Akraya President, Sonu Ratra Named to 2010 Women of Influence List

March 23, 2010 - PRLog -- (Sunnyvale, CA): Akraya, Inc., a multiple-award winning supplier of IT, Engineering, Creative & Marketing talent is proud to announce that President, Sonu Ratra was named to the Silicon Valley Business Journal’s 2010 Women of Influence List.
The Women of Influence List celebrates women leaders in the private, public and non-profit sectors who make our local Silicon Valley communities thrive. Sonu Ratra was chosen for the Women of Influence Award based on her extraordinary achievements in leading Akraya’s growth strategies, supporting other minority and women-owned businesses and mentoring women professionals.

Sonu’s company, Akraya continued its healthy growth with $32M revenue in 2009. The company added creative and marketing services to its service line and continued to build its illustrious customer list earning rave reviews from Fortune 500 clients for their service excellence. Akraya was also named 24th Fastest-Growing Private Companies in Silicon Valley, 26th Fastest-Growing Staffing Firms in US, 6th Best Staffing Firms to Work for In the US.  

As a successful woman entrepreneur, Sonu believes that with success comes responsibility. Sonu has been proud to serve on the Board of the Northern California Minority Supplier Diversity Council.  Sonu also makes it her priority to mentor women and provide career guidance.  She hosted several networking events such as the “Pay It Forward” Matchmaking Event and the “Woman Power Hour Mixer” with the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC). Sonu also recently joined The Institute of Economic Empowerment for Women’s Peace Through Business Mentorship Program and became a mentor to Joy Kabera Kansangire, a female business owner from Rwanda and managing her US business training. Sonu has also been recently recognized by Soroptimist International with their Ruby Award for Women Helping for her community initiatives and also received the Stevie Award for Women helping Women. Her company Akraya was named Women-owned Business of the Year in Silicon Valley. Sonu also received the prestigious Enterprising Women of the Year Award in 2009.

Sonu will accept her Women of Influence Award at the 2010 Award Gala to be held at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, CA on April 8th.  

To find out more about Akraya, Inc., please visit www.akraya.com or call 408.907.6400.

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Akraya, Inc. is a multiple award-winning, fast growing provider of IT, Engineering, Creative & Marketing talent. We have extensive experience supporting Enterprise clients like eBay, Cisco, Oracle and Roche as well as hot emerging companies like Facebook. Akraya is a woman-owned and minority-owned certified business and also a certified Bay Area Green Business.