VIENNA, VA, Aug 04 (MARKET WIRE) --
Shashank Samant, former president with Ness Technologies, has joined
GlobalLogic, Inc., the leader in global product development services, as
president. Samant will be based in GlobalLogic's Silicon Valley office
and will oversee the company's worldwide business development, business
management, marketing and sales.
Samant joins GlobalLogic from Ness Technologies, an international IT
services provider, where he served as president of North America for the
past four years. Prior to joining Ness, Samant established offshore
development centers for CITI, Hewlett-Packard and IBM. An important part
of his mandate at GlobalLogic will be to grow its Global Delivery Center
business, in which GlobalLogic helps technology clients rapidly establish
offshore, client-owned, GlobalLogic-managed software engineering centers.
"Each Global Delivery Center is custom-built for a specific client to
provide development and support of its core product offering. Add to that
the need to deliver quality, innovation, scale and demonstrable return on
investment and you have an extremely complex undertaking," said Peter
Harrison, chief executive officer of GlobalLogic. "Even established
companies can find themselves at a disadvantage when it comes to hiring
and managing the best talent in a region where they have limited history
or experience. This is one reason there is a fast-growing demand for our
services. Shashank's proven experience building software labs in Europe
and Asia for Fortune 1000 companies will be an invaluable asset as we
expand this portion of our business to keep up with demand."
In contrast to many firms that focus on IT service, GlobalLogic is a
specialist in software R&D services. It employs thousands of highly
skilled software engineers in the US, India, China and Eastern Europe to
help both emerging and established companies deliver quality software
products to market faster than they could on their own. GlobalLogic
services include market analysis, product conceptualization, realization,
quality assurance, migration, porting, maintenance, support and service.
Shashank Samant, president of GlobalLogic, commented: "I believe the
future of outsourced product development belongs to firms that are
specialists. Designing, developing and supporting products for the market
is a very different discipline than developing software for a company to
use internally. I joined GlobalLogic because of its software engineering
leadership in product verticals such as mobile and consumer, as well as
its understanding of how to deliver products specific to a client's growth
stage -- from Version 1.0 through to established companies. As the leading
specialist, GlobalLogic is positioned to both deliver innovation to our
clients and lead this market forward."
Sanjay Singh, executive vice president of business management and
organization development at GlobalLogic, said: "What impresses me most
about Shashank is his passion for innovation. There are very few people in
our industry who have such a unique combination of proven experience
building software product labs and clarity of vision for where this market
is headed. Shashank's addition to GlobalLogic is a major milestone for the
company as we take a leading role in delivering software R&D service
innovation to the market."
About GlobalLogic
The leading specialist in providing global software product development
services, GlobalLogic, Inc. partners with emerging and established
technology companies to help them bring great software products to market
in less time and at less cost. GlobalLogic has developed a unique
joint-venture model of partnering with technology companies to create a
dedicated global delivery center. The software R&D engineers located in
our centers in the U.S., India, China and Ukraine serve as virtual
extensions of our clients' local development teams. In other cases where
the client does not have any internal engineering staff, GlobalLogic
provides a "fabless" partnership from the start, with GlobalLogic taking
ownership of the product engineering, platform and architecture. This
allows companies to focus on the other aspects of a successful product
launch such as strategy, marketing, customer acquisition, go-to-market
challenges and the demands of ever-changing markets. By leveraging our
global facilities, world-class engineers and state-of-the-art tools and
processes, companies can increase the quality of their software products
while dramatically reducing timelines and operating costs -- often by 30
percent or more.
GlobalLogic has ongoing partnerships with more than 150 technology
companies in product vertical markets that include Consumer, Mobile,
Telecom, Healthcare, Enterprise and Embedded. It has completed more than
300 major products in the last 12 months with a better than 95 percent
on-time delivery record. Over the last seven years, GlobalLogic has helped
its clients release over 1,000 software products. Its clients include
innovative technology companies such as Autodesk, Broadsoft, Electronic
Arts, Intalio, Motorola, NextPoint, Vertica and Yahoo. GlobalLogic, an
Inc. 500 company, has been ranked as one of the 10 best places to work in
India by IDC, a Top 3 Technology Employer in Ukraine by Hewitt Associates,
and was recognized by InfoWorld for distributed Agile software product
development excellence. GlobalLogic is headquartered in Vienna, Virginia
and has European headquarters in London, U.K. The company has global
delivery centers throughout the U.S., India, Ukraine and China and employs
thousands of professionals worldwide.
Media Contact:
Liz Haas
Atomic PR for GlobalLogic
415.402.0230
liz (at) atomicpr.com
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