Cooper Machinery Services (Cooper), a portfolio company of Arcline Investment Management, announced today the appointment of Jordan Smith to the position of Vice President of Sustainability and Emerging Technologies, reporting to John Sargent, Chief Executive Officer. This new position will further Cooper’s efforts to develop products and services enabling customers to reduce their carbon footprint, minimizing environmental and safety risks while enhancing operational efficiency. Smith will be charged with driving the company’s sustainability and new product development goals as they pertain to engine and compressor emissions reduction technologies, including exhaust emissions (NOx, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons), methane fuel slip, hydrogen as a fuel, blowdown, and future emerging technologies.
“I am delighted to welcome Jordan to the Cooper team. Sustainability, including emission reductions, is increasingly core to our performance strategy to continue expanding our leadership position in our industry. We have strategically invested in technologies to reduce our global emissions footprint and that of our customer’s equipment. Jordan’s impressive experience and expertise will help us elevate our sustainability program and allow us to maximize the benefits for Cooper, our customers, and the planet,” said John Sargent, Cooper’s CEO.
Smith is a 20-year veteran of the gas compression industry who started his career as a student working at Colorado State University’s Engines & Energy Conversion Laboratory, a renowned industry research organization dedicated to the creation of innovative energy solutions in the areas of emissions testing and monitoring, fuel technology, durability testing and modeling. After graduating from Colorado State with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, Smith joined Cameron International Corporation where he specialized in the design of retrofit emissions reduction technologies for large-bore engines for power generation and gas compression. Since his time at Cameron, Smith has held a variety of management roles in engineering and sales in the natural gas industry and received a certification as a Professional Engineer in the state of Colorado.
New York Cancer & Blood Specialists (NYCBS), one of the Nation’s leading oncology practices, is excited to announce the promotion of Stephanie Curtin, MBA, Regional Director, to Vice President of Operations.
Curtin will be in charge of NYCBS’s day-to-day operations in her new role. With her unrelenting passion for excellence and top-tier performance, Curtin is looking forward to working with her team to maximize efficiency, standardize workflows and increase access to services to improve patient outcomes.
“Stephanie leads with heart,” said Jeff Vacirca, MD, CEO of NYCBS.”She is committed to delivering unmatched experiences to our patients, creating an environment of trust among employees, and will undoubtedly excel in her new role.”
Curtin has been with NYCBS for two years overseeing multiple NYCBS locations in Suffolk and Nassau counties. Her responsibilities included standardizing policies, improving quality metrics, and managing overall operations. She is passionate about reducing healthcare costs while advancing the quality of care provided to the healthcare community. She is currently working toward obtaining a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE) designation.
“I am excited to bring a new level of insight and perspective to the executive team,” said Curtin.
Stack Modular Structures is pleased to announce that Mr. Jon Higgins has joined the company as Vice President, Construction.
Jon’s prior experience was with Bird Construction, where he joined in 2009 as a Project Coordinator, gaining further experience with Bird in the roles of Estimator, Project Manager and Construction Manager. Jon’s extensive understanding of offsite construction processes and onsite installation are invaluable to modular project execution.
“We are extremely pleased that Jon has joined Stack Modular’s management team. Overseeing the onsite construction division solves a multitude of concerns the marketplace has realized,” says Jim Dunn, President. “Under Jon’s leadership, Stack’s onsite team will be the ‘go-to’ group, setting the stage for onsite-to-modular cohesion.”
“The modular industry is still in its infancy in North America, and there is plenty of opportunity for it to mature,” states Dunn. “With Stack offering a group solely dedicated to onsite modular installations, a turnkey Stack Modular building can be budgeted, designed, delivered, manufactured and installed all within the Company’s infrastructure.”
Jon has already commenced working with the Stack/Bird team executing the Infrastructure Ontario (IO) corrections projects located in Thunder Bay and Kenora, Ontario. Projects of this caliber and scope requires onsite modular expertise to work with the client directly to ensure a comprehensive structure is adhered to, and a budget is closely monitored.
