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Richard Le Named CEO of Symbio Group
Leading the Chinese Software Outsourcing Market: Symbio Continues Rapid Expansion
| Source: Symbio Group
ROCKVILLE, MD -- (MARKET WIRE) -- February 14, 2007 -- The Symbio Group ("Symbio")
(www.symbio-group.com), a leading provider of software development,
testing, and globalization outsourcing services, announced today that
Richard Le was named CEO, promoted from his role as president. Joseph Hsu,
former CEO, will continue in his role as Chairman of the Board of Directors
for Symbio.
Mr. Le co-founded Symbio in 1994 with 22 employees, and has served as its
president since 2002. During his tenure as president, he oversaw the
company's growth from 120 employees based in the U.S. and Taiwan in 2002,
to 800 employees today, with three full-scale software development centers,
eight global management offices and multiple sales offices. The Symbio
Group now functions as a cost-effective and highly efficient extension of
its 300+ clients' development, testing and globalization teams.
With more than 20 years of technology experience, Mr. Le managed product
development efforts for International Integrated Systems (IIS) and Neotech
Development Corp, before co-founding Symbio. At IIS, Mr. Le was Director
of the Product Development Division, where he led the production strategy,
planning, marketing and development of software products. He also served
as Director of the System Development Division of IIS, responsible for
offshore development projects for IBM Worldwide Laboratories. Prior to
IIS, Mr. Le was a senior manager of the System Development Department at
NDC.
He received both his Master's and Bachelor's degrees in Computer
Engineering from National Chiao Tung University.
"With Symbio's continued growth and momentum in the marketplace, the
promotion of Mr. Le to CEO enables us to continue to execute our vision of
making Symbio the world's leading innovation partner," said Joseph Hsu,
Symbio's Chairman. "We will build upon our success in software development
outsourcing, and further expand our presence in the software outsourcing,
business process outsourcing and technology innovation industries."
About Symbio
Symbio leverages China outsourcing teams to help companies become global
leaders. It helps organizations accelerate their software development and
testing cycles by optimal application of its global resources and delivery
models. Symbio also localizes and supports technology products for any
language or locale. Founded in 1994 by a group of engineers from IBM's
international research and development labs in Asia, Symbio now functions
as a cost-effective and highly efficient extension of an organization's
development, testing and globalization teams. Symbio's clients are among
the world's elite companies including: AOL, BMC, CA, Citigroup, EMC,
FileNet, IBM, MasterCard, Mercedes Benz, Microsoft, Nokia, Oracle, Palm,
Sony, as well as more than 300 other leading organizations.
For further information on Symbio, please visit www.symbio-group.com, email
marketing@symbio-group.com or call 650-356-1981.