FARMINGTON HILLS – Indian entrepreneur Govind Rammurthy, the founder of MicroWorld Technologies, opened his US office in Farmington Hills to sell his security-software products to the auto industry, part of the company’s strategy to target Fortune 1000 companies.
Rammurthy, 33, already has landed some business with Ford Motor Company, where MicroWorld is providing anti-virus software. He’s now trying to get a foothold at General Motors Corp. and Chrysler Group. MicroWorld has developed a Real-Time AntiVirus and Content Security software eScan for desktops and servers. Its communication security software, MailScan, provides e-mail scanners for SMTP/POP3 Mail Servers. The company hopes to post 2006 revenues from $20 million to $25 million.
“With Ford, we have started providing workstation PC versions of our anti-virus software to employees as well as retirees,” Rammurthy said in an interview with Mitechnews.Com Editor Mike Brennan. “We had focused on the small and home Office markets as well as medium-sized businesses when we began. Now we’re moving to larger enterprises.”
MicroWorld has 200 employees worldwide, with eight employees at its Farmington Hills office. Rammurthy said MicroWorld could be adding more US employees by year’s end.
“We have a new product that launches this quarter that will require us to target large customers,” he said. “We have plans to increase our US sales force to 15 or 20 people in Michigan.”
Certainly the US market is vital to MicroWorld’s growth strategy. About half of its business comes from the United States, with Europe and Asia representing the second and third largest markets, respectively.
“We’re looking to penetrate more of the Fortune 1000 market in the US,” Rammurthy said. “We now have products to target small to large markets. If we look at the security business, apart from encryptions and de-encryptions, we have mail and web security products.”
MicroWorld has an enterprise wide adware-spyware blocker in development, as well as management tools for big companies. With all the products already in its portfolio, and the others in the works, Rammurthy thinks MicroWorld will have its products in half the Fortune 1000 companies in the United States within five years…and an even larger Michigan presence.
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