Mitu Jayashankar

Manipal University's new course of action

Ranjan Pai first met Mohandas Pai in the late 1990s at the Infosys campus in Electronic City, Bangalore. Ranjan's father Ramdas Pai was impressed by the bright chief financial officer (CFO) of a promising IT company and wanted his son to meet him. At first Ranjan didn't quite take to him. But on his father's insistence, kept in touch with Mohandas. "Every time I'd meet Mohan, he would give me...

11:19 AM, Sep 13, 2011

I have not known life except in 'The Hindu': Murali

N Murali Age: 65 Designation: Managing Director, Kasturi & Sons, publisher of The Hindu, Business Line, Frontline Education: B Com, ACA Career: Spent over 40 years in Kasturi & Sons; retired on 12 August 2011 Interests: Cricket, Tennis, Music How were your last few months in The Hindu after CLB (Company Law Board) reinstated you as managing director? I felt vindicated. CLB indicted that it was in bad faith; there...

01:15 PM, Aug 27, 2011

VG Siddhartha is Branching Out

In 1983, if someone had told coffee baron VG Siddhartha that one day he would own an impressive multi-storied office on Vittal Mallya Road, Bangalores tony residential and shopping address, he would have called them crazy. Siddhartha was then just a rookie analyst at JM Financial and Investment Consultancy. Today Coffee Day Square, his Groups headquarters, a glitzy glass-fronted building, stands right across UB City from where Vittal Mallya laid...

05:23 PM, Jun 30, 2011

Tiger knows customers better: Pramod Bhasin

Pramod Bhasin Designation: President and CEO, Genpact Career: Founded Genpact in 1997. Prior to this, worked as an officer for GE Education: Chartered accountancy, London; Bachelor of Commerce from SRCC, Delhi University Interests: Loves to read and is an ardent cricket fan Weve heard that you wanted to step down two quarters ago, but you delayed that announcement because the companys performance wasnt all that good and then in March,...

03:03 PM, Jun 06, 2011

The X Chromosome: Women in the Workforce

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04:59 PM, Jan 12, 2011

The incredible story of the UID project

When Ranjana Sonawane, a 30-year-old housewife from Tembhli, a tribal village in Nandurbar district of Maharashtra was allotted the UID number 7824-7431-7884, the team at the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) would have been quite justified in feeling a little pleased with themselves. A small team - 160 people - had achieved the first milestone of a very ambitious project in a very short time. The UIDAI is a...

10:55 AM, Nov 30, 2010

Can Infosys move out of Murthy's shadow?

Sometime last year, NR Narayana Murthy, chairman and chief mentor at Infosys Technologies, asked Jeffrey Lehman, chairman of the nominations committee at the company, if he could take time out to meet with MS ‘Vindi' Banga over dinner in New York City. Lehman is entrusted with the task of finding Murthy's successor by July next year. Banga, one of the front runners to take over as chief executive from Patrick...

01:44 PM, Nov 02, 2010

Is your mobile phone loaded with money?

Name: Carol Realini Profile: Founder Obopay, a Silicon Valley mobile payments company. History: She was voted one of the top 25 women to watch for in technology in 2010 by AlwaysOn, Stanford University technology summit. Her Mission: Deliver financial services to a large number of people through mobile phones. I was bored; so I decided to take a re-look at my life. I had retired in 2000 after spending about...

11:33 AM, Sep 18, 2010

Forbes India: Infosys can be a global giant

Claude Smadja Age: 64 Designation: Retiring as Independent Director, Infosys Board Education: Graduate from University of Lausanne, Switzerland Career: Director for News and Current Affairs, Swiss Broadcasting Division. Between 1996 and 2001 he was the MD of the World Economic Forum. He founded Smadja and Associates, a strategic advisory firm, in 2001. Forbes India: When you look back on your 10 years on the Infosys board, what were the highlights?...

01:52 PM, Sep 13, 2010