CA India names new country manager

MUMBAI, INDIA: CA, a provider in IT services, announced on Wednesday the appointment of Amit Chatterjee, as vice president, Area Sales and country manager, CA India effective May 4, 2009.

Chatterjee would report to CA Asia Pacific and Japan Corporate SVP and general manager Gavin Selkirk and would serve on the company’s regional leadership team to help formulate and execute regional strategy, said a press release.

Chatterjee previously was head of Alliances for HP Software across Asia Pacific and Japan after serving as HP Software’s India country leader for more than seven years. Earlier in his career, he spent two years with Microland and 11 years with HCL Infosystems.

He holds a BE (Mechanical) degree from NIT (then VRCE) Nagpur and an MDP from XLRI, Jamshedpur.

“India holds tremendous potential for CA in terms of market expansion and partnership opportunities, and as a source of research and development, so I am delighted that we have been able to recruit an industry veteran of Amit’s caliber to be India Country Manager,” said Selkirk.

He added that this is their third major appointment in India in just over two months, and this places CA India in an excellent position to pursue our R&D, sales and business development objectives.

Chatterjee would succeed Ninad Karpe, who left CA earlier this year after 11 years with the company to take up a leadership position in a global training organization, the release added.