Movers and Shakers This Year Industry Has Witnessed Huge Reshuffling in the Top Line

Prerna Sharma [email protected] Movers and Shakers This year industry has witnessed huge reshuffling in the top line. Many senior leaders have climbed the career ladder, whereas some left their position to pursue their passion

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Alok Ohrie Joins Dell India fter Sameer Garde’s exit, Alok Ohrie was named as the Presi- A dent and Managing Director of Dell India. Alok will carry the respon- sibility of further enhancing Dell’s end-to-end solutions capabilities and expanding the company’s strong presence in the Indian IT market. In this role, Ohrie will be responsible for driving growth for Dell’s India market, developing and delivering end- to-end solutions for global and Indian corporations, state, and local govern- ments and the consumer business. Ohrie, a former Wipro executive, joined IBM in 1995. He left IBM and joined AMD India in 2005 as Man- —Alok Ohrie aging Director. Three years later, he President & MD, joined EMC India as President, but Dell India returned to IBM in 2010 to head STG business. Anirban Dey, MD SAP Labs India Quits t came as a shock for the industry when the news about SAP Labs In- Idia Managing Director Anirban Dey, popularly known as ‘Andy’ quitting the company spread. Earlier the company had claimed that Dey was leaving due to personal reasons. But the real picture was something else. Dey was involved in sending spam mails threat- ened to expose the alleged bunglings by a few Indian senior executives of the company through emails to SAP’s top management in Germany. Dey’s exit comes less than a week after the announcement of former SAP CTO and Board member Vishal Sikka as Infosys’ next CEO. He was associated with SAP Labs since —Anirban Dey 2008 and was appointed as the Man- Former MD, SAP Labs India aging Director of SAP Labs India in January, 2013.

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Before being named as MD of SAP quit Infosys in 2013 joined as IGATE’s Labs India in January 2013, Andy was new CEO. the Vice President of In-Memory Plat- Vemuri was earlier widely consid- Dinesh Malkani form Technologies in Bengaluru, with ered a contender to succeed Infosys’ responsibilities covering research, Chief Executive SD Shibulal. Previ- Replaces Jeff White development, and quality certifica- ously, he served as the Chairman of tion for SAP HANA, SAP’s flagship Infosys China and was on the Board as Cisco India Sales product in the in-memory space. of Infosys Public Services. He ear- Meanwhile, Clas Neumann, Sen- lier established and ran the Financial ior Vice President and Global Head Services and Insurance business for Head of the SAP Labs Network will work 9 years, making it the largest busi- isco India has appointed Di- closely with the SAP Labs India lead- ness unit within Infosys. nesh Malkani as the head of its ership team to ensure a smooth tran- Prior to joining Infosys in 1999, he C India operations replacing Jeff sition till a new MD is appointed. worked in the investment banking in- White who relocated to the firm’s US dustry at Bank of America and Deut- office for personal reasons. sche Bank. Ashok has been widely Malkani will report to Irving Tan, recognized for his expertise in global Cisco’s President, Asia Pacific & Ja- Ashok Vemuri Joins sourcing and technology-led trans- pan. Dinesh will lead the company’s formation. efforts to help transform the country’s IGATE as CEO In his role as Head of America, economy through technology. He will he year for IGATE was not less Vemuri was responsible for Infosys’ drive Cisco’s senior level external en- than a roller coaster ride. The business operations in the com- gagement, including those with gov- T company saw the exit of one of pany’s largest region with $4.7 bn in ernment and industry associations, its key architects Phaneesh Murthy revenues and he oversaw all facets of to drive growth and market leader- for not reporting to the company his the business, from strategic direction ship in India and Saarc. relationship with a subordinate and to maintaining and improving finan- Presently, Dinesh Malkani is Vice in his place Ashok Vemuri, who had cial and operational efficiency. President, Sales, Cisco India and

