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New Delhi, July 02, 2008 – Hero Electric, a 100% subsidiary of the Hero Group, today announced the appointment of Sohinder Gill as the Chief Executive officer for Hero Electric. Following the appointment of Gill, Mahesh V Patil will take the charge of General Manager for Product Development, while Sanjeev Gandhi would support Sales & Business Development as the Vice President.

Announcing these appointments, Naveen Munjal, Managing Director, Hero Electric Ltd, said, “These senior appointments demonstrate our investment in and commitment to this electric vehicle market. It will further facilitate in advancing Hero Electric’s continuing growth in the segment. Their experience and success in mentoring and growing large teams of highly qualified and trained resources is vital to scaling our presence in the electric vehicle market across India. I look forward to working closely with all of them.”

Gill, a<b> Mechanical engineer from the Delhi College of Engineering,</b> comes on board with a humungous experience in the auto sector spanning over three decades. Prior to joining Hero Electric, Gill has worked across a wide gamut of businesses like Larsen & Tubro, Kinetic Honda, Hero Honda, Birla Yamaha, JK group and the GPL group, his last assignment. Under the banner of Hero Electric, Gill will lead all of Hero Electric’s initiatives as it branches out across India and introduces models across segments and products to cater to the evolving needs of Indian customers.

Commenting on the appointment, Sohinder Gill said, “I am looking forward to joining Hero Electric at this exciting time in its growth trajectory. The vision of transforming the fuel dominated automobile industry into an eco-friendly industry is particularly powerful when you consider Hero Electric’s domain focus. The electric vehicle segment is in great shape and I'm keen to start working with it to take it on to the next level.”

As GM, Product Development, Mahesh V Patil, joins Hero Electric with over 12 years of experience and leadership in electrical motor technology. In his new role, he will be working on new product initiatives and product life cycle management for electric bikes with a major focus on indigenization of the electrical technologies utilized in the Electric Bikes.

Sanjeev Gandhi, who has taken over as the VP, Sales and Business Development, will be given the key role of developing and strengthening the Electric two-wheeler market as the most viable and economical option. He will lead Hero Electric’s initiatives to expand distribution in newer domains and through newer channels.

“The new top management is on the board to drive the winds of change, as the nation looks into alternative options of transportation, with petrol prices soaring high like never before,” adds Mr. Munjal.

After about 12 years of thorough research on the global Electric Vehicle (EV) market, Hero Electric entered the EV segment in 2007, with the launch of Hero Maxi and Hero Optima, its Low Speed Electric Scooter models. Within the first year of its operations, Hero Electric has touched sales of over 20000 Electric Scooters with its aggressive dealership expansion and marketing efforts. Hero Electric is a 100% subsidiary of the Hero Group, a trusted and credible household name in the Indian two-wheeler market. The Hero Group entered the Electric Vehicle segment with the single-minded objective of providing eco-friendly cost-effective transportation. Its aim is to be the best in zero pollution transportation in the near future in the country.

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http://www.indiainfoline.com/news/showl ... =658&lmn=1

Mr. Pankaj Agarwal,
Group CEO and MD, Mindteck India Ltd

Jul 14, 2008



Mindteck India Ltd. is a multicultural global Technology and IT services company that delivers business and technology solutions to a wide range of Fortune 500 companies and Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) across the globe. It has offices and development centers in India, US, UK, Germany, Netherlands, Singapore, Malaysia, and Bahrain. Core software solutions and services include Embedded Systems, Business Applications Consulting, SAP, and Security, Infrastructure & Managed Services. Mindteck is an ISO 9001:2000, ISO 27001:2005, ISO 13485 certified, and a SEI CMMi Level 5 assessed Company.



<b>Mr. Pankaj Agarwal is the Group CEO and MD of Mindteck. He is responsible for the overall growth of the Mindteck group. Pankaj is a business leader and an entrepreneur for more than two decades. Prior to Mindteck, he founded two companies; Infotech Consulting, Inc. in Pennsylvania in 1996; and Binary Semantics, New Delhi, in 1986. He holds a bachelor degree with high honors in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering, one of the premier engineering institutes in India.
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In a freewheeling one-on-one with Hemant P. Maradia of India Infoline, Mr. Agarwal says we are looking at 30-35% growth in the topline for FY09.


