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Pearl Uppal, sales director at Yahoo! India quits, Namit Pandey appointed as business head news

01 October 2009

Yahoo! India's sales director Pearl Uppal has quit to pursue entrepreneurial opportunities in online retailing, being funded by European and Indian investors.

Uppal has over 10 years of experience. She started her career with General Electric in 1999, but after a short, one-year stint, she moved to Rediff.com, where she worked as a key account manager and looked after advertising sales at Rediff.com.

In May 2002, she switched to Yahoo! India, where she was responsible for the monetisation of Yahoo! India's properties across display, search and mobile.

Uppal is an engineering graduate from Delhi College of Engineering and an MBA from IIT, Delhi.

Yahoo! India has roped in Namit Pandey as director and business head of classified, local search and small business.

Pandey has moved from Monster.com, where he was vice-president and general manager, Middle East.

He will be based out of the Bengaluru office.

Pandey has more than 14 years' work experience, and was a founding member of an online jobs portal, Jobsahead.com, which was later acquired by Monster.com.

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Kavish Arora to head corporate banking at DSP Merrill Lynch in India

DSP Merrill Lynch has appointed Kavish Arora as head of its corporate banking division in India.

"We are pleased to announce the appointment of Kavish Arora as head of corporate banking, India. In this role, he will report jointly to us", said Kevan Watts, country executive, India, and Scott Lampard, head of corporate banking, Asia Pacific.

Kavish joined Bank of America in New Delhi in September 2004 as a principal with the Client Management Group and was named managing director and senior investment banker in February 2007.

Prior to joining Bank of America, Kavish worked at Deutsche Bank for 10 years in the merchant banking division. Kavish began his career at Tata Engineering & Locomotive more than 23 years ago and also worked as an investment manager at Risk Capital & Technology Finance Corp (the RCTC/IFCI Venture Fund) and AF Ferguson.

Kavish holds a BSc in engineering from the Delhi College of Engineering and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

Kavish succeeds Asit Bhatia, who has informed DSP ML of his decision to leave the company after more than 21 years of service, to pursue other career and personal interests.

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It is an old interview :
http://www.rediff.com/money/2006/jan/25inter.htm

'You don't need a rich family to start a company'

Shri Promod graduated from Delhi College of Engineering in the year 1969 in Electrical Engineering. He also holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Northwestern University and an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of Management, where he serves on the advisory board.

Promod has 17 years of experience in the venture capital industry and currently serves as managing partner at Norwest Venture Partners. He joined Norwest Venture Partners in 1990. He has been ranked as a top dealmaker on the annual Forbes Midas List for the past five years, and in 2004, Forbes named him as the #1 venture capitalist based on performance over the last decade. In 2006, Promod was presented with a Global Leadership award from NASSCOM.

Promod focuses on investments in semiconductor and components, systems, software and services. He was an early investor and a board member of Cerent (acquired by Cisco), Siara Systems (acquired by Redback Networks), OnDisplay (acquired by Vignette), Winphoria Networks (acquired by Motorola) and Extreme Networks (Nasdaq: EXTR).

His current investments include Adventity, AmberPoint, Cast Iron Systems, FireEye, Persistent Systems, Sonoa Systems, Sulekha, Veraz Networks (Nasdaq: VRAZ), Veveo, Virtela Communications and Yatra Online. Other notable investments and previous board seats include Tivoli Systems (acquired by IBM), Forte Software (acquired by Sun Microsystems), Kiva Software (acquired by Netscape), Information Advantage (acquired by Sterling Software), Arbortext (acquired by PTC), Open-Silicon (acquired by Unicorn Investment Bank), Resonext Communications (acquired by RF Micro Devices), Showcase (acquired by SPSS), Yipes (acquired by Reliance/Flag Telecom) and ZettaCom (acquired by IDT).

Prior to Norwest Venture Partners, Promod spent 18 years in various operational roles ranging from product development, marketing, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer at various public and private companies - Siemens International, Thorn EMI, Emergent Technologies and Dimensional Medicine, Inc.
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He believes deeply in entrepreneurship. Little wonder that he has been in this business for more than 45 years and nurtured over 350 companies (around 21 from India) during this period.

The name is Promod Haque, managing partner at Norwest Venture Partners which manages over $1.8 billion in venture capital.

It's only last December that Haque invested $13.8 million in Pune-based Persistent Systems. Ranked as a top 10 dealmaker on the annual Forbes Midas List for the past three years, Norwest focuses on investments in semiconductor and components, systems, software and services (the ones that primarily use the application service provider or ASP model rather than licenses).

