Leadership

The team behind the platform.

Operators, engineers, and compliance professionals.

Ajay Natesh
Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Ajay is a transformational business leader, entrepreneur, and trusted advisor with more than two decades of senior commercial and executive leadership experience spanning healthcare, retail, analytics, and AI. Throughout his career, he has held senior leadership positions with leading organisations, spearheading large-scale transformation initiatives, building high-performing teams, and delivering sustained growth across complex, multi-market environments. He has successfully led enterprise customer engagements, strategic partnerships, and board-level stakeholder relationships, with deep experience in investor relations, commercial strategy, and business operating model transformation. As Founder and CEO of SpectraIQ, Ajay is responsible for the company's vision, growth strategy, and long-term ecosystem partnerships, positioning SpectraIQ as a category-defining AI platform and trusted strategic partner that helps organisations operationalise intelligence, unlock measurable business outcomes, and create enduring achievable  sustainable competitive advantage.

  • , Operator-founder focused on outcomes, not features
  • , Retail transformation, analytics, AI and customer experience leadership
  • , Operational excellence and high-performing team building
  • , Long-term partnership model with Australian dealer groups and OEMs
Prasanna S Pandiyan
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer

Prasanna is a distinguished technology executive and innovation leader with deep expertise in enterprise architecture, applied AI, product engineering, and large-scale platform design. With extensive experience delivering mission-critical technology solutions across complex and highly regulated industries, he has built and led high-performing engineering teams while architecting secure, scalable, and resilient platforms that support enterprise growth and digital transformation. Prasanna has successfully partnered with senior business leaders and stakeholders to translate emerging technologies into high commercially impactful outcomes, with a strong focus on engineering excellence, security, and operational reliability. As Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of SpectraIQ, he leads the company's AI and technology strategy, architecting an enterprise-grade, compliance-ready platform designed to address the operational complexity and evolving regulatory requirements of the Australian automotive industry. His core passion is to solve customer challenges, using technology.

  • , Enterprise architecture and applied AI systems leadership
  • , Scalable, reliable platform engineering for regulated industries
  • , Compliance-aware product and AI innovation
  • , Founder-engineer building category-defining technology
Hubert Edward
Vice President, Product

Hubert leads product strategy and customer experience at SpectraIQ. He works directly with dealer principals, general managers, BDC leads and OEM teams to ensure every module is shaped by how Australian dealerships actually operate, and translates that operator perspective into a clear, opinionated and outcome-focused product roadmap.

  • , Product strategy grounded in dealer operating reality
  • , Customer experience design across sales, service and parts
  • , Outcome-led product prioritisation
Abdul Fousan
Vice President, Engineering

Abdul leads engineering execution at SpectraIQ, with accountability for platform scalability, reliability, security and operational excellence. He focuses on building disciplined engineering practices that meet the expectations of enterprise customers operating mission-critical workflows.

  • , Engineering execution and delivery leadership
  • , Platform reliability, scalability and security
  • , Operational excellence at enterprise scale
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