Can you tell us about your ‘Go-Global’ strategy?
In February, we acquired Infotech Consulting, based in Pennsylvania, USA. The acquisition value was US$21mn. It was the starting point of our Go Global strategy. It was a big acquisition, and promises to further strengthen the company’s market position in the US.

After that, the company announced three more acquisitions. In April, we completed the acquisition of Primetech Solutions, a California-based IT consulting company. We also bought out two of our associate companies in the UK and Singapore.

What kind of tangible and intangible benefits you plan to accrue from this strategy?
These acquisitions will expand Mindtek’s operations in the US, Europe and Asia-Pacific.


The company is expanding its sales force globally, and expects to add many new clients in the coming quarters.

One of the prime objectives of the acquisitions was to strengthen our service offerings, and to become a full-scale service provider in the space that we operate in.

The whole idea was conceptualized in November last year. We decided to grow our business through acquisitions and consolidate the organisation.

Through these acquisitions, we wanted to become a global organisation. Majority of the company’s business comes from the US. But we only had 10-15 people there. With these deals, that number has now jumped to almost 400.

By acquiring our subsidiaries in Singapore and the UK we got access to wider markets in the Asia-Pacific and Europe. We will also be able to strengthen our operations in the Netherlands and Germany. We also plan to set up shop in Ireland.

Now we have a much larger and significant operations in the US as well. Our execution capabilities have been enhanced with these acquisitions. Today, when we go to a client, we can offer them a complete solution. Our delivery capabilities have also expanded.

We plan to set up operations in China, the Philippines and Japan as well. So, the consolidation within the organisation and the acquisitions will definitely help.

It helps us in improving our bottomline and cash flows. It will also help us get a global line of credit. Earlier, we had a line of credit only in India. Now, we have it in Singapore as well as in the US.

If you get money from the US, we will have to pay just 5% interest rate, instead of paying 13-14% interest rate in India. We can get a line of credit of up to US$10mn now, which can help us do more acquisitions in future. These are some of the advantages that we will leverage on as we move forward.

These were a complex set of transactions, and we are done with them. We can now start focusing on business growth, both organically and inorganically. We will more companies. This is a good time to do it.

You have spent US$30.6mn on the first phase of 'Go Global' strategy. How much more do you plan to spend and over what period?
We raised US$7.5mn. We used US$6.5mn to acquire these companies. Everything else was paid in stock. We still have a little bit of money left for a few more acquisitions.

Are you on track to achieve consolidated revenue target of over US$75mn for the year ended March 2008?
Before the acquisitions, Mindteck had revenues of US$30mn. Post the acquisitions; our consolidated topline touched US$75mn. Now we will build on the new revenue base. 30% of US$75mn is a much larger number than 30% of US$30mn.

What is the promoters’ stake now?
The promoter equity was 78% prior to these acquisitions. Now the same stake is at 64%.

Promoters do not have a single person on the Board. All members are independent. There is nobody, who truly represents the promoters on the Board. This has been the situation for the last three years. Earlier, they had an observer. Now, they do not even have that.

What's the guidance for the fiscal year 2008-09 and the following few years?
The actual effect of all the acquisitions will start kicking in only from this year. We are looking at 30-35% growth in the topline in the year 2008-09. We did our budgeting in late last quarter, and are first two-month’s numbers are pretty much on track. But, with fears of a recession in the US, and all, it’s anybody’s guess. We have a strong pipeline of orders and a strong business proposition.

What is your take on the US economy and the financial crisis there? What kind of an impact has it had on your company?
Most of our work comes from the hi-tech industries. We do not do much business with the financial companies. So, the sub-prime crisis and the consequent slowdown in the US have not affected us. But, a weak financial sector may impact other sectors, and there may be a little bit of delay in new orders going forward. Normally, it takes 8-12 months for such a thing to happen. A lot of the projects have already been sanctioned to us. As people start looking at new projects, that is when we will know the real impact of the downturn.

We have good customers, and companies that are very strong. So, we are hoping that this will help us in future. We also do a lot of work in the government sector. That side of business should not get affected. None of our clients have told us that they will be deferring new order placements to us.

What is your recruitment plans for the year?
We have added 200 plus new employees in the last six months in India. We are getting new business. From 275, we have jumped to 475. So, there is definitely growth. We have closed lots of good orders. But, will the current momentum sustain? We can’t predict at the moment.

