Once the move to New York is completed, he said, he will focus on winning more contracts for procurement outsourcing, a sector that already represents 30percentt of the company's revenue and is growing by 15percentt a year.
Last year was perhaps the most difficult on record for India's IT and Business Process Outsourcing (IT/BPO) sector.
Under Labour, billions of pounds worth of public services have been outsourced: the private sector runs prisons; local authorities outsource extensively, from housing benefits and revenue services to street cleaning and schools.
Since then, attrition rates have continued to fall, from about 45 percent five years ago to around 20 to 25 percent today, which Ms. Mathur-Gandhi calls a "dramatic improvement" from where the Indian outsourcing sector stood five years ago.
Higher education, a shared resource, which ought to be available to all who seek it, has become yet another social responsibility outsourced towards private sector profit.
While some commentators have blamed the collapse on the perceived iniquities of outsourcing, wherein public sector services are delivered by private sector companies, it is worth remembering that Carillion has been felled by old-fashioned project failure.
Rick Simmonds, a partner with management consultancy Alsbridge, which employs 30 people in the UK and advises companies and government on outsourcing, said public sector contracts had been significantly cut back in recent months.
A spokeswoman for the Cabinet Office, which manages the outsourcing of public sector contracts and faced criticism over its role in the administration of the bust of Carillion, said the government had put in place measures to prevent a repeat.
While tougher credit conditions from banks will rein in consumer spending, the country's IT outsourcing sector is also headed for tough times.
Unfortunately, for the government, any reasonably qualified computer programmer is assured of a well-paying job in India's IT outsourcing sector.
