About Us
Open Orbit is founded with a mission to deliver a transformative platform for clients, service providers and advisors in the area of business process improvement. The name emphasises an ability to view things from all perspectives, and encourage user contribution and collaboration for mutual benefit.
The company is led and managed by process improvement (PI) practitioners with expertise in technology. We have converted extensive experience in driving sustainable improvement into an intuitive and versatile technology that applies the principles of PI to the process of doing PI itself. That in essence is the promise of Open Orbit – it will make your PI projects faster, cheaper, more standardised, more repeatable, more re-usable and more predictable. All the attributes that we seek in the business process are thus being applied to the improvement project as well.
Open Orbit is based in Sydney, Australia, with teams in North America and India.
Our Advisory Board
Mark Veyret
Global Scaleup Leader, PwC Managing Director, Chairman, Director, Mentor & Social Entrepreneur
Mark helps businesses scale-up growth across emerging tech, smart services, and high growth knowledge-based businesses. Co-creating and accelerating growth pathways; building brands, commercialising data, and building cultures.
John Anschau
Previously Managing Partner of Operations, PwC Asia
35-year career as a management consultant and business leader, including 24 years as a Managing Partner at PwC and IBM Consulting. Experience across a wide range of organisations in many industries but particularly in financial services.
Ben Tabell
Chief Information Officer, eftpos Payments Australia
Ben’s career extends over 25 years including as Chief Information Officer for organisations across multiple sectors such as: finance, FMCG and property management in London, Hong Kong and Australia. He believes in the value of technology and process driven change for achieving business transformation and growth.
Karina Kwan
Non-Executive Director
Karina is a Non-Executive Director of a variety of financial services boards and of a data service provider. Her executive career includes 18 years at Citi AU/NZ as its Corporate Treasurer, Financial Controller and lastly CFO. She also held the role of CFO/General Manager of the Corporate Centre divisions at Commonwealth Bank.
Meet the Team
Director (Founder)
Niranjan founded Open Orbit with a vision to make the science and art of process improvement accessible and affordable to anyone in any organization.
The combination of a diagnostic style workbench with a context-sensitive knowledge base of process improvement (PI) insights, was conceived from Niranjan’s experience of Lean Six Sigma and what drives sustainable process change.
With Open Orbit, he has brought together this knowledge with his insights in technology to create and build a new platform for executives, managers and workers looking for practical methods and techniques in process improvement.
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Niranjan brings extensive experience in senior roles and has worked on building new business, creating consulting capabilities and implementing change programs in a variety of cultural and geographic contexts, including in Australia, India and the Silicon Valley, US.
In his previous role he led major client relationships and new business growth in Australia and New Zealand as Vice President for Genpact. As India Hiring Leader, he drove the fastest growth to date in Genpact staff count, with over 10,000 new recruits joining Genpact in that year in India. As Quality and Six Sigma Leader Genpact he drove timeliness and efficiency in talent supply, Finance, HR and Infrastructure.
Prior to Genpact, Niranjan worked with IBM Business Consulting Services and PwC Consulting in Sydney, where he held a range of roles across Business Consulting, Program Management, IT Implementation and Business Development with clients in Telecommunications, Travel and Transport, Automotive, Industrial and Technology.
Prior to this career in IT and Consulting, he worked for Siemens and DCM Data Products in India in the Industrial Automation divisions, handling engineering, solutioning and business development roles.
Niranjan holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
Vinita Deodhar
Chief Product Officer
Vinita is a seasoned senior executive with deep experience in leading change and enhancing enterprise performance in complex environments.
Prior to joining Open Orbit in August 2021, Vinita served as Executive Director with NSW Government, mainly with NSW Treasury. Her government experience also spans Education, Environment, Climate Change and Water, and Investment NSW. A well-rounded leader, Vinita brings expertise from across public and private sectors covering strategy, governance, general management, budgeting, public policy, applied economics, marketing, and advertising.
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At NSW Treasury, Vinita led NSW Government transformation to a more outcome-focused culture – embedding citizen and customer outcomes at the centre of strategic planning, resource allocation, and delivery. She cast the vision for these reforms, built change momentum and helped operationalise them across the sector. Through the pandemic, she led the rapid start-up and scale-up of Skilling for Recovery/Job Trainer in 2020, a key economic recovery initiative of NSW and Australian Governments.
Vinita holds non-executive positions on boards and is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Business, Western Sydney University.
She has a PhD in Economics from Macquarie University Sydney and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
As Chief Product Officer for Open Orbit, Vinita is responsible for the strategic product direction including Open Orbit’s product vision, product innovation, design and development. She combines a strong product sensibility with commercial expertise and data-driven insights to create the best possible experience for customers while serving the overall vision of Open Orbit.
Domain Consultant
In her career of 17 years she has worked with the pioneers in mobile telephony – Modi Telstra and Airtel ; and in IT enabled services – Intelenet Global Services. She has worked for marquee clients like Vodafone, e Bookers, Lumo, Transunion, Equifax to name a few. Rohini has a strong track record of managing and transitioning large operations of 1000+ people, implementing best practices in processes, and delivering to ambitious goals with regard to Quality and Service Levels.
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Rohini holds a Bachelors degree in Accounting from Calcutta University.
Julian Humphreys
Head of Marketing and Events
Julian Humphreys is the Head of Marketing and Events at Open Orbit. He has worked with global event company IQPC (International Quality and Productivity Centre) and CEDA (Committee for the Economic Development of Australia).
Julian completed his Masters of Commerce at the University of Sydney where he majored in Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He completed his Masters with a distinction average and was awarded the Beta Gamma Sigma recognising students who came in the top 20%. During this time he worked with companies including Vodafone, Telstra, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Deloitte.
As head of Marketing and Events, Julian’s role at Open Orbit is to identify potential partnership and business opportunities in order to help companies and governmental departments improve their business processes.
Erin Warnock
Customer Success Engineer
Erin has extensive experience in customer service, process improvement and training and staff development. She has developed these skills throughout her career, including over 10 years with one of Australia’s top financial services providers.
She worked on all aspects of projects, including data analysis, root cause analysis, identifying solutions, building business cases, reviewing and sign off of business requirements documents and technical specification documents, multiple levels of testing, change communications and training.
As a Customer Success Engineer, Erin is responsible for onboarding new users, supporting and mentoring users with their projects and quasi-consulting activities such as Rapid Assessments.
Alessandro Alterisio
Growth Officer
Alessandro is our most recent addition to Open Orbit. Graduating from Macquarie University with a Bachelor of Commerce Majoring in Marketing. His previous work experience stems from B2C sales, providing the basis of his interpersonal skills. His studious efforts have outlined his interests in marketing analytics, research and consumer behaviour.
As the Growth Officer for Open Orbit, Alessandro’s role involves developing new business opportunities, creation of marketing materials and analytics of marketing metrics and data, and general management/execution of marketing outreach and sales. He also works with Julian on developing the marketing direction and strategy for the company.