Aptara President and CEO Ranjit Singh to Serve as Featured Panelist at ASIDIC Spring 2006 Meeting

Aptara also to Co-Chair Event on Latest Trends in Digitizing Content

FALLS CHURCH, VA, (January 27, 2006) – Aptara, the global leader in integrated content transformation solutions, has announced that its president and CEO Ranjit Singh will be a featured panelist at the ASIDIC Spring 2006 meeting. ASIDIC brings together leading publishers, aggregators, universities, libraries, associations, and investors to discuss trends in the use of electronic information. In addition, Aptara's Iris Hanney will serve as co-chair for the event.

ASIDIC Spring 2006 will run March 12-14, 2006 at the Sanibel Harbour Resort & Spa in Fort Myers, Florida. This year’s Spring event: “Digitization: From Inception To Income,” will examine how organizations are adapting to the transformation underway within industries that digitize and convert data. The program will also address the challenges and benefits inherent in each step of the digitization process, including content selection, data/image conversion, distribution, and partnerships.

“Few events bring together such a distinguished and diverse set of experts to discuss the most pressing digital content challenges and trends across multiple industries,” said Mr. Singh. “ASIDIC’s Spring Event is a must-attend for any organization that provides or consumes content transformation services.” 

Mr. Singh will participate on the Content Conversion panel at 11:15am on Monday, March 13. The panel features executives from content management providers who will discuss ways to effectively digitize content into multiple electronic formats, and the challenges associated with this process.

For more information on the conference, visit www.asidic.org.

About Aptara

Aptara (www.aptaracorp.com) is a fast-growing U.S. company and market leader in providing services to content rich businesses. It provides content outsourcing services and solutions across multiple media to businesses including publishers, information aggregators, professional societies, government agencies, universities, and major corporations.

Aptara is currently in seven locations in the U.S., U.K. and India with the corporate headquarters located in Fairfax, Virginia. Other U.S. office locations are Los Angeles, California; York, Pennsylvania; and Boston, Massachusetts. Aptara also has large operational centers in New Delhi and Pune, India, and a customer service center located in Cambridge, U.K.. Aptara currently employs over 3,000 people across its global operations.

Aptara was ranked as the 4th largest BPO in India by the BPO orbit study conducted by Voice & Data (Dec 2003) and featured in the World’s 50 Best Managed BPO vendors according to Black Book of Outsourcing by Brown & Wilson, Wiley Publishers (May 2005).