IT solutions provider NIIT Technologies today announced appointment of Amit Kumar Garg as the chief financial officer (CFO) of the company.
"We welcome Amit Garg to our leadership team. With his strong background and relevant experience, I look forward to his contribution in elevating our business performance," NIIT Technologies CEO and Joint MD Arvind Thakur said in a statement.
Garg will be leading the global finance function for NIIT Technologies and takes over from Amit Roy, who was appointed as the CFO in the interim.
He has 20 years of extensive experience across various financial roles, including corporate finance, corporate restructuring, cash management, compliance and controllership, the statement said.
Earlier, he has worked as director-finance with Fidelity International and American Express Financial Centre in India, it added.
As part of its overall plan to partner with other players
and create a 360 degree eco-system, NIIT.Tv and Tutorials Point, today entered into a strategic partnership to provide additional value to their respective end users with added quality content. Through this partnership the users of NIIT.Tv and Tutorialspoint.Com can access the content of both the sites.
Tutorialspoint.Com provides purely text based content and a Coding ground to practice & hone programming skills, while NIIT.Tv offers Video based courses. Between NIIT and Tutorials Point, learners get a complete multi-modal learning experience FREE - combining tutorials, videos, live synchronous classes, e-books, interactivity, discussion forums, assessment, etc., making the combined ecosystem the richest and widest and deepest IT learning environment. The two learning destinations will enable a more seamless experience for their respective users in their pursuit to find learning material for almost every single IT area currently in demand.
The NIIT.Tv beta program has progressed well. Based on feedback from learners and the growth of courses, the course catalog has been enhanced, an intuitive learning dashboard has been introduced, and the proven cloud courseware system from NIIT's Cloud Campus has been integrated into NIIT.Tv. Also the NIIT.Tv Android app is now available on the Google Play Store for free download. A course configurator has also been created to enable independent authors & subject matter experts to offer their courses on NIIT.Tv.
The relationship with Tutorials Point, which has an established base of over 1 million users per month, will increase the spread of NIIT.Tv, and give impetus to its plan of covering every city/town having Internet access in India, and providing over 1500 courses through the platform.
