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title: Accelerance Whitepapers | Andy Hilliard
description: As CEO, Andy leads and advocates for the globalization and collaboration of great software teams with companies in search of talent, innovation and a globally-distributed extension of their engineering function and culture. Andy founded the ground-breaking nearshore software development services company, Isthmus Costa Rica. He began his global software services career as a division manager at Cognizant during their early formative years.
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# Accelerance Whitepapers

By | January 1, 1970

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