DR. GANESH NATARAJAN Vice Chairm

							DR. GANESH NATARAJAN
Vice Chairman,
NASSCOM

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 and is also a member of the Executive Council of NASSCOM, India’s
premier IT and BPO Association. 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.