FARMINGTON HILLS ? Covansys has replaced Raj Sirohi, Senior Vice President of Global Sales & Marketing, who also heads up the company’s Global Business Process Outsourcing, with long-time Covansys veteran Stephen Nicholas, who most recently helped drive the expansion of the company’s Commercial-West and Telecommunications businesses.

Sirohi will serve as a consultant to Covansys while pursuing other opportunities outside the Company.

Covansys also announced Jon Umstead was appointed to the newly-created position of Senior Vice President and Global Head of Business Process Outsourcing. Umstead previously had headed BPO operations in the United States.

?We appreciate the contributions that Raj Sirohi made during his tenure in this position and are pleased that he will continue to support Covansys as a consultant,” said Covansys CEO Raj Vattikuti.

Founded in 1985, Covansys now has approximately 8,000 consultants and

employees worldwide. Two of the company’s three wholly owned development centers in India are assessed at Level 5 in SEI CMM(R). All three are ISO 9001:2000 certified and assessed at Level 5 in PCMM(R), and five global facilities are BS7799-2:2002 certified.

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