Techna

From its Silicon Valley Headquarters, and leveraging its offshore software factory in Calcutta in India, Techna has served a large numbers of major clients worldwide for over a decade now, at the cutting edges of software engineering and systems integration technologies. Techna's founder and CEO, Dr. Alo Ghosh, previously served on the faculties of the Wharton School of Business and the University of California, and on the staff of McKinsey & Company's NYC heaqquarters. Techna's only outside shareholder, Dr. Purnendu Chatterjee was previously a partner a Stanford Research Institute and McKinsey & Company and now manages a multi-billion-dollar fund in NYC, affiliated with Soros Fund Management. Techna's President, Dr. Kaushik Bhaumik, served at McKinsey in Silicon Valley for eight years. Techna's major clients include Sempra Energy, Bank of America, Meryll Lynch, Computer Sciences, Stanford University, Galileo International, Gymboree, Charles Schwab, Applied Materials, Commerce One, Homestore.com, Citigroup, ABN AMRO, Credit Agricole, Groupe BULL, American Express, Hyundai, AERA Energy, SUN Microsystems, Informix, Hitachi, Nomura, Itochu, Knight Ridder, GE, GEC, IBM Global Services, Nestle, Ericsson, Bertelsmann, Siemens, Phillipines Office of the President, Coal India, General Electric, Boeing, Fujitsu, Abbot Labs, Cisco, PMI Mortgage, Sanwa Bank, Toyota, Canon, Portucel-Soporel, SCO-Center7 etc. Techna's principal technology and education partners include IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Siebel Systems, BEA Systems, Sun Microsystems, Intel, Lotus, Manugistics, Compaq, HP, Blue Martini Software, Rational Software, Sylvan Learning, and the Universities of London, Cambridge and Oxford. The Techna Group of companies includes Techna International Corp in the US (e-business, EAI, Collaborative Technologies), Techna Infrastructure in India (CRM, SCM, ERP), Techna Digital in India and Techna InfoTech in Ireland (Outsourcing). Techna's not-for-profit Techna Institute has been in operation for seven years, teaching now to over a hundred students annually, London, Cambridge, Oxford University degree and diploma programs in Computer & Information Systems and in Information Management, and professional certification programs for IBM, Sun, Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, Rational, BEA, etc. A new affiliate campus is being started in Bangkok, Thailand.