Indian firm announces Strategic Partnership with a Tanzanian company

Pune, India, 26 March 2012: Nihilent, a leading global consulting and
solutions Integration Company today announced a strategic partnership
with Equip Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), an advisory firm
that provides governance, risk management and internal audit
transformation solutions. Nihilent and Equip will combine their
expertise to address the business challenges faced by organizations in
the Financial Services, Government and State–run enterprises and
Supply Chain and Logistics.

Nihilent-Equip partnership is a manifestation of rapidly developing
India-Africa bilateral trade relations, which has IT and ITes as one
of the core focus areas. The partnership intends to focus on helping
companies in Tanzania on adopting world class business practices. It
also plans on hiring substantial local talent and work towards
building local capability through knowledge transfer.
Mr. Minoo Dastur, Chief Operating Officer of Nihilent, said, “Nihilent
is engaged in introducing change through information technology,
people and process interventions, in systemic manner to improve
performance for our customers. Equip’s portfolio of Corporate
Governance and Risk Management services complements our business and
technology consulting portfolio. We are pleased to be partnering with
Equip to provide end-to-end and high quality consulting services to
our clients in Tanzania”.
“Equip and Nihilent have worked together in the past so I am pleased
that we have now jointly created a framework that allows both
organizations to leverage each other more formally and across a
broader range of geographies,” said Davith Kahwa, Chief Executive
Officer, Equip. “Nihilent’s presence in Markets such as the India,
North America, Europe, Southern Africa, and Middle East coupled with
its expertise in business and technology consulting brings a wealth of
consulting experience and exposure. Moreover, Nihilent’s strong
commitment to emerging economies particularly East Africa makes them a
welcome addition to Equip’s partner community,” added Mr Kahwa.
Nihilent brings hard rigor and plentiful experience into effective
deployment through its competence around corporate strategy execution
capability, while Equip brings with it leading practices in corporate
governance, risk management, regulatory compliance and internal audit
transformation.
Conceptualized with the objective of creating a different kind of
company, through a unique holistic and systems approach to problem
solving Nihilent has been credited of creating the World’s first
Change Management structure based on its patented MC3 TM framework for
Change Management, Performance Management and Strategy Execution. The
focus from the beginning has been to invest substantially in people
and R&D on building a consulting led framework driven company.
Nihilent was also recently awarded a patent for its predictive
‘Customer Loyalty Evaluation’ (CLE) model that helps businesses to
successfully identify the loyalty drivers and build enduring customer
loyalty.

About Nihilent
Nihilent is a global consulting and solutions integration company
using a holistic and systems approach to problem solving.
Headquartered in Pune, India, Nihilent has extensive experience in
international consulting, IT outsourcing and IT services. Nihilent’s
operations span North America, Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia.
Nihilent’s mission Change for Performance encapsulates our commitment
to make change happen systemically in terms of people, process,
technology and knowledge for achieving sustained performance for our
clients.
For more information, please visit www.nihilent.com
About EQUIP GRC
EQUIP GRC Limited is the business advisory firm dedicated exclusively
for corporate governance, risk management and internal audit
transformation. Equip assist clients seize new opportunities for
growth and profitability while not losing sight of associated risks.
Equip’s highly trained, results oriented professionals provides a
unique perspective on a wide range of critical business issues for
clients in East Africa and Southern Africa.
For more information, please visit www.equipgrc.com.

Himanil Bose
Nihilent Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Pune, India
Tel. +91-20-39846100
Mobile: +91-90046 90695
Email: himanil.bose@nihilent.com