Pramod Bhasin stepped down as President and CEO of

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, India's largest

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(BPO) company, becoming non-executive Vice Chairman in 2011.

Career

Pramod is a British Chartered Accountant from McLintock & Co, London, and holds a

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degree from

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. He became an officer of GE. His career with GE and RCA spanned 25 years across the US, Europe and Asia. He was the head of

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in India and in Asia, having earlier worked with GE Capital's Corporate and Finance Group in

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, US. Pramod started GE Capital International Services (

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) in 1997 as the in-house BPO division of

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(GE) when he convinced the senior stakeholders at GE to outsource certain simple non-IT services to India at

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. Under Pramod GE hired Raman Roy, pioneered

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, and expanded its operations from India to countries including China, Hungary, Guatemala, Poland, Mexico, Morocco, the Philippines, Romania, South Africa and the United States. In 2007, the International Quality and Productivity Center at the Shared Services and Outsourcing Global Conclave named Genpact the Global Shared Services Leader of the Year and awarded Pramod Bhasin their Lifetime Contribution Award. A consultant and advisor in the domain, Pramod Bhasin served as the Chairman of India's National Association of Software & Services Companies (

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)"Nasscom names Genpact's Pramod Bhasin as chairman"

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. 2009-04-02. for the year 2009-10, and became a member of the Board of Trustees of NASSCOM Foundation. He is also currently serving as President at TiE Delhi-NCR. Pramod Bhasin appointed as chairman of ICRIER (Indian Council For Research On International Economic Relations).

Personal life

Pramod Bhasin completed his MBA from Faculty of Management Studies,

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(popularly known as FMS Delhi). He completed his Indian School Certificate (ISC, equivalent to the then English GCE O Levels) at Cathedral and John Connon School, Bombay (now Mumbai), in Class of 1967. , he lives in

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References

Trivia and external links

India's BPO emperor - Financial Express , newspaper, 29 July 2006
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