsible for cargo product planning, management, and interaction with customers. He has over 20 years of experience in Software development, delivery and support of Cargo solutions. He is extensively involved in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle including Business Requirements Analysis, Creating Technical/Functional specifications, developing use cases, and Quality Assurance Processes. He is quite passionate about the cargo industry and enjoys problem-solving and learning new skills.
Prior to RTS, Mahesh worked as Senior Software Consultant with Samsung, Verizon, and IBM. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and Masters in Operations Research.
Mani Subramanian
Mani is responsible for developing overall Cargo solutions. In his current role, he manages various customer portfolio’s business requirements and product specifications including working closely with product/development teams to implement forecasting and optimization models for Cargo solutions. He has over 22 years of industry experience in Airline cargo business especially in Cargo revenue management and Business Automation.
His last experience has been with Oman Air, wherein he was responsible for Global Cargo Revenue Management implementing pricing strategies, and developing the network through Interline sales. He was also responsible for managing cargo systems. Prior to Oman Air, his experience come from working with Airlines like Swiss Air and Etihad Airways Cargo divisions. During his role with Etihad Airways, he was one of the key drivers managing Global Pricing and Capacity Management strategies which boosted the cargo revenues from Passenger and Freighter aircrafts during the initial stages of airline inception.
Elena Sanguino
As a Product Expert at RTS Dallas office, Elena helps clients solve their business problems and move closer to achieving the strategy that they entrusted us with. Her days are very dynamic, getting to work with diverse, cross-functional teams from marketing to engineering. She rallies the teams and makes sure they turn the product vision into a reality.
She has a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Montreal and a certification in AI Strategy from UC Berkeley. She has been working in the air cargo industry for 9 years and has extensive experience leveraging data and using Machine Learning to develop forecasting models.
A Colombian-Canadian she has been living in Texas with her family for the past 3 years. Since 2022, she has been an advisory board member for the Women In Leadership program at Texas A&M.
Technology and Development
Harjeet Singh
Harjeet is leading the Software Development for Cargo Solutions. Energetic, driven, and Microsoft Certified Professional with 17+ years of experience and a track record of success in managing complex IT modernization and system integration projects. Sophisticated software development and engineering skills with genuine enthusiasm for resolving business challenges through technical innovation.
He has worked with various clients across the globe, with vast experience in Software Development Life Cycle and Software Engineering practices. The important part of his role is coordinating with different technology groups for system integrations and specializing in Microsoft and open-source technologies, performance, and delivering high-quality solutions in Air Cargo and Cruise Ferry industry.
Harjeet holds a Master’s degree in Computer Applications and Microsoft Certified Solution Associate in Software Development & Web applications.
Yograj Sharma
Yograj is leading and coordinating the Passenger development team onsite & offshore, managing project-level activities, and responsible for Database Design, Architecture, Production Support, Business Intelligence, and providing technical direction to incorporate business requirements.
He has more than 15 years of industry experience with expertise in Database Development, Data Migration, and Database Performance Tuning
Delivery and Support
Johan Van Rensberg
Johan is at RTS Dallas office and leads Delivery and Support for Cargo Solutions. Johan is a corporate travel professional with program development and management experience, across multiple industries including government. He has a proven track record in building and leading high-performing cross-functional teams, as well as aligning organizational strategy, supplier capability and end-user experience to deliver maximum value. His experience in corporate travel spans over 15 years, leading account management teams and travel programs across global markets.
The core function of his prior work experience in the private sector was to work with travel procurement and leadership teams of Fortune 100 companies in developing and executing a corporate travel strategy aligned with their organisational goals. The most important part of his role was to forge a relationship with his customers that is built on trust and driving value for the customers.
Johan holds an MBA degree from Anglia Ruskin University and is happiest spending time with his wife and 2 sons when away from work. As a family they enjoy experiences through travel and constantly debate and plan their next adventure and enjoy discovering new places and making friends.
Patrick Allen
Patrick is currently responsible for RTS Passenger delivery and client support activity. Since joining RTS in 2000, Patrick has played a key role in many of RTS product implementations integrating with various booking system providers. This has included project managing the rollout of new products and verticals (airline, cruise ferry, cargo, and rail), including the integration of RTS’ passenger and cargo revenue management systems.
Patrick has a proven track record of driving client relationships and working with our Product Management team delivering new complex functionality to overcome business challenges whilst providing a high degree of client satisfaction.
Prior to joining RTS and after completing his post-graduate studies at University College London: Institute of Education, Patrick worked in education for several years subsequently using this knowledge to develop many of RTS’ education curricula, training materials, and analyst assessment programs.