There is lot more stability in employee turnover, relatively speaking. The pressure from increasing wage costs has come down a little bit. We are able to hire a lot more people. We recruited almost 60 people in May. Earlier, the situation was tight in terms of the availability of people.

In the US, in 2000-01, it was a nightmare to hire people. But, after the dotcom bubble bust, the situation really improved.

We are expanding our operations, both in Kolkata and Bangalore. We are planning a new facility in Bangalore totaling 250 seats. We are doubling our office space in Kolkata.

In total, we will be adding 300 plus seats at both these locations. We are hoping that in the next six months, we will be able to fill those places.

For our Bangalore facility, we will be moving into the SEZ. That will help the company, as we will get some tax benefits.

Our total headcount globally is 1200. We have 400 people in the US, 480 in India and 150 in Singapore. The rest are all in Malaysia and Europe.

How do you plan to tackle the US-related problems?
We are increasingly focusing on Europe, and we have got good traction there. We started our office in Germany in May. We have some good clients in Germany. We are also doing well in Singapore and Malaysia.

But, the problem is that the Singapore dollar is much weaker than the US dollar. And, the rates that you get there are lower in absolute terms. So, even if we get more business out of this region, the impact won’t be much.

The Euro business has the potential to counter the dollar business. In absolute numbers, we will have more dollars coming in from Europe and Singapore compared to last year. But, percentage wise, the US will continue to stay very high, as we continue to do a lot of business there.

The whole purpose of these acquisitions was to boost our business in the US. We want to grow that business. We are still a very small player in the industry. We still have a lot of scope to grow in the US. We can grow at 30% plus in the US and we will achieve the target this year.

There are enough opportunities in the US. To grow by 30% on a topline of US$ 2bn it is tough. To grow 30% on US$75mn, it is far easier. It’s a doable target.

In Europe, we have started signing contracts in euro. We are exploring if we can sign up contracts in rupee. In the US, we actually got rate increases from some of our customers. And, we have not yet reversed those rates back. Right now, things are looking good.

What is your reaction to the Government's decision to extend the STPI benefits by one more year? How do you plan to prepare for the post 2010 era?
It definitely helps. We might have to move into SEZ as we grow. From the industry perspective, the discontinuation of the STPI benefits will hurt the smaller players the most. So, from that angle, it doesn’t make sense, because all the large players are moving into SEZs. It will be difficult for the smaller companies to do that, as rents are very high there.

What is the outlook on prices? Are you able to extract higher prices for new contracts and renewals?
Not from all clients. Some of them have agreed, while others haven’t. We increased our rates by 10%. The dollar has anyway risen against the rupee by the same margin this year.

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<b>Delhi engineering students win US competition award</b>

NEW DELHI: A team of undergraduates of the Delhi College of Engineering (DCE) has bagged the "Most Improved Design Award" for 2008 in a US-based tech competition organised to design a new-generation robotic submarine which can have a wider application in the defence field.

"The award is the first for any educational institute in the country," claimed head of DCE's Centre for Fibre Optics Research R K Sinha, adding that the overall position of the college stood at ninth place in the competition International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition.

Notably, DCE was the only team from the country participating in the competition organised by the Association for Vehicle System International and the Office of the Naval Research, USA, at San Diego from July 29 to August 3.

In all, about 40 teams representing well-known institutes from across the world took part in the event. They included MIT, Georgia Tech, Cornell and Kyusho University of Japan among others.

University of Maryland clinched the pole position. Sinha said the robotic submarine codenamed "vehicle for autonomous research and underwater navigation" is capable of diving to a predetermined depth, identify patterns and follow underwater pipelines using unique machine vision.

Besides, it can determine sound sources by acoustic navigation, deploy payloads and can surface at any given position without human assistance.

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note for Moderator: please unlock the other thread dce news in 2007. may be subject change would be fine.

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Rajeev Minocha: Helping Senior Executives Relocate From US to India

BY A.MATTHEWS

SAN JOSE, CA – Signs of the weakening US economy coupled with the economic boom in India, presented just the right opportunity for the launch of US2IndiaJobs, a company which helps senior executives in the US relocate to India.

CEO Rajeev Minocha gives credit to his wife Nandini for her astuteness in seizing the moment and starting the Silicon Valley based company in November 2007. Not even a year old, the company is seeing many signs of success.

