Serena Software appoints Sangeetha Phalgunan as India Managing Director

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Serena Software, a global leader in Application Lifecycle Management announced the appointment of Sangeetha Phalgunan as Managing Director for India

Bangalore, 8th December, 2009 - Press Release Point – Serena Software, a global leader in Application Lifecycle Management announced the appointment of Sangeetha Phalgunan as Managing Director for India. She will be responsible for driving growth, channels and the expansion of the company’s market share in India. Her extensive knowledge and experience in the IT industry will provide a new direction to the company in India and meet the Indian customers’ rise in demand for Business Process management solutions and end-to-end application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions.

Commenting on the appointment, Mr. Eric Driffort - Vice President - WEMEA/India/Korea/China , Serena Software, said, “As part of an aggressive Indian growth strategy, Sangeetha’s appointment will further strengthen Serena’s management team. Her strategic business approach will help in setting up a strong foothold across sectors in both the large and mid markets in India.”

Sangeetha Phalgunan, Managing Director, India, Serena Software commented, “This is a fantastic time to be joining Serena. I see a huge demand for Application Lifecycle Management and Agile management solutions among the software companies and addressing these requirements for companies who are operating in a highly competitive, low margin business, will help us become one of the pace-setters in the marketplace.” “Serena’s Application development solutions help increase efficiency and productivity across both mainframe and distributed systems environments,” she added.

Before joining Serena, Sangeetha was Head Commercial and Channel Business for HP Software India, where she was instrumental in establishing HP Software’s Commercial Business and partner eco system. Prior to that, she was Director of Channel Sales and Corporate Sales Division for Mercury Interactive Corporation India and also held managerial positions in BEA Systems India.

She holds a degree in Science and Mathematics from Mysore University with an additional Diploma’s in Sales and Marketing.

About Serena Software, Inc.

Serena Software is a privately owned company, headquartered in Redwood City, California, with 29 offices in 14 countries. Serena Software provides software change and configuration management, business process management and project and portfolio management software to over 15,000 customers worldwide, including 96 of the Fortune 100. Serena Software enables teams of programmers to become more efficient by standardizing and automating development processes across both mainframe and distributed system environments. Serena Software is a portfolio company of Silver Lake. For more information on Serena, visit http://www.serena.com.

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