Nearshore Journal

Lead by Felipe Vergara, Lumni’s,  mission is to eliminate the crushing debt burden that collage graduates incur funding their college education. I met Felipe, a McKinsey alum, at the  Social Enterprise/Social Venture Conference in Miami Beach yesterday. Check out the list of impressive speakers who attended.
I participated as a panelist for the session on the [...]

By Philip Peters
The New York Times Deal Book sited a slew of global telecom related deals in excess of US$15 billion worthy of highlight this week. First, Mexican based broadcaster Groupo Televista took a 30 percent – US$1.4 billion stake in the telecommunication unit of Comunicaciones Nextel de México – NII Holding. The deal places Nextel [...]

A wave of mergers and acquisitions in the outsourcing industry from Argentina to Guatemala underscores a boom in nearshoring by U.S. multinational companies, a business that is expected to continue to grow annually at double digits to over $20 billion by 2013.
Philip Peters, Miami – This is an article I wrote for Kroll Teledencias [...]

By Philip Peters
Capital markets seem to be engaged a period of “pausal integrity.”  They have temporarily retraced over uncertainties in Greece and Spain and maybe Portugal on the European front and persisting unemployment challenges in the U.S. However, I was struck by the many press announcements and media releases over the last week or so, [...]

Cognizant opens expanded Toronto center to enhance near-shore delivery capabilities of consulting and IT service offerings. (From Left to Right: Anbu Muppidathi, Assistant Vice President, Banking & Financial Services Practice, Cognizant; Prasad Chintamaneni, Senior Vice President, Practice Head, Banking & Financial Services Practice, Cognizant; Michael H. Williams, General Manager of the City of Toronto’s [...]

Alvi Abuaf | President & CEO CPM Braxis USA
By Philip Peters – NJ Editor In Chief
Yes, I spent 20+ years at Ernst & Young then Capgemini (which acquired the consulting practice of E&Y). My last position was Vice President and Managing Director of Americas Financial Services Industry Consulting. After that I was the [...]

Steve Reynolds, Managing Director, WNS – America
We see that WNS has recently announced the launch of your first nearshore center in San Jose, Costa Rica. Central America, the Caribbean, Mexico and Latin America have appealing merits in themselves. What drove your decision to select Costa Rica?

We are very excited about launching our center here. WNS [...]