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CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Google - Eric Emerson Schmidt

Eric Emerson Schmidt (born April 27, 1955 in Washington, D.C.) is Chairman and CEO of Google Inc.
and a member of the Board of Directors of Apple Inc. He also sits on the Princeton University Board of
Trustees. He lives in Atherton, California with his wife Wendy.

Education of Eric Emerson Schmidt

After graduating from Yorktown High School (Virginia), Schmidt attended Princeton University where he
earned a BSEE in 1976. At the University of California, Berkeley, he earned an MS in 1979, for designing
and implementing a network linking the campus computer center, the CS and the EECS departments,
and a PhD in 1982 in EECS with a dissertation about the problems of managing distributed software
development and tools for solving these problems. He was joint author of lex (a lexical analyzer and an
important tool for compiler construction). He taught at Stanford Business School as a part time professor.

Previous and Current work of Eric Emerson Schmidt :

Early in his career, Schmidt held a series of technical positions with IT companies, including Bell Labs,
Zilog and Xerox’s famed Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). He joined Sun Microsystems in 1983, led its
Java development efforts and rose to become Chief Technology Officer. In 1997, he was appointed CEO
of Novell.Schmidt left Novell after the acquisition of Cambridge Technology Partners. Google founders
Larry Page and Sergey Brin (with the assistance of executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles, Inc.)
interviewed Schmidt. Impressed by him, they recruited Eric Schmidt to run their company in 2001 under
the influence of venture capitalists John Doerr and Michael Moritz.Schmidt joined Google's board of
directors as chairman in March 2001 and became the company's CEO in August 2001. At Google,
Schmidt shares responsibility for Google's daily operations with founders Page and Brin. As indicated by
page 29 of Google's 2004 S-1 Filing, Schmidt, Page, and Brin run Google as a triumvirate. Schmidt
possesses the legal responsibilities typically assigned to the CEO of a public company and focuses on
management of the vice presidents and the sales organization.According to Google's website, Schmidt
also focuses on "building the corporate infrastructure needed to maintain Google's rapid growth as a
company and on ensuring that quality remains high while product development cycle times are kept to a
minimum.” Schmidt is one of the few people who have become billionaires (USD) based on stock options
received as an employee in a corporation of which neither he nor a relative was the founder. In its 2006
'World's Richest People' list, Forbes ranked Schmidt as the 129th richest person in the world (the ranking
was shared by Onsi Sawiris, Alexei Kuzmichov, and Robert Rowling) with an estimated wealth of $6.2
billion. Schmidt earned a salary of $1 in 2006. Schmidt was elected to Apple's board of directors on
August 28, 2006.

Microsoft  - Steve Anthony Ballmer

Steve Anthony Ballmer (born March 24, 1956) is an Americanbusinessman. He

has been the chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation since January 2000. Ballmer is the second
person after Roberto Goizueta to become a billionaire in U.S. dollars based on stock options received as
neither an employee of a corporation in which he was neither a founder nor a relative of a founder. In
Forbes2008 World's Richest People ranking, Ballmer was ranked the 43rd richest person in the world,
with an estimated wealth of $15 billion.

Steve Ballmer has been known to be very passionate in expressing his enthusiasm. When Microsoft
celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2000, Ballmer popped out of the anniversary cake to surprise the
audience. His performance on stage at an employee’s convention was caught on a widely-circulated
video known as "Steve Ballmer going crazy." A few days later at a developers' conference, Ballmer
repeatedly chanted "developers" in front of the gathering.

Family :

On October 4, 2007, Ballmer was awarded honorary citizenship of Lausen,

Switzerland. His father had worked in Switzerland as a manager at Ford Motor Co in the late 1940s. In
1990 Ballmer married Connie Snyder, on Microsoft's PR team at the Waggener Group in the '80s. They
have three children. Ballmer's grandfather lives in Minsk, Belarus.

Pre-Microsoft & Life History :

Steve Ballmer was born March 24, 1956, to a Swiss father and a Jewish-American
mother whose family came from the Eastern European city of Pinsk (today in Belarus). He
grew up in Farmington Hills, Michigan. In 1973, he graduated from Detroit Country Day School, a high
school, and now sits on its board of directors. In 1977, he graduated from Harvard University with a
bachelor’s degree in mathematics and economics. While in college, Ballmer managed the football team,
worked on the Harvard Crimson newspaper as well as the Harvard Advocate, and lived down the hall
from fellow sophomore Bill Gates. He then worked for two years as an assistant product manager at
Procter & Gamble, where he shared an office with Jeffrey R. Immelt, who would later become CEO of
General Electric. In 1980, he dropped out from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Microsoft career :

Ballmer joined Microsoft on June 11, 1980. and became Microsoft's 24th employee,
the first business manager hired by Gates. He was initially offered a salary of $50,000
as well as a percentage of ownership of the company. When Microsoft was incorporated
in 1981, Ballmer owned 8 percent of the company. He has headed several divisions
within Microsoft including "Operating Systems Development", "Operations", and "Sales
and Support." In January 2000, he was officially named chief executive officer. As CEO
Ballmer handled company finances, however Gates still retained control of the
"technological vision." In 2003, Ballmer sold 8.3% of his shareholdings, leaving him with
a 4% stake in the company The same year, Ballmer replaced Microsoft's employee stock
options program.