“I’m excited to bring my knowledge of modular and conventional construction to Stack,” says Higgins. “We have worked collaboratively for the last 5 years, and this move brings my expertise to Stack to allow us to provide comprehensive constructions solutions to our clients. I look forward to continued collaboration with Stack in order to bring affordable modular building technologies to the forefront of the construction industry.”
In addition to the current corrections project, Jon has overseen more than $100M in modular construction, including key projects as the award winning Aqsarniit Hotel & Conference Centre in Iqaluit, Nunavut, and a portion of one of the largest modular workforce housing projects in North America for LNG Canada.
Mumbai — FourKites, provider of the world’s leading real-time supply chain visibility platform, today announced plans to expand its operations in India, including the appointment of two new executive leaders to its APAC leadership board. The company has appointed two growth leaders — Ms. Rashi Jain as Managing Director and Mr. Sriram Nagaswamy as Vice President, Engineering — to accelerate FourKites’ strategic global expansion and drive cutting-edge innovation from the company’s Engineering headquarters in Chennai.
FourKites pioneered real-time supply chain visibility in 2014 and has since built the world’s largest platform to track shipments across every mode of transportation, including road, rail, ocean, air, parcel and courier. Since that time, the company has expanded beyond transportation visibility, and is now the most comprehensive end-to-end supply chain visibility platform on the market, providing total transparency — down to the SKU level — into yards, warehouses, retail stores and beyond. Powered by data from 2 million daily shipments, FourKites uses machine learning to accurately predict exact times of arrival and helps leading brands lower their operating costs, improve on-time performance and create better customer relationships.
After revolutionizing the American and the European market with its real-time visibility solutions, FourKites is now poised for its next phase of rapid global expansion. Over the next six months, the company plans to add over 100 engineers in India across various skill sets, including front end, OCR, back end, NLP, AI and DevOps. Already, FourKites has over 250 people in India across Engineering, Product and Operations.
Mr. Sriram Nagaswamy, Vice President, Engineering, FourKites
Commenting on the appointment of these growth leaders and growth in India, FourKites said, “India remains the core of our overall business growth as we build toward the future and continue to develop industry-first solutions in the supply chain visibility space. From our inception, our technology powerhouse in Chennai, equipped with the region’s top technology professionals, has been instrumental in the success of our mission across over 175 countries worldwide. As we scale to become truly a global company, we are expanding our leadership team with individuals who have the deep industry insights and technical expertise essential for supporting our business through this hyper growth phase. Congratulations to Rashi and Sriram, who have exhibited exceptional leadership and innovative thinking throughout their career to date.”
Rashi Jain comes with over 15 years of industry experience in global supply chain management, logistics and procurement across the manufacturing and automotive verticals. Rashi is an alumna of BITS Pilani and worked in diverse roles in the US and Asia Pacific after her MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, USA. As the Managing Director at Fourkites India, Rashi will lead strategic capabilities for India operation and execute strategic imperatives that are integral to achieving FourKites’ vision of connecting global supply chains.
Sriram Nagaswamy started his Engineering career in Chennai over 20 years ago, and he has deep experience in all facets of the industry, from signal processing, video compression and computer vision, to machine learning and SaaS delivery. As vice president of Engineering at FourKites, Sriram is currently responsible for product delivery, data science and empowering his team with growth opportunities and platforms to showcase their innovative work to global audiences. In his previous role at Samsung Research Institute, Sriram worked with multiple engineering teams across the globe to deliver some of the most-used computer vision/machine learning-based features in the Samsung Galaxy flagship mobile phones.
Earlier this year, FourKites announced a new $100M Series D financing round led by Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P. (“THL”), with participation from Qualcomm Ventures, LLC, Volvo Group Venture Capital AB and Zebra Technologies, bringing total capital raised to over $200 million. Recent supply chain disruptions precipitated by the pandemic have underscored the need to connect the physical and digital worlds of warehouse, stores and transportation with real-time data and machine learning. FourKites, together with its strategic investors, highly engaged base of over 600 of the world’s leading brands, and the largest Engineering team in the industry, is uniquely positioned to provide the insights and industry-first innovations that keep our world of goods moving.
