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Netik Names Ishan Manaktala to Lead Asia Pacific Expansion 
 
NEW YORK, May 25 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ -- 
 
    Netik LLC, a Symphony Technology Group (STG) company, and a global 
leading provider of financial data management and reporting services and 
products, announced today its expansion in the Asia Pacific region with the 
appointment of Ishan Manaktala as its managing director and head of Asia. He 
will sit on Netik's executive management team reporting to Rob Flatley, CEO 
and President of Netik LLC. 
 
    Manaktala will assume responsibility for transforming Netik India so that 
it can service all aspects of the financial services information management 
value chain. Based in Bangalore, Manaktala will manage Netik's Information 
Service group in India and build Netik's operations in the Asian Pacific 
region. 
 
    "This is the first key hire in driving the future development of Netik's 
goal to be the number one provider in information services to the financial 
community," said Flatley, who recently came in as CEO and President of Netik 
LLC. "A big part of that strategy is to increase the sophistication, depth 
and scope of what Netik produces from its Bangalore based organization." 
 
    Previously, Manaktala was a director and the global head of analytics for 
Deutsche Bank's equities unit in New York. Prior to that, he worked for 
Quantitative Solutions Group and Russell Investment Group. 
 
    Manaktala holds a Master of Science degree in Finance from Bentley 
College, MA and a dual Master of Business Administration degree from Columbia 
Business School, NY and London Business School, UK. 
 
    About Netik 
 
    Netik is a leading global provider to the securities industry of 
financial data management and reporting services and products. Netik's data 
management products include Netik Global Securities Master, Netik GSM(SM), a 
reference data managed service, Netik InterView(TM) a data warehouse for the 
storage of holistic financial data and Netik Information Portal(SM) to 
visualize and report on data. These Netik solutions sit at the heart of 
investment and securities operations at many of the world's leading Asset 
Managers, Hedge Funds, Wealth Managers, Private Banks, Prime Brokers, Fund 
Administrators, Custodians, Investment Operations Outsourcing providers and 
 
    About Symphony Technology Group 
 
    Symphony Technology Group (STG) is a strategic private equity firm with 
the mission of investing in and building great software and services 
companies. In addition to capital, STG provides transformative expertise to 
enable its companies to deliver maximum value to their clients to retain and 
attract the best talent and to achieve best in class business performance. 
All STG companies are expected to grow through innovation. STG's current 
portfolio consists of 10 global companies. For more information please visit 
 
    SOURCE: Netik 
 
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