Microsoft Chairman - Bill Gates

                   William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955), is an American business magnate,
philanthropist, author, the world's third richest person (as of February 8, 2008), and chairman of Microsoft,
the software company he founded with Paul Allen. Gates was the richest person in the world for 15
consecutive years. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of CEO and chief software
architect, and remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 8 percent of the common stock.
He has also authored or co-authored several books.

Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. Although he is
admired by many, a large number of industry insiders criticize his business tactics, which they consider
anti-competitive, an opinion which has in some cases been upheld by the courts. In the later stages of his
career, Gates has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, donating large amounts of money to
various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation, established in 2000.

Bill Gates stepped down as chief executive officer of Microsoft in January, 2000. He remained as
chairman and created the position of chief software architect. In June, 2006, Gates announced that he
would be transitioning from full-time work at Microsoft to part-time work and full-time work at the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation. He gradually transferred his duties to Ray Ozzie, chief software architect and
Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer. Gates' last full-time day at Microsoft was June 27,
2008. He remains at Microsoft as a part-time, non-executive chairman.

                                                                                                                         Bill Gates 's  Signature

Early Life:-

Gates was born in Seattle, Washington, to William H. Gates, Sr. and Mary Maxwell Gates. His family was
upper middle class; his father was a prominent lawyer, his mother served on the board of directors for
First Interstate BancSystem and the United Way, and her father, J. W. Maxwell, was a national bank
president. Gates has one elder sister, Kristi (Kristianne), and one younger sister, Libby. He was the fourth
of his name in his family, but was known as William Gates III or "Trey" because his father had dropped his
own "III" suffix. Early on in his life, Gates's parents had a law career in mind for him.

           At thirteen he enrolled in the Lakeside School, an exclusive preparatory school. When he was in
the eighth grade, the Mothers Club at the school used proceeds from Lakeside School's rummage sale to
buy an ASR-33 teletype terminal and a block of computer time on a General Electric (GE) computer for
the school's students. Gates took an interest in programming the GE system in BASIC and was excused
from math classes to pursue his interest. He wrote his first computer program on this machine: an
implementation of tic-tac-toe that allowed users to play games against the computer. Gates was
fascinated by the machine and how it would always execute software code perfectly. When he reflected
back on that moment, he commented on it and said, "There was just something neat about the machine."
After the Mothers Club donation was exhausted, he and other students sought time on systems including
DEC PDP minicomputers. One of these systems was a PDP-10 belonging to Computer Center
Corporation (CCC), which banned four Lakeside students—Gates, Paul Allen, Ric Weiland, and Kent
Evans—for the summer after it caught them exploiting bugs in the operating system to obtain free
computer time. At the end of the ban, the four students offered to find bugs in CCC's software in
exchange for computer time. Rather than use the system via teletype, Gates went to CCC's offices and
studied source code for various programs that ran on the system, including programs in FORTRAN, LISP,
and machine language. The arrangement with CCC continued until 1970, when it went out of business.
The following year, Information Sciences Inc. hired the four Lakeside students to write a payroll program
in COBOL, providing them computer time and royalties. After his administrators became aware of his
programming abilities, Gates wrote the school's computer program to schedule students in classes. He
modified the code so that he was placed in classes with mostly female students. He later stated that "it
was hard to tear myself away from a machine at which I could so unambiguously demonstrate success."
At age 17, Gates formed a venture with Allen, called Traf-O-Data, to make traffic counters based on the
Intel 8008 processor.

Gates graduated from Lakeside School in 1973. He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the Scholastic
Aptitude Test and subsequently enrolled at Harvard College in the fall of 1973. Prior to the mid 1990s, an
SAT score of 1590 was equivalent to an IQ of about 170 (roughly the one in a million level), a figure that
would frequently be cited by the press. While at Harvard, he met his future business partner, Steve
Ballmer, whom he later appointed as CEO of Microsoft. He also met computer scientist Christos
Papadimitriou at Harvard, with whom he collaborated on a paper about pancake sorting. He did not have
a definite study plan while a student at Harvard and spent a lot of time using the school's computers. He
remained in contact with Paul Allen, joining him at Honeywell during the summer of 1974. The following
year saw the release of the MITS Altair 8800 based on the Intel 8080 CPU, and Gates and Allen saw this
as the opportunity to start their own computer software company. He had talked this decision over with his
parents, who were supportive of him after seeing how much Gates wanted to start a company.

Wipro-Azim Premji
Azim Premji has led Wipro since 1966. Then a $2 million hydrogenated cooking fat company, Wipro Limited is today
a $5 billion revenue IT, BPO and R&D Services organization with presence in over 50 countries.

