A Four Decade IT industry Visionary, Manoj has led Five complex High Technology businesses to positions of Leadership across Technology & Services domains. He is credited with being the Pioneer of the Internet Revolution in India. Manoj has also been recognized to be amongst the Top 10 that shaped the last decade of the Indian IT Industry. He has also been recognized amongst the 100 Great IITians ( across all IITs) who stayed back in India to contributes significantly to the Growth of the Country. Manoj was recognised as a leading MSME Influencer by SME Street. Under his leadership, India witnessed the birth and creation of over 100,000 Networking Professionals.
Manoj has worked extensively with both Indian and global majors. He started his career with the Startups of yesteryears – HCL and Wipro with whom he worked for 15 years before shifting gears to work with Global Product Technology Firms for the next two decades. These included Scientific Atlanta, Cisco Systems ( as their President for the India & SAARC Region) and EMC (first as their President for India & SAARC and then Regional President -GA – Asia Pacific/Japan).
Manoj not only led these businesses to leadership positions, he pioneered the establishment of Cisco and EMC’s Global Development Centres in India through a Multi-Billion Dollar commitment. These were among the earliest such Engineering Centres in the Country which catalysed the accelerated growth of GCCs in the Country that have created millions of jobs.
More recently Manoj led the Enterprise Business (Satyam acquisition) of Tech Mahindra, for six years, as its Global President, where he led business units across 70 Global Markets, driving transformative success by helping customers leverage Disruptive technologies. Under his Leadership, the business grew 3X during a short span of time. He subsequently moved to Mahindra & Mahindra as the President for Group Public Affairs and was invited to join the Group Executive Board, where he was responsible for Public Policy and Advocacy across the federation of 150 firms, cutting across all major sectors of the Economy.
Currently, Manoj is an Independent Advisor, working closely with AI Enabled Technology businesses based in US, Singapore and India. He also serves on the Board of Care Ratings Limited, Care Analytics and Advisory and Amity University. In the past he served on the Boards of Mahindra Defence Systems Limited and the Agriculture Skill Council of India (A Section 8 Firm).
Manoj has worked extensively with Industry Bodies. He was the Past Vice Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in India, Past Chairman of the Storage Network Industry Association, and was also a Member of the National Executive Committee of FICCI where he led their South Asia Council in addition to being on the Board of the South Asia Regional Council (A SAARC Initiative) and a Patron Member of ASSOCHAM.
Manoj has been bestowed with several industry accolades which include Best IT Man of the Year on two occasions.
