Long viewed as a tactical tool for reducing operations costs, global sourcing has now become a strategic activity through which companies can flexibly adapt to business change.
R. Arun Kumar
Associate Vice President and Head of Worldwide Sales for Strategic Global Sourcing, Infosys TechnologiesR. Arun Kumar is the Head of Worldwide Sales for Strategic Global Sourcing (SGS) deals at Infosys Technologies Ltd. The SGS team generates and manages large outsourcing deals and opportunities greater than $50 mn TCV for Infosys and the Infosys group companies. Arun has over 13 years of experience in business-technology alignment, IT and BPO services, telecommunications, software product development, and consumer goods. He has worked in leadership roles in established transnational corporations as well as startups.Arun graduated from IIT-Bombay and has an MBA from IIM-Calcutta.
Stephen Lane
Senior Manager, Corporate Marketing, Infosys Technologies Ltd.For half of his 30-year IT industry career, Stephen Lane has been involved in outsourcing in various roles on both the vendor delivery and client sides of the table. Before joining Infosys in 2004, he was Research Vice President at a leading industry analyst firm and one of the first analysts to focus exclusively on the global services sector. In his current role, Stephen works with some of Infosys’ leading clients to research, identify, document, and share global sourcing best practices. He holds a master’s degree in International Studies, with a focus on East Asia, from Georgetown University.
