-- Mahesh to lead ThoughtWorks India’s operations, strategy and delivery excellence - -

Bangalore, Pune, Chennai India – Feb 4 2010 - ThoughtWorks Inc, a leading global IT consultancy specializing in Global Distributed Agile delivery has announced the appointment of Mahesh Baxi as Managing Director of ThoughtWorks India. As a Managing Director of ThoughtWorks India, Mahesh Baxi is responsible for the company's India operations, business strategy, software delivery excellence, customer relationships and balancing sustainable growth & employee needs. Mahesh Baxi joined ThoughtWorks in July 2008 as Head of Delivery and later became Chief Operating Officer where he was responsible for day-to-day operations of business.

Prior to ThoughtWorks, Mahesh Baxi worked in the Software industry for over 15 years out of which he spent 12 years in the Bay Area, USA. He has worked for various software product development companies including Apttus, Vendao, Nextance and Challenger Systems where he led the professional services group as a Director of Professional Service and CRM & B2B practices as engagement manager. "We are delighted to have Mahesh lead ThoughtWorks India business into their next phase.” said Trevor Mather, CEO of ThoughtWorks. “He comes with a proven track record of delivering large and complex solutions and has an absolute focus on the customer. Under his leadership we are confident we will continue to consolidate and grow our presence in our existing centres, expand into new locations across India and develop localized service offerings for the domestic market".

Mahesh is a proven leader with success in definition and execution of strategic vision. He also has extensive experience in executing large enterprise projects with cross functional and global delivery teams situated in multiple geographical locations, resulting in successful on-time delivery of multi-million dollar projects maintaining services profitability margin. He has worked with an impressive portfolio of fortune 500 clients such as IBM, Qwest Communications, Eastman Chemical, Anheuser-Busch, PeopleSoft, Adobe, Lenovo, Thomson Financial, Hitachi, Symantec, S1 Corp. etc.

“Over the last 19 months, I have been privileged and delighted to work with very passionate, dedicated and talented ThoughtWorkers.” Mahesh said. “In the last few years, we have grown at more than 40% year on year, have matured in our ability to deliver large scale distributed Agile projects that helped customers resolve their key business issues. I look forward to continuing the momentum, expand business in the Asia Pacific market, help customers through our delivery excellence and create a home for the best knowledge workers in the world.”

Mahesh holds a Computer Engineering degree from Gujarat University. He is part of the Technology Advisory Board for PSVillage and contributing editor of the book 'Tips from the Trenches'.