India's IT women
Five companies, five women on the board
Five leading Indian IT outsourcing companies share one thing: they all have one woman on their boards of directors. Two of them have selected women for their knowledge of marketing and brands, one chose an expert on the Hong Kong and Chinese regulatory environment, one chose an expert on computer services and one chose an academic with knowledge of international finance and energy.
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Laura M Cha
Tata Consultancy Services
Non-Executive Board Director
Expertise: China and its regulatory environment
- 2001-04: Vice-chairman of China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)
- Other current positions: Vice chairman of the International Advisory Council of the CSRC, Member of the Executive Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), Non-Executive Chairman of HSBC Investment Asia Holdings Limited, Independent Non-Executive Director of Johnson Electric Holdings, Baoshan Iron and Steel Co., and Hong Kong Exchange and Clearing Ltd., the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and China’s Bank of Communications.
- Member of the International Council of the Asia Society in New York and senior advisor to Investor AB, a Swedish conglomerate.
- Previous experience: 10 years at Hong Kong’s capital markets regulator, the Securities and Futures Commission, where she was appointed deputy chairman in 1998.
- Education: BA from the University of Wisconsin and law degree from the University of Santa Clara.
Rama Bijapurkar
Infosys Technologies
Independent Director
Expertise: market strategy and consumer issues in India.
- Career: heads an independent market strategy consulting practice.
- Education: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and visiting professor at her alma mater and serves on its Board of Governors.
- Previous employers: McKinsey & Co., MARG Marketing & Research Group, Hindustan Lever and MODE
Jessie Paul
Wipro Technologies
Chief Marketing Officer
Expertise:“services marketing and brand internationalization.”
- Responsible for “enhancing Wipro’s brand globally”
- Before Wipro: Head of marketing function, iGATE Global Solutions and Global Brand Manager at Infosys Technologies.
- Speaks on: brand internationalization.
- Published: articles on marketing and branding in various leading publications, runs a blog on marketing at www.jessiepaul.com and is currently authoring a book, “Marketing in a Flat World” to be published by McGraw Hill in early 2009.
- Education: MBA from Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta and a bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering from National Institute of Technology (NIT), Trichy in 1992.
Robin Abrams
HCL technologies
Board Director
Expertise: computing and computing services expertise and strategic planning and management experience.
- Past CV: COO of Chemdex (start-up which sold chemicals online, shut down later when part of Ventro), President of Palm Computing, Senior Vice President at 3Com Corporation, President and CEO at VeriFone, Management positions at Apple in the US and Asia and at Unisys including five years in Asia Pacific.
Dr (Mrs) Mangalam Srinivanasan
Satyam Computer Services
Board Director
Expertise: “International financial management, role of information resources and infrastructure policies, government-business nexus in managing innovation and technology assessment, energy and environmental justice.”
- Academic career: Senior research and faculty positions in leading US universities (University of California at Berkeley, American University in Washington DC, Harvard University, Northeastern University and Tufts University in Boston).
- Harvard appointments include: Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for International Affairs; Advisor, Energy Efficiency and Finance-related Climate Change Issues, Interdisciplinary Committee on Environment; and Special Advisor, Centre for International Development at the Kennedy School of Government.
- Key advisory positions: Formerly scientific advisor to the Government of India; Director, the Centre for Technology Policy Council and Centre for International Technical Cooperation at the American University in Washington DC; Project Advisor, The World Bank; Research Analyst, Wells Fargo Bank.
- Qualifications: Doctorate in Technology Assessment; an Advanced Special Scholar in Astronomy; an MBA in International Finance; an MA in English Literature; and a BA in Mathematics and Physics. She also holds Diplomas in International Law; Economics; International Finance and Foreign Exchange; Higher Accountancy and Industrial Finance from the Indian Institute of Bankers.
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