By Joseph Green-Bishop -
Correspondent

GREATER METROPLEX - Pankaj Kumar came to the United States from India in 1996 as a senior executive with an indian-based technical-services company located in Connecticut.

Under his stewardship, the company grew from four employees to 120 and, when he left in 2000 to launch his own firm, he was head of its worldwide operations.

Kumar started PM-AM Corp., a global IT solutions firm, with one person in a Los Colinas office. Today the firm has five employees in the United States and 50 in India.

"We are growing at 100% each year," said Kumar, a graduate of the University of Lucknow in India. "We are active in wireless, Internet, e-commerce, Knowledge managemment, client server and database solutions. Among our strengths is software development."

Kumar says his sales team aggressively markets to clients using a formalized approach that is now a software tool.

"We have always believed in approaching the marketplace in a very professional, scientific and disciplined way", said Kumar, who lives in Coppell with his wife, Mahima, and their two children.

"Our firm addresses global opportunities in various domains such as process manufacturing, banking, finance, securities, insurance, IT, transportation, logistics and utilities," Kumar said.

As an IT executive in India, Kumar played a major role in establishing technology centers that meet the communications and service needs of American-and European-based companies. He is comfortable in boardrooms across the globe.

"I believe that we are able to produce better tools than our competitors," Kumar said. "We are able to monitor the productivity of tech specialists for our clients with the click of a button. We are able to produce faster, better and less-costly technology solutions."

With revenue projected at $3 million next year, Kumar says his employees are one of the principal reasons for PM-AM's rapid success. "We give our employees complete freedom, international exposure and responsibility. They enjoy working in a work culture that is open and shows concern about them as people," he said.

Green-Bishop is a Dallas-based freelance writer.