Virtusa

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Virtusa Corporation
Company type Private [1]
Industry Information technology services
Founded1996;28 years ago (1996)
FoundersKris Canekeratne
Tushara Canekeratne
John Gillis
Sandy Gillis
Headquarters,
United States
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Santosh Thomas (CEO)
ServicesDigital engineering, IT consulting, business consulting, application development, product development, legacy asset management
RevenueIncrease2.svg US$ 1.8 Billion (2023)
Increase2.svg US$ 72 million (2023)
Total assets Increase2.svg US$ 1.337 billion (2020) [2]
Total equity Increase2.svg US$ 397 million (2020) [2]
Number of employees
Increase2.svg 35,000 (2023) [2]
Parent BPEA [2]
Website www.virtusa.com
Footnotes /references
[2]
Virtusa at Orion City Sri Lanka Virtusa.jpg
Virtusa at Orion City Sri Lanka

Virtusa Corporation is an American-based global information technology services company that provides digital engineering and technology services for companies in the financial services, healthcare, communications, media, entertainment, travel, manufacturing, and technology industries worldwide. Virtusa's capabilities range across digital transformation, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, robotics, data analytics, and other technology consulting services to customers in 25+ countries in 50+ locations around the globe.

Contents

Virtusa is headquartered in Southborough, Massachusetts, with several delivery centers in India and Sri Lanka with the ones in Hyderabad, Chennai and Colombo being the largest. In February 2021, Baring Private Equity Asia acquired the company for US$2 billion. [3]

History

Virtusa was co-founded in 1996 by Kris Canekeratne and served as the company’s chairman until his departure in 2021. He served as CEO from 1996-1997 and again from 2000-2021.Canekeratne stepped down as CEO in May 2021, and his seat as chairman of the board was filled by Sander van‘t Noordende. [4]

The company went public in 2007. [5]

Acquisitions

Operations

On 29 March 2018, Virtusa had around 20,000 employees. [14]

With offices throughout US, Europe and Asia, and advanced development centers in the United States, Europe and Asia. [15]

Competition

Some of its key competitors in the offshore IT services industry include Infosys, Wipro, Cognizant, Tech Mahindra, Mphasis, HCL and Tata Consultancy Services.

Offices

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