Our people are dedicated, motivated, intelligent, creative, have advanced degrees in Computer Science and Engineering and are the best in the software engineering industry.

Meet Our Executive Team

Our Executives are experienced professionals who have consistently delivered solutions and client satisfaction. They have engineered large mission critical systems and have led high performance teams in engineering, human resources, finance, marketing and sales.

Ms. Harini S. Kankanahalli

President

Ms. Harini Kankanahalli has extensive experience managing technology organizations. Prior to starting clearAvenue, Ms. Kankanahalli worked in accounting and finance in many technology and software organizations such as Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) (acquired by Compaq) in positions of responsibility.
Ms. Kankanahalli has a bachelor’s degree in business from Bangalore University and has taken numerous graduate level courses in business and computer science at West Virginia and Fairmont State Universities.

Dr. Srinivas Kankanahalli

CTO and V.P. of Engineering

In his role as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Dr. Srinivas Kankanahalli is responsible for clearAvenue's technology strategy and overall solution architectures. With over 20 years of industry experience, Srini is a technology evangelist, thought leader, and an acclaimed contributor to service-oriented architecture (SOA), computer security, information assurance, and business systems applications.
Srini was a tenured Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at West Virginia University. Looking for new challenges, he took up the position as a lead architect with the IBM Object Technology Group. After a successful stint at IBM, he moved to Hewlett Packard (HP) as the lead architect for the e-solutions division at Cupertino, CA. He also has held adjunct faculty positions at University of Maryland and American University (Kogod School of Business).
Srini is a serial entrepreneur and has been a founder of multiple companies. He was a co-founder of CyberMarche, a systems integration company. He was one of the co-founders of Careflow|Net (accquired by Philips Medquist) which implemented state-of-the art patient information systems. He was also the co-founder of a startup called Glopex in Silicon Valley for Business-to-Business transactions in the automotive industry.
Srini holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Bangalore University, a graduate degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, and a PhD in Computer Science from New Mexico State University.
Srini has published over 60 original research papers in national and international conferences and journals on artificial intelligence, distributed computing, computer security, software engineering, and network protocols.

Durriya Badani

Strategic Growth Advisor

Durriya Badani joins clearAvenue with over 20 years of experience in the federal ecosystem - shaping policy at the highest levels at the U.S. Department of State, leading global teams and building networks at the Brookings Institution and most recently driving success in business development with the IT federal contracting community. Having transitioned from being a "policy thinker," to a contracting "doer," Durriya focuses on long term strategy, in addition to winning new business and expanding organic growth across the federal sector, particularly at DHS.
Durriya has an MA from the University of Texas at Austin and served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Yemen.

Russel Cook

VP of Business Development & Operations

Mr. Cook joins clearAvenue bringing 25 years experience in IT and healthcare and 15 years of federal contracting. At CMS he partnered with the Medicare Plan Payment Group (MPPG), Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO) and the Office of Information Technology (OIT) to innovate, collaborate, and bring continuity and best practices to CMS.
Russ has a BS in Information Systems and an MS in Technology Management from the University of Maryland, University College. Russ has extensive experience with CMMI and EVM, and is a practicing SAFe Agilist.
He has led migrations from Waterfall to Agile and the transformation of the development teams to DevOps in the cloud.
Russ strengthens our clearAvenue leadership team and brings the Federal Government innovation and success.

Our people come from diverse cultural, educational, and geographic backgrounds, and have the common passion of the absolute success for our clients. Our people are at the core of what makes clearAvenue, LLC superior:

  • Teams: Our high performance teams strive to collaborate and deliver solutions and successes to our clients.
  • Solution Delivery: Our teams consistently deliver well specified, documented, and architected software and system engineering solutions that exceed the client's expectations.
  • Accountability: Accountability is at the core of our team, leadership, solution and delivery structures.
  • Capability: The capability to create successful software and systems that deliver tangible, measurable business value throughout the life cycle is our core competence.
  • Success: We measure our success by the success of our solutions and the success of our clients.
Our executives have the vision, the technical expertise and the passion to build a successful organization.