We are building an innovative and energetic organization connected to our core values.
  • Equal Opportunity and Respect for All
  • Shared Success
  • Value our Customers
  • Diversity and Inclusion
These are more than simply words on a page. They define us and how we conduct our business.

Thinking Ahead

Our core values are our True North that help us in nurturing and growing our culture of trust, openness, fairness, and equality. While we might sacrifice short-term profit and growth, in the long term we are committed to building a sustainable, profitable, and successful enterprise.

Foundational Values

One United Family. We hire and promote talent from around the world. In most cases, we are hiring individuals from economically challenged places and providing them a platform to showcase their abilities to our global customers.

Shared Success

We believe an organization’s sole purpose shouldn’t be to only maximize profits for its shareholders but to also share it with its employees and with the communities in which we operate. Developing products and services that bridge inequality globally is what motivates us every day.

Equal Opportunity And Respect For All

We believe all humans bring equal value, regardless of gender, race, religion, or ethnicity. For our company to be successful and attract and retain the best and the brightest, we must provide opportunities to everyone to help reach their fullest potential.

Value Our Customers

We believe that to build a value-based organization, we have to work with customers who share our philosophy and value system. Our ideal customer embraces our value system, adds value to the society, and practices and engages in activities that grow communities, protect the environment, and create a culture of inclusivity.

We Are Katalyst

The Katalyst leadership team blends a history of industry expertise with visionary thinking.

Vivek Ghai

Managing Director

Vivek is currently spearheading as an MD and has over 20 years of experience in business planning, sales & marketing, and project management across the globe. He is well versed in the digital and eCommerce sphere and has a solid grasp of product development lifecycles as well as services operations. In his various leadership roles, including Senior VP, he has successfully handled roles and mentored the team in operations, digital marketing, and business development. He has overseen project execution and development with his strong sense of inbound lead generation and outbound sales.

He has delivered high value to technology-based organizations in terms of business results as well as people leadership. Previously, he owned and ran Panacea Infotech., a software company specialized in web and mobile application development. He loves start-ups and has worked and mentored over 500 start-ups until now.

Vivek Ghai

Managing Director

Yogesh Agarwal

Yogesh Agarwal

Director

Yogesh is a Management Graduate with 21 years of experience in global corporate roles in various leadership positions across domains in Investment Banking Outsourcing Industry, Banking & Financial Services, Investments, Real Estate Sector and Start-ups.

In his previous roles as a Managing Director of OSB India (subsidiary of a British bank), Yogesh have successfully set the Indian operations and have grown the setup to multiple offices in India.

His strong market sense and background in the finance domain help him understand the changing landscape faster. Yogesh can seamlessly leverage cross-functional industry know-how with an affinity for current events, critical issues, and relevant news. He incredibly proud of his humility, strong work ethic, and continued desire to make him a better leader through hard work and market curiosity.

Yogesh Key Strengths are Business strategy, Operations and People management.

Yogesh Agarwal

Director

Byron Laws

Byron Laws

Sales Director – Americas

For more than 20 years, Byron has worked on the technology side of the publishing industry to simplify processes and solve problems for publishers. Currently, he works as Sales Director-Americas for Katalyst’s Publishing Services division. With an educational background in technology and marketing, Byron has worked with many publishers over the years, both large and small, generalized and specialized. He has a thorough understanding of the publishing process and consults with publishers on workflow processes at a highly granular level. Byron has worked previously at KiwiTech, Lumina Datamatics, Aptara, AchieveGlobal, and Ovid Technologies.

Byron is well known in global publishing circles and is an active industry volunteer, serving as Treasurer on the board of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), and speaking regularly at industry events.

Byron Laws

Sales Director – Americas

Joe Gallant

Engineering/Manufacturing Director Of Sales

Experienced Executive Sales Engineer/Vice President in Manufacturing Engineering/New Product Development & Launch with Heavy emphases on Lean 6 Sigma Process-flow in Contract Manufacturing, Defense, Aerospace, Medical and Commercial.

Joey Gallant’s commitment has always been focused on companies' commitment to growth in staff/partnerships and clients. Bringing the newest technologies and ideas made available globally.

Joe Gallant

Engineering/Manufacturing Director Of Sales

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Bill Ruttledge

Sales Director – Europe

Bill Ruttledge is Katalyst’s Sales Director for the Europe region and has been with us since August 2017. Prior to his joining Katalyst, Bill has been associated with Nova Techset for the last 25 years. During this time, he has seen the industry develop from what was a highly skilled and prestigious trade, but with limited applications, to a fully blown IT operation with almost limitless possibilities. Bill has high-level contacts in most of the major global STM and Academic publishers and has been instrumental in persuading many of them to place work with Nova Techset.

Bill left school at 17 and went straight into publishing, joining Pergamon Press in 1973 and subsequently working at Edward Arnold, Blackwell and Gordon & Breach in senior production editorial management roles.

Bill Ruttledge

Sales Director – Europe

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Bhavik Shah

Vice President – Global Engineering & Manufacturing

Bhavik Shah is the Vice President of our Global Engineering and Manufacturing division.

Bhavik is a seasoned executive with over 18 years of experience in the engineering industry, including about 8 years in engineering and technology services. A majority part of his experience shows a strong focus on product development and R&D.

At Katalyst, Bhavik is responsible for all areas of the engineering delivery operations, striving for to create and deliver the best in class products and business practices for our clients.

Bhavik has been instrumental in implementing engineering strategies for customers, driving partnerships, and enhancing domain expertise across industry verticals, including automotive, industrial and off-highway (construction, lifting, mining and farm) machinery in global, multi-site and multi-cultural environments. In this role, his focus areas include strengthening our engineering services business and consolidating our design-led manufacturing expertise.

Bhavik holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Gujarat University and an MBA-Finance from MIT College of Management, Pune.

Bhavik is based at Katalyst’ s Pune, India office.

Bhavik Shah

Vice President – Global Engineering & Manufacturing

Wonderful People. Leading-edge Abilities.

We are inspired by the energy created when people come together.

  • Behind The Curtain
    The key to our success is our people. It’s not a cliché – it’s absolutely true and we’re extremely proud of this. The unique individuals who work here create a fresh and exciting work environment, and together we can accomplish anything.
  • Together We Can Accomplish Anything.
    Our culture is the foundation upon which everything else is built. If you ask anyone at Katalyst Software Services Limited why they work here, the answer is inevitably the same: it’s the people. At Katalyst, we place trust, integrity, teamwork, and care at the heart of what we do.
  • Working With Happy People
    As colleagues, we support, challenge, and inspire one another every day. We’re results-driven and ready to go the extra mile for our customers.
  • Shared Values
    We’ve created a culture where people feel empowered to make a difference.

We take pride in being a company with a strong social conscience.

Our commitment to make a positive difference to the environment and the underprivileged is not a one-off initiative but a sustained effort to make a visible change to people’s lives.

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