Ness, a global provider of Digital Transformation solutions and a portfolio company of The Rohatyn Group (TRG), has announced its acquisition of Risk Focus, a consulting and advisory firm specializing in Digital Transformation for Financial Services.
“Adding Risk Focus’s core competence in Digital Transformation services to Ness’s core DNA in product engineering strengthens Ness’ position as a full lifecycle digital engineering firm offering digital advisory through scaled engineering services,” said Ranjit Tinaikar, Chief Executive Officer, Ness. “With this acquisition, Ness also continues to execute on its strategy to build strong industry expertise in Financial Services and bolster our competencies in cloud and data services.”
Headquartered in New York, Risk Focus is a technology consultancy for Financial Services. The company is an Advanced AWS Partner with the Financial Services, Migration and DevOps competencies, as well as a Premier Confluent Systems Integrator.
“Joining Ness allows Risk Focus to better serve our clients by adding scale-out engineering capabilities to the Risk Focus expertise in Digital Transformation,” said Vassil Avramov, Founder and CEO of Risk Focus. “I look forward to helping drive our continued success as well as deepening our technology excellence in cloud, data, and AI in my new role as CTO of Ness.”
“Ness is one of the few at-scale pure digital engineering players that seamlessly manages projects from strategy through execution,” said Thomas Kucera, Managing Director, TRG. “This acquisition strengthens Ness’ position as one of the top providers in digital engineering globally.”
The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2021. Alantra LLC served as an exclusive financial advisor to Risk Focus. Financial details were not disclosed.
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