Premji started at Wipro with one basic idea – to build an organization which was deeply committed to Values, in the
firm belief that success in business would be its inevitable, eventual outcome. Unflinching commitment to Values
continues to remain at the core of Wipro.

Premji strongly believes that ordinary people are capable of extraordinary things and that the key to this is creating
highly charged teams. He takes a personal interest in developing teams and leaders and invests significant time as a
faculty in Wipro’s leadership development programs.

In Premji’s view, the Wipro brand promise of “Applying Thought” is the driving force for delivering value for customers
– which is the heart of business success. This has driven Wipro’s pioneering efforts in Quality, culminating in the
“Wipro Way”, which integrates the methods and practices of Six Sigma, PCMM, CMMi and Lean amongst others. It
also drives Wipro’s focus on applying Innovation for direct customer benefits – improving their time-to-market,
enhancing their predictability & reliability and cutting their costs.

Premji is firmly committed to the belief that business organizations have deep social responsibility. And that this must
be discharged by conducting ethical and fair business, by involvement with community issues and by building an
ecologically sustainable business. Wipro is deeply involved in trying to improve Quality of school education through
its “Wipro Applying Though in Schools” initiative, in local community causes through “Wipro Cares” and is
determinedly committed to a journey which weaves ecological sensitivity in every aspect of its business and
organization.

Over the years, Azim Premji has received many honors and accolades, which he believes are recognitions for each
person who has contributed to Wipro. Business Week listed him amongst the top 30 entrepreneurs in world history
(July 2007), they also featured him on their cover with the sobriquet “India’s Tech King” (October 2003). Financial
Times included him in the global list of 25 people who are “dramatically reshaping the way people live, work or think”
and have done most to bring abut significant and lasting social, political or cultural changes (October 2005,
November 2004). Time listed him (April 2004) as one amongst 100 most influential people in the world. He was
named by Fortune (August 2003) as one of the 25 most powerful business leaders outside the US, Forbes (March
2003) listed him as one of ten people globally, who have the most “power to effect change”. He was adjudged as the
Business Leader of the Year 2004 by the Economic Times.

In 2005 he became the first Indian recipient of the Faraday Medal. The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee and
the Manipal Academy of Higher Education have both conferred honorary doctorates on him, while XLRI, Jamshedpur
has conferred the Sir Jehangir Ghandy Medal for Industrial and Social Peace. In 2000 the Visvesvaraya
Technological University conferred Sir M. Visvesvaraya Memorial Award on him and the Institute of Electronics and
Telecommunication Engineers conferred its highest honor the Honorary Fellowship. He is a nonexecutive Director on
the Board of the Reserve Bank of India. He is also a member of the Prime Minister’s Committee for Trade and
Industry in India. In January 2005, The Government of India conferred upon him the Padma Bhushana, one of the
highest civilian awards in the country.

In the year 2001, Premji established the Azim Premji Foundation, a not-for-profit organization with a Vision of
significantly contributing to quality primary education for every child, in order to build a just, equitable and humane
society. The financial resources to this foundation have been personally contributed by Premji. The current programs
of the Azim Premji Foundation engage 2.5 million children in more than 17,000 schools across India. In October
2006, the Foundation was recognized as the Corporate Citizen of the year by the Economic Times.

Azim Premji is a graduate in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, USA.

Azim Premji Foundation

The Azim Premji Foundation says it "Aims at making a tangible impact on identified social issues by working in active
partnership with the Government and other related sectors of society". The Foundation was set up with financial
resources contributed by Azim Premji.

Programmes of the Azim premji Foundation focus on "creating effective and scalable models that significantly
improve the quality of learning in the school and ensure satisfactory ownership by the community in the management
of the school". Azim Premji Foundation says it "dedicates itself to the cause of Universalization of Elementary
Education in India". The organisation has over the years been instrumental in improving the quality of general
education, particularly in rural schools.

Citing a technology initiative, the Foundation reported: "Think of a single PC with three display terminals, three
keyboards and three 'mouses', which can be simultaneously used as if they are three independent computers". This
innovative idea from the Azim Premji Foundation is being deployed in the computer aided learning centre at the
Byatarayanapura Higher Primary School in Bangalore South District and in another school.

Five new titles of educational CDs for Indian schools were produced earlier in 2005. They are: Friendly Animals and
Journey on the Clouds (English), Swatantra Divas, Fun with Chinchoo in Mathematics and Khel-Mel (Hindi),
released in February 2005. With these, the total number of master titles available is 70.

There are now 68 titles in Karnataka, 42 for Andhra Pradesh, 35 forTamil Nadu and Pondicherry, 18 for Urdu medium
schools, six for Orissa, 14 for Gujarat, 3 for Punjab and 1 for Kerala.

This Foundation is also involved in computer-based assessment in Andhra Pradesh (50,000 students took part in
early 2005), a learning guarantee programme, and a policy planning unit in Karnataka.
 
