Changes at Gridstone
We would like to announce that the Board of Directors of Gridstone appointed me to take over the responsibilities of CEO of Gridstone from Basab Pradhan, my co-founder and colleague. Basab continues to be closely associated with the company as a Member of the Board. (You can find Basab’s post on his blog about his future plans here.)
I co-founded Gridstone 3 ½ years ago, and have spent most of that time building out our product platform. To spearhead our market development efforts, I recently relocated from the San Francisco Bay Area to New York, where a majority of our customers are.
With the support of a few key strategic customers, we have spent the last 3 ½ years building a unique and valuable set of capabilities along many different dimensions. While that process is never complete, we have reached a point where the time has come to aggressively take these to market – by ourselves and more importantly, with partners. That is going to be our focus going forward – to expand our relationships with our current customers by anticipating and serving their research and data needs better, working with partners to penetrate the market, and leverage our capabilities in new and exciting areas.
I thank you for your support thus far, and look forward to your continued inputs and suggestions as we enter an exciting new phase of growth.
PR Ganapathy