—Ashok Vemuri —Dinesh Malkani CEO, IGATE President, Sales, Cisco India & Saarc

114 | August 15, 2014 www.dqindia.com A CyberMedia Publication | Saarc. In this role, Dinesh is responsible for Cisco’s enterprise, public sector and service provider business across the India & Saarc regions. In addition to driving sales, his respon- sibility will be to drive alignment, increase customer relevance and enable a faster response to market transitions. Dinesh joined Cisco in August 2010 and has led the Asia-Pacific Ja- pan and Korea (APJC) collaboration team to become a market leader in every major category of this business in APJC. He has over 20 years of experience in the IT and communica- tions industry in APJC, having lived —Ganesh Lakshminarayanan MD, Mu Sigma India and worked in India, China, Korea, and Singapore. Over this period he has held diverse roles such as R&D engineer, SE manager, sales director, general manager, and has gained report directly to Mu Sigma founder technologies, appointed HCL veter- financial skills in running substantial and CEO Dhiraj Rajaram. an Neeraj Dutt as Chief Financial Of- P&L for large operations. Prior to this appointment, Laksh- ficer on May 6, 2014. He takes over minarayanan was heading Dell’s Asia from Arvind Kakar, who has decided Pacific and Japan sales operations to pursue other opportunities. Prior for about a year-and-a-half. Before to joining Geometric, Kakar served Ganesh that, he was working as President as the CFO of Max Healthcare In- and Managing Director of Dell India. stitute, and had also worked with Lakshminarayanan He was also apparently involved in Tata Finance, Max India, and Hero starting Dell’s India operations. He Honda Motors. Joins Mu Sigma as has had over 25 years of experience He will be responsible for the working the technology domain. company’s global financial account- He had joined Dell back in 2010 as ing, planning, legal and corporate MD India its VP, Global Consumer, SMB servic- governance. Neeraj has extensive n this year, Dell has seen many exits es. In addition to Lakshminarayanan, of its senior leaders who have been former Forrester Research executive Ithe reason of Dell India success Tom Pohlmann has also joined the story. First, it was Sameer Garde and company as its Head of Values and then Ganesh Lakshminaryanan. The Strategy. commonality among both these exist was, both of them have grabbed the opportunity outside the IT industry. Recently Mu Sigma has appointed Geometric Appoints Ganesh Lakshminaryanan as the Managing Director of its India opera- Neeraj Dutt as CFO tions. Mu Sigma mentions that Lak- eometric which is known for shminarayanan will work closely with its product lifecycle man- the existing leadership team to im- G agement, Global Engineer- prove the India delivery function and ing services, and offshore software enable them to scale globally. He will product development solutions and —Neeraj Dut, CFO, Geometric

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experience in business plan prepa- Google+ since its inception left the ration and execution, controllership, company after almost 8 years of his de-merger/carve out, US GAAP, SOX association. On April 24, 2014, Vic Hexaware Hires 404, business risk assessment, fi- Gundotra announced his resignation. nancial system—transactional/MIS He started his Google journey from HCL Veteran R and driving operational efficiencies. Google I/O, to all mobile applications He joined Virtusa Corp. in 2010 as till Google+. Srikrishna as CEO India Controller and was promoted to Gundotra joined Google in 2007 exaware Technologies known Asia Chief Financial Officer in Janu- from Microsoft, and initially worked for its IT, BPO and consulting ary 2012. Dutt started his career as a on the company’s mobile apps, in- H services roped in R Srikrishna trainee with Trident Projects in 1996 cluding Google Maps. After that he as its Chief Executive Officer. In Hex- and then moved on to work with Gen- worked as Vice-President of Social aware, he would be focussing on cre- pact in 1999 as a Process Associate. included Google’s social networking ating an organization that will deliver He played various roles in the finance and identity service, Google+. He is new-world services to customers in function at Genpact to finally take on widely believed to be the man behind the digital era. Srikrishna replaces PR the role of Assistant Vice President, Google+, and was responsible for Chandrasekar, who decided to quit Finance in 2007. the controversial removal of social as Chief Executive to pursue other in- features from Google Reader. In ad- terests; the latter will continue as the dition to his work on Google+, he was company’s vice-chairman. He has also the ring leader of the company’s been with the company from the last Google Plus Boss annual Google I/O developer confer- six years in setting the right direction, ence, where he frequently used that energy, and structure at Hexaware. Vic Gundotra Leaves stage to take stabs at competitors Srikrishna, who has more than like Apple. two decades of experience in global Google The new head of Google+ will be information services and technol- his year Google saw the the exit David Besbris, currently Google’s ogy sector, joins Hexaware from HCL of the man who was the driv- VP of engineering. Besbris has also Technologies, where he was most re- T ing force behind the Google+ been with the Google+ team since its cently the President of Infrastructure platform. Vic Gundotra, the VP of beginnings, and worked closely with and Life Sciences Businesses. He Engineering who has been leading Gundotra. brings over 20 years of progressive

—Vic Gundotra Former Senior Vice President, —R Srikrishna Social, Google CEO, Hexaware

