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NIIT
HISTORY
NIIT Technologies became an independent organization in 2004, after spinning off from NIIT Ltd., India’s Global Talent Development Corporation. NIIT Technologies’ genesis, however, goes back over 15 years, to a time when India’s IT education pioneer, NIIT Ltd. began its foray into the software segment. NIIT not only enabled leading Indian corporate and Government institutions to build manpower skilled in the technologies they had deployed, but also helped them make optimal use of their IT investments using innovative frameworks and methodologies.
Harnessing its software engineering knowledge alongside its applications management and systems integration prowess, NIIT provided companies with solutions tailored to their specific needs and helped them realize quick roil from their IT implementations. Over the years, NIIT Technologies has built on this expertise, enhancing its presence in markets such as Application Development and Management and Enterprise Solutions including Managed Services and BPO.
Apart from customized solutions, NIIT Technologies distinguished itself by bringing packaged software to India’s shores and giving a distinctive place to Software as a Solution in the country’s domestic market. By entering into distributorship alliances with global software leaders such as Information Builders Inc., Sybase and a host of other players, NIIT Technologies made available their state-of-the-art offerings to corporate. It was in 2002, as the revenues of NIIT’s software business increased significantly, overtaking the company’s turnover from IT education, that it was decided to flag off NIIT software as a separate entity
Board of Directors
Rajendra S.Pawar
Rajendra S. Pawar is a well known face in the Indian IT sector. Recognising skilled manpower to be a very important prerequisite for the survival of the fledgling Indian IT industry, Mr. Pawar helped pioneer the IT training segment to fuel its growth. A visionary entrepreneur, Mr. Pawar also ignited the fire of free enterprise, using the revolutionary franchisee model of education. His contributions to the software business are no less significant. Recognising his pioneering and entrepreneurial work, Ernst & Young conferred on Mr. Pawar its prestigious Master Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 1999. His valuable contributions to the IT industry in India also earned him the "IT man of the Year" award, instituted by IT industry journal, Dataquest. A respected opinion leader, Mr. Pawar has spearheaded several IT industry initiatives. His role within the Indian Prime Minister’s Task Force for IT and Software Development and his contributions to the FICCI and CII IT committees, have established him as an industry guru. Mr. Pawar is a part of a panel of six experts in the newly constituted Prime Minister’s National Council on Skill Development, chaired by the Prime Minister of India. The expert panel includes luminaries from the world of business, academia and the Government. The National Council has been conceived as a vision-setting apex body for addressing the challenging task of large-scale skills development in the country. Mr. Pawar’s inclusion in this august panel is a recognition of his immense individual contribution as also that of the organisations’ in the "employability" space.
Arvind Thakur
Mr. Arvind Thakur is the Chief Executive Officer of NIIT Technologies Ltd., and serves as the Joint Managing Director on its board. Under his stewardship, NIIT Technologies has positioned itself as one of the top software solutions providers in select industry segments with operations across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Mr. Thakur graduated in engineering from the premier Indian Institute of Technology in India. Thereafter he pursued post graduation in Industrial Engineering from NITIE in Mumbai. He started his career as an Industrial Engineer with BHEL, a large engineering corporation with work specialization in systems. He joined NIIT Ltd. in 1985 as a member of the core team, and has since then been handling key organisational roles. He was the President of its Software business before it was demerged to form NIIT Technologies Ltd. He serves on the boards of the company’s overseas subsidiaries and domestic joint venture with ESRI Inc., a global technology leader in the GIS domain. He is also a Director in an innovative venture, Hole-in-the Wall Education Ltd. that enables technology to be deployed to educate the masses. He is the Chairman and Managing Director of the BPO subsidiary NIIT Smart Serve Ltd. Recently Mr Thakur was appointed on the Board of Management of NIIT University, a not for profit institution established in Rajasthan, India.
Vijay Thadani
Vijay K. Thadani is the Chief Executive Officer of NIIT Ltd, a leading Global Talent Development Corporation. As the co-founder of NIIT Group, he has built an organization that is recognised for its visionary role in bringing the benefits of Information Technology, both as a professional skill and as a learning tool. He serves on the Board of NIIT Technologies Limited, Vijay has been actively engaged with many Industry Associations. He served as President of the Indian IT industry association, MAIT and also chaired the Indian Government’s Committee on National Information Infrastructure Policy. He served as the Chairman of the IT Committee of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in USA. He is currently the Chairman of CII National Committee on Education and also serves as the Chairman of the National Accreditation Board for Education and Training (NABET), which works under the aegis of the Quality Council of India. He serves on the board of CompTIA USA, an association advancing the global interests of information technology industry and also as a member of the India Advisory Board of the Maastricht University, Netherlands. He was recently appointed as a member of the Strategy Council of Global Alliance for ICT and Development of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA-GAID). A ‘Distinguished Alumnus’ of the premier Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, Vijay was honored with the position of ‘Economic Consultant’ to Chongqing, world’s largest city in the People’s Republic of China.
Subroto Bhattacharya
Subroto is a Chartered Accountant with over 30 years of experience. A specialist in the field of Finance and Management Consultancy, he has worked as a part of the core team in several reputed organisations.
Surendra Singh
Surendra Singh is a retired IAS Officer, who has held very senior positions in the Central and State Governments. Having joined the Public Service in 1959, Mr. Singh has been Special Secretary to the Prime Minister of India, responsible for all the economic work in the PMO, Cabinet Secretary to the Government of India, Secretary to the Council of Ministers and Secretary, Ministry of Industry. He was an Executive Director on the board of the World Bank, representing India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Bhutan. He has also held directorships on the Boards of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA).
Amit Sharma
Mr. Sharma was with Motorola, where he led teams in India and Southeast Asia in various roles including Country President, India and Head of Strategy, Asia-Pacific. Mr. Sharma also served on Motorola’s Asia Pacific Board and its Senior Leadership Team. Prior to joining Motorola, he was with GE Capital, serving as Vice President, Strategy and Business Development, and prior to that, with McKinsey, New York, serving as a core member of the firm's electronics and marketing practices. In addition to his role at ATC, Amit serves on the Advisory board of New Enterprise Associates a $8.5 Bn venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs create and build major new enterprises that use technology to improve people’s lives. Mr. Sharma earned his MBA in International Business from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where he was on the Dean’s List and the Director’s Honors List. He also holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from the Moore School, University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology.
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