Solugenix Corp., a provider of IT implementation and support services based in Brea, plans to add 400 work-at-home employees to improve staffing flexibility following its acquisition of fellow IT services company SEI LLC.
Founded 50 years ago, Solugenix announced the acquisition of Missoula, Mont.-based SEI in recent weeks, adding 106 employees, the majority of whom work from home offices.
“There’s no commute, there’s no specific office they need to come to,” Solugenix CEO and President Shashi Jasthi told the Business Journal.
“The flexibility has become higher. A lot of them are OK working odd hours.”
The company will be looking for more employees to add across the U.S., Jasthi said.
Big Advantage
“The big advantage that we found is being able to tap into another whole demography of the talent pool,” Jasthi said of the telecommuters. “We plan to add 400 more work-at-home employees using the capabilities we got from SEI.
“The growth will happen across the U.S. We will look at any location in the U.S. that has the talent we need.”
Solugenix has about 300 employees in Orange County with 180 in Brea, and the rest in various client locations locally.
The companywide headcount for the firm is now 590.
Its 2018 revenue was $42 million, and will cross $50 million this year, according to Jasthi, who said the company is 100% owned by the U.S. employees.
“Solugenix’s technology implementation, support services and SEI’s U.S. remote workforce model become an unbeatable force for client success,” the company said in a statement after the acquisition was announced.
Jasthi said the combined companies—Solugenix and SEI—have 39 customers.
The companies will combine business operations and integrate service offerings.
Remote Workforce
“Over the course of the last two decades, SEI has perfected the use of U.S.-based remote workforce to provide high-quality support for demanding business users,” said Jasthi. “The combined team will have the skills and the scale to take on bigger engagements in what we are already good at: complex IT applications, artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotic process automation and data science.”
The company provides “very specialized support” and it takes at least three to six months for a person to be fully productive. Remote employees have fully equipped workstations.
Solugenix said it’s partnered with organizations such as McDonald’s, Microsoft, CIT Group, Johnson & Johnson, Herbalife, and Sony Pictures Entertainment among others.
The combined company will have a presence in 12 U.S. states, India and Latin America.
Jasthi knows remote working well: rather than the Brea headquarters, he works from the Solugenix office in Scottsdale, Ariz.
