IBA Group VP Speaks at Outsourcing & IT Services Summit

London, September 21, 2010

IBA Group

I was at the Gartner Outsourcing Summit in London last week and during the conference, I met Dr. Valentin Kazan of IBA Group. I asked Valentin what he was doing at the summit in London.

He explained: “We came here to London under the Russoft umbrella to participate in the conference. The idea was to show that Eastern Europe is ready for business in outsourcing. We have great experience in this area and so we are now delivering this message to the conference audience here with Gartner.”

I asked Valentin what he thought of the analysts he had met and what information he had taken from the conference so far. He said: “The Gartner analysts are very pragmatic. They deep-dive into the companies they work with so there are very good examples of what we are doing in this marketplace.”

When I asked Valentin to give me a single reason why Gartner delegates should pay more attention to Eastern Europe he said to me: “Yesterday I saw a presentation saying that India can produce graduates each year that would be a quarter of the population of Finland. We can’t match that scale, but we do have a lot of highly skilled people who can solve any problem – particularly mathematical and scientific problems.”

You can see my conversation with Valentin Kazan on Youtube here: