Welcome ACI Chennai New Hires

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National Editors’ Conclave Conference 3
Fun in Hyderabad: Breaking the Balloons 3
ACE Rajkot Marathon 5
ACE Rajkot Cyclofun 6
ACE-Delhi Holi Celebration 7
Apex Alumni Dinner 8
Coming together to support children with
  hearing loss 9
Editor-in-Chief: Lindsay Legendre
Gupta Family Foundation: Kenya Connect 10
ACE Editor: Rajender Dogra
Get to know Purnachandra Rao Paditapu 11
ACI Editor: Chitra Gopal
Get to know Srinivasa Rao Boppana 13
ASP Editor: Ashok Allam

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Welcome ACI Chennai New Hires

Gilbert Rajkumar joined ACI-Chennai as a Team Manager-

Prepress on 01st Feb 2018.
He is a postgraduate in English Literature and has 12+ years of
experience in the industry. His last employment was with Code
Mantra as a Manager of a team for Prepress, comprising 25
members. He had worked for various publishers such as Pearson,
TnF, Elsevier, JBL, MacMillan, IMF etc. Prior to Code Mantra,
Gilbert was employed with diacriTech Technologies as a Manager
- Training where his role was to train fresh graduates in pagination
and QC. He is called as Gilli by Apexcians. Gilbert Rajkumar

Mary Kutty Mathew joined ACI-Chennai as an editorial head

on19th Feb 2018.
She is a postgraduate in special zoology and has over 20+
years of experience in the industry. She was with Hurix
Digital for the past 12 years and had worked for various
publishers such as SAGE, World Bank, TnF (US), McGraw
Hill (US & Australia), Wiley (Australia) etc. She was
instrumental in building a team of 40 copyeditors with the
capability to edit both style and language and pre-editors.
Her hobbies are watching people and reading books.
Mary Kutty

Niranjana joined ACI-Chennai as an Editorial Coordinator

on 26th Feb 2018.
She is a postgraduate in Economics. She had worked
with various prestigious publishers such as Bloomsbury,
Palgrave, CUP and other Indian Academic Publishers.
She is fond of reading, at free times she does drawing and
sketching.

Niranjana

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National Editors’ Conclave Conference

Editors’ Conclave ‘18, the national conference for editors, was held for the first time on 25th
February 2018, at Chennai. Editors from various locations such as Mumbai, Chandigarh,
Vizag, Chennai, etc. participated in this conference.
Yateendra Joshi, one of the speakers, is the first and the only Indian BELS-certified editor
with a Diplomate status, out of 30 people worldwide. Dr. Venkataraman was the first
Indian editor to make a presentation at Editors’ Canada. Dr. Nilima Vyas briefed the editors
about alt text and the primary function of
accessibility.
The Conclave provided an excellent
forum to interact with such elite
editors.
Mr. KP Eashwar, the founder of ADCS
communications, is one of panel members
of Editors’ Conclave. He comes with 27
years of experience in the publishing
industry.
Mr. Selvin Vedamanickam’s closing
keynote was very informative to all
the editors who participated. He is a
self-styled business consultant with rich
experience in the publishing field. Editors Conclave

Participants carried home with them a lot of information about various certifications
available for editors and also other editorial stuff. All the editors are looking forward to
such conferences in the future.

Fun in Hyderabad: Breaking the Balloons

In this fun game, three to four balloons

are tied to the ankles of participants. The
game involves breaking the balloons
tied to the ankles of other participants
at the same time safeguarding the
balloons tied to their own ankle. It was

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fun watching them play, especially when the participants were seen scrambling
the floor, with laughter and guffaws from the audience. The images give a
glimpse of the fun that we had.

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ACE Rajkot Marathon
More than 100 ACE employees participated in the 3rd Rajkot Marathon (for 42km,
21km, 10km, 5km and 1km distance) on 18th Feb, 2018 under guidance of Hitesh Vora
(ACE-GM).
ACE’s finisher of half Marathon: 3 persons of ACE group completed the 21KM run -
Hitesh Vora (GM-ACE), Prakash Pithva (TL- LPP) and Mitesh Vora (Sr DVO).
With the theme “Clean Rajkot”, the event was flagged off by Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani,
jointly organized by Rajkot Municipal Corporation and Rajkot City Police.
The Marathon’s brand ambassador and star attraction was Indian Cricketer Test player
Chateshwar Pujara. There were 64,160 participants in the run.

Medal Prakash Pithva (TL -LPP)

Hitesh Vora (GM-ACE), 2nd Left Mitesh Vora (Sr DVO)

with other participants

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ACE Rajkot Cyclofun

ACE Software Export Ltd. participated in Cyclofun, organized by Rajkot Municipal
Corporation in association with Rajkot Rotary Club Midtown on 4th Feb-2018. 750
participating Cyclists assembled in Rangeelu Rajkot ground.
20 participants from ACE under the guidance of Hitesh Vora (GM-ACE) performed well
in the event and got medals as consolation prize.

From left - Akshy Dave, Nirav Bhatt (TSG Leader), Piyush Vala (PPS-
GL), Bhavin Kavaiya (TL- LPP), Ajay Padharia(Sr Software Developer) ,
Prakash Pithva (TL-LPP), Mitesh Vora (DAO)with other participants

Nirav Bhatt (TSG Leader-ACE) Mitesh Vora (DAO)

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From left - Haresh Chavda (LA), Nirav Bhatt (TSG Leader), Bhavin Kavai-
ya (TL-LPP), Amit Jodhpura (LA), Piyush Vala (PPS-GL), Sandip Sheradiya
(Admin), Konsam L. Singh (PPS-QC) ; (sitting) Chirag Pipariya (PQA)

ACE-Delhi Holi Celebration

“Holi - “festival of colours”, is an Indian
spring festival celebrated on the full moon
day in the month of Phagun (as per Hindu
Calendar). It is celebrated all across the
Indian subcontinent as well as in countries
with large Indian subcontinent diasporas.

