LONDON, UK; 13 July 2010: Patni Computer Systems Ltd. (Patni) (BSE: 532517, NSE: PATNI, NYSE: PTI), a leading global IT and BPO services provider, announced today that it has appointed Avtar Sangha as its new Head of Delivery for the EMEA region. Avtar will be based in Patni’s EMEA headquarters at Heathrow and will be accountable for the delivery of services to all clients in the EMEA region.
Avtar Sangha joins Patni from Tech Mahindra, where he was previously Delivery Director. He has spent the last ten years delivering complex transformation programmes across the globe and managing large P&L budgets. Avtar also has extensive experience working with third party suppliers and managing large offshore teams in a matrix environment.
Derek Kemp, President, EMEA at Patni said: “We continue to strengthen our EMEA leadership team in line with our business strategy and to meet the needs of our customers in the region. We welcome Avtar to Patni; his skills and experience will provide significant support to our business growth moving forward.”
Avtar said: “I am delighted to be joining Patni and to take on this important role of heading up service delivery in the EMEA region. Consistent and high quality customer service delivery is vital to the success of our business and I am looking forward to meeting all of our customers, both new and old, to ensure that all engagements are firmly on track.”
About Patni:
Patni Computer Systems Limited (Patni) (BSE: 532517, NSE: PATNI, NYSE: PTI) is a global provider of IT Services and business solutions, servicing Global 2000 clients. Patni services its clients through its industry-focused practices, including banking, financial services (BFS) and insurance (I); manufacturing, retail and distribution (MRD); life sciences; communications, media and utilities (CMU), and its technology-focused practices.
With an employee strength of around 14,000; multiple global delivery centers spread across 14 cities worldwide; 28 international offices across the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific; Patni has registered revenues of US$ 656 million for the year 2009.
Patni’s service offerings include application development and maintenance, enterprise application solutions, business and technology consulting, product engineering services, infrastructure management services, customer interaction services & business process outsourcing, quality assurance and engineering services.
Committed to quality, Patni adds value to its clients’ businesses through well-established and structured methodologies, tools and techniques. Patni is an ISO 9001: 2008 certified and SEI-CMMI-Dev Level 5 (V 1.2) organization. In keeping with its focus on continuous process improvements, Patni adopts Six Sigma practices as an integral part of its quality and process frameworks.
Patni leverages its vast experience spanning three decades; deep domain expertise; full-spectrum services; and suites of IP-led solutions, methodologies and frameworks; in being an effective business transformation partner to its clients.
For more information on Patni, visit http://www.patni.com/.
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Safe Harbor:
Certain statements in this release concerning our future growth prospects are forward-looking statements, which involve a number of risks, and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding fluctuations in earnings, our ability to manage growth, intense competition in IT services including those factors which may affect our cost advantage, wage increases in India, our ability to attract and retain highly skilled professionals, time and cost overruns on fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on immigration, our ability to manage our international operations, reduced demand for technology in our key focus areas, disruptions in telecommunication networks, liability for damages on our service contracts, the success of the companies in which Patni has made strategic investments, withdrawal of governmental fiscal incentives, political instability, legal restrictions on raising capital or acquiring companies outside India, and unauthorised use of our intellectual property and general economic conditions affecting our industry. The company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statement that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of the Company.