Says Minocha, “Nandini started the company and then recruited me earlier this year to scale it!”

He goes on to add that the shortage of talent, particularly at the senior level in India, led them to believe that there could be a market for exporting talent from the US and other countries, to India. Lack of any organized way for executives to make such a move further strengthened our belief that we could help provide a bridge between the employees and the employers.

Nandini brought her past experience in the executive search space to the venture. She ran her search firm focused on senior and mid level executives in advertising, media and marketing space in India, the Mid East and South East Asia for five years. In addition she had worked for over five years in account management, client servicing roles in various advertising and marketing agencies both in India and the US.

Calling the process “reverse brain drain,” Minocha explains that US2IndiaJobs is an executive search firm/portal that bridges the gap between global executives/senior technology professionals looking to relocate to India and companies wanting to hire employees with international experience.

“We help the employers identify suitable candidates who fit the bill and are willing to relocate. We then help them in the selection process as well as in bridging the expectations on both sides in the entire cycle. On the candidate side there is the first most important phase of understanding the background as well as providing a canvas of realistic opportunities that might exist suiting the background and the ambition. Providing counseling and guidance throughout the process is the other big service that our consultants offer. Our role starts from the moment we get a requirement from the client (and the candidates in our system) and ends after the selected candidate has been successfully relocated and settled in the new position.”

As to the main segments where jobs are readily available in India, Minocha reveals that India has been growing at an average 8.8% annual growth rate, which has been the best rate since India’s independence in 1947. With the global slow down predicted for the current year, even the most pessimistic estimates on India’s growth are pegged above 7%.

With this kind of growth, apart from the technology sector, there is a boom in jobs in the real estate, infrastructure, healthcare, education, hospitality, retail, manufacturing, and many others.

Though the process may seem daunting with regard to legal formalities involved in relocation, Minocha allays these fears. He reassures that the legal formalities for working in India are fortunately not that complex. There is no work visa needed if you have an Indian passport. However, US citizens and those of other nationalities need a work permit to be able to work in India but the process of application and obtaining it is fairly simple. Persons of Indian origin who are now US Citizens can obtain Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI) which gives them the ability to work and live in India without any restrictions for their lifetime!

Coming to the big question- the dollars involved , Minocha says at present the company does not charge anything from the candidates. The fees are paid by the employers – part of it is payable upfront as a retainer and the balance on successful placement.

To another bottom line question - how many candidates have landed a job in India through US2IndiaJobs, Minocha says, “We plan to place 50 people in our first year of operation, scaling this to 400 in year 2 and 1000 in year 3.”

Currently the company is working with three difference categories of clients Which include large global companies such as Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Amazon.com, Nokia, Pepsico; Indian companies with global ambitions or those expanding in India such as RPG Enterprises and established startups and pre-IPO companies funded by reputed VCs such as Sequoia Capital, Matrix Partners, Helion Ventures and others.

Minocha figures that the company has made a headway in just a few months because they have focused on a niche which has helped in getting a quick identity.“ On the candidate side we deal with executives who have work experience of about 10 years or higher. On the companies/jobs we cater to those that have a demand-supply gap or need skills that are not readily available in India.”

He highlights the fact that the need for their service definitely exists both on the candidate and employer side- ensuring a scalable and efficient delivery model as a path to success.
“Tapping into the alumni networks of premium schools and colleges has helped us to source suitable candidates while identifying and reaching out to the right companies has helped us to create the required number and quality of jobs,” he adds.
The future looks promising. As Minocha says, “We have a fairly ambitious plan to scale our operations in terms of our team size, number of candidates as well as number of jobs/employers. We are also being asked by our clients to help them in finding suitable talent in other countries so we will need to devise our roll out strategy to meet that demand.”
Minocha co-founded another KPO/BPO company focused on the Financial Services space in 2001 and ran it till late last year. Previously, he spent a couple of years at Infosys Technologies in sales and business development. His initial career was in sales, marketing and general management in the consumer products space at Unilever and Perfetti Van Melle (an Italian confectionery company)in India and other International markets including South Africa and Brazil.
He is an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and has an Engineering degree from Delhi College of Engineering.
Nandini has a Masters in Business Economics and a Bachelors in Economics from Delhi University.

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<b>Nitin Rakesh joins Motilal Oswal Group as CEO-Asset Mgmnt</b>




Motilal Oswal Group, the leading financial services company today announced the appointment of Mr Nitin Rakesh as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company's Asset Management Business.



