George Johny joins Kale as V-P (new business development)

Mumbai: George Johny has joined Kale Consultants as vice-president (new business development).

He will be responsible for identifying new areas of business opportunity in the outsourcing space outside the airlines vertical. He will spearhead development and growth of these new business verticals for Kale. Based out of Mumbai, Johny will be reporting directly to Kale Consultants managing director Vipul Jain.

Prior to joining Kale, Johny has been working with Apar Technologies, overseeing its global accounts' business and facilitating their Europe, Middle East and Africa, and Asia Pacific business development.

Says Jain: "We are proud to welcome George to the Kale fold. We are confident that our foray into other industry verticals in the outsourcing space will meet with great success under his able leadership."

An electronic engineer from Mumbai University, Johny started his illustrious career with Tata-Nelco and then moved on to Baan. Over a period of 10 years, he worked at Baan in various capacities including as a consultant, director of technology for Asia Pacific and general manager (business development) for Asia Pacific and the Middle East.

He has won several awards including Best Revenue & Contribution Award for business in Asia Pacific. He was instrumental in building Asia Pacific licensees and consulting business in enterprise resource planning, while he was working with Baan.

Kale Consultants is a leading IT solutions provider for the airline and banking industries. Leveraging three strategically located development centres in India, Kale is a global organisation with over 600 professionals, six international offices and customers in more than 20 countries across the world.

An end-to-end solutions provider, Kale offers business process outsourcing services, custom-made development, application management, and reengineering services. It also offers cutting-edge product solutions for the airlines, banking and healthcare industries.