Avaap: a Leading Global IT Services Provider

Dhiraj Shah founded Avaap in 2006 to address critical business gaps for organizations that rely on Infor Lawson software. In 2011 he made the decision to strategically focus on Infor software solutions.Under his leadership, Avaap has experienced significant growth and exceeded its goals every year since its inception. Today, Avaap is among the largest Infor Alliance Partners, testament to Dhiraj’s vision and genuine desire to improve customer business practices through strategic partnerships and exceptional software services.

Avaap has earned accolades including Infor Alliance Partner of the Year (2014 and 2015); Infor Services Partner of the Year (2013) and Infor Partner of the Year for Innovation (2012). Avaap has also been recognized for its fast growth, including the Best in Biz award; NJBIZ’s Fastest Growing Companies and five-year honoree on the INC. 500 list. Additionally, Avaap has earned recognition as a great place to work.

Brett Weiss is vice president of Strategic Markets, Healthcare East at Avaap, responsible for managing Avaap’s net-new software and services sales portfolio, alliance relationships in addition to developing new offerings and improving Avaap’s ability to compete and grow existing and new lines of business.

In this leadership position, Weiss supports Avaap in all interfaces with Infor to ensure strategic and operational alignment, helping to solidify the company’s stance as a preferred Infor Alliance and Services partner. Since joining the company in 2011, Weiss has built and led a national sales force which has produced an average of 80 percent year-over-year growth.

Greg Benton is Avaap’s Vice President of Strategic Markets, West, leading Avaap’s healthcare and retail practice for new business. Benton brings a 17-year career in enterprise software sales and deployment, specializing in Infor Lawson software, managed services and cloud hosting solutions for healthcare and retail organizations.

With in-depth knowledge about customers and the healthcare market, Benton is responsible for implementing sales initiatives and customer-led packaged solutions from Infor that align with Avaap’s business goals and customer demand.

Adam Goldstein is vice president of Products and Services at Avaap, responsible for product architecture, development, support and all Infor Lawson S3 delivery. With 14 years of professional ERP experience specific to Lawson, Goldstein brings expert-level knowledge of methodologies, processes, and tools to Infor Lawson ERP implementations.

Specialized as an Infor Lawson Solutions Architect, Goldstein possesses significant experience working on ERP implementations with roles ranging from technical lead to the detailed design and development of dashboards, reports, process automation, interfaces, conversions and extensions. He has deep understanding of Infor Lawson technologies and data structures and has worked on many projects that range variably in size and complexity.

Amar Kulkarni is vice president of Business Development at Avaap, bringing more than 16 years of Infor M3 sales and service expertise. Amar is experienced in sales and project delivery in a wide variety of business applications with a proven track record of solution selling and implementing multi-million dollar projects, and leading large consulting teams.

Amar joined Team Avaap following several high-ranking positions at global enterprise technology firms where he led successful ERP software implementations from sales process, solution design through execution. Amar’s comprehensive knowledge of vendors and trends in the ERP market coupled with real world application benefits clients, ensuring implementations are smooth, successful, and follow industry best practices. Amar plays an integral role in the growth and development of the Avaap brand while helping customers navigate the ever-changing ERP landscape.