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C Mahalingam — Senior Vice President & Chief People Officer
C Mahalingam (Mali) has more than 23 years of experience in the field of Human Resources and has held senior executive positions with leading organizations. Prior to joining Symphony Services, Mali led HR for the India operations of IBM and Hewlett-Packard as well as Philips Software Center. At these companies Mali helped drive Total Employee Delight to attain a position among the best employers. Mali is currently the President of the IT Industry HR Association, Bangalore, and is on the National HR Committee of the Confederation of Indian Industry, New Delhi. He is a recipient of the prestigious Golden Jubilee Gold Medal for the Masters in Personnel Management & Industrial Relations, Loyola College, Chennai. Mali holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Sacred Heart College, Chennai.
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13 Apr 2008 | Print
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Arun Jain - Chairman and CEO of Polaris
Arun Jain, Founder, Chairman & CEO, started the Polaris Software Lab Ltd in 1993 with just $250 (Rs.10,000) and a dream. Today, Polaris is a multinational software company, with more than 10000 professionals and a leading provider of solutions to the banking, financial services and insurance industries with annual revenue of USD 300 million. Polaris has 29 relationship offices in 14 countries and 7 business solution centers in India.
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06 Apr 2008 | Print
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Dr. Pradeep K Mukherji - President, Tholons India
Experience: Pradeep, as the President of Tholons, heads the Global Outsourcing Advisory Practice. He was part of the founding team at Tholons. He has advised leading enterprises in US, Europe and ASPAC on strategic aspects of Services Globalization and Transformational Outsourcing. Pradeep brings to Tholons over 20 years of rich experience and expertise in Consultancy and Management of Technology Business. Pradeep has consulted and led engagements with many large Fortune-500 companies like- Hartford Life, Mercury, JP Morgan, Stanford University, Warner Brothers, Verisign. Norges Bank, AXA are some of the clients who have benefited from Pradeep’s expertise in global outsourcing.
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30 Mar 2008 | Print
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Mr. Charudatta Naik - Whole Time Director & Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Charudatta Naik was appointed as Whole Time Director on the board of GTL Limited from October 1, 2007. He continues to operate as the Chief Operating Officer of GTL Limited. His key responsibilities include Strategy, Globalization and inorganic growth initiatives.
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23 Mar 2008 | Print
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Matt Appel - Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Matt has over 30 years of professional experience in finance and BPO and was most recently with Electronic Data Systems as Vice President, BPO Product Management where he was responsible for strategy and business plan development and investment prioritization for EDS’ BPO product portfolio. Prior to this, Matt was Vice President, Finance & Administration BPO at EDS. (more…)
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16 Mar 2008 | Print
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Dr. Ajay Kela — Chief Operating Officer & Managing Director
Ajay is responsible for global operations, worldwide sales and continuing relationships with clients. With more than 25 years of experience bringing high revenue-generating software products and services to market for both ISVs and service companies in the United States and India, Ajay has the optimal mix of experience and cultural know-how for his global role. In his previous leadership role with Symphony, Ajay led the substantial business expansion in India growing the team from 500 employees to more than 3000.
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09 Mar 2008 | Print
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Rajeev Mehta - Chief Operating Officer, Global Client Services
Raj has more than 16 years of operational management experience in the IT industry. Raj is responsible for the Company’s sales, business development and client relationship management organizations. Previously, Raj served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cognizant’s Financial Services Business Unit with full P&L management responsibility, guiding the group to an annualized revenue run rate of more than $550 million and achieving industry leadership recognition such as JPMorganChase’s Supplier of the Year Award in 2005.
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02 Mar 2008 | Print
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L. Ravichandran - Executive Vice President and COO
L. Ravichandran has a rich experience of over 28 years in building and delivering businesses to organizations across the globe. Creation of new business lines is Ravi’s strength and he is known for his capabilities in creating high performance teams, delivering quality solutions and nurturing strong client relationships. At Tech Mahindra, Ravi plays a critical role in many initiatives including alliances and acquisitions and is responsible for the delivery of key projects.
