Ganesh Natrajan
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Ganesh Natrajan
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. He is the author of three McGraw Hill Books on Business Process Reengineering and Knowledge Management and has also authored a book titled ‘Winds of Change’. He is a regular columnist for India’s premier Business and IT magazines.
Ganesh was named 'CEO of the Year' by the Asia Pacific HR Conference in 1999 and received the Wisitex Foundation’s 'CEO of the Decade – Knowledge Award' from India’s Minister for Information Technology in 2000. In July 2005, he received the Asia HRD Congress Award for Contributions to the Organisation through HR. Ganesh was also the finalist at the Ernst & Young 2005 Award where he was recognized for exceptional entrepreneurship.
Ganesh chairs the Outsourcing Forum of the Confederation of Indian Industries in Western India. He has been elected Chairman of the NASSCOM Innovation Forum for 2005-07. Ganesh has also been elected Vice Chairman of Nasscom in April 2007 and will lead the industry association through until March 2009.
Ganesh is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and the Harvard Business School.
Areas of Interest :
- IT products
- High end BPO services
- Leading edge technology in areas such as telecommunications and embedded domains
- Retails
- Consolidation opportunities in domestic IT products
- Media & Entertainment
- New Media
- other
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