There are 25 awardees for 2008 (in alphabetical order), these individuals yield the most influence on the Information Technology industry in India.
Awardees
Alok Ohrie
Alok Ohrie, President of EMC India & SAARC Region. Ohrie, a 20-year IT industry veteran in India, joined EMC from AMD where he was the Vice President & Managing Director for AMD’s India operations.
Prior to joining AMD, Ohrie spent 13 years with IBM Global Services India in a number of...
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Anil Valluri
Anil Valluri,Vice President & Managing Director, India GEM Sun Microsystems India has over 22 years of Sales, Marketing and Technology Management experience in the IT industry. He worked earlier with DCM Data Products and Digital India. Anil was instrumental in pioneering and evangelising...
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Ashok Soota
Ashok Soota, Chairman and Managing Director of MindTree, was the President of Wipro from 1984 to 1999. He co-founded MindTree Consulting in 1999, which is currently a leading name in IT consulting. He has played a major role in the development of the IT industry in India.
Under his...
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Azim Premji
Azim Premji took on the mantle of leadership of Wipro at the age of 21, in 1966. Premji started off in Wipro with a simple Vision – to build an organization on a foundation of Values.
Under his leadership, the fledgling US$ 2 million hydrogenated cooking fat company has grown to a US$1.76 ...
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Ganesh Natarajan
Ganesh Natarajan has been one of the most successful and dynamic professionals in the Indian Information Technology Industry and has been leading Zensar as the CEO for over seven years now, making Zensar one of the most successful IT companies in the country and amongst Fortune's Top 10 global...
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Harsh Manglik
Harsh Manglik is the chairman and managing director of Accenture's operations in India. He is responsible for the growth and development of its business across all of the company's Indian operations.He joined Accenture from Symantec Corp., based in the United States, where he was worldwide vice...
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Hitesh Lokhandwala
Hitesh Lokhandwala, MD, Nortel India.
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Jai Menon
Dr. Jai Menon is the Director (Customer Service and IT), Bharti Airtel and Group CIO, Bharti Enterprises. At Bharti Airtel, he is a member of the Airtel Management Board and drives the Customer Service and IT charters across all lines of Airtel businesses.
He joined Bharti in August 2002...
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Jangoo Dalal
Jangoo Dalal, is Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer at Dlink. His immediate prior assignment was as President & Country Manager - Cisco Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd. for its India & SAARC operations. Prior to this, he was Country Head of Enterprise - India & SAARC regions...
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Krishan Dhawan
Krishan Dhawan is Managing Director for Oracle India Private Limited.
Based at Oracle India’s head office in Gurgaon, Mr. Dhawan is responsible for the overall business performance of Oracle in the Indian market. Mr. Dhawan joined Oracle in March 2005 and brings with him more than 25 years of...
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Narayana Murthy
N. R. Narayana Murthy, is one of the seven founders of Infosys Technologies, a global consulting and IT services company. He is currently the non-executive Chairman and Chief Mentor of Infosys. He was the CEO of the company for 21 years, from 1981 to 2002. After stepping down as CEO in 2002, he has...
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Naresh Wadhwa
Naresh Wadhwa, is the President and Country Manager for Cisco - India & SAARC region. Prior to this, Naresh was heading the Marketing organization for Asia Pacific based out of Hong Kong.
An industry veteran for 18 years, Naresh joined Cisco India in January 1998 as a Sales Manager, and was...
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Neelam Dhawan
Neelam Dhawan is the Managing Director of Hewlett-Packard India. She has countrywide responsibility for revenues and profitability and ensuring the greatest leverage from HP’s Services, Personal Systems and Imaging & Printing businesses.
Previously, Neelam was the Managing Director of...
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Pravir Vohra
Mr. Pravir Vohra, Senior General Manager is responsible for the Technology function at ICICI Bank. He also heads the Technology Management Group (TMG) that constantly validates emerging technologies & technology opportunities and ensures a consistent strategic IT approach across the ICICI...
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Ranjan Das
Ranjan Das is president of SAP India Subcontinent. Prior to this Das was with SAP America where he was senior vice president leading the platform technology group.
Das is a technology executive with over 15 years of experience in both global and startup software companies, including founding...
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Ravi Venkatesan
Ravi Venkatesan, chairman of Microsoft Corporation (India) Pvt. Ltd, is responsible for Microsoft’s marketing, operational and business development efforts in the country. In partnership with the leaders of Microsoft’s other business units, Venkatesan provides a single point of leadership for the...
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S. Ramadorai
S. Ramadorai (Padma Bhushan) is CEO and Managing Director of Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS).
During the past more than 30 years, S. Ramadorai, has played an integral role in the international development of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). His efforts have helped make TCS one of the world's...
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Sam (Samir) Gulve
Sam (Samir) Gulve is currently Chairman and MD for Avaya India Pvt. Ltd. Avaya is a multi-billion dollar company that delivers Intelligent Communications solutions that help companies transform their businesses to achieve marketplace advantage. At Avaya Sam oversees the GCS product...
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Sameer Garde
Sameer Garde is country General Manger, Dell India and is responsible for driving the overall growth and operations for Dell in India.
Sameer joined Dell in April 2004, and has since held many leadership roles in Dell International Services as well as Dell APJ.
In July 2005,...
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Shanker Annaswamy
Shanker Annaswamy, Managing Director, IBM India is responsible for all IBM’s sales and marketing, services and Global Delivery operations in India.
Prior to this appointment, he was the President and Chief Executive Officer for GE Medical Systems (GEMS), South Asia and Managing Director,...
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Sharad Sharma
Sharad Sharma serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Yahoo! India R&D of Yahoo! Inc. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Mr. Sharma, served as a regular Columnist with The Smart Techie, was involved in buyout activities focused on taking mid-sized software product companies private. Before that, he...
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Shiv Nadar
Shiv Nadar is an entrepreneur, IT executive, educationalist, bridge player, one of India's richest people and the Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of HCL Technologies. Shiv Nadar founded HCL in the mid-1970s and transformed the IT hardware company into an IT Enterprise over the next three...
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