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24 Feb 2008 | Print
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Rakesh Chopra - Senior Vice President & Business Leader
Rakesh is an Economics Graduate and a Chartered Accountant from England. He has worked in the UK, the Netherlands and India in various capacities.
Rakesh has 25 years of rich Industry experience where, in his earlier roles, he has been the Business Leader of Genpact (erstwhile GE Capital International Services), Six Sigma / Quality Leader as well as CFO of GE Capital International Services and CEO of the joint venture with the State Bank of India. He has also headed BPO operations for American Express, EXL Services and Convergys in India.
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17 Feb 2008 | Print
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Mr. Abhishek Singhania - Managing Director
The co-founder and Managing Director of the company belongs to the younger generation of one of the most renowned business families in India - ‘Singhanias’. The family owns ‘JK Organization’, which is one of the largest organizations of the country.
He took over as the Managing Director in 1994 and continues to lead the team. As the MD, he is responsible for the overall operations of the company.
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10 Feb 2008 | Print
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Paul Pandian - President and Founder
Prior to founding Tech Mahindra (R&D) Services, Paul was at Rockwell International from 1975 to 1984 serving in various engineering and management roles including Director of Strategic Planning and Development for the electronic operations. Paul was also involved in the startup and growth of a high technology company engaged in the design and development of high performance computers and peripheral cards.
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03 Feb 2008 | Print
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Rohit Kapoor - President and Chief Operating Officer
As a former business head at Deutsche Bank, Rohit Kapoor led a marketing team that serviced clients in Europe, the Middle East and the Indian Sub-continent. He also managed the venture capital and private equity investments of several Ultra High Net Worth clients in start-up companies both in the U.S. and Indian TMT sectors. (more…)
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20 Jan 2008 | Print
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G.B.Prabhat - Founder and CEO
G.B.Prabhat is the Founder of Anantara Solutions, and is the original proponent of Second Generation Outsourcing (SGO), a business paradigm that radically improves first generation outsourcing which is predicated primarily on cost arbitrage.
Before founding Anantara, he was Director, Consulting and Enterprise Solutions, Satyam Computer Services Limited, one of India’s largest IT consulting and outsourcing companies. He was the prime architect of the company’s distinguishing national leadership in the area.
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13 Jan 2008 | Print
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Pramod Bhasin - President & CEO
Pramod established Genpact (formerly GE Capital International Services) in 1997 and under his leadership pioneered the Business Process Outsourcing industry in India. Genpact has also been the pioneer in this industry in China, and in Eastern Europe. Today, it is acknowledged as a global leader in Business Services and Technology Solutions that helps companies around the world manage their processes. Genpact serves its customers from over 30 operations centers spread across the US, Mexico, Europe, the Philippines, China and India, employing 32,000 associates across a wide range of business processes, technologies and industries. (more…)
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06 Jan 2008 | Print
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Kishan Ananthram - Chairman and CEO
Kishan serves as Chief Executive Officer of IonIdea. As one of the founding members, Kishan has helped IonIdea move toward becoming an innovative information technology (IT) solutions company. Before officially launching IonIdea, Kishan had consulting and management roles as leading companies such as Hughes Network Systems, GTE and Sprint. Kishan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering and a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alabama.
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30 Dec 2007 | Print
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Danford F. Smith - President & Chief Operating Officer and Director
Prior to Virtusa, Dan was a General Manager at Cognizant Technology Solutions, where he held sales, delivery, and P&L responsibilities for the company’s largest business unit, which included Insurance, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Communications and Media practices. Dan also pioneered the company’s vertical go-to-market strategy and implemented sales and account management models that were adopted across the firm. During his six-year tenure as an leadership team member, the company grew from $25 million to over $500 million.
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26 Dec 2007 | Print
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Mitsuru Maekawa - Senior Vice President, China & Japan
Mitsuru Maekawa did his B.Sc in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Tokyo, followed by an MS and PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US.
In 1976, he joined GE Nuclear Energy Operation in Tokyo, serving the roles of licensing engineer and nuclear fuel core management engineer. (more…)
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23 Dec 2007 | Print
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C. P. Gurnani - President, International Operations
CP Gurnani spearheads Global Operations, Sales and Marketing, development of Competency & Solution Units, and is responsible for Alliances & Partnerships at Tech Mahindra. It is under his able leadership that Tech Mahindra has emerged as one of the leading providers of IT Services and Telecom Solutions for the entire telecom ecosystem.