About FourKites
FourKites® is the leading global supply chain visibility platform, extending visibility beyond transportation into yards, warehouses, stores and beyond. Tracking more than 2 million shipments daily across road, rail, ocean, air, parcel and courier, and reaching 176 countries, FourKites combines real-time data and powerful machine learning to help companies digitize their end-to-end supply chains. More than 620 of the world’s most recognized brands — including 9 of the top-10 CPG and 18 of the top-20 food and beverage companies — trust FourKites to transform their business and create more agile, efficient and sustainable supply chains.
India: Zoomcar, the largest car sharing marketplace covering emerging markets today announced the launch of their operations in Indonesia and Vietnam. Zoomcar, which dominates the self-drive car rental market in India, has expanded to other Southeast Asia markets following their recent entry into Philippines and Egypt and appointed country heads in Indonesia and Vietnam to help scale their business.
As the Vice President & Country Head, Leo Wibisono Arifin will lead Zoomcar’s operations in Indonesia. Prior to joining Zoomcar, Leo worked for Indonesia’s largest tech company GOJEK as the Head of Strategy. Leo has a proven track record in growing a multimillion dollar cross-product P&L outside Jakarta, leading and building a high performing team which consists of >100 multidisciplinary professionals and leading company-wide major business turnaround, profitability improvement and growth initiatives. Leo joins Zoomcar to expand its mission in revolutionizing mobility sector in Indonesia, the largest SEA country that is also known as Digital Archipelago.
Kiet Pham – Vice President & Country Head in Vietnam
Kiet Pham joins Zoomcar as the Vice President and Country Head for the company’s expansion into Vietnam. Kiet previously has held senior management positions in companies like GOJEK, OYO and Nielsen. Kiet strongly believes in innovation as a vehicle for sustainability and is committed to making positive impacts to communities and organizations that he is a part of, through innovation.
Leo and Kiet come with over a decade’s experience and their expertise in start-up management will prove vital in establishing Zoomcar as the first-to-market car-sharing platform in Indonesia and Vietnam.
Commenting on Zoomcar’s international expansion and appointment of new country heads Greg Moran, CEO & Co-Founder Zoomcar said, “At Zoomcar, we have always been focused on personal mobility and with our recent entry into Philippines and Egypt we are happy to announce our foray into other Southeast Asia markets. Indonesia and Vietnam have low levels of vehicle ownership but large, upwardly mobile populations creating a perfect opportunity for us to leverage. We are thrilled to welcome Leo and Kiet as our new country heads and look forward to benefiting from their experience of scaling up aggressively and building synergistic partnerships contributing to our growth in Indonesia and Vietnam.
About Zoomcar
Zoomcar launched India’s first personal mobility platform in 2013, and today is the market leader in the car sharing ecosystem with over 7,000 cars on its platform with a presence across 5 countries. Zoomcar allows users to rent cars by the hour, day, week, or month. Headquartered in Bangalore, Zoomcar employs over 300 people and operates in 50+ cities across India. In 2020, Zoomcar launched Zoomcar Mobility Services, the Company’s enterprise SaaS based mobility solutions offering covering white-labelled subscription services and IoT based driver behavior monitoring solutions. Zoomcar is the largest car sharing marketplace covering emerging markets
New Delhi: Smt. Anuja Kapur, Delhi State Spokesperson for BJP organized a social event at Lal Bagh Basti, Near Azadpur Metro Station, Delhi on the occasion of Prime Minister Shri.Narendra Modi Ji’s 71st birthday. The event was further carried on by distributing food and essentials to the vulnerable and needy children as a special gesture.
Addressing at the event Smt. Anuja Kapur said” We as a nation express our gratitude towards Prime Minister Shri.Narendra Modi Ji on his 71st birthday who has selflessly worked in the progress of our motherland. His vision and ideals for a modern India include taking the nation forward as one.” She further exclaimed how she has been inspired by the talented political leader and his doings for us.
