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WNS Appoints David Mackey as Senior Vice President - Finance and Head of Investor Relations

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

NEW YORK, Aug 02, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- WNS (Holdings) Limited (NYSE: WNS), a leading provider of global Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services, today announced that David Mackey has been appointed as Senior Vice President - Finance and Head of Investor Relations. David will be based in Michigan and focus on investor relations, capital markets and facilitating business finance for the company.

"David joins us at a very exciting time. The investments we have made over the past several quarters are starting to bear fruit and his expertise will be invaluable as we look to increase our visibility in the financial markets," added Alok Misra, Group CFO at WNS.

"WNS is extremely well-positioned to capitalize on the trend towards globalization of services, and I look forward to supporting the company in driving business value to all its key stakeholders," said Mackey.

David has over 25 years of experience in finance, operations and investor relations, particularly in the outsourcing industry. He comes with experience and expertise in client pricing, investment banking and strategic planning. He has been a key person involved in financial and operational analysis, and budgeting and forecasting activities in his earlier roles.

Most recently, David served at Syntel as Senior Vice President, Finance, where he was responsible for helping drive the company's internal growth and IPO efforts. Prior to that, he was with Unisys Corporation responsible for corporate accounting, manufacturing costing and analysis, marketing financial analysis and product outsourcing. He began his career with Burroughs Corporation, and was actively engaged on the Burroughs / Sperry merger in 1986.


About WNS


WNS (Holdings) Limited (NYSE: WNS), is a leading global business process outsourcing company. WNS offers business value to 200+ global clients by combining operational excellence with deep domain expertise in key industry verticals including Travel, Insurance, Banking and Financial Services, Manufacturing, Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods, Shipping and Logistics and Healthcare and Utilities. WNS delivers an entire spectrum of business process outsourcing services such as finance and accounting, customer care, technology solutions, research and analytics and industry specific back office and front office processes. WNS has over 21,000 professionals across 21 delivery centers worldwide including Costa Rica, India, Philippines, Romania, Sri Lanka and United Kingdom. For more information, visit http://www.wns.com.


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This release contains forward-looking statements as defined in the safe harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are based on our current expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections about our Company and our industry. The forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties. Generally, these forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "will," "project," "seek," "should" and similar expressions. Those statements include, among other things, the discussions of our business strategy and expectations concerning our performance. We caution you that reliance on any forward-looking statement involves risks and uncertainties, and that although we believe that the assumptions on which our forward-looking statements are based are reasonable, any of those assumptions could prove to be inaccurate, and, as a result, the forward-looking statements based on those assumptions could be materially incorrect. These factors include but are not limited to worldwide economic and business conditions; political or economic instability in the jurisdictions where we have operations; regulatory, legislative and judicial developments; our ability to attract and retain clients; technological innovation; telecommunications or technology disruptions; future regulatory actions and conditions in our operating areas; our dependence on a limited number of clients in a limited number of industries; the implications of our recently announced accounting changes and restatement of our financial statements, and any adverse developments in existing legal proceedings or initiation of new legal proceedings; our ability to expand our business or effectively manage growth; our ability to hire and retain enough sufficiently trained employees to support our operations; negative public reaction in the US or the UK to offshore outsourcing; increasing competition in the BPO industry; our ability to successfully grow our revenue, expand our service offerings and market share and achieve accretive benefits from our acquisition of Aviva Global Services Singapore Pte. Ltd. (which we have renamed as WNS Customer Solutions (Singapore) Private Limited following our acquisition), our master services agreement with Aviva Global Services (Management Services) Private Limited; our ability to successfully consummate strategic acquisitions; and the volatility of our ADS price. These and other factors are more fully discussed in our annual report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2011 filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission which is available at http://www.sec.gov. In light of these and other uncertainties, you should not conclude that we will necessarily achieve any plans, objectives or projected financial results referred to in any of the forward-looking statements. Except as required by law, we do not undertake to release revisions of any of these forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances.

SOURCE: WNS (Holdings) Limited

WNS (Holdings) Limited
Contact for Investor Relations:
David Mackey, Investor Relations
David.mackey@wns.com
ir@wns.com
or
Contact for Media:
Sumi Gupta, Public Relations
+91 (22) 4095 2263
sumi.gupta@wns.com
pr@wns.com