Tata Consultancy Services -S.Ramadorai

Subramaniam Ramadorai (இராமதுரை Tamil) (Padma Bhushan) is CEO and Managing Director of Tata
Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS).

During the past 30 years, S. Ramadorai, has played an integral role in the international development of Tata
Consultancy Services (TCS). His efforts have helped make TCS one of the world's largest global software and
services companies with more than 100000 associates working in 53 countries, operating out of over 151 offices
worldwide, and with revenues over US$ 5.7 billion (FY 2007-08).

Early Life and Education Ramadorai was born in Nagpur,Maharastra and did his school education from Sardar Patel
Vidyalaya, New Delhi. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Physics from Delhi University, India, a Bachelor of
Engineering degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from the Indian Institute of Science,Bangalore, India, and
a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of California, USA. In 1993, Ramadorai attended the
Senior Executive Development Program at the MIT Sloan of Management.

Career Beginning his career with TCS as a junior engineer, he rose through the ranks and eventually was charged
with setting up TCS' operations in the United States in 1979 in New York City, which has since grown to over 40
offices throughout the country. Since taking on the role of CEO, Ramadorai has focused his efforts on building
relationships with large corporations and academic institutions, planning and directing technology development and
acquisitions and overseeing the company's research and development activities..

He has played a pioneering role in establishing Offshore Development Centers (ODCs) in India to provide high-end
solutions to major corporations including IBM,Microsoft,General Electric,Hewlett Packard,Morgan Stanley, Tandem-
Compaq,American Express,Merrill Lynch, Capital Bank,Target Corporation,CitibankQwest,Lucent
Technologies,Ericssion and  Nortel.

Under his leadership TCS set up Technology Excellence Centers in India that have acquired knowledge, expertise
and equipment in specialized technology areas like IBM, Oracle Corporation, SAP, AS400, DEC, HP,
Microsoft,Silicon Graphics, Sun and Tandem. Recently, he led TCS in forging new partnerships and alliances with the
American International Group of Companies, Citibank, Microsoft, Oracle and Keylabs, and widening existing
relationships with Capital Bank (Bank of Scotland Group),Prudential Insurance Company of America, Hewlett
Packard and Unigraphics Solutions Inc.

Ramadorai has spearheaded TCS' quality initiatives, taking sixteen of its Development Centers to SEI's CMM Level
5, the highest and most prestigious performance assessment issued by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI).
Over 22,000 TCS employees have been covered by this assessment. TCS also attained the distinction of being the
World's first company to have all Centres assessed as operating at Level 5 of PCMM (People-CMM).

Ramadorai is the Chairman of TATA Technologies Limited, Chairman of CMC Ltd, and Vice Chairman of TATA Elxsi
(India) Ltd. He is also on the Board of Directors of Hindustan Lever Ltd, Nicholas Piramal India Ltd,TATA Limited
(India), TATA Infotech Limited (India), TATA Internet Services Limited, Nelito Systems Limited, and several other
companies.

Infosys - Senapathy "Kris" Gopalakrishnan

Kris Gopalakrishnan is an Indian industrialist,Software engineer and one of the 7 founders of  Infosys Technologies,
a global consulting and IT services company based in India.

Kris obtained M.Sc. (Physics) in 1977 and M. Tech. (Computer Science) in 1979, both from IIT, Chennai. He started
his career with Patni Computer Systems (PCS), Mumbai as a Software Engineer in 1979 and quickly rose to become
an Assistant Project Manager by 1981. His seminal contribution during his stint at PCS was the development of a
distributed process control system for controlling the LD converters at Rourkela Steel Plant.

Career at Infosys: 
In 1981, Kris, along with N.R.Narayana Murthy and five others, founded Infosys Technologies Limited.The initial
years of his responsibility at Infosys included management of design, development, implementation and support of
information systems for clients in the consumer products industry in the US. During 1987-1994 he headed the
technical operations of KSA/Infosys (a joint venture between Infosys and KSA at Atlanta, USA) as Vice President
(Technical).

On June 22, 2007, Kris took over from Nandan Nilekani as the CEO and Managing Director of Infosys Technologies
Limited. Kris previously served as Chief Operating Officer (since April 2002), and as the President and Joint
Managing Director (since August 2006). His responsibilities included Customer Services, Technology, Investments
and Acquisitions.

Recently, he was fined Rs 5 lakh by the Infosys board for a technical violation of its insider trading rules. He is alleged
to have inherited 12,800 equity shares from his mother on December 24, 2007 but had inadvertently failed to notify
the company within one business day after the change in his shareholding, which constituted a violation of the
company's insider trading rules. The fine money has been donated to a charitable organization.

Infosys - Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy(Chief Mentor)

 

Born into a Kannada Madhva Brahmin family in Mysore, India on August 20, 1946, Murthy graduated with
a degree in electrical engineering from the National Institute of Engineering, University of Mysore in 1967
after attending government school, and received his master's degree from IIT Kanpur in 1969.

