Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of knowledge services and a Quatrro Global Services company, has announced the appointment of Punit Dhandhania as strategic advisor.
Punit Dhandhania is a business leader with over 25 years of experience working for global publishers. Pioneering the outsourcing of high quality services to publishers in India, Punit has worked with publishers such as Oxford University Press, Elsevier, John Wiley & Sons, Cambridge University Press, Lexis-Nexis, Hachette, Larousse and many others. He has been consulting for several global publishers and IT businesses since 2006.
Punit sees information technology as a key, essential element in the evolution and growth of publishing organizations. He believes that the right balance of information technology, human intellect and core workforce skills can best fulfill the needs of a publishing business and its customers. Punit makes the highest value contribution when there is a requirement to take these key attributes, create large-scale teams and develop processes that are reliable, scalable, efficient and deliver high quality services and/or products. He maintains strong relationships in global publishing, information technology and outsourcing industries in the US, UK, Continental Europe and India.
Tram Venkatraman, President of Scope commented, "Scope is very excited to have Punit as part of our senior management team. We value Punit's experience in the publishing industry, especially his understanding and appreciation of the rapidly increasing importance of technology across the publishing value chain. We intend to leverage his knowledge and experience to better align our services to the rapidly changing needs of the global publishing industry."
Punit Dhandhania added, "I see Scope as a unique provider of content and data services to the Global Publishing industry. Their capability to deliver valuable knowledge services, including taxonomy/ontology development, descriptive metadata enrichment, semantic indexing, etc., using a balance of technology and subject matter experts, is impressive. I look forward to help develop these capabilities further so that more publishers can take advantage of Scope's services to enhance the quality of their content, reduce the time to market, increase content discoverability and become more cost effective."
