India division for contactless smart cards

BANGALORE: HID Corporation, a manufacturer of contactless access control cards and readers for the security industry, announced the setting up of HID India Private Limited to cater to the access control market in India. Harish Vellat has been named managing director, India, of the new establishment.

To support the growing market demand for access control products in India, the new office will be established in Bangalore to improve HID's ability to provide localized service, customer and technical support. This office will also facilitate India's operational support, including product fulfillment, warehousing, and specialized smart card services for increased card security.

"During the last two years, Vellat has done an exceptional job increasing our sales network and expanding HID's market share in India," said Lester Doig, HID's Asia Pacific managing director. "We are extremely fortunate to have him as a member of the Asia Pacific team that brings access control solutions to this rapidly growing marketplace."

Reporting to Doig, Vellat will manage HID India establishing India-based sales and operations and is also responsible for identifying and developing business expansion and growth initiatives into new markets and service offerings.

Vellat was previously HID's regional sales manager in India. Prior to

HID, Vellat worked for NIIT India as area head, business development, and

regional sales manager in the southern India region. With over ten years

of experience in strategic sales and marketing in the Asia Pacific region,

Vellat spent the last five years in IT solutions. He also has extensive operations and managing experience.

Additional appointments to HID India include John Kurien as operations manager; Pradeep Upadhyaya as finance manager, Ranjit Nambiar as national sales manager, Shrirang Satwe as regional sales manager for India West, Sandhya Gopintath as customer service manager, and Shradha Bhonsle as technical support engineer.