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8K Miles announces the appointment of Strategic Advisory Board members


Chennai, India, October 9, 2015 -- 8K MILES SOFTWARE SERVICES -- a leading provider of
secure cloud solutions, today announced the appointment of Strategic Advisory Board members.
8K Miles Software Services (8K Miles, Company) is pleased to announce its new team of strategic
advisors that also broadens Companys access to previously untapped business opportunities. Advisory
Board aim is to accelerate the 8K Miles global insights on cloud, SaaS, mobility, infrastructure
scalability, big data, analytics, security, compliance, and identity management areas, as the company
continues growing both: organically and through M&As. 8K Miles has been helping to educate the
market by bringing innovative solutions for public cloud by joining forces with leading providers in the
cloud space, such as: AWS, MS Azure and IBM.
We are excited to welcome all our new advisors to 8K Miles Advisory Board at the time when our
Healthcare and Life Sciences business is capitalizing on strong growth opportunities in the cloud
market. - said Mr. Suresh Venkatachari, Chairman and Managing Director, 8K Miles Software
Services.
The new Advisory Board members include:
Jay Vijayan: CIO of Tesla, Former Senior Director, VM Ware
Jay is running all Information Systems for Tesla, directly reporting to the Chairman and CEO,
Elon Musk. Jay and his organization are responsible for all of Tesla's Information Systems
including applications, infrastructure, network, operations and security. Jay and his team laid
the foundation for Teslas infrastructure ground-up during the companys very critical growth.
Jay built several best-in-class systems including Tesla's e-Commerce, ERP, Service and
Logistics systems that are simple, agile, flexible and custom fit to Tesla's needs. Before joining
Tesla, Jay was the Sr. Director, IT Business Applications for VMware during a period of the
company growth, as it grew from US$700 million to close to US$4 billion in annual revenue.

Reza Nazleman: Former Head of Global IT Transformation, Microsoft; Former CIO of


Microsoft Europe and Middle East/Skype; Partner KPMG Consulting Europe
Reza is a global IT executive with 20+ years of proven leadership in professional services as
well as operational end-to-end accountability with EUnet, France Telecom, McKinsey &
Company, KPMG, BearingPoint, Bank of Scotland, and Microsoft. Reza has been a driving
force behind major business process transformations that have delivered cost reductions,
efficiency gains, agility and competitive advantage to leading global corporations.

Jason Rouault: Head of OpenStack Cloud, Time Warner Cable; Former CTO of HP Identity
Management and Director of Engineering, HP Open Cloud
Jason is the Senior Director of Engineering at Time Warner Cable where he is responsible for
the ongoing development, operation, and support of the TWC OpenStack Cloud. Prior to Time
Warner Cable, Jason worked as CTO of the Hewlett-Packards Identity Management business.
Jason has over 20 years of technology management and team building experience, including a
detailed working knowledge of Information Technologies, Software Development, Cloud
Services, Internet & eBusiness industry.

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Jeff Nigriny: Founder & President of Certipath, Former CISO of Exostar


Jeff Nigriny is the Founder and President of CertiPath, a trust framework provider that certifies
authentication and access control devices with a focus on high assurance for aerospace and
defense industries and government agencies. Certipaths customers include The Boeing
Company, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, EADS/Airbus and BAE Systems.
Jeff wrote the Government's 1st Identity Law for Common Wealth of Virginia, US.
Dinesh Yadav, IBM Business Unit Executive, Security solution sales
Dinesh is responsible for sales, channel and go-to-market for IBMs security solutions with a
17 year track record of success in the information security and software business across North
America, Asia Pacific and South America regions. Dinesh developed organizations and go-tomarket models for the embryonic start-up stage as well as the large enterprise software
providers.

Charles Soto, Associate Partner SteelPointe Partners, LLP, Vice President of IT, Motorola
Charles is currently an associate partner with Steelpointe Partners where he provides and leads
global management consulting solutions and services across multiple industries and business
functions. Currently, he has been engaged with Microsoft as an Advisor for the Quality
Business Excellence group, a collaborative business partner with extensive experience running
multimillion dollar portfolios with Fortune 100 companies. During his years serving as VP of
IT at Motorola, Charles was accountable for overseeing Motorola Solutions (Enterprise
Mobility, Government, Home and Network Mobility), innovative products and services and
generating annual revenues of $20B. He managed architecture, applications development, cloud
computing and global business transformation/solution delivery.

Having highly credible, accomplished advisors in the areas of cloud, digital transformation, mobile
and security will strengthen the 8K Miles innovative offerings. - said Mr. Lena Kannappan, Chief
Operating Officer, 8K Miles Software Services.
About 8K Miles:
8K Miles Software Services is a global Cloud, SaaS & Security Solutions company based in the San
Francisco Bay area and a publicly traded company listed on Indian Stock Exchanges (NSE and BSE).
8KMiles Software Services provides digital technology solutions SMAC (Social, Mobile, Analytics
and Cloud) for seamless connectivity between consumers, SMBs, large enterprises, healthcare providers
and pharmaceutical companies secured with EzIAM SaaS offering, CloudEzRx solution and our
patented MISP platform for accelerated Business Partner federations.

For 8K Miles Software Services Limited,

R S Ramani
Whole Time Director
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