116 | August 15, 2014 www.dqindia.com A CyberMedia Publication | experience in global information serving contracts to hardware and services and technology. Under his lead- ice vendors. ership, infrastructure services busi- During his initial stint at Airtel, Me- Narayana Murthy ness of HCL Technologies banked non played a key role in the compa- $1.3 bn business. ny’s growth when the company was Returns to Infosys looking to cut costs amidst falling tar- eeping in mind the challenges iffs. Menon started his career at IBM’s that the technology industry Jai Menon Quits Thomas J Watson Research Center K and to be specific, Infosys was and became an IBM executive Direc- facing and in the interest of all stake- tor in IBM’s Software Group, heading holders, particularly shareholders Airtel Under worldwide research-to-market busi- large and small, Infosys re-appointed ness for nich media. From there, he retired NR Narayana Murthy as exec- Controversial joined AT&T (formerly BellSouth) as utive chairman of the board for a five- Chief Technology Officer for IT across year term from June 1, 2013. With his all lines of businesses. entry, KV Kamath stepped down as Circumstances Menon returned to India and joined Chairman of the board and took up nder amidst allegations of vio- Bharti Airtel in 2002 as CIO and Cor- the role of a lead independent direc- lating the company’s code of porate Director, IT. Additionally, he tor role effective June 1, 2013. U conduct, Jai Menon, Bharti Air- launched Airtel’s Enterprise Business But in a latest development which tel’s Group Chief Information Officer as its Joint President, and subse- in a way again surprised the indus- quit the company. Menon, who first quently ran Customer Service for In- try, NR Narayana Murthy and S joined Airtel in 2002, was responsible dia as its Director. Gopalakrishnan voluntarily stepped for managing Airtel’s IT infrastructure, In 2007, he was also made the down as Executive Chairman and including a w a r d - Group CIO for Bharti Enterprises, Executive Vice which is the parent company of Chairman, re- Bharti Airtel. When Airtel expanded to s p e c t i v e l y, Africa, he was additionally appointed on June 14, as Chief Technology and Information Officer of Airtel Africa, where he ran Networks and IT, in addition to serving as Bharti’s Group CIO. Recently, Menon moved to HT Me- dia businesses covering news, radio, entertainment, education and digital.

—Narayana Murthy Non-Executive Chairman, Infosys

—Jai Menon Former Group CIO, Airtel

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2014. In order to facilitate a smooth Arora decided to leave the company transition of responsibilities, they will to join as Vice Chairman of SoftBank continue on the Board till October 10, Corp and CEO of SoftBank Internet 2014 as the Non-executive Chairman and Media. In his new role, he will and Non-executive Vice Chairman, report to SoftBank chief Masayoshi respectively. Son directly. In this re-shuffling, Murthy will be Before joining Google, Arora worked designated as Chairman Emeritus for TMobile and also created his own with effect from October 11, 2014 in mobile data startup in 2000. At Google, recognition of his contributions to the Arora will be replaced by Omid Kord- company whereas KV Kamath will estani, Google’s business founder and become the Non-executive Chairman head of its sales teams. of the Board on October 11, 2014. Arora joined Google in 2004 and has held various management roles at the firm. He had served as president for Europe, Middle East and Af- Nikesh Arora, rica (EMEA) operations. Previously, he was president for global sales op- Google’s Chief erations and business development at the company. Business Officer Prior to that, he was senior ad- viser of value creation at Silver Lake Partners. Earlier, he had also served Quits as Chief Marketing Officer and a fter Vic Gundotra’s surprise member of the management board —Nitin Rakesh exit, Google faced anoth- of T-Mobile International AG & Co. CEO & President, Syntel A er setback with the exit of In the past, he had also worked at Nikesh Arora, Google’s Chief Busi- Deutsche Telekom AG, Putnam In- ecutive Officer and President as ness Officer. After almost 10 years, vestments, Fidelity Investments, Executive Vice Chairman of Syntel’s Colgate-Palmolive Co. Arora had Board of Directors effective April also founded T-Motion, a mobile 21, 2014 whereas in his place, the multimedia subsidiary of T-Mobile Board of Directors had appointed International. Nitin Rakesh to the position of Chief He had also served as a non-exec- Executive Officer and President. utive director of India telecom major Before rejoining Syntel, Nitin Bharti Airtel from 2008 to 2014. served as Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Motilal Oswal Asset Management Com- pany, a financial services company, Nitin Rakesh from September 2008 to September 2012. He previously developed and led Promoted to CEO Syntel’s Knowledge Process Out- sourcing business from 2002 until and President, 2008, playing a pivotal role in building KPO into a high performing serv- Syntel ice line. n FY14 Syntel leadership team Nitin has also worked with TCG —Nikesh Arora climbed up the career ladder. Group as the Head of Sales, Banking Former Chief Business Officer, Google I The company elevated Prashant & Financial Services at TCG Soft- Ranade, Syntel’s current Chief Ex- ware Services, and was associated