His first position was at IIM Ahmadabad as chief systems programmer. Where he worked on a time-
sharing system and designed and implemented a BASIC interpreter for ECIL (Electronics Corporation of
India Limited).

After IIM Ahmadabad, he then joined Patni Computer Systems in Pune. Before moving to Mumbai,
Murthy met his wife Sudha Murthy in Pune who at the time was an engineer working at Tata Engineering
and Locomotive Co. Ltd. (Telco, now known as Tata Motors) in Pune. In 1981, he founded Infosys with
six other software professionals. He served as president of the National Association of Software and
Service Companies, India from 1992 to 1994. Mr. Murthy is the brother-in-law of serial entrepreneur
Gururaj "Desh" Deshpande and the uncle of former NASSCOM Chairman and MphasiS chief Jerry Rao

Corporate Profile :

Murthy served as the founder CEO of Infosys for 21 years, and was succeeded by co-founder Nandan
Nilekani in March 2002. He is the chairman of the governing body of the International Institute of
Information Technology - Bangalore, and was the Chairman of the Governing Body of the Indian Institute
of Management, Ahmadabad. In addition, he is a member of the Board of Directors of INSEAD, Board of
Overseers of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, Cornell University Board of Trustees,
Business Advisory Council of Great Lakes Institute of Management - Chennai, Singapore Management
University Board of Trustees and the Board of Advisors for the William F. Achtmeyer Center for Global
Leadership at the Tuck School of Business. Mr. Murthy also sits on the Board of Governors of the Asian
Institute of Management (AIM), a graduate school of business located in the Philippines and is also the
Chairman of the Board of Members of School of Management, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) located
in Bangkok, Thailand. He is the chairman of the, Asia Business Council, an organization headquartered in
Hong Kong.

He is also a member of the Advisory Boards and Councils of various well-known universities – such as
the Stanford Graduate School of Business, the Corporate Governance initiative at the Harvard Business
School, Yale University and the University of Tokyo’s President's Council.

Murthy serves as an independent director on the board of the DBS Bank of Singapore. This is the largest
government-owned bank in Singapore. He also serves as a director on the Central Board of the Reserve
Bank of India, as the co-chairman of the Indo-British Partnership, as a member of the Prime Minister's
council on trade and industry, as a member of the Asia Advisory Board of British Telecommunications plc.
and as a member of the Board of NDTV, India. He also serves as an independent director on the board of
the European FMCG giantUnilever. He is an IT advisor to several Asian countries. He is also an
Independent Director on the board of HSBC.

He retired from his executive position at Infosys on 20th August, 2006. However, he continues as the
Non-Executive Chairman of the board

Quotes:

“Our assets walk out of the door each evening. We have to make sure that they come back the next
morning.”

“Performance leads to recognition. Recognition brings respect. Respect enhances power. Humility and
grace in one's moments of power enhances dignity of an organisation
 
“The real power of money is the power to give it away.”

“In God we trust, everybody else bring data to the table.”

“Progress is often equal to the difference between mind and mindset.”

“I want Infosys to be a place where people of different genders, nationalities, races and religious beliefs
work together in an environment of intense competition but utmost harmony, courtesy and dignity to add
more and more value to our customers day after day.”

"Ships are safest in the harbor but they are not meant to be there. They have to sail long and hard and
face stormy seas to reach the comfort of a desirable destination"

Awards :

Padma Shri
Padma Vibhushan
Officer of the Legion of Honour - Government of France.

Patni – Narendra Patni :

 Narendra Patni (born 1943) is the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Patni Computer
Systems.

Patni is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee and Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. He also holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. As of 2005, his net worth
was US $650 million. He is married and has two children.

Narendra Patni, chairman and CEO of Patni Computer Systems, was among the first leaders to have
started the off shoring trend in India.

A graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he had gone to the US in 1964 on a MIT fellowship.
The husband-wife duo -- Narendra Patni and Poonam Patni -- took the first steps towards the off shoring
business way back in 1972. Initially they started operations from their third floor apartment in the US, and
later set up back-office operations in Pune (started by Poonam) with 20 people. The company currently
has over 14,000 employees.

When he founded the company in 1978, he had the likes of Narayana Murthy, Nandan Nilekani and S
Gopalakrishnan on his rolls. While they went on to set up Infosys which today is the second largest
Indian IT services provider, Patni was not as lucky.

Moreover, while the Indian IT industry went in for a complete change in 1999-2000 during the dotcom
bust, and companies like Infosys made hay, Narendra Patni and his brothers were grappling with the
hardware and software business. In 2001, the brothers decided to split the business into two -- hardware
(now PCS Technology Ltd) and the software business.

Then Narendra Patni had only one option -- to catch up with the others. Those who were working with him
during the changing phase of 2002-03, and when the company eventually got listed in 2004, focused on
being the preferred service provider in certain chosen verticals. Despite the slow momentum, the
company has been able to withstand the competition from both MNCs as well as Indian IT companies.

