our team
Your energy savings team
OWNER & CEO
merrill mangalasseril
Sole Principal at Ananta, Merrill has been in the industry for nearly 17 years. He is considered our expert when it comes to procuring energy. Merrill’s core competencies at Ananta are negotiating aggregations and aggregation strategies. He has extensive experience in packaging bulk energy loads and a successful track record in procuring multiple accounts between multiple decision-makers between multiple utilities. Maintaining a 97% client retention over the last 8 years, Merrill accredits their success and growth to basic fundamentals of transparency. He founded the company with a low-margin, “open-book, approach,” and considers this philosophy the backbone of our success.
OPERATIONS ARCHITECT & CTO
drew pickering
With nearly 12 years of extensive Full Stack Web Developer experience, Drew Pickering initially came on board as a free-lancer in May, 2018. Since then, he's increased operational efficiencies by 70% developing automation processes using the latest technologies in web development.
Drew has earned the role of Operations Architect because he provides the ongoing support of operations, development of our internal CRM dubbed Anna, and management of our IT services infrastructure. For the other technologies and innovations we plan to deploy in the future, Drew is being groomed for the CTO role.
OPERATIONS
ABBY MAGTULIS
Abby Magitulis is what most entrepreneurs would call, "A blessing in disguise." Prior Ananta, Abby spent the last 5 years managing responsibilities from different employers simultaneously and as a result excelled in several areas of marketing, sales, research, and management. Challenging her with a one week operational support role, we wanted to see if Abby would be a good fit.
She's hands down the most punctual individual on our team, and handles every price request we have between new/old customers regardless of size. If good people are hard to find, then great people would be considered nearly impossible and with Abby, we feel like we found the impossible and are excited for the growth she brings to our organization.
Business Development Manager - TX
PAUL PATEL
Bringing 20+ years of experience and perspective from both the corporate and business world, Paul it the Business Development Manager for our entire Texas market. Paul has also been on the consumer side of the energy business, so his existing knowledge of TX deregulation puts him at an advantage when competing against other brokers or energy suppliers directly. Specializing in the hospitality industry, he’s found great success in hedging energy agreements between 5 and 10 years. Paul’s book of business should stir up the TX energy deregulation market while we open more consumers to our transparent “open book” approach.
BUSINESS DEVELOPER
Nila Patel
Coming soon!
