Per the Daily Record:
http://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=550037 (http://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=550037)
By Karen Brune Mathis, Editor
Genpact announced today that it will open a new center in Jacksonville and hire up to 200 people in its first year of operation.
The global professional services firm, which says it is focused on delivering digital transformation for clients, made the announcement at the SelectUSA Investment Summit in Oxon Hill, Maryland, outside of Washington, D.C.
It said it is "tapping into a deep and growing talent pool to provide transformational business services and solutions" for its clients across many industries.
Genpact expects to add up to 200 jobs in the first year of operation.
The company said two of its vice presidents attended the announcement today along with Tim Vanderhoof, senior vice president of Enterprise Florida Inc.; Michael Breen, senior director of the international department at JAXUSA Partnership; and Israel Hernandez, acting U.S. undersecretary of commerce for international trade.
Genpact said it has 12 delivery centers and about 5,000 employees in the U.S. It also operates sales offices, and client and remote sites.
Genpact said that to drive digital-led innovation and digitally enabled intelligent operations for clients around the world, it is expanding its U.S. presence by investing in "strategically attractive cities."
"We chose to open a center in Jacksonville because it's a budding financial services hub and boasts both an extremely favorable business climate and an impressive digital talent pool," said NV "Tiger" Tyagarajan, Genpact president and CEO, in a news release.
He said the center will "help our clients transform their operations with the power of our domain expertise and digital and analytics solutions."
Tim Cost, JAXUSA Partnership chair, said the finance and professional services sectors continue to be high-priority industries in the region. He said 17 projects announced over the last several years that have created more than 2,800 jobs.
JAXUSA Partnership is the economic development division of JAX Chamber.
Genpact said it signed a lease for 37,000 square feet of office space at Capital Plaza in South Jacksonville and will open July 24 with its first training class.
The company initially will begin providing processing, underwriting, and closing services for residential mortgage loans for a leading financial services institution, it said.
Genpact also plans to provide more services in Jacksonville.
Jobs are posted at https://careers.genpact.com/ and on sites including Monster, Indeed and CareerBuilder.