Outsourcer Infosys has appointed industry veteran David D. Kennedy to serve as executive vice president and general counsel for the company and as executive officer of the company for the purposes of SEC Reporting, officials say.
The company has also announced an effort to add 2,100 employees to its ranks, including many recent graduates and undergraduates from U.S. universities.
Kennedy comes to Infosys from JDA Software Group where he was executive vice president, corporate secretary and chief legal officer.
Before joining JDA Software, Kennedy was general counsel and corporate secretary at Better Place Inc., a company that built infrastructure networks for electric vehicles, officials say. From 2007 to 2009, Kennedy served as the general counsel and secretary for BusinessObjects.
From 1998 to 2007, Kennedy served in various leadership roles within the legal department of several IBM business units, which included responsibilities in IBM’s PC, sales, services and networking groups, officials say. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and has his Juris Doctor (J.D) from The University of Connecticut School of Law.
Kennedy might find things a little crowded in his Palo Alto, Calif. office as Infosys has just announced a major recruitment drive in the U.S. “to support the growth of its business and enhance its capabilities” by hiring 1,500 professionals for consulting, sales and delivery during the current financial year.
In addition, the company will also hire “close to 600 bachelors and masters graduates from U.S. universities over the next twelve months,” officials add.
Of those 600, Infosys will recruit up to 300 management and technology graduates from U.S. universities. Recruiters “will work across multiple technology domains including digital, big data, analytics and cloud,” officials say. “Up to 180 graduates will be recruited into the Infosys consulting practice in the U.S. They will join existing teams advising clients on business and technology transformation strategies.” Infosys officials add that they will also continue a global recruitment program of hiring MBA graduates from leading business schools, and will recruit 100 masters graduates for its sales teams under this initiative.
“We are particularly looking forward to bringing a large group of graduates into Infosys in the U.S.,” says Sandeep Dadlani, executive vice president, head of Infosys Americas.
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