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Sudin Apte

Sudin Apte

CEO & Research Director

Established Thought Leader in Offshore, Outsourcing and IT Services

 

Sudin is a veteran industry analyst and established thought leader. Over the past 15 years he has been advising global corporations to build their IT strategy and has also been Sudin Apte – Research Director & CEO at Offshore Insights, is a leading business and technology advisor. Sudin is a veteran industry analyst, and established thought leader. Over last 15 years he has been advising global corporations to build their IT strategy and helping them to extend IT’s value for their business benefits. He has founded his own research company Offshore Insights Research and Solutions, with its headquarters in Pune, India. This venture focuses on Business-Technology research and provides advice to top technology companies as well as Fortune 500 firms.
  

One of his focus areas also include Outsourced/Offshore Product Development (OPD) and he is working with some of the top high-tech, software and manufacturing companies who are long term offshore clients (via partners or own facility) as well as few of focused OPD service providers.

Sudin regularly speaks at various prestigious national and international level conferences. In last two years he spoke at national level conferences arranged by NASSCOM, CSI, Indo American Chamber of Commerce. In same period, he was interviewed and participated more than a twenty times in interviews and panels on CNBC, NDTV Profit, Times Now, and Bloomberg. His exclusive articles, interviews, and quotes appear on weekly basis in leading business press - Economic Times, Times of India, Business Standard, Business Today, Outlook, Hindu, Deccan Chronicle, Asian Age, and regularly in international publications like BusinessWeek, Economist, ComputingWorld, and Wall Street Journal. Sudin has also worked as visiting faculty at Judge Business School – Cambridge University and via Cambridge University’s Centre for India and Global Business, he recently conducted industry workshop in UK on Leveraging Global Innovation.

Prior to current engagement, Sudin started Forrester’s operation in India and led it for nearly ten years. He has also worked as VP of business operations at another leading research company Gartner. He is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering, Post graduation in Management Science and is a qualified Cost & Works Accountant. He has total 25 years of industry experience.
 
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