Prior to Norwest, Promod spend 18 years in various operational roles, ranging from product development, marketing, chief operating officer and CEO at various public and private companies.

An electrical engineer from Delhi University, he also holds a PhD in electrical engineering from Northwestern University and an MBA from Kellogg, where he now serves on the advisory board. He was in Mumbai to announce the funding for an Indian online travel site. Leslie D'Monte caught up with him to find out what makes India tick for him.

Here are the excerpts:

This is the first time you appear to be looking at the B2C (business-to-consumer) segment. Earlier, your focus was on the B2B (business-to-business) segment.

If you see our portfolio, we have invested in the B2C segment in the past too. Of course, in India, this is the first such funding. The reason is that you see consumer spending growing since the middle class is growing. Internet usage is increasing.

We are looking at consumer services that are well-proven in the United States and Europe. Travel fits in our current strategy. We spent a lot of time understanding the travel space. We also identified a team in the UK and convinced them to come to India. We will be looking at several other consumer services in the near future.

What criteria do you adopt to identify the 'right' entrepreneurs?

The process is consistent. First, we look at large market opportunities. This comes from experience. Then we look at a solution for a service that is highly differentiated. Finally, we look for the 'big vision.' This does not mean we get it right every time. However, Norwest is backed by some hardworking, smart people (looks sideways at his partner Vab Goel). It's a team effort.

What advice do you have for today's entrepreneurs?

Today, you don't need a rich family to start a company. Indian entrepreneurs have an excellent opportunity to start companies with anywhere between $1-10 million and create one of the top 10 companies. All you need to have is a great idea, a good experienced (reiterates this) team and focus on the right investor. There is a certain amount of discipline and homework that needs to be done. We want to find these guys and back them.

How long does it take you to get a return on your investment?

Generally, around seven to eight years from the stage we get involved. Then a majority of the companies concerned either go public or get acquired.

You have been bullish on outsourcing in India. However, there has reportedly been a lot of backlash. Your comments.

What backlash are we talking about? I see no such thing. Frankly, it is a lot of hype. Most businesses understand the need to be competitive. Hence, outsourcing is a given.

You have always cautioned that rising salaries are detrimental to the competitiveness of Indian company since China could soon catch up. However, what's wrong with people making more money?

What I advocate is that India needs to change a few things in order to get competitive. The Israeli model is apt for India. People, of course, should join start-ups with the idea of making more money. That's how you will be able to attract better talent.

However, what I'm suggesting is that start-ups should offer stock options that will create more wealth for individuals, rather than salaries that add to the costs initially. The killing should be make in equity. I agree you need a mature stock market for this to happen. We also need to create an environment for NRIs to come back to India.

You have also exhorted a move beyond services to products. Do you see that happening soon enough?

The challenge for India is that there is not much happening in the product management space. In other words, you may know how to build a product. However, are you building the right product? Here is where a lot of returnees from Silicon Valley could add value in the product management methodology to find out what the consumer really wants.

What would you attribute your success to?

We have been in this for 45 years. We have a vast network of executives and a very good relationship with our customers. When we feel our hunch is right, we float it across a select network that has an implicit understanding of what we are looking for. This strategy always works.

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Winds of change

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/education/Winds-of-change/articleshow/5036232.cms

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Ankur Garg, who has completed a BTech from the Delhi Technological University (DTU) this year,
is a firm believer. For years he worked for many environment-friendly engineering projects, however, he says, "They did not see the light of the day. There is abundance of green technology waiting to be launched in the market but a lot of politics spins around the world in the name of climate change. And I want to influence policies related to technology."

For this reason, Garg has opted to do an MPhil in technology policy in Cambridge University, UK. He is one of the scholars to receive the Shell Centenary Chevening and Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Scholarship this year. At the age of 22, he got admission in both Cambridge and Oxford University to pursue courses of his choice. "I got the option to pursue environment change management in Oxford University. But I want to work in the area of environment policy. So Cambridge was the obvious choice. Moreover, it will be an honour to study in an institution that has given many innovative ideas to the world. I will be studying at a time when the university is celebrating its 800year," he says.

An environment-engineering student, Garg has been active in the field of climate change since the time he entered college. After completing class XII, he got a studentship to work as a research assistant in the University of Sydney, Australia, for four months. "I worked on glacial lakes project. During my college years, too, I was working with professors of IIT-Delhi on various green-technology projects. But there is no ecosystem to support such projects and launch them in the market," he laments.

