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Ravi Narayan
Executive Chairman

Mr. Narayanan has a B E (Electrical & Electronics) qualification. He has served on the Board of Directors of Air India Ltd and Indian Airlines Ltd for a 3 year tenure starting from April 1997.    Mr. Ravi Narayanan during his tenure was part of several board sub-committees including fleet expansion, yield, IT, etc.  He served as a Director of KPTCL since July 2004 and also as the Chairman of the Audit Committee of KPTCL.  He is presently serving as a Member of the Board & Vice Chairman and MD of Jupiter Aviation. In the past he has done pioneering work in private participation in defence research & has contributed a lot in the areas of avionics development and testing between 1989 and 1998 especially for LCA and Sukhoi programmes.  He is an aerospace professional with 25 years of experience in the aerospace industry as a technocrat, entrepreneur and consultant. He has served on Government boards, established private companies and hence understands the public private participation issues.

Ronald Rainson President & CEO

Rohit Chand
President & CEO

Rohit's principal role at Axis-IT&T is to provide overall supervision and strategic direction to the group. Rohit has over thirty years of experience in the IT Services Industry. He has a Bachelor's Degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi and an MBA from the Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, USA.

Rohit started his career in software development in 1970 in the U.S. and later moved to India to head the information technology division of Computronics India. In 1985, Rohit ventured out on his own and through a series of acquisitions and mergers created IIS Infotech Ltd., one of India's foremost software companies, of which he was the Executive Chairman. IIS was bought over by the FI Group Plc. (now Xansa Plc.), which is a UK-based multinational and Rohit exited the company. Thereafter, Rohit co-founded Infinity Venture Fund which has a corpus of US$ 40 million and bought a significant stake in IT&T and contributed to its growth and diversification. Rohit is a recipient of the IIT Delhi Alumni award for outstanding contribution to national development.

Ashok Saigal Director

Ashok Saigal
Director

Ashok has a B. Tech from IIT Delhi & an MBA from the prestigious Harvard Business School. Ashok has over 25 years of experience in the Engineering and Power Industry. Ashok brings with him the know how and practical experience of the Engineering Industry which is of great value to the Company.

Pradeep Maitra Director

Pradeep Maitra
Director

Pradeep has a B. Tech from IIT, Delhi and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkley, California. Pradeep has over 32 years of experience in the Engineering Industry (on the Design and Development side) and is currently working as Vice President of Continental Device India Ltd. Pradeep has over a period of his illustrious career won many awards and is a member of many Industry associations and societies all over the world.

Kailash Rustagi
Director

Kailash M. Rustagi is the Chairperson of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors. He is an FCA, ACS & LLB. He has 17 years of experience in the areas of Capital Markets , Finance, Accounting, Tax and Legal matters. He provides investment advisory, business valuation and comprehensive business analysis services, and has carried out a number of professional assignments in the field of Information Technology. He has worked with ICRA ltd. a premier credit rating Agency having collaboration with MOODY’S USA and has been a member of the Executive Credit Rating Committee. He has participated in the evaluation around 400 companies with regard to their business processes and the associated risks.

Vinay Shankar
Director

Vinay has done Civil engineering from the University of Roorkee and has a Master degree in Economics from the University of Wales, UK. He was one of the first few engineering graduates to be selected for the Madhya Pradesh Cadre of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) which he joined in the year 1963. Vinay in his illustrious career spanning over 37 years, has served various Indian State Governments in key positions before reaching the highest bureaucratic post of Secretary to the Government of India. He has vast experience in the area of Public administration, policy & program formulation, budgeting & implementation. His specialization is in Science & Technology, Rural Development, Rural Energy, Agriculture & Cooperation, Transport & Education. At present, Vinay is involved actively in consulting in these areas.

Pradeep Dadlani
Director

Mr. Pradeep Dadlani has a B.E. (Mechanical) & MBA (FT) qualifications. He has over 25 years of Consultancy and Corporate experience in varied sectors & functional areas such as IT, Media. Telecom, Environment, Industry, Market Research, Business Development etc. and is presently serving on the Board of Syscom Projects Consultants Pvt. Ltd.

Kedar Nath Choudhury
Director

Kedar is a financial and operational architect with a B.Sc Physics (Honours) and is a member of the ICAI and the ICWAI. Kedar has a career in finance spanning over 15 years and has served various companies in IT/Telecom Service, Finance and Manufacturing Industry. He was Director- Finance in Aricent Technologies Holdings limited and on the Board of Aricent Communication Private Limited. He has extensive work experience in the areas of Banking, Financial Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting, Compliance, ERP implementation and actively participated in many M&A deals. After graduating in B.Sc. Physics Honors, he has become member of the Institute of Chartered Accounts of India and Institute of Cost & Works Accountants of India.

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