Chander Prakash Gurnani or C. P. Gurnani (born December 19, 1958) is the

CEO A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ...

& Managing Director of

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Early life and education

Gurnani was born in

Neemuch Neemuch or Nimach is a town in the malwa region. Neemuch crowns the north western part of MP. It has been also referred to city of Nature and Peace. The town shares its northwestern border with the state of Rajasthan and is the administrati ...

, a small town in

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and spent his early life in

Chittorgarh Chittorgarh (also Chittor or Chittaurgarh) is a major city in Rajasthan state of western India. It lies on the Berach River, a tributary of the Banas, and is the administrative headquarters of Chittorgarh District. It was a major stronghol ...

, Kota, and

Jaipur Jaipur (; Hindi Language, Hindi: ''Jayapura''), formerly Jeypore, is the List of state and union territory capitals in India, capital and largest city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of Rajasthan. , the city had a pop ...

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. He has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the

National Institute of Technology, Rourkela National Institute of Technology Rourkela (NIT Rourkela or NITRKL or NITR), formerly Regional Engineering College Rourkela is a publicly funded institute of higher learning for engineering, science and technology located in the steel city of R ...

Career

Gurnani has been appointed as Nasscom's chairman in April 2016 for a one-year term. In a career spanning 32 years, he has held several leading positions with HCL, Hewlett Packard Limited, Perot Systems (India) Limited and HCL Corporation Ltd.

Awards and honours

*Gurnani has been chosen as the Ernst and Young ‘Entrepreneur of the Year anager��, CNBC Asia's ‘India Business Leader of the Year’ and Dataquest ‘IT person of the Year’ - for the year 2013. *Gurnani has also won the 'CEO of the Year' Award for year 2014 declared by Business Standard *He was awarded with Dataquest IT Person of the Year in 2014. *

Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, formerly known as the University College of Engineering, Burla, is a state university located in Burla, Sambalpur, Odisha, India. Established in 1956, it is the oldest engineering college in Odisha. U ...

awarded the degree of Doctor of Science (''Honoris Causa'') to Shri C. P. Gurnani for his outstanding contribution to the field of Technology and Management in 2016. *In 2018, Gurnani was ranked 488 of the "Best CEOs In The World" by the ''CEOWORLD magazine''.

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