Garg was also selected as part of the Indian Youth Delegation at United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. "Once I was there I realised a lot could be changed at the policy-level to bring in green technology in the market. It is for this reason, I opted to pursue MPhil in technology policy instead of selecting the usual path to do an MBA or specialising in engineering," he adds.

As to his success, he says, "For a scholarship like Chevening, I think along with academic credentials, you need to have a wider portfolio of credits. They look for candidates who have a clear vision and leadership qualities. I think all the Chevening Scholars I met are very special and have done something unique."

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DTU organizes lecture on WTO issues

http://www.indiaedunews.net/Delhi/DTU_organizes_lecture_on_WTO_issues_9308/

New Delhi: To provide budding managers a low down on WTO, its functioning, major WTO agreements and issues of present day concern as well of those of future, Delhi School of Management (DSM), the on-campus B-school of Delhi Technological University (DTU) organized a lecture on Tuesday on 'Relevance of WTO for Trade and Industry' by Mr. A. B. Menon, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Commerce, Government of India.

The lecture was the part of Special Invited Lecture series to provide the management students of DSM a face-to-face interaction with the leading experts from the industry and Government organizations.

In his address, Mr. Menon spoke about the principles of WTO and how it is endeavoured to promote mutually beneficial trade relations without favouring any nation(s) and protecting the interests of both developed and developing member countries.

"Under the WTO regime, it is important to understand the interests of varied members and create a deal which is acceptable to majority," he said.

Mr. Menon informed that market dynamics and industrial forces of some developed countries have begun to play a major role in determining their trade links with other countries and here it becomes the responsibility of the partnering countries to ensure that the interests of their own local industries and workforce are not adversely affected by any such collaboration.

He also spoke about the top trading sectors across the world and how remanufacturing of products is emerging as an important trade area.

"Although remanufacturing is still forming a base in India, India is going to be a hub of remanufacturing in next five-six years," he said.

Delivering his opening remarks, Prof. P. B. Sharma, Vice Chancellor, DTU said, "Tomorrow will belong to India but only if India is able to conform to global practices, employ fair trade practices and create products of international quality that comply with highest safety standards, are energy efficient and environment friendly."

The objective of DSM is to prepare managers of 21st century having a perfect mix of technology temper and managerial acumen to work in the globally competitive technology-intensive environment.

The Special Lecture was attended by Prof. S. K. Garg, Head of DSM, Prof. Asok Bhattacharya, Head of Department of Electronics & Communication, DTU, Prof. Rakesh Kumar, Coordinator, DSM, faculty members, besides students in large number.

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DTU's automatic dispensing machine 'Annpurna' unveiled by Chief Minister

http://www.indiaprwire.com/pressrelease/education/2009101235684.htm

With a view to promote research driven industry relevant innovations of value to the society and community, the Delhi Technological University (DTU), formerly Delhi College of Engineering, has designed and developed an innovative, automatic measuring and dispensing machine ‘Annpurna’ with maintenance simplicity for Fair Price Shops in Delhi. The machine ‘Annpurna’ was unveiled today by Smt. Sheila Dikshit, Hon’ble Chief Minister of NCT of Delhi at the Delhi Secretariat.

The machine utilises the latest technology for measurements based on digital load cells with close loop in flight compensation regulated by an advanced digital signal processor and innovative positive displacement dispensing mechanism engineered to provide gentle, precise feeding of free-flowing granules utilizing a low power hybrid motor drive mechanism. The dispensing machine requires only 15-18 watts of power supply and can even be powered by a solar panel and has little or no maintenance requirement. Such machines can be easily installed in the Fair Price Shops and in the mobile vans for disbursement in rural areas. The machine has been developed by a team of DTU headed by Dr. Vishal Verma, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering in close association with Designinnova.

Applauding the machine, Smt. Dikshit said, “It is one of the most remarkable innovations as it reaches out to every common man and benefits society at large. Annpurna is a clean, accurate and reliable equipment for public distribution system. We are happy and proud that DTU has come out with a socially relevant and innovative product like this.” Those present at the occasion included Sh. Rakesh Mehta, Chief Secretary, Delhi, Sh. P. K. Tripathi, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Sh. Rajendra Kumar, Secretary, Higher Education and Technical Education, Ms. Jayshree Raghuram, Secretary-cum-Commissioner, Food & Civil Supply and Prof. P. B. Sharma, Vice Chancellor, DTU, among other faculty members and officers of the University.

