Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> November 5, 2004

GURVENDRA SURI – OPTIMAL

GURVENDRA SURI is the founder and CEO of Optimal, with responsibility for setting strategic direction and managing critical client and partner relationships. With almost two decades of experience in business and information technology, Suri is a technologist at heart and still manages to work with clients around the globe to design and implement complex, large-scale, highly available enterprise architectures. He has personally consulted to over 50 global customers, including Dupont, the Department of Defense, Hoechst Celanese, Texas Instruments, Halliburton, Perkin Elmer, Caterpillar, YPF Argentina, Molinos, Telefonica, Asahi Beer, Sony Japan, Ericsson Sweden and many others. He founded Optimal in 1995 to provide high-end technology implementation expertise at a reasonable cost to clients with a global footprint. Prior to Optimal, Suri was a technology strategist and architect for a domestic drug distribution firm. He has also consulted on behalf of TELCO and Unisys. Suri received his engineering degree in Computer Science from M.N.R Engineering College in Allahabad, India. Profile
TWST: If you would, Mr. Suri, give us an entry point, what is Optimal

Solutions Integration?

Mr. Suri: Optimal Solutions Integration was founded in 1995. At that

time, investments in