Nitin brings with him over 13 years of extensive experience of working in the financial services sector. His core competence lies in investment management and handling operations. He also has a deep understanding of diverse areas including asset management, transaction processing, offshore fund structuring and venture capital.



In his prior assignment, Nitin served as the CEO and Executive Director of State Street Syntel Services, the joint venture between State Street Bank (NYSE: STT) and Syntel (NASD:SYNT), which was established in 2005 to oversee STT's global business operations. He was also the business unit head of Syntel's BPO arm and played an integral role in helping build a new business for the company which emerged as one of the most profitable in the industry with annual revenue of over $ 100 million. In addition, he has held various positions in organizations such as TCG Investments and Unit Trust of India (UTI Mutual Fund).



Nitin holds a B E (Computers) from <b>Delhi College of Engineering</b> and an MBA in Finance from NMIMS, Mumbai.

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With tariffs from voice declining, mobile service providers are devising innovative value added services. Sensing a big business opportunity, Vijay Shekhar Sharma, started One 97 to offer mobile application where users can choose, create and share video ringtones and bring the online social networking experience to the mobile space.

Says Vijay Shekhar Sharma, managing director of One97, “Over 20,000 subscribers have started using the service since it went live last month to create their own video ringtones.” Users can send each other video ringtones, which act as caller ring tones. This can be a boost to create viral videos, especially for user-generated content. The company claims that every month 140 million unique subscribers access to its various value-added services, which are offered to India ‘s leading mobile carriers.

The entrepreneurship bug bit this electronics graduate from the Delhi College of Engineering early in his life. He set up aninternet venture while pursuing his degree and subsequently sold it. Having experienced key technology roles in the internet and media world, Vijay dived into telecom and his venture won the Best Innovative Service Provider of the year award at eIndia 2008.

Finance execs just a click away

A private community of senior global financial executives,called MeettheBoss.com, has been formed which provides a platform for technologists to discuss implementation, strategy and common challenges in the financial domain. The community has 20,000 members of finance executives. Founder and CEO Spencer Green says that this community has been championed as a key tool to bring the world out of the current financial crisis.

“There are lessons to be learnt from the credit crunch of the times. This is the biggest challenge before us and we need to communicate,” says Green. The community has membership from Asia, South America, the Middle East, North America and Europe and is strictly for C-level senior finance executives around the world.

Spencer believes that India and China are the two most important potential markets and that’s where he will focus now.

New model for IT governance

Quint, a global IT management consulting firm specialising in IT-related organisational challenges, will be rolling out an IT governance model to help its clients to get more value from their investments.

Says Sunil Mehta, country manager, Quint India, “The BFSI and manufacturing companies are increasingly getting automated and there is more dependency on hardware and software and the processes have to be mature and streamlined.”

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<b>Delhi: The Green Way?</b>
The Fledge, a zero-emission car designed by seven <b>Delhi College of Engineering </b>students, drew curious onlookers at the Delhi Pavillion. It won its creators the Annual Green Championship Award in the US, and this is the first time it is being marketed. The first hybrid car in the country, the Fledge runs on a 346-cc engine, with a mileage of 320 km per litre.

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When Sourabh Jain set out to build a mobile-commerce platform in 2004, he aimed high. "I knew I wanted to build a disruptive technology ... the Google or Amazon of m-commerce," says the Delhi College of Engineering grad. Four years later, his start-up, ngpay, is India's largest "mall on the mobile." More than 225,000 users shop, book train tickets, pay bills and bank using even entry-level handsets over any secure network. Only eight months old, ngpay hosts 1.6 million transactions a month and is India's fastest-growing m-commerce business.

Jain quit his job at Lucent Technologies to start JiGrahak from his Bangalore apartment with a team of three techies. It was kept afloat with contributions from friends and family. With characteristic chutzpah, Jain took two key risks. First, he built a platform not simply for m-payments but for m-commerce — a bigger, more complex challenge. Second, at a time when no one seemed to grasp high-speed data networks' potential, his team perfected a platform, ngpay, that was cheap and quick to download and use, and several notches up from existing m-commerce options. Its one-stop mobile-shop model enabled easy browsing of hundreds of neatly categorized services and products.

