COMPANY PROFILE

COMPANY PROFILE1.Infosys

Chairman of the Board and Chief Mentor: Narayana NR Murthy Managing Director, President and CEO: Nandan M Nilekani

N. R. Narayana Murthy - Chairman of the Board and Chief Mentor

N. R. Narayana Murthy is the Chairman and Chief Mentor of Infosys Technologies Limited. Mr. Murthy served as the Chief Executive Officer of Infosys between 1981 and 2002. Under his leadership, Infosys was listed on NASDAQ (INFY) in 1999. In March 2002, he handed over the reins of the company to co-founder Nandan M. Nilekani.

Mr. Murthy is the chairman of the governing body of the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore and the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He is a member of the Board of Overseers of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School; Cornell University Board of Trustees; Singapore Management University Board of Trustees; INSEAD's Board of Directors and the Asian Institute of Management's Board of Governors. He is also a member of the Advisory Boards and Councils of the William F. Achtmeyer Center for Global Leadership at the Tuck School of Business, the Corporate Governance initiative at the Harvard Business School, and the Yale University President's Council on International Activities. Mr. Murthy has led key corporate governance initiatives in India. He was the Chairman of the Committee on Corporate Governance appointed by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) in 2003.

Mr. Murthy serves as an independent director on the board of the DBS Bank, Singapores largest government-owned bank. He is a member of the Asia Pacific Advisory Board of British Telecommunications Plc., and a member of the Board of New Delhi Television Ltd. (NDTV), India. He also serves as a director on the Central Board of the Reserve Bank of India, as a member of the Prime Minister's Council on Trade and Industry, and as a member of the Board of Directors of the United Nations Foundation. He is an IT advisor to several Asian countries.

Mr. Murthy is the recipient of numerous awards and honors. The Economist ranked him eighth on the list of the 15 most admired global leaders (2005). He was ranked 28th among the world's most-respected business leaders by the Financial Times (2005). He topped the Economic Times Corporate Dossier list of India's most powerful CEOs for two consecutive years 2004 and 2005.

TIME magazines Global Tech Influentials list (August 2004) named Mr. Murthy as one of the ten leaders who are helping shape the future of technology. He was the first recipient of the Indo-French Forum Medal (2003), awarded by the Indo-French Forum in recognition of his role in promoting Indo-French ties. He was voted the World Entrepreneur of the Year - 2003 by Ernst and Young. He was one of two people named as Asia's Businessmen of the Year for 2003 by Fortune magazine. In 2001, he was named by TIME/CNN as one of the 25 most influential global executives, selected for their lasting influence in creating new industries and reshaping markets. He was awarded the Max Schmidheiny Liberty 2001 prize (Switzerland), in recognition of his promotion of individual responsibility and liberty. In 1999, BusinessWeek named him one of their nine Entrepreneurs of the Year, and he was featured in BusinessWeek's 'The Stars of Asia' for three successive years - 1998, 1999 and 2000. The Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane, Australia) conferred an honorary doctorate on Mr. Murthy in 2005. He has also been conferred honorary doctorates by several well-known universities in India.

Mr. Murthy was born on August 20, 1946. He holds a B.E. from the University of Mysore and a M. Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

2.Wipro:

Azim H. PremjiChairman and Managing Director, Wipro Corporation

Azim Premji is a graduate in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, USA. On the sudden demise of his father in 1966, Premji took on the mantle of leadership of Wipro at the age of 21. Premji started off in Wipro with a simple Vision to build an organization on a foundation of Values.

Under his leadership, the fledgling US $2 million hydrogenated cooking fat company has grown to a US$1.76 billion IT Services organization serving customers across the globe. Wipro is today ranked among the top 100 Technology companies globally (by Business Week). In the past two years Wipro has also become the largest BPO services provider, based in India. Wipros growth continues to be driven by its core Values.