"He has always been a shy person. He has always believed in keeping quiet and working hard,
something that comes with his MIT background," said a person who has worked very closely with him.
This was also clear when, despite the disagreement between the brothers on the stake sale being spoken
and written about regularly in the media, Narendra Patni chose to remain silent most of the time.

Even when he did speak, he did not attach much importance to the proposed stake sale, saying that both
the brothers -- Ashok and Gajendra Patni -- had sold close to 6 million shares since the company went
public in 2004. "I have built the company from scratch, and would like the shares to find a good home
when they are on offer," is what he was clear about. Simultaneously, he instructed his sales team to get in
touch with him in case clients asked them any uncomfortable questions.
Now with the Patni Computer Systems' stake sale being called off, it brings to an end the uncertainty that
has surrounded the issue for the last six months. Back in saddle for at least a year (his tenure as CEO
expires at end of December, 2008), Narendra Patni chooses to be focused on the work at hand. "He is a
very honest and thoughtful person, something which comes out very clearly in the way he works.
Transparency is very important to him," says another employee of the company. These qualities may
stand him in good stead.

Cognizant – Francisco D'Souza

Francisco D'Souza is the CEO of Cognizant Technology Solutions. He took over from Lakshmi
Narayanan who was promoted as the Vice Chairman. Mr. Francisco D'Souza is among the youngest
Chief Executive Officers in the software services sector at the age 38. He was part of the team founded,
in 1994, the Nasdaq-100 Cognizant Technology Solutions.

He was a person of Indian origin (PIO), born in Nairobi, Kenya, and lived in 11 countries. His father was a
diplomat with Indian Foreign Services. Francisco D'Souza holds a Bachelor of Business Administration
degree from the University of East Asia and a Master of Business Administration degree from Carnegie-
Mellon University.

Effective January 1, 2007, Francisco D'Souza was appointed as the President and Chief Executive
Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Cognizant Technology Solutions.

Francisco D'Souza won the Economic Times Entrepreneur Award in 2005. Francisco was also a 2002
Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist. Francisco D'Souza has 18 years of experience in the
information technology industry, in both operational and advisory roles. At Cognizant, which he joined in
its early days, Francisco oversees much of the operations and business development of the company. He
works closely with Cognizant clients who are using offshore resources to execute large software
development and maintenance projects. Francisco spent the previous four years of his career at various
divisions of The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation, holding key positions in marketing, strategic planning, and
new business development in Germany, the US and India.

Francisco D'Souza was elected Chief Operating Officer in December 2003. Prior to that, from November
1999 to December 2003, he served as Senior Vice President, North American Operations and Business
Development. From March 1998 to November 1999, he served as Vice President, North American
Operations and Business Development and as Director-North American Operations and Business
Development from June 1997 to March 1998. From January 1996 to June 1997, Mr. D'Souza was
engaged as consultant. From February 1995 to December 1995, Mr. D'Souza was employed as Product
Manager at Pilot Software. Between 1992 and 1995, Mr. D'Souza held various marketing, business
development and technology management positions as a Management Associate at The Dun &
Bradstreet Corporation. While working at The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation, Mr. D'Souza was part of the
team that established the software development and maintenance business conducted by cognizant.

Dell - Michael Saul Dell

Michael Saul Dell (born February 23, 1965, in Houston, Texas) is an American businessman and the
founder and CEO of Dell, Inc.

Early life and education Dell was born into a family which liberally practiced Judaism. The son of an
orthodontist and a stockbroker, Dell attended Herod Elementary School in Houston, Texas.. Dell had his
first encounter with a computer at the age of 15 when he broke down a brand new Apple II computer and
rebuilt it, just to see if he could. Dell attended Memorial High School in Houston where he did not excel
academically. During that time he did however exhibit formidable business instincts selling subscriptions
for the Houston Post. Dell found $18,000 in an untapped customer base in newlyweds; those "windfall
profits" earned him a BMW and a computer.

Career While at the University of Texas at Austin, he started a computer company called PC's Limited in
his room in Dobie Center. The company became successful enough that, with the help of an additional
loan from his grandparents, Dell dropped out of the university at the age of 19 to run PC's Limited, which
later became Dell Computer Corporation, then ultimately Dell, Inc.

Over time, and despite a number of setbacks (including laptops that caught on fire in 1993, temporarily
losing the consumer market to Gateway in the mid 1990s, and others), Dell survived the race to become
the most profitable PC manufacturer in the world, with sales of $49 billion and profits of $3 billion in 2004.
As Dell expanded its product line to more than computers, shareholders voted to rename the corporation
Dell, Inc. in 2003.

On March 4, 2004, he stepped down as CEO of Dell but stayed as chairman of the board, while Kevin B.
Rollins, then president and COO, became president and CEO. On January 31, 2007, Dell returned as
CEO, succeeding Kevin Rollins (who resigned earlier in the day).

