BANGALORE: Pawan Kumar, CEO, vMoksha Technologies, has been profiled in a cover story titled Innovators and Influencers in the December 22, 2003 issue of Information Week, a premier US-based Information Technology publication. The only Indian CEO featured among 11 names "most likely to leave a mark on 2004", Pawan Kumar shares centre-stage with the likes of John Thompson, Chairman and CEO, Symantec Corp., Patrick Gelsinger, CTO, Intel and Sue Unger, CIO, Daimler-Chrysler Technology.

The profile of Pawan Kumar headlined ‘Paying Attention to the Process’, highlights his focus on creating newer benchmarks of quality in the outsourcing business by developing an enhancement to SEI’s Capability Maturity Model (CMM) and Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMi). The new model, Business CMMi or bCMMi includes broader organizational issues such as risk assessment and contingency planning, extending the ambit of quality measurement beyond just the technical and management areas that surround software development. The proposed model that covers 57 processes will be presented to the SEI in the next year.

vMoksha Technologies Pvt. Ltd., an SEI CMMI Level 5 Offshore IT Outsourcing Services company is headquartered in Bangalore, the IT Capital and Silicon Valley of India. Currently a team of over 600 professionals, the company plans to grow to 1000 professionals by 2004.

vMoksha currently has operations in the US, Europe and Asia Pacific, with offices in San Jose, London, Singapore, Hong Kong and development centers in Bangalore, Pune (both in India) and Singapore.