Ascent Computing Group Appoints Salil Donde As President -- Donde Charged To Lead Ascent's Growth and Expansion.Business Editors WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 14, 2001 Ascent Computing Group Inc., an Inc 500 and a Fast 500 company, today announced the appointment of Salil Donde as its President and to its Board of Directors. Ascent is the only provider of both voice technology and IT consulting services. Donde will leverage the company's technological experience to advance the usage and effectiveness of voice-based software and services. He has experience with emerging technologies, business/product development, technology companies, turnarounds and profit and loss management. As the company moves forward in the voice implementation arena, Donde seeks to advance the company's product, AscenTel. The platform provides users with the ability to request, receive and update information verbally from and in enterprise databases allowing transactions to be conducted over a reliable and secure infrastructure. Mr. Donde seeks to consolidate Ascent's current reach in several vertical markets including energy, healthcare, financial/insurance and retail/manufacturing. Additionally, he will oversee the day-to-day functioning of the company and work to implement the company's long-term plan and strategy. "This is an exciting opportunity to dive back into an industry that I have been involved with and truly believe in. Voice is the future of enterprise enablement," said Salil Donde, President, Ascent Computing Group. "Ascent is poised and ready to assist companies increase efficiency and reduce operating costs operating costs npl → gastos mpl operacionales , while improving customer and employee satisfaction." Prior to his arrival at Ascent, Donde served as the Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. , Chief Technology Officer, as well as a member of the Board of Directors for energyleader.com. In this capacity, he directed the technical, financial and operational functions for this BtoB e-commerce company. In his career, Mr. Donde has built successful businesses and also created unique natural language processing Natural language processing Computer analysis and generation of natural language text. The goal is to enable natural languages, such as English, French, or Japanese, to serve either as the medium through which users interact with computer systems such as technology to interpret common English in lieu of a programming language. "We are pleased to have Mr. Donde join our management team in an effort to advance our voice technology offering, and our IT consulting services" said Sunil Nikhar, Ascent's Chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "With over 15 years of industry experience, he is a welcome addition to the company and will provide sound strategic counsel and guidance." Mr. Donde received a B.Tech from the Indian Institute The Indian Institute in central Oxford, England is located at the north end of Catte Street on the corner with Holywell Street and faching down Broad Street from the east.[1] of Technology, Bombay, India, a M.S. degree from Clemson University Clemson University, at Clemson, S.C.; coeducational; land-grant; state supported; opened in 1893 as a college, gained university status in 1964. The university includes programs in textile and computer research, wildlife biology, and aquaculture and maintains in Clemson S.C. and a M.B.A. from Columbia University in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . About Ascent Computing Group (www.ascent-inc.com) Ascent Computing Group is the only provider of both voice-based business application software and consulting services. Voice is the simplest way to interact with enterprise data anytime, anyplace from any phone. Ascent uniquely voice-enables all business applications running under any operating system with Voice XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. enhanced with natural language processing. Headquartered in White Plains, New York For other places with the same name, see White Plains (disambiguation). White Plains is a city in south-central Westchester County, New York, about 4 miles (6 km) east of the Hudson River and , Ascent has been developing and deploying business solutions for world-class companies since 1994. |
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