Anjan Lahiri was the CEO of Birlasoft, the global IT services company of the
CK Birla Group
CK Birla Group, is an Indian multinational conglomerate named after Chandra Kant Birla, headquartered in the Birla Tower in Barakhamba road, New Delhi, India. Earlier the group was led by industrialists - BM Birla and GD Birla (Padma Vibhu ...
.
Education
Lahiri is an alumnus of the
Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra (BIT Mesra) is a public deemed institute in Jharkhand, India. It was established in 1955 at Mesra, Ranchi, Mesra, Ranchi, by the industrialist Birla family, B. M. Birla. The institute was later headed by Ga ...
, where he earned a
Bachelor of Technology
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degree in electrical and electronics engineering. Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, is part of the CK Birla Group. He also holds an MBA from the
University of Florida
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, Gainesville, USA.
Career
He began his career with
Wipro Infotech in 1987 as part of the sales team and then moved on to start
Cambridge Technology Partners
Cambridge Technology Partners (ケンブリッジ・テクノロジー・パートナーズ株式会社, CTP) is a Japan-based multinational professional services company that specializes in business and IT consulting.
The company is known for f ...
’ internet services consulting practice in the US. In 1999, Lahiri along with ex-colleagues from Wipro and Cambridge Technology Partners set up
Mindtree
Mindtree Ltd was an Indian Multinational corporation, multinational information technology services and consulting company, headquartered in Bangalore. It is a part of the Larsen & Toubro Group. Since its foundation in 1999, the company has e ...
. Lahiri set up Mindtree's offices in
New Jersey
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,
San Jose and
London
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, and expanded the company's operations in the
US and
Europe
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. He returned to India in 2008, as the head of IT Services at Mindtree.
He moved on from Mindtree in 2013, especially in the field of technology. Until recently, he was the CEO of the Bangalore-based
Sasken Communication Technologies
Sasken Technologies Limited (formerly Sasken Communication Technologies Limited) is an Indian multinational technology company, based in Bangalore, India, which provides product engineering and digital transformation services to global custome ...
where he focused on turning around the loss-making company.
Personal life
He is a member of the Young Presidents Organization, a global peer network of chief executives and business leaders. He is married and has a daughter and a son. His father was an officer, in the Indian Army's Gorkha regiment.
References
External links
Business Standard Website BCS Google Books
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American technology chief executives
University of Florida alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)