Leadership

Experience that stays close to the work.

VendrNova is shaped by leaders who understand enterprise transformation, complex procurement, and the discipline required to turn a platform into an operating advantage.

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VendrNova leadership system

Four perspectives. One standard.

U.S. · India · GCC

Market strategy

Make the promise real

Operating cadence

Turn intent into rhythm

Product + delivery

Build for the handoff

Regional growth

Stay close to the market

One team

Close to the work.

Leadership built for enterprise reality Customer context stays in the room

The team behind VendrNova

Four mandates. One operating standard.

The leadership team brings together market strategy, operating discipline, product and delivery depth, and regional commercial context.

Each leader stays close to a different part of the buyer journey. Together, those perspectives keep customer priorities connected from first conversation through implementation and long-term value.

Navneet Narula

CO-FOUNDER AND GLOBAL CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Navneet Narula leads VendrNova’s Global Strategy, Platform commercialization, market development, and cross-border execution. His career spans enterprise technology, business transformation, consulting, and growth leadership across North America and Asia. He has built international teams, scaled technology and services businesses, and guided organizations through complex change. At VendrNova, he connects market strategy, customer priorities, and company execution while bringing a service-oriented leadership philosophy to enterprise growth.

Mandate: Lead VendrNova’s Global Strategy, platform commercialization, enterprise relationships, organizational growth, and cross-border execution.

Global StrategyPlatform commercializationEnterprise relationshipsOrganizational growthCross-border execution

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Navneet Narula is Co-Founder and Global Chief Executive Officer of VendrNova, where he leads Global Strategy, Platform commercialization, market development, enterprise relationships, and cross-border execution. His career spans enterprise technology, business transformation, consulting, strategic growth, and global operating leadership.

Before VendrNova, Navneet held senior executive leadership roles across technology and services organizations. At Accenture, he worked on mergers, acquisitions, and technology transformation for Global Fortune 500 clients. At R Systems, he contributed to international expansion across the United States and Asia, built cross-border teams, and supported operating improvement.

At VendrNova, Navneet’s focus is translating enterprise procurement problems into a credible global market strategy and an accountable operating plan. He works across customer discovery, positioning, commercialization, strategic partnerships, organizational design, and aligning commercial leadership with product, engineering, implementation, and delivery capabilities across the global team centers.

His leadership philosophy combines disciplined growth with service. He has been recognized as one of Top 30 Consultants in America, honored as Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business, selected as an American Marshall Memorial Fellow, Asia Society Fellow, Aspen Institute Fellow, New Leaders Council Fellow, Fuse Corps Fellow, Starting Bloc Fellow to name a few. He has been invited to speak World Bank, United Nations and speaks often on leadership, innovation, and global development.

He has contributed to humanitarian and community initiatives across the globe and has been honored by President Obama with the Presidential Volunteer Service Award and was recognized as Humanitarian of the Year for his contributions. That service mentality and giving back perspective informs how he approaches VendrNova: understand the operating reality, build trust through evidence, and keep people accountable for the decisions technology supports.

Navneet is a former internationally ranked tennis player and played NCAA Division 1 tennis at Michigan State University, where he also served as Board of Directors and was honored as the youngest Alumni of the Year in the history of the university. He has traveled to over 124 countries and speaks 4 languages.

Vraj Chhabhaya

CO-FOUNDER AND CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

Vraj Chhabhaya leads VendrNova’s operating model, turning company strategy into coordinated execution across commercial, Platform, delivery, finance, people, and business systems. He supports U.S. launch readiness and the operating connection between U.S. leadership and India-based product, implementation, and delivery teams. His focus is practical: establish clear ownership, operating cadence, decision discipline, and measurable follow-through so customer commitments and company priorities move together.

Mandate: Translate VendrNova’s strategy into coordinated operating cadence, clear ownership, cross-functional execution, and launch readiness.

Operating cadenceClear ownershipCross-functional executionLaunch readiness

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Vraj Chhabhaya is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of VendrNova. He is responsible for translating company strategy into a coordinated operating system across commercial planning, Platform priorities, implementation, delivery, finance, people, and the business systems that support growth.

His work centers on the connection between VendrNova’s U.S. executive and commercial leadership and its product, engineering, implementation, and delivery capabilities in India. He establishes the operating cadence for shared priorities, clarifies decision ownership, and helps teams move from plans to accountable execution. That includes launch readiness, cross-functional dependencies, internal controls, systems adoption, and the follow-through required after a customer or company decision is made.

At VendrNova, Vraj also supports the practical infrastructure of a growing enterprise technology company. He works across planning, performance review, finance and operating workflows, people processes, vendor relationships, and internal tooling so each function can work from a consistent set of priorities and responsibilities. His role is not to collapse specialist ownership; it is to make the handoffs between specialists visible and manageable.