118 | August 15, 2014 www.dqindia.com A CyberMedia Publication | with the TCG Group, a transnational achieved heights without pursuing Private Equity and Investments firm. any MBA/PG degree. He was also associated with Unit After joining Nokia, he has head- Trust of India in his early career, and ed service hubs in India and also was involved in setting up of off- headed Asia Pacific operations. He shore mutual funds and secondary has also held roles across business Market Research Cell, Product De- development, marketing, sales and velopment and Risk Management strategy, from India, Finland, the United Kingdom and Singapore. No- kia’s networks division, where Suri is widely acknowledged to have engi- Nokia Names neered a comeback, accounted for about 90% of sales from the group’s Networks Business continuing businesses last year. Suri has worked in Nigeria before he Turnaround Leader joined Nokia. He also worked for the RPG Group, and ICL in India and was a production engineer at Calcom Elec- Rajeev Suri as CEO tronics in 1989. At RPG he worked in a ajeev Suri will be the second managerial position and even at ICL he alumnus from the Manipal In- was involved with strategic planning. Rstitute of Technology, once an affiliate of Mangalore University, to bag such an eminent position after Satya Nadella. SAP Appoints Ravi Finnish firm Nokia appointed Ra- jeev Suri, the man who led a turna- —Ravi Chauhan round at the company’s telecom Chauhan as MD, SAP India network business, as the new chief executive. Suri re- India MD places Stephen fter Suprakash Chaud- SAP India’s growth strategy and op- Elop, who is huri, MD of SAP India erations across the country and will moving to A quit in April, the com- report directly to Adaire Fox-Martin, M i c ro s o f t . pany’s search for its new MD President of SAP Asia Pacific Japan. Suri is one ends when Ravi Chauhan step Chauhan joins SAP after four of those ahead to take this opportu- years at Juniper Networks, where rare top nity. The company appointed he last served as Managing Direc- c o r p o - him as the Managing Director tor, India and South Asia. From r a t e for India. Before this, Chauhan 2000 to 2009, Ravi held leadership execu- was heading Juniper Networks roles at Nortel Networks such as tives who as the MD for India and South General Manager (Global), Contact have Asia. He quit the Center and Unified Communica- company after tions Software; Managing Director, a stint of 4.5 India; and Vice President, Enter- years. prise Business, India. In his A veteran of 20 years in enterprise new role, and service provider sales and mar- —Rajeev Suri Chauhan keting, Chauhan had also worked CEO, Nokia will be re- for four years as country manager sponsible for Cabletron Systems, prior to for driving Nortel.

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Sameer Garde Quits Samsung, Joins Philips Healthcare t seems Sameer’s hands are full of opportunities, as he is quickly tak- Iing new roles in different organiza- tions. Garde joined Samsung India last year to set up the enterprise business for a short duration on project basis. After successful completion of the as- —Satya Nadella signed project, Sameer resigned. CEO, Microsoft According to a Samsung spokes- person, both Sameer Garde and Samsung have come to a mutual agreement on this decision since the Philips India in December 2013. lions in revenue, and most recently assigned project has been success- Before joining Samsung, Sameer the company’s Cloud and Enterprise fully completed due to his tremendous worked with Dell for 11 years and held group. Apart from this, Nadella trans- contribution. many leadership roles with Dell since forms Windows Live Search into Bing, After his exist from Samsung, his joining in April 2004. Before Dell, which now provides the informational Sameer decided to join Philips Health- he also worked in Whirlpool, Pepsi, backbone to a wide range of Micro- care as President South Asia. In his and Nestle. soft services. new role, Sameer will be responsible Along with the news of Nadella’s ap- for driving and building the healthcare pointment, Microsoft also announced business for Philips in India. He re- that Bill Gates is stepping down from places Krishna Kumar who continued Satya Nadella is his long-term position of Chairman of to lead Philips Healthcare business the board to focus more directly on following his appointment as Vice- New Microsoft CEO the company, and help Nadella shape Chairman and Managing Director, ppointment of insider, Satya Microsoft’s technology and product Nadella brings a turning point direction. Ain Microsoft’s leadership. He was elevated as CEO on February 4, 2014, succeeding Steve Ballmer. Be- fore becoming CEO of Microsoft, he Srnivasan Quits was Executive Vice President of Mi- crosoft’s Cloud and Enterprise group, VMware , Ex- responsible for building and running the company’s Computing Platforms, Red Hat Arun Developer Tools and Cloud Comput- ing Services. Nadella started his career at Sun Parameswaran is Microsystems before joining Microsoft all the way back in 1992. During his India MD journey, he’s held several executive- uring FY13-14, VMware saw —Sameer Garde President South Asia, level roles, including management of the exit of IT veteran T Srnivas- Philips Healthcare Microsoft’s server and tools division, Dan who played a instrumental which generated double-digit bil- role in VMware in India. Rumors were

