FFIFA-Freight Forwarding Industry and Four Soft Alliance

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				FFIFA
Freight forwarding & Logistics industry over the years has been struggling with lack of unified and standard business processes and metrics resulting in very high operating costs and making them less competitive. The objective of FFIFA is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas where the resultant "Industry best practices" will save the industry time, energy and money in providing better services to its customers. FFIFA members will collaborate to help the evolution of unified and standard business practices across multiple tiers and geographies. Major benefits include access to all information, standards and metrics, better understanding of changing business dynamics and understanding of tangible and intangible benefits of IT in Logistics. This process will not only help in bringing down the operating expenditure but would also provide a platform for the largest logistics companies to work together towards the betterment of the logistics industry.
I am thrilled to be part of this Global initiative from Four soft. I have been observing the growth of four soft from the past few years and they have the acquaintance with the global logistics players which makes them ideal partner to hold this initiative. I am sure this will help the Logistics & Transportation industry to achieve next level of maturity in their business processes. - Kieran Ring, CEO, Global Institute of Logistics

		Join Four Soft
A s the world's premier developer of supply chain and logistics application software, we stay at the forefront of application of various technologies in enhancing the processes in this domain and also attract the best functional consultants or Subject Matter Experts from the industry, for continuous improvement of our products. Our employees represent some of the most brilliant and creative minds in high tech. Four Soft brings an innovative approach to Product development in the Supply chain Industry. Combining our Vision and commitment with our customer and product focused business model, we have made great and important advances in the Product development. Our Philosophy is to drive the growth of Four Soft through partnerships and Collaborations with the leaders who share our vision and commitment. Our culture reflects this ambition. Fore Soft prides itself in fostering an entrepreneurial environment where in everyone is encouraged to realize their full potential and create new possibilities to bring value and to achieve our goals. We continually seek high quality domain experts, software engineers, testing experts, Sales and Marketing people to join our Four Soft team. Investment in retaining and developing these people through quality training is a priority for Four Soft. We are a company that rewards achievement, celebrates diversity, and is always striving to grow and continuously raise the bar to achieve greater things. This is an exciting time at Four Soft. Our pace is fast and our team is energized. If this sounds like the place for you, and you share the same positive attitude-we welcome your interest and please email your resume to careers@four-soft.com

		Board of Directors

	Srikanth Palem, Chairman-CEO & Managing Director
Techno Entrepreneur has 15 years of experience in Supply chain & Logistics with companies like Emery World Wide and Hewlett Packard. Srikanth is an Industrial Engineering Graduate from REC, Trichy, India and a Post Graduate in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University, USA, and is based in India.
	Douglas Terence Ash, Independent Director
Deputy Chairman of Direct Wines Ltd and former President of Exel, Doug is a Graduate in Industrial Economics from Nottingham University and a Post Graduate in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School, and is based in UK
	K.V. Ramakrishna, Independent & Nominee Director
Ramakrishna joined Kotak Group in Nov 2004 and is one of the Partners of their Private Equity business. He has over 15 years of experience, with the last 13 years in Private Equity and Venture Capital. Prior to his current assignment, Ramakrishna was with Carlyle Asia Venture Partners (CAVP), a technology focused fund, part of the Carlyle Group. Prior to Carlyle, Ramakrishna was with ICICI Venture, the PE & VC arm of the ICICI Group, where he was a key member of the investment team. His investment experience spans sectors ranging from information technology, services and light engineering. Prior to his career in the Private Equity field, Ramakrishna worked for two years at the Management Services Division of Tata Motors (formerly, TELCO), the largest automobile company in India. Ramakrishna adopts a value based investment strategy of controlling risks and aiming for long term growth. He believes strongly in guiding the business and growth strategies of portfolio companies with active board participation. He believes strongly in guiding the business and growth strategies of portfolio companies with active board participation. Ramakrishna is a Computer Science & Engineering graduate from National Institute of Technology, Warangal and holds a post graduate degree in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.
	Sarath Naru, Independent Director
Sarath Naru is the Managing Director of APIDC - Venture Capital Limited and also heads Ventureast Funds.Sarath took over the Management of APIDC - Venture Capital Limited in 1995, in the first effective privatization of a financial institution in India. Prior to this, he worked for Procter & Gamble in the area of brand management in the USA and UK. He has also had manufacturing experience with VST Industries in Hyderabad. Sarath is an engineering graduate from IIT, Madras and an MBA (Finance) from University of Chicago.
	Vishnu Raju, Independent Director
K.V.Vishnu Raju is the Managing Director of Anjani Portland Cement Ltd and also the Chairman of Sri Vishnu Educational Society, which runs a host of several Educational Institutions. Currently his visionary guidance has enabled the team at Anjani to achieve a commendable turn-around performance. He started his career with Dupont, U.S.A. and later joined Raasi Cement Limited as Executive Director. His expertise in cement technology helped him bring about remarkable change at Raasi Cements, where he later became the Managing Director. Vishnu is a chemical engineering graduate from REC, Trichy, India and a post graduate from Michigan Technological University, USA.

		Corporate Chronology

	1999
Four Soft Limited (Four Soft) was established, initially as Four Soft Private Ltd., at Hyderabad in the State of Andhra Pradesh ( India) by Mr. Palem Srikanth, with an objective to build the enterprise software/IT solutions in supply chain process management using advanced web technologie
	2000
Four Soft's unit at Hitec City, Hyderabad is registered as 100% Export Oriented Unit under Software Technology Park scheme of the Govt. of India
	2001
Four Soft has set-up a wholly owned subsidiary Four Soft LLC, San Francisco (USA), to support implementation of products in the USA.
	2003
Four Soft was converted into a Public Limited Company with listings in NSE and BSE.
	2004
Achieved ISO 9001:2000 certification by BVQI Acquired Cargo Mate International, a Netherlands based, premier transportation and freight forwarding software solutions company.
	2005
Acquired Comex Frontier Pte Ltd, a Singapore based Software solutions provider and MY Comex Sdn Bhd, a Malaysian eCommerce solutions provider for Logistics. Acquired DCS Transportation and Logistics Solutions division, a UK headquartered Transport & Logistics Software solutions major, with operations in UK, The Netherlands, US, France & Germany.
	2006
Four Soft has set-up a wholly owned subsidiary Four Soft Singapore Pte Ltd to support implementation of products in the Singapore. Four Soft has set-up a wholly owned subsidiary Four Soft Japan KK to support implementation of products in the Japan. Acquired FWL Technologies, UK, a freight and Shipping Software Business through our wholly owned step Subsidiary Four Soft UK ltd Acquired Transaxiom Holding A/S, a Denmark based company head quarters in Denmark and regional offices in Australia, UK, USA and Hong Kong.
	2008
Four Soft presently has global footprint in more than 10 countries across the globe with 379 customer installations and more than 53,000 users. The Company currently employees more than 1,000 staff, including 300 plus foreign nationals.

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