Amit Arya

Founder & CEO Stratacent

Last Reviewed: September 19, 2026

Executive Summary

Amit Arya founded Stratacent in 2012 and has run it as chief executive ever since. The firm is a global IT managed services and digital transformation business headquartered at 101 Hudson Street in Jersey City, New Jersey, with delivery centres in the New York City area, Pune and Gurugram and offices in London and Canada. Stratacent’s positioning is deliberately narrow for a services firm: rather than competing as a generalist systems integrator, it concentrates on data-driven managed services — data and analytics, cloud, robotic process automation, IT service management and fraud and risk solutions — sold mainly into regulated industries such as banking, insurance and healthcare. The company has taken no outside venture funding and has made no acquisitions, so its growth from a midsize-client base to Fortune 50 accounts has been organic and services-led.

Career Highlights

• Founded Stratacent in 2012 and has served continuously as its chief executive.
• Built the firm into an organisation of roughly 240 people, with offshore delivery centres in Pune and Gurugram supporting a Jersey City headquarters.
• Opened international offices in London and Canada, alongside the US and India delivery footprint.
• Positioned Stratacent around five practice areas — digital transformation, cloud, data and analytics, automation, and IT service management — with fraud and risk solutions aimed at financial services.
• Grew the client base from midsize companies to Fortune 50 accounts in banking, insurance and healthcare, without raising venture capital.

Professional Journey

Arya’s public career record begins with the founding of Stratacent in 2012. Aggregator profiles describe roughly two decades of prior work as an IT executive, consultant and business owner before that point, but no source consulted names the employers, so the pre-2012 portion of his career is not documented here.

At Stratacent the strategy has been to build delivery capacity offshore while keeping client-facing management in the New York metropolitan area. The Jersey City headquarters sits directly across the Hudson from the banking and insurance clients the firm targets, and the Pune and Gurugram centres carry the engineering and managed-services delivery load. London and Canadian offices followed as clients asked for coverage outside the United States.

The firm has never raised institutional funding and has not acquired another company, which puts it in a different category from the private-equity-backed consultancies it competes with. Growth has come from expanding the scope of work inside existing accounts and from moving up-market into larger regulated enterprises. Stratacent’s own marketing describes employees as its most valuable asset and frames the business around data-driven solutions rather than headcount-based staff augmentation.

Education

Marist College

Master of Science, Management Information Systems (2001-2003)