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Pingar India Technologies Private Limited was incorporated in June 2011.

For me however, returning to Bangalore this week was a little bit like returning home. I first set up a software development business in India’s IT City over ten years ago. The city and its burgeoning IT sector have grown exponentially since then. It is now Asia’s equivalent of Silicon Valley.

Two key events were scheduled for the week: The announcement of an Agreement with CMC Ltd to jointly identify global opportunities to work together and a major Pingar presentation to leading IT company executives.

The announcement with CMC took place at an organised media briefing at the Lalit Ashok hotel. It was some introduction to the world of IT journalism in India. Even though the event had been planned for some time, it still faced stiff competition from multiple other media announcements. It speaks a lot of Bangalore. This is no longer just the home to ‘cheap’ coders. This is home to some of the world’s largest R&D facilities and new product announcements are made daily. The local Pingar team however had done a brilliant job and a number of leading publications attended our event. The upshot, as I write up this blog post, is that Pingar & CMC’s joint intentions have now been published across a wide range of India media. Pingar truly has arrived.

To complement the CMC announcement, we had organised a major presentation of Pingar’s technology to some of Bangalore’s leading IT executives. Over 140 delegates attended the event. Pingar was supported by the presence of Sir Richard Hadlee, a cricketing legend and Pingar Ambassador to India. Given the reception Sir Richard received, one can only imagine what life must be like for Sachin.

We were delighted that Gavin Young, New Zealand Consul General and Trade Commissioner also flew in from Mumbai to provide additional input. This was more than just a Pingar event. This was a demonstration of New Zealand innovation to a highly influential audience of senior Indian IT decision makers.

Chris de Boer, Pingar Chairman and Tarun Kanji, Pingar CFO also joined us in Bangalore. The outcome of both events has had an immediate impact. Pingar’s India team will as of Monday be looking for larger premises in Bangalore’s CBD as we aggressively grow our business development and technical support headcount. This week has demonstrated the potential I have always seen in this region.

This past week marks the end of the beginning only. I plan to return to Bangalore in April when Pingar will announce a further set of significant milestones in the region. These are already well advanced and like any Go to Market strategy, they require significant forward planning. Once again, there is a very high chance that cricket, the sport that unites India & New Zealand, will play a significant part. The good news for any cricket lover is that my own days of off-spin are long since over. This will be a time for the professionals.

Chris & Tarun have now flown to Delhi to join the New Zealand Government’s ICT Mission to India, which includes the Nasscom Leadership Forum in Mumbai next week. I am en route to New Zealand for a few days to prepare for SPTechCon and Strata 2012 in San Francisco and Santa Clara later this month. I have experienced the complete energy experience for the past few days that is Silicon Valley, Asia. I look forward to extending that across the globe as Pingar’s North American team take the same message and the same opportunity to potential partners and System Integrators in Silicon Valley, CA.

Peter Wren-Hilton

CEO

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