SPICity Phase II of Software Paradigms Infotech (SPI) will be inaugurated tomorrow at # 316 – 318(P), Hebbal Industrial Area, Mysore, at 4 pm. Minister for IT and BT S.R. Patil will be the chief guest. Swami Muktidanandaji, President, Ramakrishna Ashram, Mysore, will be the guest of honour. B.V. Naidu, Chairman and CEO, Sagitaur Ventures India Pvt. Ltd. will preside. Sid Mookerji, Global CEO & Co-founder of SPI, will be present.
Mysore :
SPI was founded in 1994 by Sid Mookerji in the United States with the company headquarters in Atlanta. Sid, a graduate of BITS Pilani and the Goizueta Business School, had worked extensively overseas. Sid saw an opportunity during his stint at a leading retail giant in the US that led him to start his own company. He grew up in Mysore and calls the city his home.
“I always knew that if I started my own company, I would do it right here in Mysore,” says Sid Mookerji, Global CEO & CoFounder, SPI. In 1997, SPI’s first offshore development centre was established at an incubation centre in Mysore with three employees and one client. Local leadership was provided by K.K. Mookerji, a retired scientist from CFTRI. Success came quickly and today the company has 1,500 knowledge workers globally with nearly a 1,000 of them based in city.
SPICity: The Mysore office boasts of a state-of-the-art Offshore Development Centre (ODC) called ‘SPICity’ that sits on a sprawling campus spanning 13 acres in Hebbal Industrial Area. A second ODC is situated in Kathmandu, Nepal. The Phase 2 of SPICity that is built to accommodate an additional 1,000 employees is being inaugurated on July 13 by S.R.Patil, Minister of Planning and Statistics, IT, BT and S&T.
Since its inception, the company has come a long way and now has offices in North America, South America, Australia, Singapore, Brazil, India and Nepal. Primarily an IT services and solutions provider for retailers around the globe, SPI also has a Financial Services division and recently forayed into Products, Platforms & Solutions building intellectual property in the Retail domain.
SPI has made its mark globally and has won various prestigious awards — ‘Highest Exporter Award (IT)- Mysore Region’ for four consecutive years by the Govt. of Karnataka; Atlanta Business Chronicle’s 2012 ‘Pacesetter Award’; named as one of ‘Georgia’s Fast 40’ companies by the Association for Corporate Growth, Atlanta.
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and community development programmes have been an integral part of SPI. Under the stewardship of Sophie Mookerji (Chairperson and Co-founder, SPI), SPI Foundation supports a wide range of socio-economic and educational causes. For example, SPI has adopted Kudremala Higher Primary School in Mysore and has been providing funds and volunteers’ time to the school. Funds are provided to sponsor education, upgrade the school’s infrastructure and support other rural schools.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / July 12th, 2013