120 | August 15, 2014 www.dqindia.com A CyberMedia Publication | January 2012. On November 4, 2013, BlackBerry announced that Heins would be stepping down as CEO and John S Chen would re- place him. John S Chen began his career in 1979 as a design engineer with Un- isys, where he eventually served as Vice President and General Manager. In 1991, he joined Pyramid Technol- ogy Corporation as Executive Vice President. Chen was elected Presi- dent, Chief Operating Officer and a Director of Pyramid in 1993, serving —T Srinivasan until 1995. Former MD, In 1997, Chen became CEO and VMware India & Saarc President of Sybase, and in Novem- ber of 1998 he added the title of Chairman. Under Chen’s leadership, he left VMware to try his hand on en- as leadership of the company’s serv- Sybase achieved strong financial per- terprise mobile start up. ices business in Asia Pacific. formance and shareholder returns, Post his exit, VMware announced including 55 consecutive quarters of the appointment of Arun Para- profitability, $2.8 bn of cash gener- meswaran to the post of Managing ated, and a 28% compound annual Director, VMware India. He succeeds Thorsten Heins Exit growth rate of its market capitalization T Srinivasan, who has decided to step from a low of $362 mn to $5.8 bn in down after five years with the com- from BlackBerry 2010, when it was acquired by SAP. pany. t came as a surprise when Black- John is actively involved in interna- Parameswaran leaves Red Hat In- Berry announced the sudden exit tional relations. He has testified before dia to take up his VMware opportu- I of its chief executive Thorsten Congress on US–China trade rela- nity on April 24 of this year and will be Heins who joined the company in tions. In 2005, US President George responsible for the company’s growing business interests in the region. He will report to Sanjay Mirchandani, VMware’s Senior Vice President and General Manager for the Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) region, and will join the APJ leadership team. With more than 21 years hi-tech experience across Asia Pacific and the US, Parameswaran was most recently GM in charge of Red Hat’s business throughout the Indian sub-continent. Before that, he was Senior Director, Global Business Development, responsible for building and managing Red Hat’s eco-system of partners across Asia Pacific and Japan. Other —Thorsten Heins roles in the company included OEM Former CEO, BlackBerry Global Alliance Manager and MD of Global Professional Services, as well

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W Bush appointed him to serve on the President’s Export Council. In 2006, he was appointed co-chair of the Se- cure Borders and Open Doors Advi- sory Committee.

Vishal Sikka: The New CEO of Infosys ishal Sikka has climbed up the career ladder by joining the In- dia’s second largest IT service — Gurmit Singh V MD India, Yahoo! company, Infosys. Moving beyond its traditional way, this time, the Infosys management decided to select the ping down of the last of the founder Marissa Mayer. To overcome the first outsider at the helm of the com- CEOs SD Shibulal in August. Murthy’s gap, the company is revamping its pany. Sikka was inducted as a whole- son Rohan Murty, who joined the products and is increasing its focus time director of the Board and CEO company in June last year as his fa- on mobile platforms. By acquiring and MD on June 14, 2014. He took ther’s executive assistant, will also start-ups Mayer has been trying to over as CEO and MD from SD Shibu- step down on June 14. inculcate new talent and ideas into lal on August 1, 2014. Before joining Infosys, Sikka was the company. On one hand, his entry has taken a member of the Executive Board of So to strengthen its presence in the front seat attention among the IT SAP, leading all products and driving Indian market, the appointment has industry whereas on the same time innovation globally. He has worked been done. Singh will oversee Yahoo’s the company is also witnessing the closely with the leaders of global business in India and will be responsi- exit from its executive roles on the companies in building breakthrough ble for its growth in the country. Singh board; the company founder NR business solutions. At SAP, he was joins Yahoo India from his current po- Narayana Murthy, Co-founder Kris responsible for all products, from sition as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Gopalakrishnan, as well as the step- traditional and cloud-based appli- of Forbes India business magazine, cations to technology and platform published by media and entertain- products including HANA, analytics, ment conglomerate Network18 Me- mobile, and middleware. dia and Investments. He will report to Yahoo’s Vice-President and Head of India and South-East Asia operations, Yvonne Chang. Yahoo! Appoints With over 20 years of experience, Singh brings with him a deep under- Gurmit Singh as MD standing of the media and entertainment industry in India. Singh has held India Operations leadership roles across consumer products, music and entertainment he entry of Gurmit Singh as and media sectors, working for com- MD of Yahoo!’s India business, panies such as Sony Music, Hindus- T was one of the biggest step tan Times, India Today Group, Rajshri taken by Marissa Mayer. The Sunny- Media and Marico Industries. vale, California-based firm has been Note: This is a random listing of 20 —Vishal Sikka fighting hard to regain its lost glo- movers & shakers in FY14 and not a CEO, Infosys ry under the leadership of its CEO ranking

