Bob Kaplan joins Motif, Inc. Board of Directors

Ahmedabad, (UP) June 26: Bob Kaplan, formerly with McKinsey and Co., has joined the board of directors of New Jersey based Motif, Inc., a specialized business process outsourcing provider. He has been a senior executive and management consultant for the past thirty years, and at present serves as an advisory member to the board of Motif.

Kaushal Mehta, Founder&Chairman of Motif, Inc. said, "Bob Kaplan's 30 years of industry experience on the boards of several large and diverse companies will help us build on our track record of delivering services of exceptional quality to Fortune 500 clients. Bob plans to work actively with Motif's management to define the strategic direction of the company and get Motif to capitalize on its position in the growing outsourcing industry."

Commenting on his appointment, Bob said, "There are significant opportunities for value creation with the right balance of on-shore, off-shore service delivery capability and domain expertise. Motif has built a unique set of organizational and technical capabilities that lay the basis for what should be a rapidly growing enterprise. I am looking forward to helping the organization become one of the leading companies in knowledge based process outsourcing."

He spent ten years with McKinsey&Company as senior partner, leading their information technology and systems practice. Prior to that, he was the managing partner at the Boston Consulting Group where he worked for eleven years. Earlier, he worked with KPMG as a systems consultant.

Bob Kaplan's expertise is in the areas of strategy development and implementation, organizational effectiveness, and information systems and technology. He has worked extensively with CEOs in technology-based industries, financial services, and utilities. Bob has held and currently holds a number of senior executive positions including acting CEO, acting CTO and board member for companies such as ITM Software, Silicon Valley Bank, Greater Bay Bank, Netliant, Inc., SiteSmith, Active Reasoning, Imagicast, epriSolutions and Alibris, Inc.

Kaplan has an M.B.A from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a bachelor's degree with honors with exceptional distinction in economics from Yale University.

Bob is a member of the Technology Advisory Peer Group for the State of California, a group of private sector executives counseling the state CIO as part of the Governor's Information Technology Consolidation and Realignment Initiative.

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