iTKO Appoints Satendar Bhatia to Vice President, Strategic Alliances
August 21, 2006 - iTKO, Inc., a provider of complete testing solutions for SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) software, today announced it has appointed Satendar Bhatia as Vice President, Strategic Alliances. In his new role Mr. Bhatia will be responsible for managing and growing the company's global strategic alliances initiative. iTKO's philosophy is to build partnerships based on bilateral trust at both the business and technical levels. Mr. Bhatia will strengthen all of iTKO's alliances including those with the company's distribution, solutions providers and technology partners.
"Mr. Bhatia's breadth of expertise and skill set is exactly what we need to make our strategic alliances even more successful," said Jim Mackay, chief marketing officer, iTKO. "The landscape of players and variety of technologies in SOA make navigating and building partnerships key to the success of any business. Our partners are an integral component to our strategy and vision. We truly believe that Mr. Bhatia can take our strategy alliances to the next level."
Prior to iTKO Mr. Bhatia spent the past 11 years in multiple roles spanning across consulting, customer support and services, business development and alliances. He was the vice president of strategic alliances at ICS, a leading systems integrator (SI), where he built partnerships with SAP, i2, Oracle, Accenture and others. Before ICS, Mr. Bhatia spent 10 years at i2 where he managed 150 support consultants in the company's Americas and APAC Customer Support division as well as handled the program management for i2 at 3M and TI. He also built i2's support operations in Indian and South Asia. Mr. Bhatia spent his last year at i2 managing alliances with Microsoft & TCS and building go-to-market relationships with Infosys, Patni, Satyam and Wipro.
"iTKO is in a hot market and has, in my opinion, the best quality assurance and testing product on the market today," said Satendar Bhatia. "By bringing together my experience in strategic alliances with a solid company who understands the value of partnerships, as iTKO does, success is imminent. I look forward to expanding our current relationships and bringing new partners into the fold so we can provide even better offerings and services to our customers."
About iTKO
iTKO Inc., delivers solutions that increase software quality while reducing business risk. The Dallas-based company's software ensures that every layer of business software, including Web sites, web services, databases, middleware and Java applications continually perform and meet requirements. iTKO's LISA 3 Complete SOA Testing Platform automates functional, regression and load test creation and execution, requiring no coding to deeply test Web sites and back-end systems. In addition, iTKO's easy-to-use tools can be leveraged by the business team, development team and quality assurance team, enabling the entire organization to "own" quality. Founded as an enterprise software development group in 1999, the privately held company serves a variety of clients that need to ensure software quality at high transaction volume, including Sun Microsystems, EMC, AMD, Capgemini and TIBCO Software.
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