R Systems International Ltd. (NSE: RSystems) a leading provider of outsourced product development and customer support services today announced that at a meeting of the board of directors held last week it expanded the board with Suresh Paruthi joining the board as an independent director and Raj Swaminathan, Chief Operating Officer, joining the board as an executive director.  With their addition R Systems board consists of eight directors of which four are independent directors.

Suresh Paruthi brings his extensive business and technical experience that he has gained with organizations like Siemens, Bhartia Cutler Hammer and Omron Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. to the R Systems board. Currently, Suresh Paruthi is the CEO of Venus Oilfield Services Pvt. Ltd., a company involved with energy solutions. Mr. Paruthi is an alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Mr. Raj Swaminathan is currently the Chief Operating Officer of R Systems and has been involved with R Systems business since 2000. Prior to R Systems, Raj has had a distinguished 11 year career at GE where he was Vice President & CIO at GE-Countrywide, India and part of the senior GE Global Consumer Finance corporate IT team.  Earlier in his career, Raj also headed the IT function at Standard Chartered Bank for the consumer, corporate banking and treasury businesses. Mr. Swaminathan is an alumni of XLRI, Jamshedpur

"We are delighted that Suresh Paruthi and Raj Swaminathan have joined our board," said Rekhi Singh Chairman and CEO of R Systems. He added, "Their varied business and technical experience in providing leadership in the areas of fast changing technologies to successfully execute large and complex projects that have delivered measurable tangible benefits will be valuable to the R Systems leadership team as we continue to grow rapidly."

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