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he story of Indian Industry and business can never be complete without an elaborate discussion on the Marwari community and its Tillustrious achievements. Over the last century and a half, Rajasthan has given this country some of the greatest business minds and entrepreneurs. In the sands of Rajasthan desert, lies the story of the Marwaris. The sand is where they derived their name, Marwaris (of Marwar – that came from ‘maru’ meaning desert). And this sand where no agricultural activity was possible drove them to distant lands in search of opportunity. Today, in the 21st century, this sand is propelling, and witnessing a revolution that was beyond imagination back then. From Silica to Silicon – Rajasthan’s journey Ms Veenu Gupta, Principal Secretary, Industries, to becoming the next big industrial hub – has been Government of Rajasthan and Managing Director, RIICO fascinating. This journey is also an outcome of the minds working behind this development process acting as an diversify over the years. We have been playing the role of active catalyst. Government organisations like RIICO, with an industry support system by not just making industrial the support of the state government, has been making land available, but also by providing a variety of technical an industrial revolution in the State possible. inputs to the investors in the State. Already home to pioneering companies from all sectors RIICO – the Industrial Catalyst like, Honda four-wheeler, Honda two-wheeler, JCB, Lafarge, Rajasthan State Industrial Development and Investment Saint Gobain, Infosys Ltd., Ericsson Telecom, Videocon, Corporation Ltd (RIICO) is as a multi-faceted and dynamic Deutsche Bank, Genpact, REIL to name just a few, Rajasthan institution for promoting and accelerating industrial has shown promising progress in the Electronic System development in Rajasthan. From developing industrial land Design & Manufacturing (ESDM) sector in the last few years. and making it available to the investors, to understanding State Government and RIICO have together taken the industry-specific infrastructural needs of every initiatives to promote and develop this sector by way of company that locates in the State, I have seen its role creating infrastructure in terms of IT Parks, communication infrastructure (Earth Stations & Optical Fibre based networks), availability of skilled and trained manpower Rajasthan State Industrial Development & Investment through institutional set-ups and also offering customized Corporation Limited (RIICO), is a Government Compa- packages and incentives for this sector. Over the last couple ny, wholly owned by Government of Rajasthan. RIICO is of decades, India has been the epicenter of consumer the apex organization for fostering growth of industri- demand fueled by a phenomenal GDP growth. With the alization in the State of Rajasthan. It is also the Nodal increase in demand across all sectors, demand for electronic Agency of the State to promote and develop Special products has registered a significant growth. By the year Economic Zones (SEZ) in the State. 2020, the estimated production will reach USD 100 billion With 26 regional offices all over Rajasthan, RIICO but will still be short of the estimated demand by USD 300 administers the development of land-related infra- billion. This creates a unique opportunity for companies structure for industrialization and continues with its mandate of acquiring and developing more land. in the ESDM (Electronic System Design & Manufacturing) So far, RIICO has developed 324 industrial areas over sector to look at India as their next destination to cater to 72,700 acres of land. Needless to say, this development the domestic Indian demand as well as act as an exports has been planned and executed without compromising hub. The sector is likely to grow 9.9% CAGR in 2011-15, as on environmental and ecological aspects in any way. per the latest study by the India Semiconductor Association (ISA) in partnership with Frost and Sullivan.

