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== History ==
== History ==
Virtusa was co-founded in 1996 by Kris Canekeratne and served as the company’s chairman until his departure in 2021. He served as CEO from 1996-1997 and again from 2000-2021.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Novinson |first=Michael |date=2021-05-07 |title=Virtusa Founder, CEO Kris Canekeratne To Exit After 25-Year Run |url=https://www.crn.com/news/channel-programs/virtusa-founder-ceo-kris-canekeratne-to-exit-after-25-year-run |access-date=2023-11-11 |website=CRN |language=en}}</ref>
Virtusa was co-founded in 1996 by Kris Canekeratne and served as the company’s chairman until his departure in 2021. He served as CEO from 1996-1997 and again from 2000-2021.Canekeratne stepped down as CEO in May 2021, and his seat as chairman of the board was filled by Sander van‘t Noordende.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Novinson |first=Michael |date=2021-05-07 |title=Virtusa Founder, CEO Kris Canekeratne To Exit After 25-Year Run |url=https://www.crn.com/news/channel-programs/virtusa-founder-ceo-kris-canekeratne-to-exit-after-25-year-run |access-date=2023-11-11 |website=CRN |language=en}}</ref>


==Acquisitions==
==Acquisitions==

Revision as of 00:44, 11 November 2023

Virtusa Corporation
Company typePrivate[1]
IndustryInformation technology services
Founded1996; 28 years ago (1996)
FoundersKris Canekeratne
Tushara Canekeratne
John Gillis
Sandy Gillis
Headquarters
Southborough, Massachusetts
,
United States
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Santosh Thomas (CEO)
ServicesDigital engineering, IT consulting, business consulting, application development, product development, legacy asset management
RevenueIncrease US$ 1.8 Billion (2023)
Increase US$ 72 million (2023)
Total assetsIncrease US$ 1.337 billion (2020)[2]
Total equityIncrease US$ 397 million (2020)[2]
Number of employees
Increase 35,000 (2023)[2]
ParentBPEA[2]
Websitewww.virtusa.com
Footnotes / references
[2]
Virtusa at Orion City Sri Lanka

Virtusa Corporation is a Southborough, Massachusetts-based[3] global information technology services company that provides digital engineering and technology services and solutions for companies in the financial services, healthcare, communications, media, entertainment, travel, manufacturing, and technology industries worldwide. Virtusa's capabilities range across digital transformation, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, robotics, data analytics, and other technology consulting services to customers in 25+ countries in 50+ locations around the globe.

Virtusa is headquartered in Southborough, Massachusetts, United States with several delivery centers in India and Sri Lanka with the ones in Hyderabad, Chennai and Colombo being the largest. In February 2021, Baring Private Equity Asia acquired the company for US$2 billion.[4]

History

Virtusa was co-founded in 1996 by Kris Canekeratne and served as the company’s chairman until his departure in 2021. He served as CEO from 1996-1997 and again from 2000-2021.Canekeratne stepped down as CEO in May 2021, and his seat as chairman of the board was filled by Sander van‘t Noordende.[5]

Acquisitions

  • In November 2009, Virtusa acquired Insource for $7.3 million. Insource is a technology consulting company which specialized in the insurance and healthcare industries. InSource is based in Hartford, Connecticut.[6]
  • In 2010, Virtusa acquired ConVista Consulting, LLC,[7] a US-based, privately held market leader in finance transformation, specifically focusing on high volume collection, disbursement, claims and billing systems in BFSI.
  • In 2011, Virtusa acquired ALaS Consulting LLC,[7][8] a financial services consulting firm.
  • In November 2013, Virtusa acquired OSB Consulting LLC, a New Jersey-based consulting firm specializing in the financial services and insurance domains, including SAP finance capabilities.[citation needed]
  • In January 2014, Virtusa acquired TradeTech Consulting Scandinavia AB and its subsidiaries. TradeTech, headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, is a consulting and IT services provider specializing in treasury and asset management for major financial institutions in the Nordic countries.[9]
  • In April 2015, Virtusa acquired Apparatus, Inc.,[10] an IT infrastructure services provider headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, US.
  • In November 2015, Virtusa acquired a 53% stake in Polaris Consulting & Services Limited, India,[11] a provider of IT solutions primarily to banking and financial services. Virtusa paid $270 million for the firm, which saw more than 7,500 employees join its global undertakings.
  • On 12 March 2018, Virtusa Corporation acquired eTouch Systems Corp. and eTouch Systems Pvt. Ltd.[12]
  • In September 2023, Virtusa acquired the Walnut Creek-headquartered creative agency, Factor Creative for an undisclosed amount.[13]

