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Vision & Mission |
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VISION |
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To be the best global Information Technology partner to customers providing innovative and integrated enterprise solutions in transportation, logistics and supply chain process management ensuring customer satisfaction. |
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MISSION |
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- To establish strategic partnerships with our clients, in the areas of Product development and provide competitive IT solutions while fulfilling our employees aspirations.
- To create a business impact and become a competitive advantage for our clients, by virtue of our world-class and cost effective service delivery.
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Core Values |
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Four Soft has a core purpose - to build a world-class global company with a reputation for
Integrity and Excellence. These are our core values. |
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Integrity |
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As a company, we are making commitments every day - to our customers, our people, our partners, our suppliers, and our Investors. Integrity is being true in our communication to each and everyone and then meeting these commitments. The trust that this creates for Four Soft is, and will continue to be the foundation of our success. |
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Excellence |
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Excellence inspires! An environment of excellence inspires us to do our very best every time. The resulting recognition inspires us to do even better the next time. This positive cycle is what we actively work to create and enhance in Four Soft. Our aim is to inspire each of us at Four Soft to produce work that ultimately delights us and every one of our customers.
In order to enhance our culture, we are always looking to bring in people who will lead the company towards higher standards of integrity and excellence. People who share these values feel inspired to work in Four Soft and they in turn attract customers who place a high value on integrity and excellence. In fact the entire eco-system of customers, partners, suppliers, and investors that we gravitate towards is one that shares these values. It is our endeavor to set an outstanding example that will inspire those who interact with us and we are always looking for opportunities to work with people who will inspire us further. |
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Leadership Team |
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Our executive leadership team stays ahead of the curve, inspiring a shared vision and motivating everyone at Four Soft to drive to it.
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Rajshekar Roy, Chief Executive Officer |
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Raj has over 20 years of business management experience in the areas of software services, business process outsourcing and management consulting. He was the first President of OfficeTiger in India, was the CEO of a medium size software development firm in Chennai for 4 years and the Director of India Operations of an US based E-publishing firm for 2 years before his present assignment in Four Soft. He had earlier worked in Hewlett Packard where he migrated several HP processes to India and was selected as the best global manager for successful deployment of these processes. Raj holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University and is an MBA from IIM, Calcutta. He is a certified trainer in Organizational Development, Change management and Quality management.
Raj looks after the overall Global operations of Four Soft which includes all regional business operations in USA, Asia and Europe for sales and customer service. He is also responsible for corporate functions such as Marketing, Product Development, Quality and Technology. |
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Biju S.Nair, Chief Financial Officer |
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Biju is a chartered accountant and has over 16 years of experience in finance, accounts, audit, legal, human resources, mergers & acquisitions, takeovers, IPO and funding exercises. He is the founder manager of Four Soft Limited and contributed his valuable services, efforts and his complete expertise for the development of Four Soft from bottom to concrete level to one of the top five product development companies across the world in transportation, logistics and supply chain management industry. He has very good expertise and contacts with financial market, interactions with analysts, media, banking and financial institutions and has been involved in international restructuring and transfer pricing assignments.
Biju heads the Finance, Legal, Secretarial and Human resources globally for Four Soft Limited. |
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Umashankar.S, Vice President - Product Marketing |
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Umashankar has over 20 years of 'Experience Mix' in both supply chain domain and ERP product management. He has worked in global product management functions in IT-product companies for about 11 years - 7 years with Baan Company as Sr. Global Product Manager, 2.5 years with Oracle Corporation as Product Strategy Manager -Asiapac for SCM-Globalization and 1.5 years with iSoft Plc as General Manager - Product Management. His domain experience comes from his 9 years stint at Caterpillar India Ltd., in Supply Chain functions such as Purchasing, Vendor Development and Logistics. Umashankar holds Bachelor's degree in Engineering from REC, Trichy, MBA from XIM, Bhubaneswar, MS from BITS, Pilani and is an ICWA (Cost Accountant). He also holds CPIM certification from APICS, USA.
