WNS Appoints Adrian Dillon and Renu Karnad to Board of Directors
September 21 2012 - 8:36AM
Business Wire
WNS (Holdings) Limited (WNS) (NYSE: WNS), a leading provider of
global business process outsourcing (BPO) services, today announced
the appointment of Mr. Adrian Dillon and Mrs. Renu Karnad to the
Board of Directors of WNS (Holdings) Limited with immediate
effect.
Mr. Dillon is currently a member of the Board of Directors and
Chair of the Audit and Finance Committees of Williams-Sonoma, Inc,
a specialty retailer of high-quality home products. Mr. Dillon was
a member of the Board of Directors and Chair of the Audit Committee
at NDS, a leading global provider of end-to-end software solutions
to the pay-television industry when the company was acquired by
Cisco in 2012. During his career, Mr. Dillon has held key finance
roles including Chief Financial and Administrative Officer at Skype
Limited and EVP, Finance and Administration and Chief Financial
Officer at Agilent Technologies. Mr. Dillon graduated from Amherst
College with a B.A. degree in economics.
Mrs. Karnad is currently the Managing Director of Housing
Development Finance Corporation Limited (HDFC Ltd) and is also a
Director on several other Boards, including BOSCH Limited and AKZO
Nobel India Limited. In her current role, Mrs. Karnad is
responsible for strategy, budget, product development and
distribution for all India lending operations. She is also highly
involved in policy planning with regard to the housing industry in
India. Mrs. Karnad is a law graduate from the University of Mumbai
and holds a Masters degree in Economics from the University of
Delhi. She has also been a Parvin Fellow at Princeton University’s
Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs.
Mr. Deepak Parekh, who joined WNS’s Board of Directors in July
2006, has chosen not to stand for re-election and as a result, the
term of his directorship expired at the company’s most recent
Annual General Meeting on September 4, 2012.
"We thank Deepak for his 6 years of service and his
contributions to the company. We are excited to have both Adrian
and Renu join the Board of Directors, and are confident that their
rich experience, strong relationships and unique business
perspectives will be invaluable assets to WNS,” said Eric Herr,
Chairman of WNS’s Board of Directors.
Mr. Dillon will serve on the Audit Committee while Mrs. Karnad
will serve on the Compensation Committee. With Mr. Parekh’s
departure and the addition of Mr. Dillon and Mrs. Karnad, WNS’s
Board of Directors now consists of eight directors, six of whom
satisfy the “independence” requirements of the NYSE listing
standards.
About WNS
WNS (Holdings) Limited (NYSE: WNS) is a leading global business
process outsourcing company. WNS offers business value to 200+
global clients by combining operational excellence with deep domain
expertise in key industry verticals including Travel, Insurance,
Banking and Financial Services, Manufacturing, Retail and Consumer
Packaged Goods, Shipping and Logistics and Healthcare and
Utilities. WNS delivers an entire spectrum of business process
outsourcing services such as finance and accounting, customer care,
technology solutions, research and analytics and industry specific
back office and front office processes. As of June 30, 2012, WNS
had 25,939 professionals globally. WNS currently has 29 delivery
centers worldwide including Costa Rica, India, Philippines, Poland,
Romania, South Africa, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom and the United
States. For more information, visit www.wns.com.
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limited number of clients in a limited number of industries; our
ability to expand our business or effectively manage growth; our
ability to hire and retain enough sufficiently trained employees to
support our operations; negative public reaction in the US or the
UK to offshore outsourcing; increasing competition in the BPO
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