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From Silica to Silicon To fuel the growth of the ESDM industries the Government of India has announced National Policy on Electronics Rajasthan’s journey to becoming a promising ESDM Destination (NPE-2012). One of the important objectives of the NPE is to achieve a turnover of about USD 400 billion by 2020 involving investment of about USD 100 billion and employment to around 28 million by 2020. This inter alia, includes achieving a turnover of USD 55 billion of chip design and embedded software industry & USD 80 billion of exports he story of Indian Industry and business can in the sector. Moreover, the policy also proposes setting up of over 200 Electronic Manufacturing Clusters. Another never be complete without an elaborate initiative in this direction is Electronic Manufacturing Cluster (EMC) Scheme to create world-class infrastructure for attracting investments in the Electronics Systems Design and Manufacturing (ESDM) Sector. The scheme supports discussion on the Marwari community and its grant assistance for setting up of both Greenfield and Brownfield EMCs. Tillustrious achievements. Over the last century and a half, Rajasthan has given this country some of the greatest business minds and entrepreneurs. In the sands of Rajasthan desert, lies the story of the Marwaris. The Rajasthan, a preferred investment for higher technical education such as BITS (Birla Institute sand is where they derived their name, Marwaris (of destination of Technology & Science) and IIT (Indian Institute of Marwar – that came from ‘maru’ meaning desert). And Be it world-class infrastructure or strategic location, large Technology), amongst others. The technical institutes in the this sand where no agricultural activity was possible industrial land parcels or great market access, Rajasthan State have an intake capacity of over 2.2 lakh students. drove them to distant lands in search of opportunity. has all the reasons for being the most preferred investment Today, in the 21st century, this sand is propelling, and destination. Law and order: The law and order in the state is strong with witnessing a revolution that was beyond imagination no incidents from its industrial history to point otherwise. back then. From Silica to Silicon – Rajasthan’s journey Ms Veenu Gupta, Principal Secretary, Industries, Availability of quality and continuous power supply:One Overall a peace loving state, Rajasthan has always welcomed to becoming the next big industrial hub – has been Government of Rajasthan and Managing Director, RIICO of the most basic and inevitable prerequisites for setting and accepted people from all parts of the country, of all fascinating. This journey is also an outcome of the minds up an ESDM, or any industry for that matter, is quality and religions and all nationalities to come and locate here. It working behind this development process acting as an diversify over the years. We have been playing the role of continuous power supply. With firm steps to augment is only an outcome of this, that Rajasthan is home to a active catalyst. Government organisations like RIICO, with an industry support system by not just making industrial availability of power for industrial, commercial, domestic Japanese Industrial Zone in the Neemrana region. the support of the state government, has been making land available, but also by providing a variety of technical and agricultural consumption, we in Rajasthan have arrived an industrial revolution in the State possible. inputs to the investors in the State. at a total power generation capacity of over 15000 MW. Market access: 8,380 sq km of Rajasthan falls in the National Already home to pioneering companies from all sectors Renewable energy sources such as the wind power, the solar Capital Region (NCR), which is around 24.5% of the total RIICO – the Industrial Catalyst like, Honda four-wheeler, Honda two-wheeler, JCB, Lafarge, energy and the biomass are being actively promoted by the National Capital Region, the world’s second largest urban Rajasthan State Industrial Development and Investment Saint Gobain, Infosys Ltd., Ericsson Telecom, Videocon, State Government. agglomeration. Rajasthan shares its border with five major Corporation Ltd (RIICO) is as a multi-faceted and dynamic Deutsche Bank, Genpact, REIL to name just a few, Rajasthan Indian states: Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya institution for promoting and accelerating industrial has shown promising progress in the Electronic System Low Gestation Period: Another factor that is desired by Pradesh and Gujarat. Industries in Rajasthan have to their development in Rajasthan. From developing industrial land Design & Manufacturing (ESDM) sector in the last few years. every investor is a low gestation period. The constant advantage, access to this enormous market. and making it available to the investors, to understanding State Government and RIICO have together taken endeavour of the Government of Rajasthan has been to Rajasthan has the second largest network of National the industry-specific infrastructural needs of every initiatives to promote and develop this sector by way of build a favourable investment climate by systematically Highways in the country with a total road length exceeding company that locates in the State, I have seen its role creating infrastructure in terms of IT Parks, communication reducing administrative bottlenecks and easing the process 7,000 km. National Highways provide excellent connectivity infrastructure (Earth Stations & Optical Fibre based of investment. to cities like Delhi, Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Mumbai, networks), availability of skilled and trained manpower A Single Window System is operational as a single point Jabalpur, Bhopal, Agra, Gwalior, Indore, Amritsar. The total Rajasthan State Industrial Development & Investment through institutional set-ups and also offering customized interaction mechanism for entrepreneurs to interact with road length in the State is approximately 1,92,551 km as on Corporation Limited (RIICO), is a Government Compa- packages and incentives for this sector. Over the last couple the State for seeking statutory approvals for their projects. 31st March, 2013. ny, wholly owned by Government of Rajasthan. RIICO is of decades, India has been the epicenter of consumer Reflecting the commitment of the government, this system With nearly 39% of Dedicated Freight Corridor the apex organization for fostering growth of industri- demand fueled by a phenomenal GDP growth. With the has been put in place by enacting the Rajasthan Enterprises passing through Rajasthan, opportunities for industrial alization in the State of Rajasthan. It is also the Nodal increase in demand across all sectors, demand for electronic Single Window Enabling and Clearance Act 2011. establishment along the route are eminent as the corridor Agency of the State to promote and develop Special products has registered a significant growth. By the year will make Rajasthan easily accessible to western and Economic Zones (SEZ) in the State. 2020, the estimated production will reach USD 100 billion High Employment Potential:To ensure abundant availability northern markets. About 60% of the State’s area (in 22 With 26 regional offices all over Rajasthan, RIICO but will still be short of the estimated demand by USD 300 of trained human resources, the state’s constant endeavour Districts including major districts such as Jaipur, Alwar, Kota administers the development of land-related infra- billion. This creates a unique opportunity for companies is to build as well as support the growth of a robust and Bhilwara) falls within the project influence area. With structure for industrialization and continues with its mandate of acquiring and developing more land. in the ESDM (Electronic System Design & Manufacturing) educational infrastructure. In Rajasthan, dependable this, the State will become an attractive destination for So far, RIICO has developed 324 industrial areas over sector to look at India as their next destination to cater to workforce is available at lower costs as compared to other setting up industrial and support infrastructure units. 72,700 acres of land. Needless to say, this development the domestic Indian demand as well as act as an exports states in the country. Jaipur, the state’s capital has been has been planned and executed without compromising hub. The sector is likely to grow 9.9% CAGR in 2011-15, as ranked no.1 in talent sourcing and employee costs by Hewitt BHIWADI – An Ideal ESDM Ecosystem on environmental and ecological aspects in any way. per the latest study by the India Semiconductor Association Associates in 2007. We, in RIICO, are not only providing basic industrial (ISA) in partnership with Frost and Sullivan. Rajasthan houses many prestigious academic institutions infrastructure and term loan but in fact are working to

