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NEC reinforces its focus on public safety spaceAppoints Rajan Verma as Head – Public Safety & Identity Solutions Business
New Delhi, July 26, 2011 - NEC India Pvt. Ltd, a leading network and IT solutions provider, today announced the appointment of Rajan Verma as the head of its Public Safety and Identity solutions business in India. Rajan will be responsible for driving the growth of NEC’s identity solutions business in India with special focus on criminal, civil identification and banking segments, and to strengthen NEC’s capability as a systems integrator in India. With the objective of developing India as a market of strategic importance for NEC globally, the company is engaging with central & state governments to drive E-gov projects in India, participating in infrastructure security projects and taking keen interest in national security initiatives.
Public safety is paramount to both public and private institutions, and NEC’s innovative integrated technologies and solutions can be adopted to enhance the safety and security of countries or businesses, and bolster law enforcement. NEC’s fingerprint and facial recognition solutions are recognized as the world’s fastest and most accurate biometric technologies for identification , and these solutions have been deployed across several countries around the world. In an effort to replicate the global success in India, Rajan will be responsible for identifying strategic new business and partner opportunities in the public safety space.
Commenting on the appointment, Rajiv Bhalla, Country Head, Sales and Marketing, NEC India said, “The public safety and identity solutions business in India has tremendous potential. In light of this, we foresee that integrated security solutions will play an important role in refining security and strengthening law enforcement. We are pleased to have Rajan Verma as a part of NEC India. He brings to the table a wealth of experience in handling large accounts, relationship & sales expertise. We are confident that Rajan will be instrumental in strengthening our focus on the security industry in India.”
Rajan brings with him an in-depth understanding of the IT security solutions industry and a strong senior-level management background acquired from some of the major IT & telecom companies in the industry.
With more than a hundred years of innovation and experience in the IT and networking industry and over three decades of research and development in identity solutions, NEC has been providing governments and enterprises with an expanding variety of public safety services and solutions that are needed to ensure the safety and security of people’s lives. Over the last 30 years, NEC’s solutions have been deployed in more than 200 applications in over 30 countries throughout the world, including law enforcement and border control agencies, as well as civil identification and national election systems that require large-scale, highly accurate and rapid data processing, making it one of the most renowned biometric specialists and the world’s leading supplier of fingerprint biometrics for both law enforcement and identity management applications.
NEC remains committed to growing its presence in the public safety business in India. In May 2010, NEC launched its first “NEC Biometrics Excellence Center” (N-BEC) in Bangalore, India, aimed at providing world class engineering competency to cater to the company’s global chain engaged in development, deployment and support of identity solutions for the international market. This center was commissioned to accelerate the expansion of NEC’s global multimodal identification solutions and integrated security solutions business, including its renowned automated fingerprint identification solutions and face recognition solutions.
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About NEC India Pvt. Ltd.
NEC India Pvt. Ltd, established in New Delhi, India, in August 2006, leverages on NEC's unique capabilities in integrating IT and networking technologies for a diverse customer base across governments, businesses, individuals and society in India. NEC India provides and develops solutions for Carrier Network, Unified Communications, Retail, Security and Surveillance Systems, IT and Multimedia Products to cater to the rapidly expanding Indian market.
About NEC Asia Pacific Pte Ltd (NEC APAC)
Singapore-based NEC Asia Pacific is the regional headquarters for NEC Corporation (HQ: Japan) in the Asia Pacific region (South and Southeast Asia, and Oceania). As a leading infocomm technology provider and systems integrator offering regional sales and services support and consultancy, NEC APAC develops solutions on carrier network, global identity, RFID, enterprise server, unified communications, multimedia display, and contact centre, as well as provides outsourcing and managed services.
To leverage on its technological expertise, NEC APAC has established regional competency centres in public safety and display solutions to expand its capabilities and expertise to support businesses in the Asia Pacific region.
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