3.HCL:

Shiv Nadar

Founder HCL, Chairman and CEO - HCL Technologies

Shiv Nadar, is one of "the original entrepreneurs" who has helped shape the development of the IT Industry in India. He is widely acknowledged as a visionary by the industry, a man ahead of his times. He created a $ 3.30 billion global enterprise, through a vision that was born out of a Delhi 'garage' 30 years ago. With a risk-taking ability that is by now almost legendary, he has made daring forays based on his conviction of the future.

At a time when few ventured abroad and Indian IT skills were yet to be recognized, Shiv Nadar commenced operations in the US in 1988 and developed a strategy to launch HCL globally, a strategy that has yielded rich dividends and led to many people calling HCL "India's first transnational" in the IT sphere.

He foresaw huge potential in the area of IT education and learning (from which NIIT was born) during a period when the market was obsessed only with hardware; yet again when software development was still in the nascent stage, Shiv Nadar took the lead in this area and grew HCL into a serious force to reckon with, in the global markets. HCL is today a leader in the IT industry, employing 34,000 professionals, a global presence in 15 countries spanning locations in the US, Europe, Japan, ASEAN and the Pacific Rim. HCL's business today spans IT Hardware Manufacturing & Distribution, System Integration, Technology & Software services, Business Process Outsourcing, and Infrastructure Management.

He has been juxtaposed in the league of legends such as Bill Gates (Microsoft), Scott McNealy (SUN) and Pfeiffer (Compaq) by Geoffrey James, in his book, "The Giant Killers". In fact, in February 1997, TIME magazine wrote: "The world has caught up with Nadar's vision of a networked future, and the results are shaking up enterprises, economies and governments around the world".

In 2000, he entered the Forbes List of billionaires, and by 2004 he was ranked No.272 globally and No.7 in India. This period was characterized by an intense process of creating wealth not only for himself but also for his customers, partners, employees, and investors.

Shiv Nadar attributes the success to teamwork and the entrepreneurial spirit of HCL, which together have enabled it to handle rapid change in environments and technologies, and to transform threats into opportunities and market differentiators. Fundamental to the process has been the development of new paradigms for the unprecedented situations into which HCL ventures. Developed from first principles, these include guidelines for organization restructuring, market creation, technology leveraging and business up scaling. Shiv Nadar personally heads the think tanks, which address the conceptual bases of the company.

Recognized as one of India's most effective entrepreneurs, Shiv Nadar sees a parallel with top-level sportspersons, in terms of their sharp focus on goals and complete commitment to their achievement. For conceptualization, he draws inspiration from the performing and fine arts, where preconceived notions are questioned.

Shiv Nadar has made 'Quality education' a top concern on his personal agenda. He founded the SSN College of Engineering in Chennai, which is today a premier institution in India. He has also founded the SSN School of Advanced Software Engineering in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University (rated No.1 globally for software engineering) that offers a CMU degree in India.

In January 2005, Shiv Nadar received the CNBC Business Excellence award from the Prime Minister of India. In February 2005, he was listed by "India Today" in the Power List of India's leaders from all walks of life, for building a global $2 billion IT enterprise from scratch in 3 decades, creating valuable JVs with marquee partners such as Deutsche Bank, and creating jobs in Belfast when India has been criticized for just the opposite.

Shiv Nadar firmly believes that, "If you want to empower people, give them the tools. There is enough entrepreneurship in this country to take care of the rest." Summing up the phenomenal growth of the company in a period spanning almost three decades, Nadar says, "In these 29 years, we pioneered the growth of IT in India in virtually every sphere, including hardware, software, services, solutions, networking communications, Internet and the IT infrastructure. and we never missed a heartbeat".

Ajai Chowdhry

Founder HCL, Chairman and CEO - HCL Infosystems

An engineer by training, Ajai Chowdhry is one of the six founder members of HCL, India's premier IT conglomerate. HCL, a start-up in 1976, touched US$2 bn for the last 12 months.

Ajai Chowdhry took over the reins of HCL Infosystems, the flagship company of the Enterprise, as President and CEO in 1994. He was appointed the Chairman of HCL Infosystems in November 1999. Under his stewardship, the company's turnover has grown to Rs. 4413 crores in 2003-04 from Rs. 400.6 crores in 1994, almost ten-fold growth. With employee strength of over 2500, it has emerged as country's information-enabling powerhouse.

