Management Team

Dr. Pallab Chatterjee was named interim chief executive officer (CEO) of i2 Technologies on July 30, 2007.

Chatterjee joined i2 in January 2000 as chief operating officer and held numerous leadership positions before assuming the role of executive vice president, Solutions Operations and chief delivery officer. During his tenure, Chatterjee has been integral to some of i2’s top sales and services efforts, including the company’s Supply Chain Leaders initiative. He has also been responsible for i2’s India operations, service delivery, and research and development. He has led i2 teams and key customers, including many of the Fortune 500, through supply chain transformations around the world.

While at i2 Chatterjee has overseen the evolution of i2’s industry-leading solutions, including the development and delivery of the i2 Agile Business Process Platform and the company’s new-generation supply chain management solutions. His extensive global management experience and an in-depth understanding of i2's market-leading supply chain solutions from a customer's perspective have made him a valuable addition to the i2 team since his arrival in January 2000.

Chatterjee worked at Texas Instruments (TI) from 1976-2000. During his tenure there he held various executive positions. Under his leadership as senior vice president of Research and Development and chief technology officer, the Texas Instruments Technology Labs became known as a standard for excellence acknowledged by both academia and industry. As TI’s senior vice president and chairman of the Manufacturing Excellence team, he was responsible for manufacturing improvements which delivered hundreds of millions of dollars in bottom-line improvement. As president of TI’s Personal Productivity Products (calculators and PC business), he contributed to increasing Texas Instruments’ market share, managing a more than $1 billion worldwide business. In the role of chief information officer, he led the global i2 and SAP implementation and process transformation for Texas Instruments.

During Chatterjee's tenure at Texas Instruments, he was a TI senior fellow in 1985, an IEEE fellow in 1986, and received the IEEE J. J. Ebers award in 1986. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineers in 1997.

Chatterjee has been awarded numerous patents and has written several publications on the high technology industry. Chatterjee earned a Bachelor of Technology degree in electronics and communication engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. As a student there, he was awarded the President of India Gold Medal as the class valedictorian and the B.C. Roy Memorial Gold Medal for extracurricular excellence. He received his master's and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, and was awarded a honorary Doctor of Science Degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.

Steve Estrada
Senior Vice President, Global Services Operations
i2 Technologies, Inc.

Steve Estrada, i2 senior vice president, Global Services Operations (GSO), manages i2’s services business on a number of fronts. Areas of concentration for i2 GSO include the company’s Global Services Center to focus on customer satisfaction, quality, and service capacity; i2 Education Services to focus on solutions training and certification; Global Customer Solutions Management to focus on customer support and Business Content Library management; and development of i2’s Center of Supply Chain Operations Management, to focus on new delivery methods such as Knowledge Process Outsourcing and managed services.

Estrada has been with i2 since 1998 and has served in a variety of leadership roles, most recently as senior vice president of i2’s Consumer Industries group. In that role, he was responsible for all aspects related to i2’s Consumer Industries customers, including industry marketing, sales, pre-sales, services and support. He was also responsible for optimizing business performance and margins while maintaining i2’s focus on customer service.

Prior to his work with the Consumer Industries team, Estrada was responsible for i2’s Americas Services, tackling the overall customer satisfaction and revenue of the region as well as managing i2’s Strategic Services, Implementation, Education, Outsourcing And Development Services Groups. During his tenure at i2, Estrada has also served as the vice president of Consumer Goods and Retail. In that role he was responsible for the sales, delivery and customer satisfaction of the group, as well as for supporting global accounts through the development of solution templates, industry expertise and technical support. His responsibilities have also included other leadership roles within i2’s consulting group.

Prior to joining i2, Estrada was senior manager of Supply Chain Strategy at Ernst & Young LLP. He helped build and manage a supply chain consulting and systems integration practice serving the consumer products and retail industries. He also served in various consulting roles within the organization’s supply chain practice. He also spent more than five years at Procter & Gamble in various roles in sales and manufacturing.

Estrada received his bachelor’s degree in business administration in marketing and operations management from the University of Texas at Austin.

Surku Sinnadurai
Chief Information Officer & Managing Director of i2 India
i2 Technologies, Inc.

As i2’s chief information officer, Surku Sinnadurai is responsible for the company's information technology well as total quality management and release management. Sinnadurai is also the Managing Director of i2's operations in India. In this role he has restructured the India operations and consolidated the multi-site Bangalore operations into a single site, saving millions of dollars. He has revamped the India operation by restructuring the management, bringing stability, consistency, and quality to the deliverables. Sinnadurai has been with the i2 since 2001 in various roles including development manager for public marketplaces and executive sponsor for i2 customers.

Sinnadurai brings rich supply chain operational planning experience to i2. Prior to joining i2, he spent 27 years at Texas Instruments (TI) as vice president of information technology (IT), running the company’s worldwide IT infrastructure, which included Asia, Japan, Europe, and the United States. As the IT operations manager, he reduced the IT infrastructure cost in excess of US$50 million. Throughout his tenure at the company he managed the company's infrastructure team during the implementations of software solutions from i2 and SAP. Sinnadurai also previously served as the planning manager for TI’s largest assembly and test factory. In that role, he was instrumental in automating factory planning and introducing the first global factory planning system.

Sinnadurai received his undergraduate degree in Mathematics from the University Science in Malaysia.

John Harvey, i2 senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary, is responsible for the selection, management and development of i2’s legal team which supports the company’s sales contracting process, alliances, marketing, internal audit, human resources, facilities, information systems and development organizations. This includes negotiation of contracts and agreements between the company and its customers, partners, and vendors. His team also is responsible for the worldwide development and maintenance of the i2 patent and trademark portfolio. Harvey also serves as an advisor to the company’s Board of Directors and executive leadership team on matters related to the long-term strategic direction of the company.

Harvey joined i2 in 2001 as assistant general counsel, and was promoted to vice president and general counsel and secretary in 2006. During his i2 tenure he has coordinated and managed all legal aspects related to mergers and acquisitions, divestitures and financing. He managed all of i2’s litigation and dispute resolution processes worldwide, including active participation in domestic and international arbitrations. During his tenure with i2 he has been involved with securities class action lawsuits, derivative claims, patent infringement (both plaintiff and defendant), customer lawsuits, labor/employment claims, internal audit investigations and SEC inquiries.

Harvey joined i2 from Shannon, Gracey, Ratliff and Miller, L.L.P., where he was a partner engaged in commercial litigation, class action and employment law. He also worked at Hill Gilstrap P.C. in commercial litigation and worked as a federal judicial law clerk with United States District Judge Eldon B. Mahon.

Harvey has a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Texas. He earned his juris doctor degree from the Saint Louis University School of Law.