Graham Smith named Senior Vice President, European Business to drive significant growth plans

Hyderabad, India; Philadelphia, Lindon, USA; London, UK; 20th August, 2008:  - AppLabs, the world’s largest independent testing, quality management and certification solutions company, has today named Graham Smith as Senior Vice President, European Business to manage the substantial growth of the company’s business and influence in Europe. 

Prior to his new position as Senior Vice President, European Business, Graham was the Head of Client Engagement of AppLabs in Europe.  He had sole responsibility for developing and managing the sales team on existing client engagements throughout Europe.  In his new role, he will be in charge of AppLabs’ business development in Europe, as well as continuing to provide strategic consulting to the company’s existing and new clients.  He will have direct responsibility for all employees (circa 300) who work within the European business. As a thought leader within the banking, financial services and insurance industries, Graham is active in generating industry news and comment around quality and risk mitigation within these markets.

On his new role, Graham comments: “It is going to be a very exciting challenge to ensure AppLabs achieves its substantial growth plans in the European market. We see great opportunities to engage with more customers not only in the UK, but also with the world’s largest organisations based in mainland Europe.  I am confident that our European customers will benefit more from our renewed focus.”

Makarand Teje, President & CEO of AppLabs, is delighted with this announcement and added that “We are experiencing a very exciting period of business expansion in Europe, and we need experienced executives and visionary business leaders like Graham to take the company forward”.