Collabera Inc is a company that provides

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consulting. Its North American headquarters is in

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, while the Asia Pacific headquarters is in

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. Collabera is the largest privately held technology company in New Jersey, by revenue, with $525 million in revenue for 2015 and approximately 4,200 employees throughout their New Jersey offices.

History

The company was founded in 1991 as Global Consultants, Inc. (GCI). The company was purchased by Hiten Patel And Sham Patel in 1996, when it had $2 million in revenue. Collabera had $520million in revenue in 2014. In 2007, GCI began a series of company acquisitions, including IVL India (for SAP services), Planet Asia, and Blue Hammock (for strategic consulting). In 2008, GCI changed its name to Collabera. In 2012, Collabera built a third development center (along with existing ones in Bangalore and Trivandrum) named "Collabera House" in Vadodara, India, with plans to open another in the country. The following year,

Raj Mamodia Raj Mamodia (born July 18, 1971) is an Indian-American business executive. He served as the CEO of Collabera in 2013, and founded Brillio in 2014, a technology company spun off from Collabera, where he is serving as chairman and CEO. He has been ...

was appointed as CEO. Then, in 2014, Collabera's IT services formed a subsidiary company

Brillio Brillio is an Indian-owned company focused on digital technologies and big data analytics headquartered in Santa Clara, California, United States. History Brillio was formed in 2014 when Collabera, an information technology (IT) recruiting an ...

, headed by Mamodia, and Hiten Patel resumed his previous role as CEO. On July 1, 2020, Karthik Krishnamurthy became CEO. On Aug 11,2022 Collabera has formed another subsidiary company Ascendion and appointed a new CEO, Mike Fromhold, for its staffing arm, Collabera LLC.

YouTube content moderation

The video sharing website

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has used Collabera as a contractor to hire content moderators, who review videos to determine if their content violates YouTube's content policies. A September 2020 lawsuit filed against YouTube included reports by a former Collabera employee who said that she was given little to no mental health training or support and made to sign an NDA before being shown examples of content that appears in the review queues. She reported being made to regularly exceed YouTube's stated limited of four hours per day of viewing graphic content.

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