Propalms commences India operations

Mumbai: United Kingdom-based Propalms has announced the beginning of its operations in India. The company has established two offices in India to support the demand for Propalms productline and services in the region. Propalms will have one office in Mumbai in order to provide sales and marketing support to the Indian reseller and distribution channel, and will enhance its existing development and support function at its new Pune office. The Mumbai sales office will be headed by Naveen Merudi and four other sales agents who will be busy recruiting new distributors and resellers to cover the Indian subcontinent. The company has tied up with Roundrobin and Tectise, as their distributors in India. Propalms is also looking to start operations in other metropolitan cities of India including Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai and Ahemdabad.

Propalms is a global provider of application delivery solutions for Terminal Services and Virtual Desktop Infrastructures and has its operations in 50 countries. “Delivering to enterprises of all sizes,
Propalms offers reliable, scalable and affordable solutions that simply work. Our belief is that application delivery solutions should be flexible, dynamic and, above all, simple to use,” said Owen Dukes, CEO, Propalms while talking about the USP of their products. Dukes said that in the first year of operations the company is eying a revenue of $1 million in the first year. “In the next three years we are expecting a revenue of $10 million,” he said.

Merudi has over 12 years of experience in overseeing sales and marketing operations for various IT solutions, network security solutions, and SSL VPN Solutions companies. Prior to joining Propalms, Merudi was in charge of the sales and marketing for a VPN ISV company called Neo Accel. He has also worked with Paradyne Infotech and Zenith Infotech. Vijender Yadav, will become the Chief Technical Officer India, where his responsibilities will include carrying out design and development of
current and future remote access and virtualization products for Propalms. Yadav also comes from Neo Accel with six years experience working in open systems and system software development for networking and security products.

“We are excited about opening two locations in India to service our distributors, resellers, and customers in this region. We expect the market to grow significantly in 2009-10,” stated Dukes.