Appointment of two new top officials in Human Resource and Business Development departments at Impetus

February 10, 2010 /India PRwire/ -- Impetus (www.impetus.com), the pioneers in outsourced product engineering services, today announced the appointment of two new top officials. The new faces at Impetus are Naveen Coomar as its new Vice President of Human Resources and Harish Nayak as the Chief Marketing Officer. Naveen will be based out of Impetus' development centre in Noida and Harish will be working out of Impetus' headquarter at San Jose, USA. Both of these new executives bring with them more than 20 years of significant international corporate exposure.

Naveen's responsibility includes over-all management of all HR functions. His role includes developing the Corporate and HR strategy for the company, and ensuring implementation of more employee friendly policies, practices, and processes etc. He will also oversee and enhance the thrust on recruitment efforts in campus and industry hiring. Harish will be responsible for evolving the Impetus' message, brand identity, outreach to the market place and perform the important role to increase the velocity of inbound interest and leads to the company.

Speaking on the occasion, Praveen Kankariya, CEO, Impetus Technologies said, "We are very excited to have these two dynamic and prolific personas in our team. I am sure their presence would further boost our team and enable us to meet and exceed growth targets. I wish them the very best for their new roles, and many happiness and success in the coming times."

An alumni of the University of Leeds and IIM-A, Naveen brings with him vast experience and a phenomenal understanding of the human resources function. A visiting faculty to some of the premier business schools, Naveen has worked on key assignments across the globe - including USA, Australia, UK, and Malaysia. He is also a certified international trainer for Leadership and Team Building. Interspersed with his academic interests were various levels of HR roles at SAIL, IEC Softwares, Group4 Securitas and AgreeYa Solutions. Before joining Impetus, Naveen was running SCAN Consulting Network as the CEO.

Harish secured his B.E degree from Manipal Institute of Technology, MS degree in Computer Engineering from Oregon State University and MBA from Wharton School/University Pennsylvania. With 20 years of engineering and marketing experience with Intel, Maranti Networks (co-founder), and Flextronics Software Systems/Aricent, he brings a great deal of awareness of not only the software product life cycle, but also how to efficiently promote products and services in the market place.

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About Impetus:

Headquartered in San Jose, Impetus Technologies provides outsourced software product design, R&D and related services to leading global software product companies. Impetus has been involved with hundreds of product launches over its decade-long association with its clients ranging from enterprise class companies to innovative technology start-ups.

Impetus works on cutting-edge technologies to develop a variety of next-generation products for a range of vertical domains. From enterprise applications that optimize supply chains and credit portfolios, to solutions for the emerging rich media and digital content verticals; and from products for wireless networks and mobile handsets to software for network forensics and communication monitoring, Impetus' emphasis on continuous innovation adds significant value to its clients' technology initiatives.

Impetus was founded in 1991 as a software product development company and Impetus Infotech India Pvt. Ltd. was incorporated in 2000.

Impetus has been recognized at various platforms, including being ranked in Red herring 100 Asia 2008, Deloitte Technology Fast 500 in 2008 and was among the NASSCOM Top 100 IT Innovators 2007. Impetus received the Best Software Exporter Award in 2007 and 2009 for the state of Madhya Pradesh and also The Economic Times, Acer, Intel "Smart Workplace Award 2008". Impetus has been also featured in Gartner's 'Cool Vendors in IT Services and Sourcing' report for 2009.

For more information, visits www.impetus.com or write to info@impetus.com.

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