An Aurora-based technology company recently purchased and will move its global headquarters into the former Robert Morris University Aurora Campus on Aurora’s far East Side.
Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin hosted a ribbon-cutting this week, and welcomed the IT People Network company to its new corporate home.
IT People Network was founded in 2012 and will open its new doors this spring at the former Robert Morris campus at 950 Meridian Lake Drive.
ITPN this month acquired the 74,000-square-foot campus and plans to relocate its nearly 200 corporate employees into the facility in May, with plans to create up to 300 more jobs in the next three to five years, city officials said.
“We decided to expand and consolidate operations at what will be our new state-of-the-art headquarters in Aurora because of the incredible opportunities this city offers,” said ITPN Chief Executive Officer Amit Dutta.
The company is a global IT firm offering advisory, consulting and IT competency services to Fortune 500 companies and some of the world’s top brands in the U.S. and Europe, officials said.
“Last year was a difficult year for every company, including ITPN, because most of our customers and new client prospects had abruptly stopped their spending on capital projects due to the business uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 crisis,” said Dutta. “The pandemic, however, did not deter us. We significantly amplified and accelerated the efforts to make investments on further strengthening capabilities across our services and develop innovative products like MyGenie.”
MyGenie is a marketplace platform app that brings together top employers and their job opportunities, Dutta said.
“Mr. Dutta and his team have built a global IT enterprise over the past nine years from their base right here in Aurora,” said Irvin, a graduate of Robert Morris University. “We look forward to their continued impact and growth as they expand into their state-of-the-art headquarters at the former RMU Aurora Campus where I once taught as a professor. It will great to walk these halls again and see the building filled with people.”
The building was vacant for nearly three years after Robert Morris University initially scaled back services and eventually merged with Roosevelt University last year.
