Exhibit 99.2
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Patni/SE/BM/2011
| Patni Computer Systems Ltd. Ackruti, MIDC Cross Road No: 21 Andheri (E) Mumbai- 400 093. India
TEL:+9122 66930500 FAX:+9122 66930211 www.patni.com |
February 9, 2011
National Stock Exchange of India Limited
Exchange Plaza
Bandra Kurla Complex
Bandra (E)
Mumbai - 400 051
Dear Sirs,
Subject: Outcome of the Board Meeting
This is to inform you that pursuant to Share Purchase Agreements and Securities Purchase Agreement dated 10th January 2011, Mr. Gajendra Kumar Patni (Non-Executive Director) and Mr. William O Grabe (Non-Executive Director) have resigned as the Directors of the Company with immediate effect.
Further that Mr. Phaneesh Murthy and Mr. Shashank Singh have been inducted as Additional Directors of the Company with immediate effect. Brief profile of Mr. Phaneesh Murthy and Mr. Shashank Singh are enclosed herewith.
We request you to take the same on your records.
Thanking you,
For Patni Computer Systems Limited
/s/ Arun Kanakal
Arun Kanakal
Company Secretary
Phaneesh Murthy
Phaneesh Murthy, age 47, is the President and Chief Executive Officer of iGATE Corporation. He was the Chief Executive Officer of iGATE Global Solutions Limited from August 2003 and has served in this position through December 2009. Mr. Murthy also serves as a member of the board of directors of Global Edge Software Ltd. and Cybernet Systems, Inc. In January 2003, Mr. Murthy was a founder and principal of Quintant Services Limited, an India-based business process outsourcing company that was acquired by iGATE Global Solutions Limited and the Company in August 2003. Prior to that, from July 2002 to August 2003, he founded Primentor, a U.S.-based consulting firm. From 1992 to 2002, Mr. Murthy held various positions at Infosys. He has considerable expertise in developing and managing the growth of organizations. He has significant industry experience, spanning more than a decade, in structuring and managing large outsourcing deals with Fortune 500 companies. His contribution has been significant in improving the operating metrics of iGATE, including introduction of a new management team, corporate consolidation and changes leading to the application of IP-driven business models. He has also brought about changes in the intrinsic quality of the Company’s engagements, including, among others, higher offshore revenue contribution, increase in resource utilization, and improvements in billing rates. Mr. Murthy has played a key role in building a world class facility at the Company’s new Whitefield, Bangalore campus.
Mr. Murthy holds a master’s degree in business administration from the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, India and received the equivalent of a bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Chennai, India.
Shashank Singh
Shashank Singh is a Partner and Co-Head of the India office of Apax Partners, having helped to start the office in 2007. Shashank joined Apax in London in 2004, as part of the Technology & Telecoms team, and has focused on investments in the telecoms and IT services / BPO spaces. His deals at Apax include iGate / Patni (leading offshore IT/BPO service provider) TIM Hellas (#3 mobile operator in Greece), Weather Investments (portfolio of developed and developing market mobile operators), TDC (incumbent telecoms operator in Denmark), Bezeq (incumbent telecoms operator in Israel) and Synetrix (public authority-focused network integrator in the UK).
Prior to joining Apax Partners, Shashank spent four years as a strategy consultant with Monitor Company in their London, Madrid, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Munich, Mumbai and Tel Aviv offices. His focus at Monitor was on leading client engagements in the telecommunications and high technology sectors.
Shashank has an MBA from Harvard Business School, from which he graduated as a Baker Scholar, a first class degree in economics from Cambridge University and a BA (Honours) with distinction from St. Stephen’s College (University of Delhi).
Prior to this, Shashank went to school in Austria, Pakistan and India. Shashank has lived in twelve different countries and is fluent in English, Hindi and German.