Blue Vector's Senior Vice President and Managing Director Honored for Extraordinary...

Blue Vector's Senior Vice President and Managing Director Honored for Extraordinary Contribution in Entrepreneurship

Sridhar Ranganathan Honored by South Indian Educational Society
(SIES), Former President of India Kalam
PALO ALTO, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Blue Vector Systems today announced that Sridhar Ranganathan, the
company's senior vice president of engineering and client services and
managing director of Blue Vector India, has been honored for his
extraordinary contribution in entrepreneurship from the South Indian
Education Society (SIES).

Ranganathan received the award -- recognizing the contributions of
individuals in their various fields of endeavor -- in Mumbai during
the SIES College's 75th anniversary. Dr. Abdul Kalam, the former
president of India, presented the award to Ranganathan. Pioneered in
1932, the South Indian Education Society (SIES) is one of the oldest
and premier educational societies in Mumbai with over 18,000 of the
country's top students enrolled in a various SIES institutions,
including an elite high school along with an array of arts, sciences,
and commerce colleges.

"It's truly an honor to be presented with this award by the former
president of India during the celebration of 75 years of academic
excellence at one of the country's top centers of higher learning,"
said Ranganathan. "I've always believed that success takes more than
just hard work; it requires being able to build a world-class team.
India has an unbelievable wealth of talent, and as Blue Vector India
continues its strong market momentum, we're continuing to build our
employee ranks with India's best and brightest."

Ranganathan serves as the company's senior vice president of
engineering and client services and managing director of Blue Vector
India, where he launched the company's Bangalore India Center in May
2006. A former Yahoo! executive, he headed up Yahoo! Everywhere and
also served as chief operating officer for Yahoo! Software Development
Center in Bangalore. Ranganathan started his career as a software
engineer at Xerox Corporation, before joining Pure Software (later
becoming Rational Software and then IBM). He holds a degree in
Computer Science from Bombay University, an MS in Computer Science
from Villanova University, and an MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School
of Business.

"Blue Vector is very proud of Sridhar's accomplishment," said Mike
Gardner, Blue Vector president and CEO. "This award not only showcases
his talents and ability, but also the respect he's garnered from his
community."

About Blue Vector Systems

Blue Vector is the trusted choice of industry leaders who are
revolutionizing their operations by extending the reach of their
current business processes to the edge of their operations. An
offshoot of groundbreaking research into highly distributed military
sensor networks, Blue Vector's technology puts RFID, barcode,
temperature, GPS and motion sensors to work for leading businesses who
need to control remote inventory, improve their shipping accuracy,
monitor the movement of assets, or track the progress of individual
items throughout their supply chain. The company is headquartered in
Palo Alto, California. For more information, please visit
www.bluevector.com.

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