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Ness Technologies President joins GlobalLogic
By siliconindia
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Tuesday, 05 August 2008, 16:56 IST
Vienna: Shashank Samant, former president with Ness Technologies, has joined GlobalLogic, 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 world-wide 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," 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 U.S., 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.
Samant said, "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."
