MUMBAI, India, May 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Patni Computer Systems Ltd., a leading global IT consulting and services provider, today announced the creation of a new role of the Chief Operating Officer (COO) and appointed Mr. Mrinal Sattawala in this capacity. In this role, Mr. Sattawala will have overall responsibility for operations of the business units at Patni and report to Mr. Naren K Patni, Chairman & CEO. Insurance and Financial Services business units will now directly report to Mr. Sattawala. He will continue to be responsible for the Sales and Regional Operations of the Europe and APAC regions, besides overseeing Global Sales and Marketing. "Mrinal is a long-term member of our management team with the breadth of strategic and operating experience required to take on this new assignment," said Mr. Naren K Patni. "The creation of this role demonstrates Patni's continuous commitment to adapting itself to the changing needs of the business." About Patni Patni Computer Systems Limited (BSE:PATNIBSE:COMPUTBSE:NSE:BSE:PATNIBSE:NYSE:BSE:PTI) is a global IT Services provider servicing Global 2000 clients. Patni caters to its clients through its industry-focused practices, including insurance, manufacturing, financial services, telecommunications, and its technology-focused practices. With an employee strength of over 12,000 and multiple offshore development facilities across eight cities; Patni has 23 international offices across the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Patni has registered revenues of US$ 450 million for the year 2005. Patni's service offerings include application development, application maintenance and support, packaged software implementation, infrastructure management services, product engineering services, business process outsourcing and quality assurance services. Committed to quality, Patni adds value to its client's businesses through well-established and structured methodologies, tools and techniques. Patni is an ISO 9001: 2000 certified and SEI-CMMi Level 5 organization, assessed enterprise wide at P-CMM Level 3. In keeping with its focus on continuous process improvements, Patni adopts Six Sigma practices as an integral part of its quality and process frameworks. For more information on Patni, visit http://www.patni.com/. Safe Harbor: Certain statements in this release concerning our future growth prospects are forward-looking statements, which involve a number of risks, and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding fluctuations in earnings, our ability to manage growth, intense competition in IT services including those factors which may affect our cost advantage, wage increases in India, our ability to attract and retain highly skilled professionals, time and cost overruns on fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on immigration, our ability to manage our international operations, reduced demand for technology in our key focus areas, disruptions in telecommunication networks, liability for damages on our service contracts, the success of the companies in which Patni has made strategic investments, withdrawal of governmental fiscal incentives, political instability, legal restrictions on raising capital or acquiring companies outside India, and unauthorized use of our intellectual property and general economic conditions affecting our industry. Additional risks that could affect our future operating results are more fully described in our Red herring filing. The company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statement that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of the Company. DATASOURCE: Patni Computer Systems Ltd. CONTACT: Brenda Chroniak, Text 100 for Patni Computer Systems, +1-617-399-4984, or Web site: http://www.patni.com/

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