Accolades for Dell include: "Entrepreneur of the Year" from Inc. magazine; "Man of the Year" from PC
Magazine; "Top CEO in American Business" from Worth Magazine; "CEO of the Year" from Financial
World, Industry Week and Chief Executive Magazine. At a speech before the Detroit Economic Club in
November, 1999, Dell defined the "3 C's" of e-commerce (content, commerce, and community) while
articulating his strategy for offering a superior customer experience online.
He appeared in the film, The Sno Cone Stand Inc., during the summer of 2008.

Wealth and Personal Life As of 2008, Forbes estimates Dell's net worth at $17.3 billion. Dell currently
resides in Austin, Texas with his wife, Susan, and their children. They have four children: Kira, Alexa, and
fraternal twins Zachary and Juliette.

Feud with Apple's Steve Jobs Michael Dell had a public war of words with Apple, Inc. CEO Steve Jobs,
starting when Jobs first criticized Dell for making "un-innovative beige boxes". On October 6, 1997, when
Michael Dell was asked what he would do if he owned then-troubled Apple Computer, he said "I'd shut it
down and give the money back to the shareholders."In 2002, Dell's online store started selling Apple's
iPod music players. They stopped selling iPods in 2003, due to contract issues between Apple and Dell.
On January 13, 2006, Apple's market capitalization surpassed that of Dell and, as of September 2008,
now stands at over four times Dell's market cap.

Apple Inc - Steven Paul Jobs

Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24, 1955) is the American co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Apple
Inc. and the former CEO of Pixar Animation Studios.

In the late 1970s, Jobs, with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, created one of the first commercially
successful personal computers. In the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial
potential of the mouse-driven graphical user interface. After losing a power struggle with the board of
directors in 1985, Jobs resigned from Apple and founded next, a computer platform development
company specializing in the higher education and business markets. Next’s subsequent 1997 buyout by
Apple Computer Inc. brought Jobs back to the company he co-founded, and he has served as its CEO
since then. Steve Jobs was listed as Fortune Magazine's Most Powerful Businessman of 2007. In 1986,
he acquired the computer graphics division of Lucas film Ltd which was spun off as Pixar Animation
Studios. He remained CEO and majority shareholder until its acquisition by the Walt Disney Company in
2006. A job is currently the Walt Disney Company's largest individual shareholder and a member of its
Board of Directors. He is considered a leading figure in both the computer and entertainment industries.

Jobs’ history in business has contributed greatly to the myths of the quirky, individualistic Silicon Valley
entrepreneur, emphasizing the importance of design while understanding the crucial role aesthetics play
in public appeal. His work driving forward the development of products that are both functional and
elegant has earned him a devoted following.
Early Life :

Jobs was born in San Francisco and was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, Santa Clara
County, California who named him Steven Paul. His biological parents, Joanne Carole Scribble and
Abdulfattah Jandali a graduate student from Syria who became a political science professor later married
and gave birth to Jobs's sister, the novelist Mona Simpson.

Jobs attended Cupertino Junior High School and Homestead High School in Cupertino, California, and
frequented after-school lectures at the Hewlett-Packard Company in Palo Alto, California. He was soon
hired there and worked with Steve Wozniak as a summer employee. In 1972, Jobs graduated from high
school and enrolled in Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Although he dropped out after only one
semester, he continued auditing classes at Reed, such as one in calligraphy. "If I had never dropped in on
that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced
fonts", he said.

In the autumn of 1974, Jobs returned to California and began attending meetings of the Homebrew
Computer Club with Steve Wozniak. He took a job as a technician at Atari, a manufacturer of popular
video games, with the primary intent of saving money for a spiritual retreat to India.

Jobs then backpacked around India with a Reed College friend (and, later, the first Apple employee),
Daniel Kottke, in search of philosophical enlightenment. He came back with his head shaved and wearing
traditional Indian clothing. During this time, Jobs experimented with psychedelics, calling his LSD
experiences "one of the two or three most important things [he had] done in [his] life." He has stated that
people around him who did not share his countercultural roots could not fully relate to his thinking.

He returned to his previous job at Atari and was given the task of creating a circuit board for the game
Breakout. According to Atari Founder Nolan Bushnell, Atari had offered US$100 for each chip that was
reduced in the machine. Jobs had little interest or knowledge in circuit board design and made a deal with
Wozniak to split the bonus evenly between them if Wozniak could minimize the number of chips. Much to
the amazement of Atari, Wozniak reduced the number of chips by 50, a design so tight that it was
impossible to reproduce on an assembly line. At the time, Jobs told Wozniak that Atari had only given
them US$600 (instead of the actual US$5000) and that Wozniak's share was thus US$300.