Vraj’s operating philosophy is grounded in clarity and disciplined follow-through. He believes teams perform best when the objective, owner, evidence, decision point, and next action are explicit. That approach mirrors VendrNova’s customer promise: keep the operating thread intact while people remain accountable for the decisions that move work forward.

Dharmendra Darji

CO-FOUNDER AND MANAGING DIRECTOR, INDIA

Dharmendra Darji leads VendrNova’s India organization and brings deep experience in procurement technology, enterprise implementation, and Platform development. Before co-founding the underlying enterprise procurement business, he worked on large-scale procurement technology programs for Fortune 500 organizations. At VendrNova, he aligns product, engineering, implementation, and delivery around real customer operating needs while guiding the India team’s execution, capability development, and customer delivery.

Mandate: Lead VendrNova’s India organization and align product, engineering, implementation, and delivery with enterprise customer operating needs.

India organizationProduct and engineering alignmentImplementationEnterprise delivery

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Dharmendra Darji is Co-Founder and Managing Director, India at VendrNova. He leads the company’s India organization and helps align product, engineering, implementation, and delivery around the procurement realities customers need the Platform to address.

Dharmendra’s experience is rooted in procurement technology and enterprise implementation. Before co-founding the underlying enterprise procurement business, he worked on large-scale procurement technology programs for Fortune 500 organizations. That work gave him direct exposure to the operating details that determine whether enterprise software succeeds: workflow design, stakeholder ownership, configuration, integration, adoption, exception handling, and the practical discipline of delivering into complex environments.

He has helped guide the Platform’s evolution from focused e-auction capability toward a broader source-to-pay environment. His contribution spans strategy, product direction, client engagement, and continued involvement in major implementations. At VendrNova, he uses that experience to connect current capability development with implementation and delivery requirements, keeping product decisions close to customer operating context.

As Managing Director, India, Dharmendra is accountable for the strength and coordination of the India organization. His leadership approach emphasizes practical problem-solving, close engagement with delivery teams, and responsibility for outcomes that can be traced back to the agreed workflow and scope. He helps ensure that VendrNova’s Platform promise is supported by the engineering, implementation, and delivery discipline required in enterprise procurement.

Ali Holda

CO-FOUNDER AND CHIEF SALES OFFICER, INDIA AND GCC

Ali Holda leads VendrNova’s commercial strategy and enterprise relationships across India and the GCC. His experience spans procurement technology, spend management, and consultative enterprise sales across industries including oil and gas, EPC, chemicals, manufacturing, and hospitality. He brings customer operating context into market development, solution positioning, and long-term account relationships, connecting regional priorities with VendrNova’s Platform, implementation, and delivery capabilities.

Mandate: Lead commercial strategy, enterprise relationships, partnerships, and market development across India and the GCC.

Commercial strategyEnterprise relationshipsPartnershipsIndia and GCC market development

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Ali Holda is Co-Founder and Chief Sales Officer, India and GCC at VendrNova. He leads regional commercial strategy, enterprise relationships, and market development across India and the Gulf Cooperation Council.

His experience spans procurement technology, spend management, business development, and consultative enterprise sales. He has worked with organizations across oil and gas, EPC, chemicals, manufacturing, hospitality, and other operationally complex sectors. That industry exposure informs an approach centered on the customer’s operating environment: understand the process, stakeholders, systems, supplier landscape, and decision constraints before positioning a solution.

Ali has helped build enterprise relationships and market presence across India and GCC markets, including the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Oman. His contribution extends beyond opportunity development to the coordination required across discovery, solution framing, commercial planning, partnerships, and long-term account engagement. At VendrNova, he connects regional market priorities with the Platform, implementation, and delivery teams responsible for turning an agreed scope into an operating procurement environment.

His leadership philosophy is relationship-led and evidence-based. He emphasizes listening to the operating problem, setting realistic expectations, and keeping the commercial conversation connected to what the Platform and delivery organization can support. That discipline helps VendrNova develop regional growth while preserving the clarity and accountability enterprise customers expect.

How the team works together

We stay close to the moment that matters.

The work gets better when strategy, delivery, product, and relationships share the same context — and the same responsibility for what happens next.

Shared leadership promise

Make the next step clearer for the customer, the team, and the business.

Make the market promise real

Stay grounded in buyer reality and carry that context into every commercial conversation.

Turn strategy into rhythm

Give priorities a clear owner, cadence, and next step so momentum is visible.

Build for the handoff

Align product, engineering, implementation, and delivery around how the work will run in practice.

Leave every relationship stronger

Lead with service, judgment, and the long-term trust enterprise work requires.

Ready when you are

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