Can Garnick get Keane going?
Posted by: Steve Hamm on August 29 This will be interesting to watch. Rich Garnick, who helped India’s Wipro Technologies take off by running its North American operations, is now heading up North American business services for Keane Inc., a medium-size tech services firm based in Boston. Garnick left Wipro a couple of weeks ago amid a shuffling of executives—citing travel burnout. He won’t be flying to Bangalore as much in the new job, but India remains central to his formula for success. That’s because he plans on tapping India for tens of thousands of programmers. When Garnick joined Wipro 4 1/2 years ago, it had less than $200 million in annual revenues. Now it’s $1.4 billion, and most of that activity is in the US. He helped by building a trim but very effective service delivery organization in the US that effectively sold and implemented software programming and hardware engineering done in Bangalore. “When I joined Wipro and introduced the company to people here, the first slide