Delivering the welcome address, Prof. Sharma said, “This socially relevant innovation has been inspired by the Govt. of Delhi and we are happy to come out with a design which shall serve the economically poor consumers. While designing this machine we have tried to avoid any possibility of adulteration in food grains. The accuracy of measurement of this machine is +/- 1 gm. We at DTU will continue to engage in socially relevant innovations in the areas such as energy conservation, green energy and environment technologies in future as well.”
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Delhi Technological University (formerly known as Delhi College of Engineering) is one of the most well-known engineering institutions of India, withover 68 years of glorious tradition behind it.A non-affiliating teaching and research University, DTU is poised to create an environment of synergetic partnership between academia and industry. It aims to cause a major departure from the conventional system of education and research and aspires to imbibe a culture of scientific research in its technology disciplines and technology temper in its scientific research and education by providing a seamless environment for integration of science and engineering. The University also endeavors to provide the thrill of a corporate R&D environment with a planned focus on industrially relevant projects and technology incubation.

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Soon, dual degree for DTU students


http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Soon-dual-degree-for-DTU-students/articleshow/5157957.cms

NEW DELHI: Come 2010, the new entrants at Delhi Technological University (DTU) will be offered an additional one-year MBA course at the end of their
BTech studies. An MBA programme in addition to the four-year BTech course would ensure the students have a dual-degree with specialization in technology, knowledge or innovation. The newly-established university also has major expansion plans right from enhancing its residential capacity to setting up innovative classrooms and research centres.

The dual-degree would be introduced from the 2010-11 academic session, whereby BTech students would be eligible to opt for the one-year MBA programme at the end of their third year. Based on their academic and professional performance (projects and summer trainings), students would be selected from across engineering disciplines for the MBA.

Speaking about the objective behind a dual-degree even as the university has already started a full-time MBA programme from this year, vice chancellor P B Sharma said: "A large number of engineering graduates opt for an MBA programme after graduation and then drift away from their area of expertise to specialize in marketing, finance and HR, among others. Our objective is to attract the best engineering talent for a masters degree in management and yet retain their scientific temper. So this MBA would offer specialization in areas such as technology, knowledge and innovation management, among others.''

While the full-time MBA degree which started this year from the Delhi School of Management of DTU is open to all students, including those from non-engineering background, and admission is based on Common Admission Test (CAT), group discussion and personal interview scores, the additional MBA programme is only for students who are pursuing BTech from DTU.

The university, which was till recently a DU-affiliated college and was known as Delhi College of Engineering, is also planning additional infrastructure for expansion. It has already added new academic programmes and increased intake by 400 seats this year at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. According to proposed expansion plans, a new girls' hostel with a capacity of 200 and a boys' hostel with 500 capacity will be added besides a multi-storey academic block for IT, biotech, nanotech, VLSI design, computer engineering and software engineering.

"We are also planning a teaching block, housing lecture theatres of 240 seats, two conference halls and five tutorial rooms. In the pipeline are also one multi-design centre, a high-end testing laboratory, a micro electro mechanical systems design centre and a photonic design centre,'' added Sharma.

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DTU admissions on basis of AIEEE from next yr

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/DTU-admissions-on-basis-of-AIEEE-from-next-yr/articleshow/5169986.cms

NEW DELHI: From 2010-11 academic session the Delhi Technological University (DTU) would be admitting aspirants from the NCT on the basis of their
All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). Formerly known as the Delhi College of Engineering, an affiliated college of Delhi University (DU), DTU has been upgraded to an university. While changing its admission policy DTU has now decided to complete the admission process for its undergraduate programmes on the basis of merit of rank of AIEEE results.

DTU has 85% of seats reserved for Delhi candidates and 15% for outside Delhi students. While students for outside Delhi category has been admitted on the basis of rank obtained in AIEEE so far, the students from Delhi were selected on the basis of the rank obtained in the Combined Entrance Examination of DU. "From the next academic session the admissions for both the category would be based on AIEEE rank, through the counselling conducted by DTU,'' said assistant registrar, K Singh.

The admissions would be made to 14 BTech courses including 10 programmes of the erstwhile DCE, and four new courses introduced this year including B Tech in software engineering, electrical and electronics engineering, automotive engineering and engineering physics. The combined intake of these courses would be 910. The prospectus is expected to be made available from February.

