Mark Kobayashi-Hillary

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Mark Kobayashi-Hillary is a British writer and researcher based in London. He was born in Frimley, Surrey in 1970. His particular area of expertise is offshore outsourcing (or offshoring) and the issues surrounding this form of corporate structure. He is the author of Outsourcing to India: The Offshore Advantage (Springer Verlag 2004, 2005) and a contributor to Technology and Offshore Outsourcing Strategies (Palgrave June 2005, edited by Peter Brudenhall).

His forthcoming book Building a Future with BRICs: The Next Decade for Offshoring (Springer 2007) examines the growth of global services in Brazil, Russia, India, and China. Kobayashi-Hillary has also written a new book about the globalisation of services for the British Computer Society titled Global Services: Moving to a Level Playing Field, which he co-authored with Dr Richard Sykes of British IT association, Intellect. Both these books are scheduled for publication in Q1 of 2007.

Kobayashi-Hillary is a director of the UK National Outsourcing Association and a founding member of the British Computer Society working party on offshoring (research papers published in Nov 2004 and May 2006). He is a visiting lecturer on the MBA programme at London South Bank University and has written a new MBA module on outsourcing for their 2006 MBA intake. He is also conducting his doctoral research on implicit knowledge in cross-cultural outsourcing relationships at the London School of Economics. He is a non-executive director of the peer-to-peer foreign exchange auction system FXA World [1] and Mumbai-based research firm BrainMatics [2] and he is working on a new start-up which should be announced in Q4 2006. He is a member of PITCOM, the UK Parliamentary IT Committee.

From 2004 to 2006, Kobayashi-Hillary was director of technology research at the Commonwealth Business Council, a trade-promotion agency of the Commonwealth Secretariat where he remains an advisor on global services and outsourcing. He holds an MBA from the University of Liverpool [3]

Kobayashi-Hillary's unusual surname is created from the hyphenation of both his former name (Hillary) with his Japanese wife Nobumi's surname on their marriage in 1995.

Embracing the Challenge, Exploiting the Opportunities: Building a World Class IT Profession in the Era of Global Sourcing - BCS, May 2006: [4]

Mark Kobayashi-Hillary website [5]

Mark Kobayashi-HIllary on myspace [6]