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V-Soft Consulting Group, Inc.

V-Soft Consulting Group, Inc.
About us
V-Soft Consulting Group (V-Soft) is an industry–leading IT staffing and business solutions firm. Founded in 1997, V-Soft is a certified minority-owned corporation based in Louisville, Kentucky with regional locations throughout the U.S. Early on V-Soft quickly became known as a hardworking provider of technically gifted and highly-driven IT consultants. Today, the company is a rapidly expanding $36 million firm with a growing staff of hundreds of skilled and experienced IT consultants who support, build and execute a wide range of technology staffing and business solutions.
As a company, we have focused our business on software implementations, custom application development and IT staffing and recruiting. We have developed a unique level of service that few vendors can match.
V-Soft is a certified Oracle and Microsoft Gold partner. We are hardware business partners with IBM andCisco Systems. In addition to Oracle and Microsoft, our other software partners are SAP, VMWare and Informatica.
This commitment to service brilliance has yielded notable industry recognition, such as these accolades from the:
  • Business First's 2013 Company of the Year Award (Eagle Award), Medium Sized Company
  • Featured in INC. 5000 list for seven (7) consecutive years
  • Business First's Fast 50 Growing Companies in Louisville for eight (8) years
  • Louisville's Largest Corporate Philanthropist 2013
  • Staffing Industry Analyst Award
  • Finalists for Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Leader of the Year
  • Finalist for Louisville's Business Leader of the Year
  • Greater Louisville Inc., Metro Chamber of Commerce , Inc.credible Award
Vikash Varma
Founder and CEO: Purna Veer
1997
OFFICES:
Louisville, Kentucky;Atlanta, Georgia; Madison, Wisconsin; Hyderabad, India
KEY PERSON:
Purna Veer, Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Prior to founding V-Soft, Purna served in both technical and leadership roles at Continental Airlines, AIM Management, and other Fortune 500 organizations. His broad technical expertise includes Oracle applications, iPhone development, Drupal, and Ruby on Rails. He is also a .NET, SharePoint, VMware, and Hadoop expert.
UnderPurna's leader ship, V-Soft has exhibited continual growth over the past 16 years and been awarded the Business First Fast Fifty Award for eight years and the Greater Louisville 2006 Inc.credible award among others. Purna was a finalist of the 2009 Business First's Small Business Leader of the Year award.
Purna holds a Bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Shivaji University in Kolhapur, India and a Master's degree in environmental engineering from Texas A&M University. He sits on the board of several non-profit and for-profit organizations.
CLIENTELE:
GE Appliances, Papa John's International, Fidelity Investments, Thompson Reuters
INVESTORS:
None
COMPETITORS:
IT Staffing Companies
WEBSITE:
www.vsoftconsulting.com
PRODUCT OFFERINGS
V-Soft Consulting Group Inc. offers IT Staffing and Consulting services, Custom Application Development, Web Development, and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO).

What Next?

During 2014, V-Soft looks to expand its offerings through strategic partnerships with companies such as Workday, ServiceNow, and Salesforce.com. These partnerships will allow us to better serve our clients that are in need of cloud-based ITSM, CRM, and ERP solutions.

V-Soft will continue to expand by identifying and pursuing strategic acquisitions in orderto expand our geographic reach. These strategic targets include companies that have niche skill offerings andspecific geographic concentration with a diverse client base which can be leveraged against our core offerings.

Our financial growth goals for next year will be an increase of 25% for family of companies.
DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS:
24/7 Hour Sourcing

Unlike other companies who say they source 24/7 because they accept online applications, V-Soft has recruiters reach out 24/7 in real time to constantly connect with top IT talent. Our U.S. Lead Recruiters have a team of overseas recruiters working under the Lead's direction to source candidates. This reach back ability to our overseas offices allows us to really source 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

Unique Staffing Approach

V-Soft's unique Supply Chain Model approach to staffing has successfully filled contracts for many clients, including Papa John's International, Passport Health Plan, Trover Solutions, and General Electric. V-Soft is continually building our pool of candidates by leveraging our supply chain recruiting capabilities. With more than 350 employees and over 330 consultants worldwide, we have the depth and understanding to provide the right resources, at the right time. Our proactive partnership approach allows us to anticipate a client's position requests. Currently we have over 600,000 applicants in our database and are maintaining active engagement with more than 14,000. We have been providing our clients professional staffing support when they need it for over 16 years. We are constantly recruiting for IT professionals to increase the depth of skills levels for all IT systems.