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Company Overview |
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our Soft is the world's largest transportation and logistics software products company providing innovative and integrated enterprise solutions ensuring customer satisfaction. Founded in 1999, Four Soft software engineers are providing solutions to enterprises across the SCM market place. Four Soft is head quartered in Hyderabad, India and has 10 development centres across the globe to cater to large clientele. The company's headquarter is registered as 100% Export oriented unit under the Software Technology Park (STP) scheme of Govt of India. Four Soft is a Public Limited Company since April 2003 and has been registered in India's top Stock exchanges - NSE and BSE. With ISO 9001:2000 certification, SEI-CMMi quality initiatives and excellent development teams, Four Soft has been successfully empowering its customers with innovative end-to-end technology solutions.
The Four Soft portfolio of products comprises logistics software solutions for freight forwarders, NVOCCs, customs brokers, container freight stations, ships agents, warehouses, cartage, trucking and 3PL / 4PL companies. Four Soft currently has 300 customers with 50,000 plus users in across 120 countries.
Leveraging our world-class product delivery capabilities, technological talent, domain expertise and strategic partnerships with major vendors and growing client base, Four Soft has become a key player in the global IT SCM market.
Four Soft has consistently demonstrated its commitment to developing cost-effective, quality applications by adhering to strict time-lines. This has enabled Four Soft to work with some of the Fortune 200 / 500 / 1000 companies as their technology “Partner of Choice” on a continuous basis.
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Vision & Mission |
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VISION |
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To be the best global Information Technology partner to customers providing innovative and integrated enterprise solutions in transportation, logistics and supply chain process management ensuring customer satisfaction. |
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MISSION |
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- To establish strategic partnerships with our clients, in the areas of Product development and provide competitive IT solutions while fulfilling our employees aspirations.
- To create a business impact and become a competitive advantage for our clients, by virtue of our world-class and cost effective service delivery.
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Core Values |
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Four Soft has a core purpose - to build a world-class global company with a reputation for
Integrity and Excellence. These are our core values. |
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Integrity |
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As a company, we are making commitments every day - to our customers, our people, our partners, our suppliers, and our Investors. Integrity is being true in our communication to each and everyone and then meeting these commitments. The trust that this creates for Four Soft is, and will continue to be the foundation of our success. |
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Excellence |
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Excellence inspires! An environment of excellence inspires us to do our very best every time. The resulting recognition inspires us to do even better the next time. This positive cycle is what we actively work to create and enhance in Four Soft. Our aim is to inspire each of us at Four Soft to produce work that ultimately delights us and every one of our customers.
In order to enhance our culture, we are always looking to bring in people who will lead the company towards higher standards of integrity and excellence. People who share these values feel inspired to work in Four Soft and they in turn attract customers who place a high value on integrity and excellence. In fact the entire eco-system of customers, partners, suppliers, and investors that we gravitate towards is one that shares these values. It is our endeavor to set an outstanding example that will inspire those who interact with us and we are always looking for opportunities to work with people who will inspire us further. |
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Leadership Team |
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Our executive leadership team stays ahead of the curve, inspiring a shared vision and motivating everyone at Four Soft to drive to it.
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Rajshekar Roy, Chief Executive Officer |
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Raj has over 20 years of business management experience in the areas of software services, business process outsourcing and management consulting. He was the first President of OfficeTiger in India, was the CEO of a medium size software development firm in Chennai for 4 years and the Director of India Operations of an US based E-publishing firm for 2 years before his present assignment in Four Soft. He had earlier worked in Hewlett Packard where he migrated several HP processes to India and was selected as the best global manager for successful deployment of these processes. Raj holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University and is an MBA from IIM, Calcutta. He is a certified trainer in Organizational Development, Change management and Quality management.
Raj looks after the overall Global operations of Four Soft which includes all regional business operations in USA, Asia and Europe for sales and customer service. He is also responsible for corporate functions such as Marketing, Product Development, Quality and Technology. |
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Biju S.Nair, Chief Financial Officer |
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Biju is a chartered accountant and has over 16 years of experience in finance, accounts, audit, legal, human resources, mergers & acquisitions, takeovers, IPO and funding exercises. He is the founder manager of Four Soft Limited and contributed his valuable services, efforts and his complete expertise for the development of Four Soft from bottom to concrete level to one of the top five product development companies across the world in transportation, logistics and supply chain management industry. He has very good expertise and contacts with financial market, interactions with analysts, media, banking and financial institutions and has been involved in international restructuring and transfer pricing assignments.
