With annual revenues of more than $175 million and over 600 employees, it’s one of Canada’s 10 largest IT solutions firms. This Edmonton-based information technology firm employs hundreds more at affiliates in Canada and Bangalore, India.
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“We thought this was a pretty big announcement, and we’d like to share it with others in the business community here,” says company president Yasmin Jivraj, a University of Alberta computer science grad and career entrepreneur who co-founded Atlas Systems Group, one of Acrodex’s predecessor firms, back in the late 1980s.
Karim Amarshi, Acrodex’s CEO, co-founded CompCanada, another predecessor firm, in 1984. It merged with Atlas in 2000, and Acrodex was born a year later.
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