Graduate in Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur; Advanced Marketing Management Program, Stanford Univ. Over 35 years in the Indian IT industry. Formerly: senior management positions at Digital Equipment India, Blue Star, and NELCO; Director, Enterprise Sales, Digital Equipment Asia Pacific, Singapore; 13 years with Sun Microsystems as Managing Director, India and, most recently, as Global Vice-President, Commercial Systems, US headquarters; Managing Director, Indian operations, Oracle. Currently, Chairman, Microsoft India, resp. for marketing, operational and business development efforts. Member: Exec. Council, NASSCOM; committees, CII and MAIT. 2003-04, Chairman, American Chamber of Commerce, Karnataka. Interests: photography, reading and golf.