Akraya Named #10 Best Place to Work in the Bay Area by San Francisco Business Times

April 29, 2010 - PRLog -- Awarded to the top 100 companies in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area, this recognition is based solely on third party surveys completed by a majority of company employees on topics including workplace satisfaction, compensation, career growth and challenge, and company management. This year, The San Francisco Business Times received close to 400 applications for the Best Places to Work List.

Founded by Sonu Ratra and Amar Panchal in 2001, Akraya is a multiple award winning professional staffing and managed solutions company with an extensive Fortune 500 client base.

"There's no greater reward than having Akraya voted as one of the top 10 'best places to work' by our employees," said Akraya CEO, Amar Panchal. "At Akraya, we find it very important to attract and retain the best and brightest talent.  We have built an amazing team of super achievers whose loyalty and hard work has been the backbone of Akraya’s success.  Their dedication and expertise shows in our innovative and flexible service line, our strong customer relationships, and the rapid growth we’ve enjoyed as a company. Sonu and I are honored to be part of this amazing group of people and look forward to continuing on our path of success as a team."

In 2009, Staffing Industry Review Magazine also named Akraya #6 Best Staffing Firms to Work in the US. In 2010, Akraya was named #35 on the Fastest-Growing Women-led Businesses List by Women’s President Organization in The Wall Street Journal. Akraya also won the 2010 Supplier of the Year Award by the Northern California Minority Supplier Development’s Council and was named Women-Owned Business of the Year by Women’s Initiative. In 2009, Staffing Industry Review Magazine named Akraya #26 Fastest-Growing Staffing Firms in the US and the Silicon Valley Business Journal listed Akraya at #24 on their Fastest-Growing Private Companies List.

Akraya CEO, Amar Panchal and the Akraya team accepted the award at the awards ceremony held at the San Francisco Hilton on April 28, 2010.

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

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About Akraya

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