Biju heads the Finance, Legal, Secretarial and Human resources globally for Four Soft Limited. |
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Umashankar.S, Vice President - Product Marketing |
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Umashankar has over 20 years of 'Experience Mix' in both supply chain domain and ERP product management. He has worked in global product management functions in IT-product companies for about 11 years - 7 years with Baan Company as Sr. Global Product Manager, 2.5 years with Oracle Corporation as Product Strategy Manager -Asiapac for SCM-Globalization and 1.5 years with iSoft Plc as General Manager - Product Management. His domain experience comes from his 9 years stint at Caterpillar India Ltd., in Supply Chain functions such as Purchasing, Vendor Development and Logistics. Umashankar holds Bachelor's degree in Engineering from REC, Trichy, MBA from XIM, Bhubaneswar, MS from BITS, Pilani and is an ICWA (Cost Accountant). He also holds CPIM certification from APICS, USA.
Uma heads Product Marketing and Pre-Sales functions in addition to Corporate Marketing. His team supports Sales Organizations and Partners/ Alliances to take Four Soft's enterprise products to market and create value for existing and new clients. |
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Mahaboob Hussain, Vice President (Technology and Process) |
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Mahboob has over 17 years of work experience in the manufacturing and transportation domains on a wide range of technologies.
He has an Engineering degree from REC Nagpur (now VNIT) and an MBA from Webster University, U.S.A. He previously served prestigious companies like Mukand Limited (Mumbai), Parametric Technology Corporation (Pune) and Federal Express (U.S.A). He started his career as a mechanical and structural design engineer of material handling equipment, then moved to software development and has all round experience in product design and development, project management, pre-sales support and quality assurance.
Mahboob currently heads the Technical Support and Quality Process functions. He looks after the technology and process roadmap for the organization, is in charge of R&D, IT Operations, Database Administration, and is the Management Representative for Quality Systems (ISO 9000, CMMi and Lean Management).
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Sashi Sekhar Paramanik, Vice President - Development |
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Sashi manages Design, Development and Implementation of core and custom products. He has 23 years of IT experience in software development and project management areas. Prior to current role, Sashi served as Project Manager for global database and middleware projects with Satyam-India and worked as Sybase DBA at Merrill Lynch and Pacific Exchange, USA. He developed, administered, migrated and integrated various commercial applications for the blue-chip National Aluminium company on Sybase and Unix client-server environment.
Starting his IT career with CMC (now a Tata group company), he has accumulated experience in handling complex and distributed applications of large Indian and global corporate in manufacturing, supply chain and financial service sectors. With a B.Tech graduation from IIT Chennai, he completed his post graduation in Management from IIM, Ahmedabad. He has proven ability of managing Futuristic Technology. He believes in team work, initiative, quality and process orientation. |
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Rakesh Kumar.M ,Vice President - Asia |
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Rakesh has over 15 years of work experience in corporate strategic planning, sales and program management of Baan and PeopleSoft ERPs. He has worked for Escorts Group, Tellabs Inc. and Polaris Software with 10 years experience in software industry and the rest in manufacturing & telecom. He also worked for 3 years in UK handling business development while he was at Polaris. He is an Electronics & Communications Engineering Graduate from College of Engineering, Osmania University Hyderabad and is a Post Graduate in Management from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
Rakesh holds the P&L responsibility for Asia region which includes Japan, Far East, India West Asia and Australia/New Zealand. |
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Dave Pickburn , Sr.Vice President - Europe |
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Dave has 21 years service with Four Soft, (formerly with DCS) having spent many years in iSeries development roles and subsequently as a technical specialist (concentrating on Performance and Communications), Project Manager and Account Manager. Dave has worked with Transport and Logistics systems since 1992.
Dave is now overall responsible for the businesses in Europe including UK, Denmark and the Netherlands. |
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Board of Directors |
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Srikanth Palem, Chairman |
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 Srikanth is the Chairman of Four Soft Limited. Through his leadership and vision, he has applied his supply chain execution experience to the innovative development of the prime products of 4S, which has become the first ever enterprise operating platforms for the logistics and supply chain management industries on the Internet. His career profile began as an executive in various supply chain execution operations such as: JV Partner & Emery Worldwide (Managing Director), India and Asia Pacific Logistics/Distribution operations at Hewlett Packard (Manager), Singapore. Srikanth is an Industrial Engineering Graduate from REC, Trichy, India and a Post Graduate in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University, USA.
Srikanth Reddy is also actively involved in several public service and charitable activities in his individual capacity and is also a Trustee of Justice P.C.Reddi Trust.
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K.V. Ramakrishna, Independent & Nominee Director |
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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.
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.
