Satyam Computer Services Ltd., a global consulting and IT services provider recently announced the appointment of Mr. Sreenidhi ‘Nick’ Sharma as Senior Vice President for its Infrastructure Management Services (IMS). Nick will build the Company’s competencies in the Infrastructure Management Services around application of information and network technology. Nick will operate out of Boston, USA.

Mr. B. Rama Raju, Co-Founder and CEO, Satyam, welcomed Nick to the Satyam family and said: “We look forward to Nick’s guidance and direction in the Infrastructure Management Services. He has an exceptional track record in application of information and network technology to strategic business requirements for the enterprise IT infrastructure. And we are confident that he will support us in further leveraging our focus on Infrastructure Management.”

Speaking on his new assignment, Nick said, “I am delighted to be associated with a global Company like Satyam, and look forward to utilize my learning and experience to take Satyam Infrastructure Management Services to greater levels of growth. Globally, IMS is expected to be a $ 200 Bn market with offshoring infrastructure becoming $ 2.5 Bn in the next few years. There is tremendous opportunity for growth in the space, and we can look at carving a niche for ourselves through our unique and extensive bandwidth of service offerings.”

He will leverage his experience to build a world-class IMS practice that delivers Internetworking, Next Generation Networks, Application Infrastructure Services, Security Infrastructure Services, Identity and Access Management services as well as Distributed IT Strategy.

Nick joins Satyam from Unisys, USA, where he was the Vice President and Managing Partner for Infrastructure Transformation Services. At Unisys since 2002, he was responsible for leading a 500-member group. His accomplishments in the last three years include doubling the size of the business, and helping the organization to focus on solution-selling and integrating the ITS roadmap with the go-to-market strategy.

Prior to Unisys, Nick was Vice President and General Manager at Nortel Networks, in the United States, Canada and Latin America. At Nortel Networks, Nick provided leadership and strategic direction to the organization in providing end-to-end solutions to Service Providers, ASP’s, ISP’s, CLEC’s and enterprise customers in Optical and Local Internet, Next Generation Networks, Managed Services, OSS/BSS/Customer Care, Applications and Content Networking.

Nick also had a stint with Compaq, USA for 3 years and Digital, US for 17 years in various leadership capacities. His responsibilities included managing a US$ 250 mn organization with 650 consultants. He transformed the organization into an account-centric operating model, increasing the value of the business by greater than 25%. Nick also successfully managed to establish Compaq as the Microsoft Premier Services Partner in the Northeast, US. He built strong relationships with key Independent Software Vendors to drive the CRM, ERP and SCM segments. Nick has 20+ years of leadership experience. He earned a BS degree at Osmania University (Hyderabad, India) and MS from the University of Texas. He is a graduate of Executive Management programs at the Harvard Business School and the University of California, Berkeley.

About Satyam Computer Services Ltd.
Satyam Computer Services Ltd. (NYSE: “SAY”) is a leading global consulting and IT services company, offering a wide array of solutions customized for a range of key verticals and horizontals. From strategy consulting right through to implementing IT solutions for customers, Satyam straddles the entire IT space. It has excellent domain competencies in verticals such as Automotive, Banking & Financial Service, Insurance & Healthcare, Manufacturing, Telecom-Infrastructure-Media-Entertainment-Semiconductors (TIMES). As a diverse end-to-end IT solutions provider, Satyam offers a range of expertise aimed at helping customers re-engineer and re-invent their businesses to compete successfully in an ever-changing marketplace.

Satyam’s network spans 53 countries, across 6 continents. Over 23,000 dedicated and highly skilled IT professionals, work in development centers in India, the USA, the UK, the UAE, Canada, Hungary, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Japan and Australia and serve over 452 global companies, including over 155 Fortune 500 corporations.

We have strategic technology and marketing alliances with over 50 top-notch companies that help us provide end-to-end services to our customers. Satyam’s need-driven deployment of domain and technology expertise brings to customers a range of solutions and products that enhance performance and competitiveness.