Sujoy Bhattacharjee joins ValueFirst as Chief Operating Officer

Sujoy Bhattacharjee joins ValueFirst as Chief Operating Officer at ValueFirst corporate office in Gurgaon, India. Sujoy brings with him 20 years of extensive technology/industry experience in leading technology/ market-leading companies including Microsoft, AMD and TCS. Most recently, Sujoy worked with Yahoo!, Inc. at Sunnyvale, USA, managing products in Broadband and Mobile segments.

At ValueFirst, Sujoy leads technology development, technical operations, product management, customer fulfillment and HR functions at ValueFirst. When asked why he moved to India and chose to join ValueFirst, Sujoy said:

“ India has moved up the value chain in terms of the seeding and incubation of global market leaders, and I specifically saw ValueFirst as having the right mix to become a world leader in mobile data services. I was attracted by the twin factors of leading-edge technological innovation being done by it out of India, and the scalable and powerful business model at ValueFirst”

Sujoy has relocated to Gurgaon from Silicon Valley, USA, family to join Team ValueFirst.

About ValueFirst:

ValueFirst empowers its customers to communicate between varied IT back-end systems and mobile phones using SMS Services. ValueFirst provides a unique, end-to-end, global carrier-grade mobile data service. Its mobile data service offering includes "plug and play" application licensing and hosting. Employing a partnership with Mobile operators and a clear focus on SMS mobile messaging. ValueFirst's Mobile Messaging Platform is capable of delivering SMS services to virtually any CDMA/GSM mobile handset. ValueFirst combines signalling information from the mobile world with innovative applications running concurrently on its own IT applications platform and thereby pave the way for mission-critical international messaging services.

Anuj Dahiya joins ValueFirst

ValueFirst celebrated its fourth anniversary on 17^th October 2007 with the welcome of Anuj Dahiya, a well known professional in the online and media circles. Anuj is known for his expertise in excellence in business development. Anuj has joined ValueFirst as Sales Head - India being responsible for sales in India.

Anuj was earlier holding a position of Business Director in GroupM. Anuj was handling clients such as Hero Honda, Sony Ericsson, Indiatimes Travel, ABN Amro, Discovery, Perfetti and GE Money in Interactions.

“ValueFirst is at an interesting juncture currently. It can scale to a INR 100 crore business with right kind of sales push and focussed effort. This was one of the reasons which propelled me to join ValueFirst and accept the challenge”, says Anuj Dahiya.

Vijay Shukla, Country Head, ValueFirst, was delighted on the occasion and commented, “With Anuj onboard, ValueFirst is set to achieve a accelerated growth in revenues for FY07-08”.

About ValueFirst

ValueFirst (www.vfirst.com) empowers its customers to communicate between varied IT back-end systems and mobile phones using SMS Services. ValueFirst provides a unique, end-to-end, global carrier-grade mobile data service. Its mobile data service offering includes "plug and play" application licensing and hosting. Employing a partnership with mobile operators, ValueFirst acts as an MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator), with a clear focus on SMS mobile messaging. ValueFirst’s Mobile Messaging Platform is capable of delivering SMS services to virtually any CDMA/GSM mobile handset.