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Dr.T.R.Sivaramakrishnan, Independent Director |
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Dr.T.R.Sivaramakrishnan has got nearly 23 years of rich cross cultural experience in Strategic Planning, Project Management, Business Development and Sourcing & Procurement, Sub-contracting, Finance and Project Management in Oil / Gas / Power / Energy /SCM/ IT Sectors. He is a keen strategist with expertise in managing entire business operations with key focus on top line & bottom line profitability by ensuring optimal utilization of resources.
Prior to joining Four Soft Limited as a Director, he was working with Get Power Ltd as President - Development responsible for the P&L and business development activities of the company.
Shiva is an engineering graduate from IIT - Madras and done his MBA from IGNOU, Delhi. Shiva has obtained the PhD. in Business Administration from Redding University USA. He is also an Associate of ICWA.
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Mohan Krishna Reddy , Independent Director |
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Mohan Krishna Reddy (Mohan), is the founder CEO of Banyan Advisory , a Boutique Advisory services firm focusing on Mid-Market, fast growing enterprises. Prior to founding Banyan Advisory, Mohan was the CFO of Applabs, the leading independent Software Testing services company and prior to that, the CFO of Infotech Enterprises, a leading Engineering Design services and Geospatial services Company. In his role as a CFO, Mohan has worked closely with the CEOs and Boards to enhance corporate governance, Strategize and achieve profitable growth through Organic and inorganic means.
Prior to this, he was the Senior VicePresident of JM Morgan Stanley, a leading Investment bank in India. He has also held various positions with ANZ Grindlays Bank, Unit Trust of India and Indian Bank. Mohan is part of IMAP, International network of M&A Partners,a global partnership of leading M&A advisory firms with offices in more than 30 countries.
Mohan has a Masters Degree in Financial Management from the University of Bombay and a First Class Degree in Economics from the University of Madras.
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Joergen Winther Nielsen , Non Executive Director |
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Joergen Winther Nielsen graduated from Arhus Business School in 1982 and then he joined one of the leading forwarding companies and was eventually promoted to VP of the Scandinavian airfreight division. In 1986, Joergen became Director and later co-owner of Plus Data Group and was paramount in developing the company into one of the leading providers of ERP solutions to the global forwarding Industry.
After Swissair acquired Plus Data Group in 1997, he moved to Switzerland to take a position as EVP of Atraxis Cargo Solution.With 200+ people in 8 countries, he drove products, development and technology for all logistics segments.
In 2001, he orchestrated a management buy out of Atraxis Cargo Solution (re-named to Transaxiom) and as majority shareholder and chairman, he developed Transaxiom into a visionary, customer- and product oriented company with offices in Europe, USA, UK, Hong Kong and Australia.
Transaxiom was acquired by Four Soft in 2007.
From 2008 till date Joergen took the interim role as MD for Four Soft Nordic, and developed Nordic to become the most profitable subsidiary in Four Soft Group with two digit growth figures.He is also a board member of a number of companies in the software,music- and construction industries as well as investment and real- estate businesses.
Joergen is 47 years old, based in Copenhagen/Denmark and have 2 sons aged 12 and 14.He is a passionate skier, leisure diver and hunter and runs a marathon now and then.
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Srinivas Prasad, Independent Director |
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| He is a Business man and a former Director of M/s.Venkat Ram Paper Products Pvt Ltd. Presently he is into Real Estate Investemts. |
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Mangamma, Director |
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| Mrs.P.Mangamma is one of the first directors of the company. Besides being the Director of the company, she is also on Board of Thathi Consultants Pvt Ltd and Paired Media & Entertainment Pvt Ltd. she completed MA in History in early 1950s. She continues to be a pillar of strength to the company. |
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Corporate Chronology |
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1999 |
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 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 technologies. |
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2000 |
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| 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. |
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2001 |
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Four Soft has set-up a wholly owned subsidiary Four Soft LLC, San Francisco (USA), to support implementation of products in the USA. |
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2003 |
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Four Soft was converted into a Public Limited Company with listings on India's top Stock exchanges - NSE and BSE. |
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2004 |
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Achieved ISO 9001:2000 certification by BVQI.
Acquired Cargo Mate International, a Netherlands based premier transportation and freight forwarding software solutions company.
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2005 |
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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.
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2006 |
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Sets up a wholly owned subsidiary Four Soft Japan KK to support implementation of products in Japan.
Acquired FWL Technologies, UK, a Freight and Shipping Software Business through wholly owned step subsidiary Four Soft UK Ltd.
Acquired Transaxiom Holding A/S, a Denmark based company head quartered in Denmark with regional offices in Australia, UK, USA and Hong Kong.
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2007 |
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| Global Institute of logistics, New York appoints Mr.Palem Srikanth - Chairman, Managing Director & CEO, Four Soft on its advisory board. |
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2008 |
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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 800, including 300 plus foreign nationals. |
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