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  Ranjan Kapur
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Annik has one of the strongest research management teams in the industry. The team consists of professionals who have worked internationally for numerous years and members who have grown companies to more than 10,000 people in a relative short period of time.
 
Ranjan Kapur    

Ranjan started his professional career with Citibank in 1964 in Calcutta and after moving with them a year later to Bombay started employment with SH Benson as Management Trainee in 1966. In the mid 70’s, Ranjan transferred to O&M, New York where he handled the Unilever and the Krafts General Foods accounts. In the two years he was there, he graduated from the American Institute of Advanced Advertising Studies.

He returned to India in the late 70’s and after five years moved on to Ogilvy Singapore. Ranjan finally returned to India in October 1993 as Managing Director of Ogilvy & Mather, India and led the company to become the country’s leading and premier advertising agency. Today O&M is a leader in the communications business.

During his tenure with Ogilvy & Mather, Ranjan rose to become Chairman, India, Vice Chairman, Asia-Pacific and was inducted to the Board of the Worldwide company. He was the first Indian to be given this honour. Ranjan has since retired from Ogilvy & Mather and taken on Country Manager’s role at the WPP group which is one of the largest communications companies in the world and the parent company of agencies such as Ogilvy & Mather, J Walter Thompson and Y&R.

Most recently Ranjan has taken on the assignments of Chairman, the Bates Asia group headquartered in Hong Kong. Bates Asia is a part of the WPP Group of Companies worldwide.


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Raman Roy    

Raman is widely regarded as the pioneer and “guru” of the BPO industry (also called the ‘IT Enabled Services’ industry) in India. He is fondly referred to as “the father of the Indian BPO Industry”. He has played a pivotal role over the last 14 years in promoting Indian BPO and proving that India can be a preferred location for Remote Processing.

Raman is a pioneer three times over, having successfully led the captive BPO initiatives of American Express and GE Capital out of India before starting Spectramind in 2000. The venture-funded Spectramind, with an enviable leadership team and a proven track record, was acquired by Wipro in July 2002. Raman remained as Chairman and Managing Director of Wipro Spectramind until June 2005, growing the company to become the largest provider of third party BPO shared services from India, with over 15,000 employees.

Raman is a Chartered Accountant and a Chartered Management Accountant with a doctorate in Management Accountancy. In his career spanning across 30+ years, he has handled roles in Finance, Consulting, Operations and General Management with equal ease. Raman has a very hands-on approach to business and has first-hand experience and rare insights into servicing markets as diverse as North America, Europe, Japan, Asia Pacific and Australia.

Raman is a rare example of a living practitioner of BPO who has lived through many successes and challenges. As a tribute to his contribution to the BPO industry, he was awarded the Dataquest Pathbreaker Award in 2002 for directly creating 35,000+ jobs in India and indirectly enabling the employment of 350,000 people by creating the BPO industry.


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Raj Dutta    
Raj has been associated with the BPO business in India for over 10 years and has in-depth knowledge of financial, operational, people and administrative dynamics of the BPO business. Raj was with Wipro Spectramind from its inception in April 2000 until June 2005 and was instrumental in the successful integration of Spectramind with Wipro Ltd.

He was the first CFO of GE Capital International Services (now GENPACT) and later on, Head of GE's Hyderabad operations.

Raj was voted "CFO of the Year" at the India CFO Awards 2003, in the segment "Managing Finance in an SME". These awards are given in recognition of excellence in Financial Management, by IMA India, an association with 'The Economist'.

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ED Quintero    
Edward Quintero (Ed) is seasoned sales professional with over 24 years of Business and Marketing experience with a hands-on approach to diagnosing clients' needs and negotiating outsourcing contracts. Ed was the head of BPO sales efforts for Wipro BPO Globally.

Prior to Wipro BPO Ed was a founding member of a US based BPO firm specializing in Finance and Accounting outsourcing and from 1992 to 1999 Ed held various business development positions at Andersen culminating as National Director of Business Development and Marketing for Andersen's Finance and Accounting Outsourcing practice throughout the US geography.

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Sunil Gujral    

Sunil is a technology professional with passion for architecting and executing scalable, secure and highly available IT infrastructure and Business systems.

One of the founding members of Wipro Spectramind, Sunil’s role as Vice President of Technologies empowered him with the responsibility for the design, deployment and management of WAN, LAN, Information Security, Voice networks and Business Information Systems across all locations in India as well as the international points of presence. His role was critical in supporting the company’s rapid growth to 7 operating locations across India and six points of presence across the globe, supporting more than 15,000 users within a short span of five years.

Sunil started his career as a Software Engineer with Wipro Information Technology Ltd. From there he moved onto He has been an active speaker on Information Security related topics at various forums, including the Indo US Cyber Security Forum seminars. He is a member of the NASSCOM National Advisory Board (NAB) on information security and assurance. He is also on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Indian edition of CIO Magazine.

Sunil was nominated as the CTO of the year 2005, by the CTO Forum and Network Computing Magazine.


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