eGestalt Technologies appoints Mukund Surange as their new CEO

eGestalt Technologies appoints Mukund Surange as their new CEO Bangalore, 23rd March 2010: eGestalt Technologies, a world leader in Cloud based Information security and IT-GRC management solutions, which recently launched SecureGRCTM, the world’s first Cloud-based Integrated Information Security and IT-GRC solution for Enterprises, announced the appointment of Mr. Mukund Surange as the new Chief Executive Officer for eGestalt Technologies Pvt Ltd, India. Taking over from Mr. Chandra Sekhar Bilugu, the current CEO, who is moving into a larger role of Chairman with global focus, Mr. Mukund will be responsible for leading eGestalt, in India and the Asia-Pacific region. He will be responsible for technology consulting and products based delivery initiatives for the Indian and Asia Pacific market, while working with the executive management team of eGestalt Inc. to help drive product and business execution initiatives worldwide.

Mukund assumed the role on the 22nd March 2010 and will be located at the Indian Headquarters in Bangalore. Prior to eGestalt, Mukund was a General Manager at IBM. He had long stint with IBM for 17 years. Mukund brings with him 21+ years of strong business, management and technology background in the technology consulting and product development arena.

Mukund led the financial markets delivery practice for IBM India global delivery, as General Manager, where he was responsible for helping in formulating the service growth strategy, developing new capabilities and creating differentiators for the practice and managing operations. Mukund holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and a master‘s degree in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. He has a MBA (postgraduate diploma) from Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore.

“We are very excited to have Mukund onboard eGestalt. Given his excellent leadership skills and his strong background in IT Security and Enterprise Software, coupled with strong leadership and business management skills for building and growing organizations, Mukund is a great addition to the executive leadership team. As we expand our operations world-wide Mukund will spearhead our technology consulting and product delivery initiatives in the Asia-Pacific region. Given his strong leadership and execution skills, I am sure that we will achieve new heights under his leadership”, said Chandra Sekhar Bilugu, Chairman eGestalt Technologies.

“I am excited to be part of eGestalt. It is a very innovative and pioneering company with leading edge solutions delivered through cloud computing and other hybrid deployment models depending on the customer requirements. I look forward to working closely with the eGestalt management team and the consulting and product teams to help diversify, build and grow the company”, Mukund Surange, CEO of eGestalt Technologies Pvt. Ltd said.

About eGestalt eGestalt Technologies is a world-class leading products and technology solutions provider in the areas of IT-Security, GRC (Governance, Risk Management & Compliance), eGovernance, Digital Infrastructure and cloud based on-demand Services. eGestalt also has its presence in Santa Clara, California, US, Asia-Pacific and Middle East. eGestalt Technologies was founded in 2007 by former Intel™ solutions services team and global information technology leaders with fortune 100 companies’ experience. For more details click into: www.eGestalt.com or info@egestalt.com SecureGRCTM from eGestalt Technologies is a pioneering, completely integrated solution that supports end-to-end automation of Enterprise IT security and compliance management with a unified risk dashboard. It supports scalable and extensible compliance management frameworks that can be customized to the Enterprise needs with built-in support for a large number of regulatory frameworks across the world. The solution can be delivered via a cloud based SaaS offering or an on-premise based solution, to meet any deployment requirements. It is up to 10x lower in Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) than any other existing solution. For further information, please see http://www.egestalt.com/products/securegrctm.html For further information, please contact: Prajith Menon / Shwetha Nanaiah 09886333942 / 09663398976 prajith@actimediaindia.com / shwethabn@actimediaindia.com ActiMedia Pvt Ltd Media Moments