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This center will also provide technology incubation center services and wheelers of the country are produced within 50 km radius transfer of technology too. Some international renowned of Bhiwadi region which provides an excellent and large agencies will assist Technology Centre to act as a total market for automotive electronics. Technology Centre, beyond tool room activities. A population of more than 100 million with high per Electronic products extensively require sheet metal capita income than national average within a radius of 150 and plastic components which are shaped by dies. to 200 km of Bhiwadi region provides an excellent market Technology Center at Bhiwadi will prove to be handy for for consumer electronics. meeting this requirement. Even labour force working on Above advantage coupled with almost uninterrupted sheet metal and plastic components would get trained in power supply and logistics support of Delhi-Mumbai Technology Centre for optimum productivity. Freight Corridor for domestic and overseas supply of Caparo Fastners, a world known brand for goods makes NCR region of Rajasthan an excellent location manufacturing and supplying fasteners is located in the for electronic manufacturing units. same region and can serve the requirements of fasteners. We welcome companies conceptualizing the electronic Most of the electronic products require plastic housing. ventures, to join hands with us and create world-class World known brands like Mitsui Chemical, Mitsubishi electronic manufacturing cluster, to serve domestic and Chemical has established Polymer Compound Units overseas demand of this sector. through their subsidiaries in Japanese Zone, Neemrana, which can provide customized polymer granules suitable Other major growth drivers for specified product. Similarly, Dianichi Colour, again a The huge and growing automotive industry based known brand in its field, can provide coloring polymer in and around the State is a major growth driver for the compounds required by companies. ESDM industries set up in Rajasthan. Rajasthan is also There are renowned companies based in Neemrana emerging as the most favoured destination for solar, that can support robotics for process automation. Kokuku power and ceramic & glass sectors. Input requirement of Intech, Neemrana, a world leader in rubber seals, can numerous companies in these industries will be a ready help in providing solutions for rubber seals required in market for ESDM players that choose to locate here. electronic products. The induction furnaces and steel sheet rolling mills located in the region can provide Policies and Incentives by GoR customized sheet metals for specified requirement. • Rajasthan Government is making all efforts to Many electronic products having electro-mechanical promote and develop IT Sector (including Electronics) components require small bearings. World renowned with its IT Policy 2007 and Rajasthan Industrial and manufacturers of small powder metal bearings located in Investment Promotion Policy 2010. IT & ITES is a Neemrana can supply this product for electro-mechanical thrust sector for development under Industrial and component of electronic products. Investment Promotion Policy 2010. Most of the electronic manufacturing units require • These policies are aimed at giving thrust to the IT/ air conditioned atmosphere. The world’s no. 1 company ITeS sector including Electronic Hardware. Daikin is also located in Neemrana, which can provide • New Rajasthan Industrial & Investment Policy, customized solution for air-conditioning. The air- with emphasis on Electronic System Designing & conditioning systems manufactured by Daikin (domestic Manufacturing, is in offing. as well as large industrial application), also require electronic components which may provide ready market As the ESDM sector grows to new frontiers in India, for other electronic manufacturing units. Rajasthan is positioned to offer the players in this sector Above all, more than 40% of two wheelers and four unparalleled advantages to locate here, grow and benefit.

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