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Dr.Ganesh Natarajan
Chairman, NASSCOM and Global CEO
Zensar Technologies
 
Ganesh is one of the most successful professionals in the Indian Information Technology Industry. Instrumental in successfully driving the Industry’s Innovation Forum, Ganesh collaborates extensively with local and international organizations to build networks enabling Innovation. Ganesh believes that through Innovation and open and adaptive approaches; one can deliver higher value and more radical solutions to the marketplace.
 
Industry Associations

Ganesh has been elected Chairman of the National Association of Software & Services Companies (NASSCOM) for 2008-09, and also drives NASSCOM’s vibrant Innovation Forum. As a part of this mandate, he has already built capable levers of competitiveness propelling sustained growth for firms in the country. Creation of ‘Innovation Clusters’ as a means of driving regional development – of building public and private sector partnership through Government and Regional investments in Innovation incubators will be one of the focus areas. Ganesh also chairs the Outsourcing Forum of the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) in Western India and has been the chairman of the NASSCOM Innovation Forum for 2005-07 spearheading several Innovation initiatives globally.

 
Innovation Evangelist

Global CEO of one of India’s fastest growing IT & BPO services provider Zensar Technologies Ltd
Ganesh aims to drive creation of new market spaces along with growing market share by exceeding industry benchmarks in growth and profitability through a high performance organization that nurtures future industry leaders leading Zensar to a goal of being a Rs 1000 crore company by 2009-10.  Disruptive Innovation has been Ganesh’s leadership style as was evident from his past success with Aptech as well as in his current stint at Zensar. Challenging the obvious and accepted has been a trait for Ganesh, which gives him change in leaps and bounds. Ganesh was instrumental in turning around the company and taking it from a struggling Tier II Pune based company to a healthy and vibrant leader in the Indian IT’s Tier II market place, having  established a niche position in technology and process innovation.
 
Recognition

Ganesh was named 'CEO of the Year' by the Asia Pacific HR Conference in 1999 and received the Wisitex Foundation’s 'CEO of the Decade – Knowledge Award' from India’s Minister for Information Technology in 2000. In July 2005, he received the Asia HRD Congress Award for Contributions to the Organization through HR. Ganesh was also the finalist at the Ernst & Young 2005 Award where he was recognized for exceptional entrepreneurship. Earlier in his career, during his ten year stint as CEO of Aptech he grew the company’s revenues fifty times and listed it on the Indian and London Stock Exchanges.
 
Social Responsibility
As a corporate citizen, Ganesh’s contribution to the community is as strong as his professional legacy. Closely associated with spreading education and health awareness among the less privileged communities – Ganesh feels strongly about HIV/AIDS awareness and looks at it as one of the most important health issues in the country. Ganesh works through the Zensar Foundation in making a positive contribution to the less privileged communities by supporting a wide range of socio-economic, educational and health initiatives.
 
Publications

A Gold Medalist in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering, Ganesh has completed his PhD in Knowledge Management at IIT Bombay. He is the author of three McGraw Hill Books on Business Process Reengineering and Knowledge Management and has also authored a book titled ‘Winds of Change’. He is a regular columnist for India’s premier Business and IT magazines.

 
Academic Profile
Ganesh is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and the Harvard Business School.