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19 Dec 2007 | Print
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K. J Singh - SVP – Operations
K J Singh, SVP-Operations, heads overall operations at Vashi. He is responsible for client deliverables and ensuring high quality services. He joined Tracmail, a division of TWS, in the year 2000 when it was in its nascent stage and was instrumental in setting up the infrastructure and processes to deliver world-class quality.
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16 Dec 2007 | Print
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Vikram Talwar - Vice Chairman and CEO
Prior to joining EXL, Vikram spent 26 years in Bank of America where he held several senior management positions. He was the Senior Vice President and Country Manager from 1989 to 1993, for the bank’s operations in India. He was at the helm of a 700 strong wholesale and retail operations team that was amongst the most profitable of the bank’s international operations.
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26 Nov 2007 | Print
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V. Srinivasan - Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Srinivasan joined the ICICI group, the second largest banking group in India, in 1980. He has had varied exposure in areas such as client relationship, project finance, rehabilitation, systems and procedures, and accounts. His expertise in operations, combined with a thorough academic background in finance and a flair for systems, has allowed him to re-engineer several of ICICI group’s processes to make them among the most modern and enviable in the industry..
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22 Nov 2007 | Print
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Gordon Coburn - Chief Financial and Operating Officer
Gordon has over 16 years of financial management experience in the information technology industry. He joined Cognizant in 1996 as the company began shifting its focus towards external sales and an IPO. Gordon oversees the company’s worldwide financial planning and analysis, as well as accounting, treasury/tax and investor relations functions. In addition, his responsibilities include global talent management, M&A, internal systems, and infrastructure.
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19 Nov 2007 | Print
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Avinash Vashistha - Chairman and CEO, Tholons
His Beginnings: Avinash began his career in the telecommunications industry with AT&T/Lucent in Denver Colorado. He later lead several strategic outsourcing initiatives at Verizon and Nortel, where he served in various IT leadership capacities and ultimately lead the delivery and outsourcing operations in Europe, outsourcing to C&E Europe, Ireland, India, Vietnam, Russia and China. It was at AT&T, Lucent, and Nortel, that Avinash developed models for globalization and methodologies for the evaluation and management of global suppliers.
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15 Nov 2007 | Print
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Sudeesh Yezhuvath: Chief Operating Officer
Sudeesh Yezhuvath heads the overall operations of Subex Azure, excluding the legal and financial functions. He heads all the three Business Units of the company – RMS (Revenue Maximization Solutions), FAS (Fulfillment and Assurance) and BT (British Telecom). He has been associated with Subex since 1993 and has been instrumental in building the software business of Subex. He has been closely involved in the company’s M&A activities, including the integration process post acquisitions.
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31 Oct 2007 | Print
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Krishnakumar Natarajan - President and CEO, IT Services
Krishnakumar(KK) serves as President & CEO - IT Services for MindTree Consulting. One of MindTree’s founders, Krishnakumar is responsible for enlarging and attaining leadership position worldwide in the IT Services.
In the early years of MindTree, Krishnakumar moved to the US to launch the North American Operations of MindTree and helped MindTree acquired a number of marquee corporate customers like Franklin Templeton, Sun Microsystems, etc. He subsequently drove MindTree’s expansion into Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East.
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15 Sep 2007 | Print
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Kumar Subramanian - Chief Executive Officer
Kumar has over 18 years of banking experience in Asia, and has worked for Bank of America, Standard Chartered Bank, HDFC Bank and IDBI Bank. He has established and managed large banking operations such as the retail assets business and handled large projects related to the centralization and implementation of large scale core-banking systems. He has extensive general managerial experience, especially with respect to start-up banking operations. Kumar is a mechanical engineer and has a post graduate degree in Industrial Engineering from the National Institute for Training in Industrial Engineering in Mumbai, India.
