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January - 2010 - issue > Movers and Shakers

Growing Ahead in the Game

Sikta Samantaray
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Sikta Samantaray
“While competitors are reducing their exposure to financial services, we continue to invest aggressively in chosen verticals, given the deluge of regulatory changes and the continual emergence of new financial products,” asserts Sandeep Sahai, President and Chief Operating Officer of Headstrong, who is recently named as the CEO of the company. His appointment is designed to cement and accelerate Headstrong’s emergence as Wall Street’s dominant IT consulting company, in the light of the transformation currently happening in the financial services industry in general.

As President and COO, Sahai directed steady organic growth that doubled Headstrong’s revenues. He was a Founder Partner of the IT consulting firm TechSpan that merged with Headstrong in 2003. Sahai has over 19 years of distributed consulting experience. Prior to Headstrong and TechSpan, he worked with the HCL group and later at Skansoft, another firm that he founded. He believes that a leader should be focused on seeking a win-win proposition in the business.

Sahai is a frequent speaker at industry conferences on offshore outsourcing as a strategic tool for IT managers. He is a keen golfer, plays squash regularly, and loves spending time with his family. He has an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta and an engineering degree from the Institute of Technology, Varanasi.
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