Pawan Kumar
Chairman
With a B.Tech and M.Tech from IIT, Kanpur, Pawan who started his career managing the largest computer center in India at IIT, Kanpur went on to become the President of IBM. His experience in IT services spans 32 years.
During his 19 years at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the company became one of the largest software and management consultancy organizations in South East Asia. Pawan is credited with setting up the Software Maintenance Group at TCS and providing Capacity Planning and System Tuning advice to Citicorp Australia and American Express Mexico. As Vice President, Operations, he spearheaded TCS operations in Northern India, consisting of 20% of TCS worldwide revenue. As CEO of the International Software Division, Fujitsu-ICIM – a joint venture between RPG Enterprises, Fujitsu, Japan and ICL, UK - it became the seventh largest software services export company of India, charting a seven-time growth in four.
Pawan was instrumental in setting up Fujitsu-ICIM Software Technology (FIST), Australia. In addition to being one of the founding Directors of the Board, he was also the Director of International Computers India Limited, ICIM International Inc., California, USA and Sprint RPG Limited, India. At IBM, he was responsible for building a strong team of 4000 software engineers to provide IT services to IBM customers as well as to help IBM Corporation to be more competitive with high-quality and low-cost resources from IBM India. Pawan was also a Director on the Board of IBM India. As President and CEO of DSQ Software Limited (the first ASP in India), and drove the organization towards a stronger focus on people, processes, technology and quality.