Board of Directors
SHIV NADAR
Founder - HCL
Chairman & Chief Strategy Officer - HCL Technologies
At a time when India had a total of 250 computers, Shiv Nadar led a young team which passionately believed and bet on the growth of the IT industry. That vision in 1976, born out of a Delhi "barsaati" (akin to a garage start up), has resulted 3 decades later in creating a US $ 4.9 Billion Global Enterprise.
HCL is today a leader in the IT industry, employing 55,000 professionals, has a global presence in 18 countries spanning locations in the US, Europe, Japan, ASEAN & the Pacific Rim and a pan India presence across 360 points. more>>
AJAI CHOWDHRY
Founder - HCL
Chairman & CEO - HCL Infosystems
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 US$ 4.9 Billion Global Enterprise.
Ajai Chowdhry took over the reins of HCL Infosystems, the flagship company of the group, as President and CEO in 1994. He was appointed the Chairman of HCL Infosystems in November 1999. Under Ajai’s stewardship, the company’s turnover has grown to US$ 3.1
Bn (approx. Rs.15500 crores) from US$ 89 Million in 1994. more>>
T S R SUBRAMANIAN
Director
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.
For over five years, Mr. Subramanian was a Senior Adviser in the International Trade Centre in 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.
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.
ROBIN ABRAMS
Director
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. 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.
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 the region. In this position, Abrams was based 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.
SUBROTO BHATTACHARYA
Director
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 Ltd. He also serves on the Board of Directors of HCL Infosystems Ltd and NIIT Ltd.
AMAL GANGULI
Director
Mr. Amal Ganguli, a Chartered Accountant, was till recently the Senior Partner of Price WaterhouseCoopers India. In a distinguished career spanning nearly four decades, Mr. Ganguli was involved with the India practice of Price WaterhouseCoopers and is an authority on matters related to audit,taxation, mergers and acquisitions and corporate restructuring.
PROBIR CHANDRA SEN
Director
Mr. Probir Chandra Sen, a graduate of St. Stephens College, Delhi and a post graduate in M.A. (History) and Diploma in Social Anthropology from King’s College, Cambridge U.K. and M.Sc (Economics) from 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, M.P. State Tourism Corporation, Principal Secretary Housing and Environment, Principal Secretary Commerce and Industry and IT in the Government of M.P., 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. He took over as Director, India International Centre from May 2003 onwards.
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.
