NextServices grows to 6 people in Ann Arbor, hiring

NextServices is yet another example of entrepreneurial gown turned into successful town.The Ann Arbor-based firm was founded by a trio of U-M business school students who decided to stick around after graduation and create a few jobs for themselves. Today the IT company focuses on the health care industry while employing six people and a summer intern from U-M’s Ross School of Business. It also has a couple job openings right now and plans to hire yet more people next year.”We’ve been doing extremely well the last few years,” says Satish Malnik, CEO of NextServices. He co-founded the company with Praveen Suthrum. The third co-founder has stepped aside and is no longer involved with the company.Most of the company’s growth has come in the health care sector, especially in network-based services. It expects even more growth in these areas as federal stimulus dollars start to roll out in 2010. “We expect to do tremendously well as long as things are on track,” Malnik says.Source: Satish Malnik, CEO of NextServicesWriter: Jon Zemke