Former SAS Institute Senior Executive Takes Helm as VP at TurboWorx

TurboWorx, Inc. announced it has appointed Gourish Hosangady as the company’s Vice President of Sales and Marketing. TurboWorx provides the only integrated, end-to-end solution for creating, managing and accelerating compute- and data-intensive applications and workflows in heterogeneous distributed computing environments and grids. Hosangady previously served as CEO and Managing Director of SAS India, where he grew the independent subsidiary of $1.2B SAS, Inc. at an average of over 150% year on year. “Hosangady has a proven track record of quickly growing revenue while building the team, partner alliances and delivery capacity to address the life sciences, financial services, process manufacturing, automotive, energy exploration and production, aerospace, and information-based medicine markets,” said Jeff Augen, President and CEO, TurboWorx, Inc. “Hosangady’s addition will immeasurably benefit our firm as his deep business and technology background is very well suited to guide TurboWorx to its true potential in the market,” Augen added. “TurboWorx has an impressive combination of market leadership, blue-chip customers and a talented team,” said Gourish Hosangady, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, TurboWorx, Inc. “I am excited to provide TurboWorx with seasoned sales and marketing expertise that will aggressively drive the company’s growth and market expansion,” Hosangady concluded. As Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Hosangady’s responsibilities will also include building direct and indirect channels for worldwide solution sales of TurboWorx products and services. Hosangady lead the identification and expansion of distribution channels, partner relationships, and drive revenue growth. TurboWorx helps companies slice through their most complex business problems by automating and streamlining computational complexity. TurboWorx provides the only solution that enables firms to easily and quickly wrap proprietary and third-party applications into components that become parts of workflows that can be executed across heterogeneous computing environments. Fortune 50 companies such as IBM (NYSE: IBM), Bayer (NYSE: BAY), DuPont (NYSE: DD), Dow Chemical (NYSE: DOW) and Global 1000 companies including Karo Bio AB (KARO.ST), Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: NBIX), and MDS Proteomics are just some of the firms that depend on TurboWorx every day.