The event was graced by Guest of Honour: Shri Ashok Goyal, Vice President, Delhi State BJP, and Shri Rajan Tiwari, Vice President, Delhi State BJP.
Mountain View, California─ Crosscope, a leading AI software provider in digital pathology is collaborating with NINGBO KONFOONG BIOINFORMATION TECH CO.,LTD. (KFBIO) an innovative high-tech cutting edge Whole slide imaging pathology scanner manufacturer. Through this collaboration, Crosscope will ensure the wide range & state-of-the-art Whole Slide Imaging Digital Pathology scanners are made available to the Indian market and ensure this cutting-edge technology is available for the pathology community to enable digital transformation in the pathology laboratories in India & emerging markets.
Today, Cancer is the dominant disease in India surpassing 1.39 million cases per year. Pathologists play a crucial role in the detection and diagnosis of a wide variety of cancers. The increasing number of cases has resulted in the increasing complexity of pathologists to diagnose the type of cancer. The digitization of the pathology workplace using scanners from KFBIO with the help of the pathologists to diagnose histopathology slides in a more efficient & accurate manner. With this collaboration Crosscope will bring the state of art Whole slide Imaging scanners from KFBIO to India & emerging markets. Today, digitization of clinical workflows is a key enabler for healthcare providers to ensure seamless and speedy diagnosis. By enabling transformation in histopathology, Crosscope aims to bring the advantages of digital tools and technology in an existing analogue setting in the histopathology domain.
Crosscope team will ensure seamless availability of KFBIO Whole Slide Imaging scanners with an integrated approach towards delivering support, training and hand-holding to the healthcare providers in the region.
“Pathology is on the cusp of digital transformation and Crosscope is very much dedicated to offer end-to-end digital pathology solutions to bridge gaps and usher in a new phase of personalized diagnostics. Crosscope is excited to team up with KFBIO to provide their scanners alongside our cutting edge AI-software and collaboration platform to enable Oncopathology automation for our customers. Digitization of pathology is a key area for the use of AI-based diagnostic algorithms to speed up and improve the diagnosis making an impact in reducing India’s cancer burden” said Dr. Jayendra Shinde, CEO Crosscope.
Whole slide Imaging digital pathology scanners are a critical component of comprehensive and complex histopathology workflow. By bringing this innovation and cutting-edge technology for digitizing glass slides to high-resolution digital images will enable a true transformation in histopathology workflow. The wide range of capacities available in whole slide imaging scanners from KFBIO will ensure that there is appropriate fit of digital pathology scanners according to workload of histopathology lab and healthcare provider “KFBIO and Crosscope both share a commitment to open a platform for digital pathology for leading the digital transformation of labs worldwide. With the given inflection point in India’s healthcare sector, our partnership is a commitment to supporting digital technologies to strengthen medical infrastructure for effective cancer care. We are pleased to have found a partner in Crosscope with whom we are truly committed in transforming Digital Pathology without Boundaries” said Mr. Kun Gui, Vice President, KFBIO.
Pune, Noida (India) and Edison, NJ (USA): Birlasoft Ltd, part of the USD 2.4 billion diversified CK Birla Group; a global enterprise digital and IT Services, and Freshworks Inc., a leading software company empowering businesses to delight their customers and employees announce their global, strategic partnership aimed at helping enterprises provide enhanced customer experience management services to customers through new-age digital transformation solutions.
Birlasoft will partner with Freshworks to provide businesses with products to delight their customers and employees. Freshworks takes a fresh approach to building and delivering software for customer relationship and IT service management that is affordable, quick to implement, and designed for the end-user. Birlasoft is committed to bringing digital-first solutions to our clients to expand business capabilities and improve the end-user experience by integrating the best-of-breed solutions from partners like Freshworks into our offerings.