Despite having a pathbreaking technology, Jain found it an uphill battle to take ngpay to market and persuade businesses to sell their wares or services over it. "His initial meetings were spent explaining just how the mobile could be used for something other than making voice calls," says Abhijit Bose, ngpay's vice president, with a laugh. The company now offers 250 products and services. Bose says ngpay has shown that m-commerce is a viable and scalable alternative to e-commerce. It has enormous potential in India, where there are only 15 million PC Internet connections but 65 million mobile Internet users. "Over 70% of our users are outside the metros," Bose says. "We can lead the way in providing low- cost m-commerce and financial services to the underserved."

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http://www.merinews.com/catFull.jsp?articleID=154651

The book 'Be the CEO of Life' by Vivek Gupta and Sandeep Amar is a relevant book in today’s world. It discusses a common problem-that of keeping up with peer pressure faced by everybody in this competitive world..


THE BOOK ’Be the CEO of Life’ written by Vivek Gupta and Sandeep Amar, provides a refreshing change in the scene, after the multiple fiction authors that Indian Institute of Management (IIMs) seem to be churning.

A highly relevant book in today’s world, the authors look at a common problem faced by everybody in this competitive world – that of keeping up with the Joneses and peer pressures.
What is interesting about the book is that it does not ponder over the problem across several pages, but is rather succinct in its presentation of the typical issues facing the young bread winners. Instead, the book focuses on how one can get over these common problems that we create in our own minds – by developing greater control over one-self. The book aptly suggests that one should be first look at one’s long-term aspirations before deciding on short-term goals that would eventually lead to that final destination. In reality, usually most of us look at short-term material benefits first and then try to force-fit that into our supposed macro picture.

Be it pressure to perform at a young age or pressure to catch up with –the neighbour, the authors correctly suggest (most relevant for the call-center generation) - (1) Make your monthly budget based on your expected permanent income throughout your life. (2) Try to spend 70 per cent of that income on the things you enjoy doing. Go for that world tour or buy the rarest of music CD’s. (3) Save close to 30 per cent of your monthly income. This would suffice your future needs and the entire eventuality.

(4) Don’t spend under peer pressure rather spend your money intelligently on things which give you real utility rather than just one-upmanship in the society.

Written in a simplistic language, the book is a must read especially, for aspiring MBAs who just want to do an MBA because either it’s the ‘in-thing’ to do or because newspapers play up the salaries of MBA and hence, make it a ‘must-do’.

About the writers:

The book is written by Vivek Gupta and Sandeep Amar. Vivek is an IIM Bangalore/Delhi College of Engineering Alumni and Sandeep is from Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), Delhi. Both are very successful in their respective full time passions as Vivek is the vice president-Business Operations and Strategy of India’s top education portal Studyplaces.com and Sandeep heads Simplymarry.com, the matrimonial portal from Times Group stable.

The book is published by one of the leading publishers, Asian’s Publications and is available at all leading book stores now.

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http://press-releases.techwhack.com/31669-bimal-dayal

Qualcomm India and South Asia

Bimal Dayal is vice president of business development and country manager for Qualcomm India and South Asia. Mr. Dayal is responsible for all operator-facing business development and marketing operations for the region. In his role, Mr. Dayal drives adoption of Qualcomm technologies and solutions such as 3G (WCDMA/HSPA, CDMA2000/EVDO), Connected Computing, Location Based Services and others with all service providers. He has more than 20 years of international sales and business development experience, coupled with strong relationships in the telecom industry across countries like Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Sweden.

Prior to joining Qualcomm, Mr. Dayal was vice president and key account manager at Ericsson, responsible for positioning Ericsson’s entire portfolio of products and services for Bharti Airtel. During his 12-year tenure with Ericsson, he held key defining roles ranging from general manager of sales and marketing, senior business manager for WCDMA and PDC systems, as well as managing director of Ericsson, Sri Lanka. In his last assignment as vice president and key account manager for Ericsson India, Mr. Dayal led the company’s largest key account – Bharti Airtel – where he was responsible for managed services and managed capacity for Bharti’s 15 circles across India.

Mr. Dayal started his career with Tata Telecom, where he spent eight years and was responsible for driving the complete profit and loss portfolio for the company’s operations in the state of Karnataka. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree specializing in electronics and telecommunication from Delhi College of Engineering and a Bachelors degree in Law from Delhi University.