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 Computer
Sciences Corporation (CSC), anno-unced the appointment of Sharad
Srivastava as the vice president—financial services group,
CSC India. He will be based in the corporate office in Noida.
“The appointment of Sharad is further proof
of our ongoing and growing commitment in India”, said Dr Arun
Maheshwari, managing director, president and CEO of CSC India. “His
unrivalled IT experience coupled with a quality team in country
will keep CSC at the forefront of fast-moving and growing finance
and insurance domain.”
Srivastava, an IIT graduate, has an overall experience
of 25 years as an IT professional with successful track record across
software exports, hardware and telecom business in general management,
sales and marketing and production and delivery operations.
During his 25 years in the industry, Sharad had
held important positions with some notable organisations like FI
Group PLC/ XANSA PLC as the managing director and president of Hero
Corporate Services.
“As the person at the helm of the Financial
Services Group at CSC India,, it will be my endeavour to keep the
team motivated and instill the CSC work culture. Another enormously
vital assignment for me is to sustain the current growth rate for
the FSG business in India,” said Sharad Srivastava. He added,
“With the imperatives of growth, it is essential to retain
the core values and culture of CSC India.”
Yahoo! Software Development India, a wholly owned
subsidiary of Yahoo!, a leading global Internet communications,
commerce and media company announced the appointment of Dr Srinivasan
Seshadri (Sesh) and Dr Prasad Ram as chief technology officers.
The newly appointed CTOs will be responsible for providing strategic
direction to the Research and Development work at Yahoo! Software
Development Centre in Bangalore.
Both Dr Sesh and Dr Ram are vastly experienced
individuals in the field of research. The development centre in
Bangalore will be focused on developing innovative technology solutions
and products in the areas of data mining, search, e-commerce, mail,
social networking and core technology platforms.
Dr Srinivasan Seshadri (Sesh) comes to Yahoo!
with several years of experience in R&D. He is also known for
his ability in bringing R&D to the market. He was the co-founder
of Strand Genomics, a life science informatics company. He Sesh
started his career as a member of faculty at the Computer Science
department of the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai and later
moved to Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, where he was the
CTO of the Network Management Unit.
Dr Prasad Ram was previously the CTO at Dynamx
Technology, where he was instrumental in developing dynamic Web
services composition technology. Prior to this he was general manager,
Xerox Rights Management, now ContentGuard, a joint venture between
Microsoft and Xerox.
Dr Ram has several patents and patents pending
in the field of distributed systems technologies during his tenure
as researcher at Xerox PARC and RAND Corporation.
 WatchGuard
Technolo-gies a leading provider of Internet security solutions,
announced the appointment of Ajit Pillai as the country manager
for India.
Pillai brings more than 13 years of IT sales
experience to his new role at WatchGuard, where he is responsible
for continuing to grow the company’s business in India and
developing new channels and partners.
Jeff Hurmuses, managing director Asia Pacific,
WatchGuard Technologies said, “With Ajit’s proven track
record of success in strengthening partnerships and developing new
channels and markets, I believe that WatchGuard is well positioned
to grow its business in India.”
A qualified computer engineer, Pillai comes to
WatchGuard from Trend Micro, where he was responsible for building
the company’s business in India and directing channel operations
and marketing.
Pillai has also held executive positions with
Ingram Micro India in Mumbai, Computer World BLL in Bahrain, and
Zenith Infotech and Godrej Pacific Technology in Mumbai.
Pillai said, “WatchGuard is a great brand
to be associated with. The company’s security solutions currently
enjoy success in South India.” He added that the company expects
to further focus on developing the Western and Northern India markets
to drive the kind of growth in India that WatchGuard has enjoyed
globally.
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