aMarketforce, (previously an SBU of V-Soft, Inc.) was founded
in 2002 by four Silicon Valley professionals, each having more than
twenty-five years of work experience in the Bay Area.
The key differentiator they bring to the table is their commitment
to Customer Partnerships. The founders also have substantial histories
working with offshore centers located at Bangalore, Pune, and Ahmedabad
in India.
Mr. Ashwin Vora
Founder
Seasoned entrepreneur with years of successful experience in outsourcing
services, operations, strategic planning, and engineering. MS in
Engineering from Stanford University, MBA from University of Santa
Clara. Mr. Ashwin Vora also has a BS in Engineering from India where
he was awarded four gold medals for the best grades in the State.
Mr. Vora founded aMarketForce in 2002 with the vision of providing
high quality process support services to US customers using resources
from India. Mr. Vora's focus on building customer relationships
based on providing superior services has led to aMarketForce's rapid
growth. The company now enjoys a reputation for providing excellent
offshore services to its US clients.
Prior to founding aMarketForce and V-Soft, Inc., Mr. Vora was the
General Manager of GenRad Corporation's California division, where
he turned around the failing division by reducing expenses, increasing
market share, and increasing gross margins thus increasing profits.
Mr. Vora managed large global operations for GenRad and headed several
product development and engineering teams. Before his stint at GenRad,
Mr. Vora was with Royco Instruments, Inc. doing product development
from concept through engineering and with Ingersoll Rand where he
did project management.
Dr. John R. Manning
Co-founder
Experienced in consultancy and strategic planning. Dr. John Manning
holds a Sc.D. and MS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, and a BE
(with highest honors) in Mechanical Engineering from Yale University.
Former faculty member at Stanford University.
As co-founder of aMarketForce, Dr. Manning brings with him 30 years
of experience operating his own business. A design consultant, Dr.
Manning has extensive experience in design and packaging of products.
From the onset Dr. Manning collaborated with aMarketForce's co-founders
in developing the company strategy, participated in customer presentations,
and helped grow the company.
Dr. Manning has a continuing forensic mechanical engineering practice
focused on safe design of mechanical equipment. Earlier in his career,
Dr. Manning was Associate Dean of Engineering and Associate Professor
at Boston University, where in addition to his teaching duties he
was responsible for faculty and student relations and special projects.
In his first academic position as Assistant Professor at Stanford
University, he taught engineering design and supervised doctoral
research students. Dr. Manning has also worked for the Aerospace
Systems Division of RCA Corporation and for companies in India.
Dr. Arun Shah (1950 - 2004)
Co-founder
Experienced in business management, product development, and managing
high performance teams, Dr. Arun Shah was one of the founders of
aMarketForce and the vision behind its success.
Dr. Shah had an MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford
University. He had a BS from IIT/Delhi, India where he graduated
with the academic gold medal. As a co-founder, Dr. Shah participated
in developing the concept, the vision, and the strategy behind aMarketForce
and actively contributed in building partnerships and customer relationships.
Dr. Shah was Vice President of Engineering and Product Development
at iSpring Corporation, a Silicon Valley startup, where he led his
team in developing cutting edge technology for the supply chain
industry. Prior to that, Dr. Shah was Executive Vice President of
Product Development at Brio Technology where he led high-performance
engineering teams developing business intelligence products. Dr.
Shah was also Director of Mainframe Development at Amdahl Corporation
where he worked on enterprise servers and mainframe products.
Dr. Shah held several patents in both hardware and software design.
As he continues to guide us in ways more than one, we continue to
realize that he is irreplaceable.
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