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08 Sep 2007 | Print
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VN Tyagarajan - EVP Business Development
V.N. Tyagarajan (Tiger) qualified as a Mechanical Engineer from IIT, Bombay, and an MBA, majoring in Finance and Marketing from IIM, Ahmedabad. Tiger began his career with the Unilever Group in Bombay, and then joined Citibank as VP & Auto Business Director, Global Consumer Banking. He joined GE in 1994 as General Manager - Risk Management at Countrywide and went on to become CEO at GE Capital’s GCF & AFS operations in India.
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01 Sep 2007 | Print
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Dr. Ganesh Natarajan - Chief Executive Officer
Ganesh has been one of the most successful professionals in the Indian Information Technology Industry, having earlier been part of two major success stories in IT Training and Consulting, NIIT and APTECH. During his ten year stint as CEO of Aptech he grew the company’s revenues fifty times and listed it on the Indian and London Stock Exchanges.
A Gold Medalist in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering, Ganesh has recently completed his PhD in Knowledge Management at IIT Bombay. (more…)
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25 Aug 2007 | Print
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Mr Henry Hortenstine - Chief Executive Officer
In 2004, Henry Hortenstine founded Zenta (formerly H-Cube), a leading provider of knowledge and business process outsourcing and related services, in partnership with GTCR Golder Rauner, a private equity firm focused on technology services. The partnership capitalized on his previous business experiences in the business process and technology outsourcing industry.
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18 Aug 2007 | Print
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Neeraj Bhargava - Group Chief Executive Officer
Based in Mumbai, India, Neeraj Bhargava’s responsibilities as Chief Executive Officer include executing our business strategy and managing the overall performance and growth of our organization. Prior to co-founding WNS in 2002, Mr. Bhargava served as managing partner of eVentures India, a venture fund developing businesses in offshore services. He was also a partner at McKinsey & Company, where he worked in the New York, London and Mumbai offices. (more…)
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Effective pricing and discounting strategies are one of the key reasons why some technology professional service organizations succeed and others fail. According to the “The New Professional Service Maturity Model” benchmark report just completed by Adexta and SPI Research,
Unlike a BPO where you need to “sweat the assets” a smart KPO needs to work at both. This is what will drive sustainability, client advantage, people empowerment and make the KPO industry really a force to reckon with…
ITIL v3’s business service management approach makes it the best fit for adoption by private equity (PE) firm for deploying in their portfolio companies in order to enhance the value of their portfolio.
The commanders of India’s software service companies came together in the financial capital ‘Mumbai’ last week to celebrate, and take stock of what lies ahead. The industry is already under a cloud because of fears of strengthening rupee and the possibility of a U.S. recession.
Over the course of the last couple of years leading law firms have begun to wake up to the reality that we live and operate in a global marketplace. Technology enables an increasing array of legal support services and higher value legal work to be outsourced offshore. The legal profession is now starting to take advantage of the labor arbitrage that has been exploited by other industries for well over a decade.
SaaS (Software as a Service) or On-Demand application delivery as a disruptive delivery model is challenging traditional Enterprise applications. Adoption rate is the fastest in the SME (Small and Medium Enterprises) space. But, large multinational organizations are slow to embrace the on-demand delivery model.
Mike Vizard, Editorial Director for Ziff-Davis Enterprise makes a poignant remark about the importance of diversity in the IT department in his blog “Diversity in IT Has Become a Business Imperative”. I agree with his view that “the great issue of the day in technology is not the technology but rather the people within the IT department itself”.
Fractal is a leading provider of advanced analytics services with more than 40 clients in 15 countries. The company helps retail financial; banking and telecommunication institutions take data based decisions that enhance the effectiveness of their marketing and risk management programs.
What next in offshoring? Different folks will give different responses - Analytics, KPO, CRO, Moving up value chain, Product Development, Engineering Services, Consulting, Higher domain knowledge, Channel Development etc . This is like few blind men trying to describe an elephant. All are probably right in their own way but all are missing the big picture. This big picture in my opinion is offshoring for growth and innovation…
C Mahalingam (Mali) has more than 23 years of experience in the field of Human Resources and has held senior executive positions with leading organizations. Prior to joining Symphony Services, Mali led HR for the India operations of IBM and Hewlett-Packard as well as Philips Software Center.
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