For over 30 years, Birlasoft has been at the forefront of delivering enterprise digital and cutting-edge IT services for global enterprises. Over the past decade, the organization has made a name for itself in developing industry-focused solutions which help reduce time-to-market for its clients and enable them to meet their business goals. Our ‘Digital in Everything’ strategy, coupled with the near-constant focus on innovation, and our Challenger Spirit have helped Birlasoft become a potent force for enterprises on the lookout for transformation partners to help raise their Enterprise to the Power of Digital™.
Ashutosh Mankar, Vice President, Infrastructure and Cloud Technology Services, Birlasoft, said, “The past few years have seen enterprises put a premium on their digital transformation plans, considering the speed of digital adoption within the business ecosystem and the ROI it can deliver for enterprises. Our strategic partnership with Freshworks Inc. will act as a safe springboard for customers who are keen to reimagine customer experiences, strengthen relationship management, and reap benefits from agile digital transformation programs.”
“We take a fresh approach to building software that helps businesses of all sizes easily delight their customers and employees. Birlasoft’s expertise in creating world-class digital transformation solutions makes them a natural partner for our modern customer relationship and IT service management software.” said Hervé Danzelaud, Vice President of Global Channels and Alliances, Freshworks.
This partnership will focus on developing capabilities and innovative, niche-industry solutions to help enterprise clients address their transformation challenges and drive value and success at scale.
New Delhi: PredictiVu, India’s leading analytics firm, today unveiling their MBO: Smartphone India Overview Part 2, revealed that awareness and willingness to buy a 5G smartphone is highest among millennials aged 21-30 when it comes to 5G interest among consumers and that better gender ratio in sales staff, hyperlocal marketing, social media for CX, and enterprise-wide IT adoption would be critical drivers for offline retail MBOs to succeed in 2021.
5G is going to be a big driver for smartphone consumers and MBOs need to embrace it with better 5G ads and an effective omnichannel marketing strategy to woo more women buyers, high potential market segment, to their offline stores. While the propensity to purchase 5G enabled smartphones are as high as 73%, about 89% of consumers would prefer to step into MBOs that guarantee cleanliness, amicable staff and superior ambience.
The report based on the near real time assessment of datasets of 1208 consumers and 2080 retailers which further is bifurcated on the basis of age and gender, have captured the following key trends in the consumer behavior towards 5G adoption and changes that Offline MBO retailers need to adopt to maximize their growth potential in the pandemic year.
MBO CUSTOMERS AND 5G – PREDICTIVU SURVEY (Sample Size- 1208)
PredictiVu’s Top findings: MBO Customers and 5G
• According to the survey, nearly 1 out of 4 MBO customers are 5G aware.
• 34% of the consumers have high awareness, 30% have awareness, 14% are familiar and 22% have never heard of 5G.
• Alongside awareness, purchase potential is strong, as 73% of smartphone owners surveyed are interested to buy a 5G enabled smartphone in the future.
• 89% consumers are veering towards MBOs that guarantee cleanliness, amicable staff and superior ambience.
• 86% male within millennials reflected the potential to shift to a 5G phone
• 94.3% are buying from local retail store while only 4.7% shopped from MBO chains.
• MBOs have high potential to educate consumers in-store on 5G technology enabled smartphones
MBO RETAILER’S SIDE OF THE STORY (Sample Size- 2080)
PredictiVu’s Top findings: MBO Retailer’s SIDE OF THE STORY
• 37% of the largest MBOs and 97% of the smallest didn’t use in-store tech for admin or marketing purposes
• Extra-large stores employ the most women (36.8%) and the percentage declines with store size. 13.6% of the surveyed MBOs have female staff in their sales department.
• Only 23.6% retailers believe that employing women will help in enhancing their overall sales.
• Hiring more female staff across levels and running effective training programmes critical as gender does not define a skill or dictate the quality of work.
• Under digital usage, more than 24% of retailers uses digital billing for payment.
• Almost 98% retailers did not start other business during lockdown showing more resilience against market odds.