Ajai has been a key force in driving the growth of HCL Infosystems. The credit of setting up HCL's overseas operations, starting with Singapore in 1980, goes to him. During this tenure he extensively covered South Asian Markets including Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Indonesia, and the People's Republic of China, expanding business operations, which paved the way towards enhancing HCL's core competencies in bringing the best international technologies to domestic market.

Driving the thrust on IT, Telecom and Imaging, Ajai perceives the role of his company as that of enabling information. Credited with providing momentum to key IT phenomena - within the company as well as in the industry - he has constantly added newer and cutting edge technology skills to the company's portfolio. Under his leadership, several new projects have been undertaken in the company that have had a lasting impact - getting into IT retailing, spearheading the company wide Quality movement, and the very recent low cost PC initiativeand IT for masses are some examples. An absolute stickler for customer focus, he himself spends significant time, personally listening to customers.

Ajai sensed an emerging opportunity early in telecom and imaging category and today HCL Infosystems is poised to exploit this opportunity to offer a richer bouquet to its customers.

It is a recognition of his visionary status that Ajai was part of the IT Hardware Task Force, set up by the Prime Minister of India to give shape to the country's IT strategy. Ajai has repeatedly championed the cause of improving PC penetration in the country. He has worked closely with many Government bodies to take IT for masses agenda forward. Presently he is part of several government committees to take forward the course of IT and Hardware in India. He was awarded with 'IT Man of the Year' by The Skoch Consultancy and 'Best IT Man of the Year' by The Foundation of Indian Industry and Economists. Ajai also addressed CII's flagship hardware event 'India e-Hardware Summit 2004' at Hyderabad as a keynote speaker recently.

Ajai has a bachelor's degree in electronics and communication engineering, and attended the Executive Program at the School of Business Administration at the University of Michigan, US.

Ajai is an avid reader and is fond of Jazz and the fine arts. He and his wife Gita live in New Delhi.

4.TCS:

Business Overview

Leadership Team

Mr. S. RamadoraiChief Executive Officer & Managing Director

Armed with over 32 years of experience (he joined TCS on February 23, 1972 and took over as the CEO in 1996), Mr. Ramadorai has played an integral role in building TCS into Indias first US$ 2 billion IT Services organization in annual revenues. He has been designated as IT Advisor to Qingdao city and Hangzhou city, in the Peoples Republic of China. He is on the boards of Hindustan Lever Limited and Nicholas Piramal. He is member of the Corporate Advisory Board, Marshall School of Business (USC). He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Indian National Academy of Engineers, and is Chairman of the National Association of Software Companies (NASSCOM).

5.Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab Pvt Ltd

Technology, product and business solutions to aerospace, automation and control solutions, transportation systems and specialty materials. HTSL effectively leverages experts from multiple disciplines to work on a diverse and enriching portfolio. From being an off-shore development center, HTSL today provides value to Honeywell businesses.

Website : www.honeywell.com/htslLocation : BangaloreKrishna Mikkilineni - Managing Director, Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab

A committed social worker, a great speaker and role model for many young engineers, Dr.Krishna Mikkilinenis passion and commitment to excellence permeate every facet at HTSL. Steering HTSL through its challenge-ridden journey, his vision and entrepreneurial skills have seen HTSLs phenomenal growth in the last decade.

His association with Honeywell dates back to more than 15 years. Prior to spearheading the development and growth of Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab in India, Dr. Krishna served at Honeywell, USA where he worked at Honeywell Technology Center, Minneapolis and Honeywell Industrial Controls, Phoenix in USA.

Dr.Krishna is a man of varied interests. Besides being a keen observer of human traits, he is also an avid reader. A family man, Dr.Krishna is married and has two young sons.

Dr.Krishna completed his engineering in Electronics & Communications from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad. He then went on to do his doctorate in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Florida, USA before joining Honeywells technology center.