Mr. Ramesh Loganathan, VP, Products and Managing Director, Progress Software-India

In general, we expect some measures that will stimulate growth and investments. This will help accelerate the recovery from any effects our economy faced due to the global slowdown. While Infrastructure is an area of issue where the plans seem to have lost some momentum in last few years that must be revived, this we think is essential for the overall growth of all sectors, including IT.
Focusing on our sector, we also expect for incentives to promote growth and investment into the IT sector specifically including extending the STPI scheme. We would need clarification on the FBT and hope for a more favorable tax regime for such business expenses.

Mr. Ramesh Loganathan
VP, Products and Managing Director
Progress Software-India
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Profile of the Progress Software-India
Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS) is a global software company that enables enterprises to be operationally responsive to changing conditions and customer interactions as they occur – to capitalize on new opportunities, drive greater efficiencies and reduce risk. The company has over 1,600 employees in over 90 countries. Progress Software India, Hyderabad is the second largest development centre of Progress Software, after the headquarters at Massachusetts, USA.
Profile of Mr Ramesh Loganathan, VP, Products and Managing Director
Ramesh Loganathan, Managing Director of Progress Software India, brings with him more than 17 years of systems engineering and R& D leadership experience in product development organizations. His experience and leadership has strongly contributed to effectively manage the growth and direction of Progress Software India (PSI). At PSI, Ramesh is leading the product development center that is organized in a Center of Expertise (COE) model, where groups are inline with technology horizontals that work on multiple products/components.
Prior to Progress, he was the Vice President of Middleware Technologies at Pramati, driving the product development, product direction and later the setup of the Technology Consulting Business. Ramesh is an active member of various industry associations like ITsAP, Nasscom, Headstart and so on.