• Better gender ratio in sales staff, hyperlocal Omni-channel marketing, social media for CX, and enterprise-wide IT adoption imperative for offline retail MBOs to succeed in 2021
Introducing the report, Kunal Sarkar, Vice President, PredictiVu, said, “The 5G adoption will be a significant growth driver for the offline retail MBO, given that the pandemic has brought the entire retail industry closer. Raising customer awareness about 5G is imperative now. Offerings and strategies to woo women buyers within millennials to shift purchase focus to offline stores is important. Better partnerships with brands, monitoring online exchange schemes to offer better deals, attractive advertisements using omni-channel and hyperlocal marketing strategy can improve foot traffic to physical locations of the MBOs and capitalize on a huge market. Further, better gender ratio in sales staff, social media usage for CX, and enterprise-wide IT adoption is essential for offline retail MBOs to better sales output in 2021. Am grateful to unveil “MBO: Smartphone India Overview Part 2: Apr-Jun 2021” ahead of the festive season, so that retailers can plan more engaging strategies and better customer in-store footprints and further set appropriate marketing goals to grow in a post-pandemic recovery phase”, he added.
Rajesh Kurup, Strategic Advisory Board, PredictiVu said,” Fast, accurate insights into consumer behaviour and preferences are important facets to competitive success and delivering stellar consumer experiences. This report released at the perfect time will aid offline MBO retailers and marketers to get a comprehensive view and understanding of the key trends influencing consumer behaviour towards 5G and offline store purchase decisions. ”
ZingHR is all set to present the latest innovation for the SMB market. The product is packaged with super intelligence of HRMS making it just right for SMB. ZingNeo by ZingHR is all set to enter the revolution of small businesses to help them soar to great heights.
With the ever-expanding SMB market space in India and across the globe, ZingHR’s foray into the SMB market is a very strategic move to tap the growing HRTech Market in India and Globally. While ZingHR has been servicing enterprise clients through the parent brand “ZingHR”, now with ZingNeo coming in the focus will be well taken care of with the respective brands under the ZingHR umbrella.
Join the human resources revolution, whether you have a team of two or 300. ZingNeo streamlines the way you manage Time and Attendance, Leave Management, Learning Management, Hiring & Onboarding, Recruitment Software, Digital Onboarding, Payroll Management. ZingNeo is easy for HR administrators to stay on top.
Functionality aimed at streamlining key aspects of HR, such as absence, employee records, updates and warnings, and recruitment process management. HR is all in one location with ZingNeo, and it’s available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, from wherever it’s most convenient. The regular updates and alerts given by ZingNeo help you retain full control over the HR feature. You may consciously prepare how to incorporate HR tasks into your daily plan thanks to daily reminders. Real-time notifications allow you to respond rapidly when the situation calls for it.
Prasad Rajappan, Founder & Managing Director, ZingHR said, “ZingNeo is a part of our commitment to serving a diverse clientele across sectors in the SMB market. We are eyeing to diversify our offerings in our endeavour to deliver HR Tech solutions and directly impact business outcomes for SMB businesses.”
Ravi Kikan, Director, Head Marketing, Online Sales and Growth ZingHR said, “HR departments use technology to monitor their employees, store and organize employee data, and analyze employee results. HR procedures and systems become more successful and efficient as a result of technological advances. HR activities, when correctly applied with advanced methods, maximize benefits and eliminate challenges for the company.”
He adds, “Here are some top reasons why an SMB business like yours should switch ease HR with ZingNeo – Shifting the center of human resources, Incorporating data into HR systems, Analyzing large volumes of HR data to make contact simpler, Integration that is adaptable and Security fit for a company
Sanjay Kamath, Vice President, ZingHR said, “80% small and medium-sized businesses comprise major chunk approximately 80% of our country’s economy. We are focussed on building innovative HR Tech products which will help SMB’s to look beyond just HR as a process but HR as a contributor to the top line and bottom-line growth through various HR software products and services. We are eyeing to target 10x growth in the coming year.”
Rajat Luthra, Director, Customer Experience and Outcomation, ZingHR said, “We have created an innovative and the standard implementation process for a 3.5-day standard global product delivery. We will be focusing on quick implementation for the SMB’s to drive profitability and scalability.”