Uma heads Product Marketing and Pre-Sales functions in addition to Corporate Marketing. His team supports Sales Organizations and Partners/ Alliances to take Four Soft's enterprise products to market and create value for existing and new clients. |
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Mahaboob Hussain, Vice President (Technology and Process) |
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| Mahboob has over 17 years of work experience in the manufacturing and transportation domains on a wide range of technologies.
He has an Engineering degree from REC Nagpur (now VNIT) and an MBA from Webster University, U.S.A. He previously served prestigious companies like Mukand Limited (Mumbai), Parametric Technology Corporation (Pune) and Federal Express (U.S.A). He started his career as a mechanical and structural design engineer of material handling equipment, then moved to software development and has all round experience in product design and development, project management, pre-sales support and quality assurance.
Mahboob currently heads the Technical Support and Quality Process functions. He looks after the technology and process roadmap for the organization, is in charge of R&D, IT Operations, Database Administration, and is the Management Representative for Quality Systems (ISO 9000, CMMi and Lean Management). |
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Sashi Sekhar Paramanik, Vice President - Development |
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Sashi manages Design, Development and Implementation of core and custom products. He has 23 years of IT experience in software development and project management areas. Prior to current role, Sashi served as Project Manager for global database and middleware projects with Satyam-India and worked as Sybase DBA at Merrill Lynch and Pacific Exchange, USA. He developed, administered, migrated and integrated various commercial applications for the blue-chip National Aluminium company on Sybase and Unix client-server environment.
Starting his IT career with CMC (now a Tata group company), he has accumulated experience in handling complex and distributed applications of large Indian and global corporate in manufacturing, supply chain and financial service sectors. With a B.Tech graduation from IIT Chennai, he completed his post graduation in Management from IIM, Ahmedabad. He has proven ability of managing Futuristic Technology. He believes in team work, initiative, quality and process orientation. |
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Rakesh Kumar.M ,Vice President - Asia |
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Rakesh has over 15 years of work experience in corporate strategic planning, sales and program management of Baan and PeopleSoft ERPs. He has worked for Escorts Group, Tellabs Inc. and Polaris Software with 10 years experience in software industry and the rest in manufacturing & telecom. He also worked for 3 years in UK handling business development while he was at Polaris. He is an Electronics & Communications Engineering Graduate from College of Engineering, Osmania University Hyderabad and is a Post Graduate in Management from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
Rakesh holds the P&L responsibility for Asia region which includes Japan, Far East, India West Asia and Australia/New Zealand. |
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Dave Pickburn , Sr.Vice President - Europe |
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Dave has 21 years service with Four Soft, (formerly with DCS) having spent many years in iSeries development roles and subsequently as a technical specialist (concentrating on Performance and Communications), Project Manager and Account Manager. Dave has worked with Transport and Logistics systems since 1992.
Dave is now overall responsible for the businesses in Europe including UK, Denmark and the Netherlands. |
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Board of Directors |
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Srikanth Palem, Chairman & Managing Director |
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Srikanth is the Chairman & Managing Director of Four Soft. Through his leadership and vision, he has applied his supply chain execution experience to the innovative development of the prime products of 4S, which has become the first ever enterprise operating platforms for the logistics and supply chain management industries on the Internet. His career profile began as an executive in various supply chain execution operations such as: JV Partner & Emery Worldwide (Managing Director), India and Asia Pacific Logistics/Distribution operations at Hewlett Packard (Manager), Singapore. Srikanth is an Industrial Engineering Graduate from REC, Trichy, India and a Post Graduate in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University, USA. |
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Douglas Terence Ash, Independent Director |
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Douglas is the Deputy Chairman of Direct Wines Ltd and former President of Exel. Doug is a graduate in Industrial Economics from Nottingham University and a Post Graduate in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School and is based in UK. |
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K.V. Ramakrishna, Independent & Nominee Director |
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Ramakrishna joined Kotak Group in Nov 2004 and is one of the partners of their Private Equity business. He has over 15 years of experience, with the last 13 years in Private Equity and Venture Capital. Prior to his current assignment, Ramakrishna was with Carlyle Asia Venture Partners (CAVP), a technology focused fund, part of the Carlyle Group. Prior to Carlyle, Ramakrishna was with ICICI Venture, the PE & VC arm of the ICICI Group, where he was a key member of the investment team. His investment experience spans sectors ranging from information technology, services and light engineering. Prior to his career in the Private Equity field, Ramakrishna worked for two years at the Management Services Division of Tata Motors (formerly, TELCO), the largest automobile company in India.
