Vancouver’s ACL acquires Rsam, doubling R&D capacity

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“We’ll [more than] double our R&D capacity with this acquisition,” ACL CEO Laurie Schultz told Business in Vancouver. Rsam CEO and co-founder Vivek Shivananda will report directly to Shultz along with chief technology officer and co-founder Kevin Day. “What we don’t want to do is screw up any momentum in their business so [Shivananda] will run a fully contained operating unit. The addition of the Rsam staff brings ACL’s global headcount to 500 workers spread across offices in Vancouver, London, Paris, Singapore, New Jersey and Bangalore. “[Rsam] will give us an additional footprint in the U.S.,” Shultz said, adding most of ACL’s North American employees are based in Vancouver.

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