Bharat, Sunil and Gautam pose for a selfie

The ACE Delhi team celebrated on 2nd

March with zeal this festival of colors.
We applied color, sang ‘Holi’ songs,
danced and distributed sweets.

ACE Delhi employees posing for a group

photo during ‘Holi’ celebrations

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Apex Alumni Dinner Sheri Sipka

During a visit to Hyderabad in February, Shashi and Margaret Gupta and

Matthew Boryczka had the pleasure of bringing together several Apex
alumni to catchup and network over dinner. Many of these alumni began
their careers with Apex, and all excelled during their time here. They have
since gone on to start their own businesses and exciting new ventures. All
had a great time catching up and seeing each other again.

From left to right: Jayadevan Balakrishnan, Raju Penmatcha, Pavan Kumar Y,

Shashi Gupta, Padmaja N.C., Rameshu Bhogaraju, Ravi Thota, Rambabu Gude

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Coming together to support children
with hearing loss

The Gupta Family Foundation was able to bring together two organizations
with the same goal of supporting children with hearing loss. Balavidyalaya
and The Global Foundation for Children with Hearing Loss (GFCHL)
connected face to face in Chennai to share details about their programs and
discuss ways they could collaborate and reach out to more children with
hearing loss in different parts of the world, thereby help more Infants “Listen
from Infancy and Talk for a Lifetime.”
Balavidyalaya supports children in India, while GFCHL largely supports
children in Cambodia and Vietnam. The two organizations hope to find ways
to partner and improve their programs through the sharing of best practices
and successes.

Paige Stringer of The Global Foundation for Children with Hearing Loss and Dr. Meera Suresh of
Balavidyalaya Chennai

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Gupta Family Foundation: Kenya

Connect

Shashi and Margaret Gupta has the pleasure of visiting one of the Gupta
Family Foundation supporting organizations, Kenya Connect, earlier in
March to meet the staff and volunteers, and learn more about the program.
Kenya Connect works to empower and engage students and teachers to be
successful in the 21st century.

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Get to know Purnachandra Rao
Paditapu

PURNACHANDRA RAO PADITAPU

Quality Assurance Lead (Projects)
at Apex CoVantage India Pvt. Ltd (ACI-H)
With Apex for 18 Years 3 Months

Q: Favorite quotation of yours?

A: Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure,
loyalty and persistence.

Q: What is your strongest talent?

A: My strongest talent is to understand & learn the things very fast even
it is not in my Subject. With addition to this my Hardworking and
Dedication is helping me a lot to grow in the Professional Career.

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Q: Where did you spend your last family vacation?

A: We went to Vizag & Araku (India) along with friend’s family and it
was amazing trip that I never forget in my Life. Surprising thing is that
was the first Family vacation in my 10 years of Marriage Life other
than Temple visits. So I enjoyed a lot and spent good time with my
family without any boundaries.

Q: What is your favorite part of your job?

A: My Favorite part of my Job is challenge. Yes, I like to take more
challenges in terms of my work as I need to take care of whole quality
of the software’s that we are delivering. It’s requiring more patience
as I have to work with different people from different areas from off-
shore and on-shore.

Q: What is your favorite meal?

A: My favorite meal of the day is Lunch especially in the Weekend. I
used to spend some time with my family and sharing lot of points at
that time. I have two kids and they are going to school and there is
no time to talk to them in the weekdays due to the variation of their
School timings and my Office Timings.

Q: Were you named after anyone?

A: Yes. I was born on the day of “Full Moon” day, which it calling as
“Poona Chandrudu” in Telugu Language. So, my parents named me as
“Purnachandra Rao” to remember that day.

Q: If you had to be stranded on a deserted island with one person who

would you want that one person to be?
A: Obviously that person should be my wife. Why do I suffer alone…:-
O:-O:-O

Q: What is your favorite breakfast?

A: My favorite breakfast is Idli with Ghee.

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Get to know Srinivasa Rao Boppana

SRINIVASA RAO BOPPANA

Head – Quality Assurance Group
20 Years of Service with Apex

Q: Favorite quotations
A: Aim for progress, not perfection. Never give up your right to be
wrong, because you will then lose the ability to learn new things,
hence not move forward with your life. If you want success, take the
ownership, that is, “Ownership is the key to success.”

Q: What do you do when you have leisure time?

A: Reading books and watching movies.

Q: Which is your favorite season and why?

A: Winter is his favorite season because it is apt to go on long trips
around Hyderabad/Telangana. The festival “Sankranti (Pongal)” is
celebrated in winter. This festival is celebrated with bhogi mantalu,
kite flying, cock fights, etc. For this festival, all childhood friends and
relatives will gather in the village.

Q: What is your favorite food?

A: Hyderabad biryani.

Q: What do you like doing the most in your job?

A: Planning, guiding and motivating the team.

Q: What is your favorite sport that you like to watch?

A: Cricket.

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Q: In few words, describe your journey with Apex?

A: Apex is a great place for people who have a passion to work hard
and like to take up challenges. I joined as data analyst and became a
team lead, group lead, APM, PM and now heading the product quality
division.

Q: Who were you named after (what does your name mean)?
A: Srinivas – It is after Lord Shree Venkateswara Swamy/Balaji.

Q: Where did you spend your last family vacation?

A: Ooty, Tamil Nadu.

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