CEO Today USA Awards

ABOUT ALEX KARPOVSKY Alex’s successful track record includes over 20 years in software development management, consulting, and product marketing. Prior to Kanda, he held senior software development, joint venture, and channel management positions with Index Technologies, Intersolv, and Dataware Technologies. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics from Harvard University as well as a master’s degree in Management of Technology from the MIT Sloan School of Management. Alex is a regular speaker at DCI, SIMBA, and other conferences and has written for the leading industry publications including Computer World, Mass High Tech, and Solutions Integrator. FIRM PROFILE Kanda is a premier full serviceDevelopment andQualityAssurance partner, specializing in the development of time-sensitive and innovative SaaS, mobile and on-premises solutions. For our clients software is a critical success factor. To every project, we bring a combination of domain expertise, exceptional engineering talent, rigorous best practices, commitment to protection of client’s IP and accountability of a US company with over two decades of impeccable reputation. According to the Inc. 500 ranking Kanda is the 13th fastest growing MA company and 459th in the US overall. Kanda Software has successfully delivered well over two thousand solutions to hundreds of clients. Our customers vary from large corporations to dynamic startups, from software vendors and SaaS companies to digital healthcare innovators, app vendors, marketing firms, financial services providers, publishers and educational institutions. Kanda has been the secret sauce in MarketSpectrum, the biggest- selling software product in the history of DnB, the Mass Challenge winner social network RallyPoint and the UPenn’s AppITUP mobile app winner Rescufy. We have perfected a clean, economical approach for entering and exiting development and QA processes at the right time, using the right resources. Our lengthy and extensive track record has equipped us with the ability to provide rapid, cost-effective solutions that blend seamlessly with the product and business strategy, infrastructure analysis, architecture, UX design, rapid development, functional QA, or QA automation – or all of the above. Our “Secret Sauce” Skill • We recruit and retain exceptional engineering talent and keep training them. 80% of Kanda’s developers and over 50% or QA staff hold MS degree in Computer Science or related fields. We have developed and perfected recruitment, hiring, training, and retention practices that allow us to bring on the best and the brightest technical personnel and empower them with rigorous agile engineering processes – which together constitute the greatest differentiator of our services in the marketplace. • Breadth of technical expertise rare for a mid-sized software development partner. Kanda has several hundred engineers well versed in different combinations of C++, Java, C#, RoR, Objective C, JavaScript and other languages with experience in multitude of underlying platforms, IDEs, APIs, databases and frameworks. Alex Karpovsky CEO Kanda Software 70 - M A S S A C H U S E T T S - www.kandasoft.com