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Regular-recruiters-back-in-action-on-Delhi-campuses/articleshow/5128996.cms

Regular recruiters back in action on Delhi campuses

NEW DELHI: Placement season is round the corner and if the beginning is any indication, recession blues of the last year seem to be lifting from the
campuses. Sources said as institutes and universities open their doors, companies from various sectors are making a beeline for best of talent and booking placement slots.

Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) on Thursday announced it has completed 100% summer placement for the its students. According to FMS officials, around 80 companies, including all major banks, FMCG and consultants, participated in the exercise and four companies, including Microsoft and Coca Cola, offered summer placements with a monthly stipend of Rs 50,000.

While summer placement were for the first-year students, sources said the response that FMS is getting bodes well for those who will pass out of the institute this academic session. "Things were pretty bad last year, so we were keeping our fingers crossed. The response so far has been encouraging and the number of companies interested in visiting our campus has gone up significantly. All the regulars which used to visit our campus before they took break last year due to recession are back this year,'' said Madhu Vij, placement in charge at FMS.

The situation is similar at Jamia Milia Islamia, which in its two-day career fair saw 35 companies from diverse sectors `booking' nearly 200 students. Said training and placement officer Rihan Khan Suri: "Things are looking bright this year as companies are sending positive signals. Also the companies that offered placements last year but deferred the joining dates, have asked the students to take up the positions.'' Jamia revealed a foreign job contractor is talking to the university administrator and may offer a significant number of jobs to its students.

Students at Delhi Technological University (DTU) have received over 200 offers from nearly 35 companies. Sources said DTU has already recorded a domestic salary as high as Rs 12 lakh per annum as compared to the last year's Rs 15 lakh.

Average salary too is rising this year. Last year, the average salary that students of DTU got was Rs 5.25 lakh per annum, but this year it is already Rs 7 lakh. "There will be a correction in the average salary once the IT companies starts recruiting in January and February. But we are expecting a better average salary than that of the last year's,'' said professor S K Garg, who handles matter related to training and placement at DTU.

So far, core companies most of them public sector units like IOCL, BHEL and NTPC have made of the offers at DTU. One exception though is software company Aricent that has offered 60 jobs so far. "Overall, the placement scenario looks very bright this year,'' said Garg.

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President, New York University Polytechnic visits Delhi Technological University

http://www.indiaprwire.com/pressrelease/education/2009110436906.htm

Mr. Jerry Mac Arthur Hultin, the President of NYU Poly, the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, United States visited the campus of Delhi Technological University (DTU) yesterday.

NYU Polytechnic representatives visit
New Delhi, Delhi, November 4, 2009 /India PRwire/ -- Mr. Jerry Mac Arthur Hultin, the President of NYU Poly, the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, United States visited the campus of Delhi Technological University (DTU), formerly Delhi College of Engineering, yesterday in the Capital. Mr. Hultin is in India to visit select institutions as well as meet representatives from academia, government and corporates, in order to have a better understanding of India's educational requirements and explore opportunities of academic & research activities, which could be of mutual benefit to both the countries.

He met the officiating Vice Chancellor of DTU, Prof. B. D. Pathak along with Prof. R.K. Sinha, Dean, Industrial, Research & Development, DTU, Prof. G. L. Verma, Dean, Academics, DTU, Prof. R. C. Sharma, Dean, International Affairs, DTU and Prof. S.K. Garg, Head, Delhi School of Management, DTU among others. Mr. Hultin was accompanied by Ms. Meera Kumar, Vice President, Communications and Marketing, NYU Poly.

Prof. Pathak spoke to Mr. Hultin about the possibility of research collaborations, faculty and students exchange with NYU Poly, where students of DTU could study one semester at NYU Poly and vice-a-versa. An option of offering dual degrees by both institutions, where students could study two years at home country and two years at partnering institution was also discussed on the occasion.

Speaking about the reason behind choosing DTU for his visit and proposed partnership, Mr. Hultin said, "DTU has a great reputation and has recently upgraded into a full-fledged University. Our polytechnic has also become a part of New York University. We share a common technical temper and appreciate that the students of DTU are actively involved into innovative projects and research activities."

Mr. Hultin also interacted with the MBA students of Delhi School of Management, DTU during his visit and deliberated on how knowledge and technology is playing an important role in making this world a better place to live. "The solution to the problems faced by common man lies in producing more, consuming less and generating even a lesser amount of waste," he said