Satyam''s Nipuna appoints new CEO and COO

Hyderabad:
24 June 2004

Hyderabad: Satyam Computer Services has appointed Prakash Challa as the new CEO and Sandeep Madan as the new COO of Nipuna Services, the BPO subsidiary of Satyam Computer Services.

Challa was appointed as COO of Nipuna in October 2003. However, since then Nipuna has grown in size and has added a significant number of clients and services to its portfolio.

B Rama Raju, managing director, Satyam said, "As CEO, Prakash Challa will be responsible for building Nipuna into one of the top providers of end-to-end BPO services to various industry sectors globally," he said.

According to the company, Challa will focus on ensuring that Nipuna's customers are provided with the value added services that they need, which will help them realise their business objectives and improve their competitive positioning. He will be based in Atlanta, USA.

Before joining Nipuna, Challa was with Satyam as senior vice president in the global solutions group and prior to that, he held several senior management positions in the information technology industry. While with IMR Global / CGI in US (since 1993), he held a number of senior management positions and was responsible for business development and operations.

Challa began his career with Wipro Information Technology in 1985 and later joined Tata Consultancy Services and held a number leadership positions in quality, information systems and technology planning groups. He has a Ph.D in software engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.