Satyam’s Senior Vice President joins Scicom Infotech as President of its U.S. Operations and Head of Global Sales and Marketing

Scicom Infotech has announced the appointment of Mr. Neeraj Nityanand as President of the company’s US operations and Global Head of Sales and Marketing. Mr. Nityanand will be primarily responsible for the creation of a new generation of outsourcing business models for products and services in the technology and R&D space.

“Neeraj is going to be an important addition to the leadership team at Scicom”, Dr. Indranil Chakravarty, Founder and CEO of Scicom, stated to the announcement of Mr. Nityanand’s appointment. “He is well versed in the industry with broad strategic and business development experience and his addition comes at a time when the company is positioned to assume a leadership role in its core area of operations,” Dr. Chakravarty added.

Mr. Nityanand’s experience spans over 20 years in engineering and executive level management positions in multiple energy and high technology companies in R&D, production, finance, sales and marketing and international business development. Mr. Nityanand joins Scicom from Satyam Computer Services where he was Senior Vice President and Head of Global Marketing and Corporate Communications.

Prior to joining Satyam, Mr. Nityanand was President and Managing Director of Unocal Bharat Ltd., the Indian subsidiary of Unocal Corporation, a global integrated oil & gas company, overseeing all exploration and production (E&P) and gas marketing activities in India.

Mr. Nityanand received his B.Tech from IIT Kanpur, MS in Metallurgical Engineering and Material Science and an MBA, both from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA.

Mr. Nityanand commented, “I am delighted to join Scicom. The company and its management have an outstanding reputation in the marketplace and I look forward to being an integral part of the Scicom executive management team. Our vision is to become the market leader for providing mission-critical services in selected vertical sectors in order to assist our customers in reducing the cost of product ownership, product implementation, customization and turn key-solutions.”

Scicom is a leading provider for on-site and off-shore product development services and technology consulting for the scientific and engineering sector. The primary goal of the company is to service its customers through a brand and band of services that combine computing and the underlying science for domain specific product and application services. The company’s clients range from Fortune 500 companies to several smaller, innovative and state-of-the-art product R & D centers and span major industrial sectors including Oil & Gas exploration, medical diagnostic imaging, semiconductor testing, consumer imaging and, other allied scientific and technical domains.