Operations

On 29 March 2018, Virtusa had around 20,000 employees.[14]

With offices throughout US, Europe and Asia, and advanced development centers in the United States, Europe and Asia.[15]

Competition

Some of its key competitors in the offshore IT services industry include Infosys, Wipro, Cognizant, Tech Mahindra, Mphasis, HCL and Tata Consultancy Services.

Community support

The company has a community support program that focuses on education and uses its IT competencies for meeting the needs of the community.

  • A team from Virtusa designed and developed a school management system, AKURA,[16] to assist schools with an effective mechanism to manage daily activities. The school management system allows easy and centralised access to student information such as schedules, report cards, attendance, grades, and extracurricular activities, as well as teacher information. Through the system teachers and parents can collaboratively view students' progress. The system has been adopted by schools and universities across different countries, and has been downloaded more than 6,000 times.[17]
  • Virtusa facilitated setting up IT laboratories for 50 schools in the Uva province of Sri Lanka. The program was carried out in partnership with a local university in Sri Lanka.[18]
  • In 2010, the company leveraged its technology/QA expertise to support the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program.[19]
  • In the wake of the 2004 tsunami, its employees actively participated in the development of Sahana, an open-source disaster management system.

Offices

References

  1. ^ "Baring Private Equity Asia Completes Acquisition of Virtusa". 11 February 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Virtusa Corporation 2019 Form 10-K Annual Report". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
  3. ^ MCLOUGHLIN, KATE (2007-07-05). "The Greenwood Library of American War Reporting". Journal of American Studies. 41 (2): 473–474. doi:10.1017/s002187580700360x. ISSN 0021-8758.
  4. ^ "Baring Private Equity Asia Completes Acquisition of Virtusa" (Press release). Business Wire. February 11, 2021.
  5. ^ Novinson, Michael (2021-05-07). "Virtusa Founder, CEO Kris Canekeratne To Exit After 25-Year Run". CRN. Retrieved 2023-11-11.
  6. ^ "Acquisition For Virtusa". American City Business Journals. November 6, 2009.
  7. ^ a b "Virtusa Completes ConVista Buy". Mergers & Acquisitions. Retrieved 2018-05-14.
  8. ^ Brown, Rodney (Jul 5, 2011). "Virtusa buys ALaS Consulting for $28M". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2018-05-14.
  9. ^ "Virtusa expands Europe ops with TradeTech buyout". Business Standard. January 13, 2014.
  10. ^ "Virtusa Expands Infrastructure Management Services with the Acquisition of Apparatus" (Press release). Virtusa. April 1, 2015.
  11. ^ "IT giant Virtusa buys Polaris Consulting and Services". www.consultancy.uk. 6 November 2015. Retrieved 2018-05-14.
  12. ^ "Virtusa Expands Digital Engineering Capabilities with the Acquisition of eTouch". www.virtusa.com. March 12, 2018. Retrieved 2018-05-14.
  13. ^ "Virtusa Acquires Factor Creative". www.Virtusa.com. 2023-09-11. Retrieved 2023-09-12.
  14. ^ Mendonca, Jochelle. "Investor Sheet". The Economic Times. Integrated Corporate Relations (ICR). Retrieved 29 Mar 2018.
  15. ^ "Worldwide Locations". Virtusa.com. Retrieved 16 Apr 2015.
  16. ^ "Virtusa introduces software solution for school management". www.sundaytimes.lk. Retrieved 2018-05-14.
  17. ^ "Virtusa Wins 2012 Witsa Global". Archived from the original on 2013-10-20.
  18. ^ "Virtusa supports 50 rural schools – Press Releases on". The Sunday Times. 2010-07-29.
  19. ^ "Virtusa supports One Laptop per Child Program – Press Releases on". Csrwire.com.
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