Sonata strengthens its Sales and Marketing and expands its Geographic Presence

Sonata strengthens its Sales and Marketing and expands its Geographic Presence
November 14, 2003, Bangalore

Sonata strengthens its Sales and Marketing team and expands its overseas presence by way of opening 3 more offices and recruiting marketing specialists to the team. This is an important facet of Sonata's overall growth strategy.

New Offices
Sonata opens 3 new offices, with this increasing the total number of overseas offices from 4 to 7, 5 in the US, 1 in UK and 1 in Singapore.

• Sonata opens an office in Seattle WA and another one in Singapore.
• Boston office will be operational in December '03.

With this the total number of locations outside India, where we have local presence will be seven of which five will be in the US.

Sonata also strengthens its marketing team by including

• Tom Calloway has joined the Fremont CA office. Tom has over 10 years of sales experience. Tom has worked with Rational software, Cast software & Macrovision.
• Jeff Valentine has joined the Fremont CA office & has over 9 years of experience. Jeff has worked with Empirix, Quest& MPI technologies.
• Aaron Clarke has joined the UK office & will be focusing on the financial services segment. Aaron was the senior Vice President at Thomson financial & he has also worked with Standard Chartered Bank London

Speaking on the occasion Mr. B. Ramaswamy, CEO of Sonata Software says "Last few months have been very exciting -the number of customer visits & customer wins, & it promises to be even more going forward. With the customer base we have today & the pipeline that is getting increasingly strong, we are well on our way to meet the ambitious targets we have set for ourselves".