Manohar Pandian Mahalingam
Director & Chief Technology Officer

Mr.Manohar Pandian Mahalingam is the founder and main promoter of Tentacle Technologies (M) Sdn Bhd. He did his schoolings in RSK Higher Secondary School and later in Boiler Plant Higher Secondary School at BHEL Trichy in India. He did his Bachelor's degree in 1989 at National College affiliated to Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli. He completed his Master's degree in Thiagarajar College of Engineering affiliated to Kamarajar University at Madurai.

Mr. Manohar began his career in year 1993 with Mascon Technical Services Pte. Ltd in Chennai, India, and later moved on to join Computers Resources International Pte. Ltd in the year 1994. He began his first career abroad in year 1995 by joining SKL Technologies Pte. Ltd. (Hewlett Packard) in Singapore and later moved on to join the country's premier university, the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 1997.

Mr. Manohar has vast experience in Industries such as Aviation (Aircraft Maintenance), Higher Education (University Administration), Research Institute, Manufacturing, Commercial Applications and Financial Applications.

Muruggappa Subramaniam
Director

GM Samy
Senior Consultant Banking Solutions / CFO

He began his career in 1982 as Quality Control In-charge with Madura Coats, which is Part of Coats Viella Group, UK and the largest Industrial Textile Manufacturing companies in India. From January 1983 to September 1984, he worked as a Faculty of Engineering with PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India and later he moved to banking service. During a 20 years span, he had worked for three different banks namely Allahabank Bank (6 years) the oldest Bank in India, ING Vysya Bank (4 years) a Multinational Bank and Global Trust Bank (10 years) a New Generation Bank. His areas of specialization are Project Appraisal, Recovery of Bad Loans, NPL Management, Industrial Consultancy, Rehabilitation of Sick Industries, Training etc. He was part of the core team which defined and developed Appraisal Process, Monitoring System, Documentation & Disbursal guidelines, Risk Management guidelines etc for Global Trust Bank, when it commenced operations as a new Bank in 1994. He has been the main resource person for the credit related IT applications. He has joined Tentacle Tech in 2005 as CFO and Senior Consultant Banking Solutions.