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SHIV NADAR
Founder– HCL
Chairman & Chief Strategy Officer-
HCL Technologies |
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The genesis of HCL began at a Delhi "barsaati" (akin to a garage start-up) in 1976 which evolved three decades later into a dynamic USD 5 Billion Global Empire.
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A young team of six led by Shiv Nadar, the pioneers of HCL, believed in the growth prospects IT industry had for India. Today HCL is one of the leading IT enterprises employing 60,000 professionals, with a global presence in 23 countries spanning locations worldwide.
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AJAI CHOWDHRY
Founder - HCL
Chairman & CEO - HCL Infosystems |
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An engineer by training, Ajai Chowdhry is one of the six founder members of HCL, India's leading Technology and IT company. HCL, India's original IT garage start-up founded in 1976, is today a USD 5 Billion Global Enterprise. |
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Vineet Nayar
CEO, HCL Technologies |
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| Vineet Nayar is the CEO of the $1.9 billion HCL Technologies Ltd, leading a team of 50,741 professionals in 18 countries to drive growth in IT Services industry. He also serves on the board of the company as a whole time Director. Vineet has instituted several radical programs that began a quiet transformation across the organization. His mantra of “Employee First” and a strong belief in value-based leadership has been recognized globally. Fortune Magazine has articulated his leadership style as “The World’s Most Modern Management” and the London Business School calls him “the leader of organizational Innovation”. The Harvard Business School (HBS) has written a case study on the Transformation at HCL, based on his innovative and radical leadership. The case study is being taught in the Strategy and Leadership classes at HBS. |
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T S R SUBRAMANIAN
Director |
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Mr. Subramanian had a distinguished career in the Indian Administrative Service, where he held various positions including that of Cabinet Secretary, the highest post in the Indian administration and the post of Secretary in the Ministry of Textiles. He has also worked in the Ministry of Commerce, where he dealt with trade policy issues and matters relating to General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT) and with UNCTAD. His assignments in the state of Uttar Pradesh included the highest executive post, Chief Secretary of the State.
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| For over five years, Mr. Subramanian was a Senior Adviser in the International Trade Centre, Geneva, a United Nations Organization under the purview of GATT, where he dealt with issues relating to small and medium enterprises (SMES) as well as export-oriented joint ventures. His work covered developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, as well as developed countries. |
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| As Cabinet Secretary to the Government of India, Mr. Subramanian took a number of initiatives to modernize and develop the infrastructure sector in India, especially in the Power, Telecom and Surface Transport sectors. |
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ROBIN ABRAMS
Director |
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| Robin Abrams was formerly the COO of Chemdex. She had been the President of Palm Computing and Senior Vice President at 3Com Corporation. She was also formerly the President and CEO at VeriFone. |
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| She has nearly 25 years of computing and computing services expertise coupled with strategic planning and management experience. In her position with 3Com, she had been assigned the responsibility of extending Palm Computing's leadership in the worldwide handheld computing market. |
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| Before joining VeriFone in March 1997, Abrams held a variety of senior management positions with Apple Computer. As Vice President and General Manager of the Americas, she oversaw sales and channel management for U.S., Canada and Latin America. Prior to that, she was Vice President and General Manager of Apple Asia, where she was responsible for sales and marketing in Asia for two years. Abrams spent eight years with Unisys in several senior-level positions. Her responsibilities included managing the delivery of business solutions focused on banking, airlines, government and networking. A portion of her tenure at Unisys also included a five-year stint in Asia Pacific. |
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SUBROTO BHATTACHARYA
Director |
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| Mr. Subroto Bhattacharya, a Chartered Accountant by training, spent his early career with DCM Ltd., where he rose to the position of a Director on the board. In the late eighties, he joined the HCL Group and subsequently joined the Board of the flagship company HCL. He also serves on the Board of Directors of HCL Infosystems Ltd and NIIT Ltd. |
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AMAL GANGULI
Director |
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| Mr. Amal Ganguli, a Chartered Accountant, was till recently the Senior Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers India. In a distinguished career spanning nearly four decades, Mr. Ganguli was involved with the India practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers and is an authority on matters related to audit, taxation, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate restructuring. |
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PROBIR CHANDRA SEN.
Director |
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| Mr. Probir Chandra Sen, a graduate of St. Stephens College, Delhi, a postgraduate in M.A. (History) and Diploma in Social Anthropology from King’s College, Cambridge, U.K. and a M.Sc (Economics) degree from the University of Swansea, U.K., joined the Indian Administrative Service in Madhya Pradesh Cadre in 1967. He has held a variety of assignments both with the Government of Madhya Pradesh and the Government of India. He was Director of Archaeology and Museums, M.P., Managing Director, Madhya Pradesh State Tourism Corporation, Principal Secretary Housing and Environment, Principal Secretary Commerce and Industry and IT in the Government of Madhya Pradesh, Director General, Civil Aviation, Chairman and Managing Director, Indian Airlines, and Chairman, Air India. He retired as Secretary General, National Human Rights Commission in April 2003 and took over as Director, India International Centre from May 2003 onwards. |
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| Mr. Sen was conferred the`National Citizen’s Award’ presented by the Prime Minister of India, the`Shiromani Award’ presented by the Speaker of the Lok Sabha and the`Wings of History Award’ for his tenure in Indian Airlines. |
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