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Gemini Ernst and Young announced the appointment of Baru S Rao
as vice president of delivery and operations at its Mumbai Centre.
Rao brings with him 20 years of strong experience in the IT/offshore
industry, most recently as chief operating officer for Syntel Asia
Pacific, and prior to that with TCS. At Syntel, Baru was responsible
for leading a team of over 2,000 staff across multiple delivery
centres in India and across the world. At TCS, Baru worked in management
and on project roles in Europe, USA, Middle East, Asia, and India.
Commenting on the appointment, Salil Parekh, COO of Cap Gemini Ernst
& Young Asia Pacific said, “Our goal is to hire the best
and brightest professionals to provide quality services to our customers.
Baru Rao brings tremendous experience and value to Cap Gemini Ernst
& Young India and we are happy to have him on board.” Rao
has a Bachelor of Technology from Regional Engineering College,
Warangal and a Masters in Computer Science from IIT Kharagpur.
 Telelogic
has promoted Sidharth Malik to the position of managing director
of the company’s operation in India. In his new role, Malik
will report directly to Olle Eriksson, senior vice president operations
for Telelogic Southern Asia/Pacific. As managing director market
operation India, Malik will be responsible for driving Telelogic’s
aggressive growth strategy in the country, as well as enhancing
and reinforcing its reputation in the region. Malik, who has been
acting head of the Indian operation for the past six months, joined
Telelogic in April 2001, as country sales manager for India. With
his rich experience in the area of software engineering tools and
knowledge of customer needs in software development, his responsibility
was to set up the Indian sales and marketing organisation and achieve
the country’s sales and profitability targets. “Over the
past 18 months, Sidharth Malik has helped develop a world-class
sales and services organisation specifically designed to customer
needs in India,” said Scott Raskin, president of Telelogic
Americas and Asia/Pacific. Malik has close to ten years experience
in technology sales and marketing at various companies like Rational
Software, Tata Elxsi and Global Information Systems. Prior to joining
Telelogic, he was in charge of the northern region of India for
Rational where he helped set up the company’s sales office
in Delhi. Previously, Malik worked with Tata Elxsi as an associate
manager and was responsible for growing the business in the enterprise
segment, which included finance, banking, PSU and manufacturing
verticals. At Global Information Systems, he was responsible for
the product management function and was instrumental in launching
two successful products in the Indian market. Sidharth Malik has
a Masters in Business Administration (Marketing) and a BE in Computer
Science and Engineering.
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