Ramakrishna adopts a value based investment strategy of controlling risks and aiming for long term growth. He believes strongly in guiding the business and growth strategies of portfolio companies with active board participation.
Ramakrishna is a Computer Science & Engineering graduate from National Institute of Technology, Warangal and holds a post graduate degree in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. |
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Sarath Naru, Independent Director |
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| Sarath Naru is the Managing Director of APIDC - Venture Capital Limited and also heads Ventureast Funds.Sarath took over the Management of APIDC ?EVenture Capital Limited in 1995, in the first effective privatization of a financial institution in India. Prior to this, he worked for Procter & Gamble in the area of brand management in the USA and UK. He has also had manufacturing experience with VST Industries in Hyderabad. Sarath is an engineering graduate from IIT, Madras and an MBA (Finance) from University of Chicago. |
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Vishnu Raju, Independent Director |
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| K.V.Vishnu Raju is the Managing Director of Anjani Portland Cement Ltd and also the Chairman of Sri Vishnu Educational Society, which runs a host of several educational institutions. Currently his visionary guidance has enabled the team at Anjani to achieve a commendable turn-around performance. He started his career with Dupont, U.S.A. and later joined Raasi Cement Limited as Executive Director. His expertise in cement technology helped him bring about remarkable change at Raasi Cements, where he later became the Managing Director. Vishnu is a chemical engineering graduate from REC, Trichy, India and a post graduate from Michigan Technological University, USA. |
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Mangamma, Independent Director |
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Corporate Chronology |
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1999 |
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 Four Soft Limited (Four Soft) was established, initially as Four Soft Private Ltd., at Hyderabad in the State of Andhra Pradesh ( India) by Mr. Palem Srikanth, with an objective to build the enterprise software / IT solutions in supply chain process management using advanced web technologies. |
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2000 |
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| Four Soft's unit at Hitec City, Hyderabad is registered as 100% Export Oriented Unit under Software Technology Park scheme of the Govt. of India. |
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2001 |
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Four Soft has set-up a wholly owned subsidiary Four Soft LLC, San Francisco (USA), to support implementation of products in the USA. |
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2003 |
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Four Soft was converted into a Public Limited Company with listings on India's top Stock exchanges - NSE and BSE. |
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2004 |
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Achieved ISO 9001:2000 certification by BVQI.
Acquired Cargo Mate International, a Netherlands based premier transportation and freight forwarding software solutions company. |
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2005 |
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Acquired Comex Frontier Pte Ltd, a Singapore based software solutions provider and MY Comex Sdn Bhd, a Malaysian eCommerce solutions provider for logistics.
Acquired DCS Transportation and Logistics Solutions division, a UK headquartered transport & logistics software solutions major, with operations in UK, The Netherlands, US, France & Germany. |
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2006 |
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Sets up a wholly owned subsidiary Four Soft Japan KK to support implementation of products in Japan.
Acquired FWL Technologies, UK, a Freight and Shipping Software Business through wholly owned step subsidiary Four Soft UK Ltd.
Acquired Transaxiom Holding A/S, a Denmark based company head quartered in Denmark with regional offices in Australia, UK, USA and Hong Kong. |
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2007 |
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| Global Institute of logistics, New York appoints Mr.Palem Srikanth - Chairman, Managing Director & CEO, Four Soft on its advisory board. |
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2008 |
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Four Soft presently has global footprint in more than 10 countries across the globe with 379 customer installations and more than 53,000 users. The Company currently employees more than 800, including 300 plus foreign nationals. |
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