 Beginnings of Apple Computer

In 1976, Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak, with funding from multimillionaire A.C. "Mike" Markkula,
founded Apple. Before Wozniak co-founded Apple with Jobs, he was an electronics hacker. Jobs and
Wozniak had been friends for some time, having met in 1971, when their mutual friend, Bill Fernandez,
introduced 21-year-old Wozniak to 16-year-old Jobs. Steve Jobs managed to interest Wozniak in
assembling a computer and selling it. As Apple continued to expand, the company began looking for an
experienced executive to help manage its expansion. In 1983, Steve Jobs lured John Sculley away from
Pepsi-Cola, to serve as Apple's CEO, saying, "Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared
water to children, or do you want a chance to change the world?" The following year, Apple set out to do
just that, starting with a Super Bowl television commercial titled, "1984." Two years later, at Apple's
annual shareholders meeting on January 24, 1984, an emotional Jobs introduced the Macintosh to a
wildly enthusiastic audience; Andy Hertzfeld described the scene as "pandemonium” The Macintosh
became the first commercially successful small computer with a graphical user interface. The
development of the Mac was started by Jef Raskin, and eventually taken over by Jobs.

While Jobs was a persuasive and charismatic director for Apple, some of his employees from that time
had described him as an erratic and temperamental manager. An industry-wide sales slump towards the
end of 1984 caused deterioration in Jobs's working relationship with Sculley, and at the end of May
1985 – following an internal power struggle and an announcement of significant layoffs – Sculley relieved
Jobs of his duties as head of the Macintosh division

NeXT Computer :
Around the same time, Jobs founded another computer company, NeXT Computer. Like the Apple Lisa,
the NeXT workstation was technologically advanced; however, it was largely dismissed by industry as
cost-prohibitive. Among those who could afford it, however, the NeXT workstation garnered a strong
following because of its technical strengths, chief among them its object-oriented software development
system. Jobs marketed NeXT products to the scientific and academic fields because of the innovative,
experimental new technologies it incorporated (such as the Mach kernel, the digital signal processor chip,
and the built-in Ethernet port).

The NeXT Cube was described by Jobs as an "interpersonal" computer, which he believed was the next
step after "personal" computing. That is, if computers could allow people to communicate and collaborate
together in an easy way, it would solve a lot of the problems that "personal" computing had come up
against. During a time when e-mail for most people was plain text, Jobs loved to demo the NeXT's e-mail
system, NeXT Mail, as an example of his "interpersonal" philosophy. NeXT Mail was one of the first to
support universally visible, clickable embedded graphics and audio within e-mail.

Jobs ran NeXT with an obsession for aesthetic perfection, as evidenced by such things as the
NeXTcube's magnesium case. This put considerable strain on NeXT's hardware division, and in 1993,
after having sold only 50,000 machines, NeXT transitioned fully to software development with the release
of NeXT STEP/Intel.

Return to Apple:

 In 1996, Apple announced that it would buy NeXT for US$429 million. The deal was finalized in late
1996, bringing Jobs back to the company he founded. He soon became Apple's interim CEO after the
directors lost confidence in and ousted then-CEO Gil Amelio in a boardroom coup. In March 1998, in
order to concentrate Apple's efforts on returning to profitability, Jobs immediately terminated a number of
projects such as Newton, Cyberdog, and OpenDoc. In the coming months, many employees developed a
fear of encountering Jobs while riding in the elevator, "afraid that they might not have a job when the
doors opened. The reality was that Jobs's summary executions were rare, but a handful of victims was
enough to terrorize a whole company."

With the purchase of NeXT, much of the company's technology found its way into Apple products,
notably NeXTSTEP, which evolved into Mac OS X. Under Jobs's guidance the company increased sales
significantly with the introduction of the iMac and other new products; since then, appealing designs and
powerful branding have worked well for Apple. At the 2000 Macworld Expo, Jobs officially dropped the
"interim" modifier from his title at Apple and became permanent CEO. Jobs quipped at the time that he
would be using the title 'iCEO'.

In recent years, the company has branched out, introducing and improving upon other digital appliances.
With the introduction of the iPod portable music player, iTunes digital music software, and the iTunes
Store, the company made forays into consumer electronics and music distribution. In 2007, Apple entered
the cellular phone business with the introduction of the iPhone, a multi-touch display cell phone, iPod, and
internet device. While stimulating innovation, Jobs also reminds his employees that "real artists ship", by
which he means that delivering working products on time is as important as innovation and attractive
design.

Jobs is both admired and criticized for his consummate skill at persuasion and salesmanship, which has
been dubbed the "reality distortion field" and is particularly evident during his keynote speeches
(colloquially known as "Stevenotes") at Macworld Expos and at Apple's own World Wide Developers
Conferences.

In 2005, Jobs responded to criticism of Apple's poor recycling programs for e-waste in the U.S. by lashing
out at environmental and other advocates at Apple's Annual Meeting in Cupertino in April. However, a few
weeks later, Apple announced it would take back iPods for free at its retail stores. The Computer Take
Back Campaign responded by flying a banner from a plane over the Stanford University graduation at
which Jobs was the commencement speaker. The banner read "Steve — don’t be a mini-player recycle
all e-waste". In 2006 he further expanded Apple's recycling programs to any U.S. customer who buys a
new Mac. This program includes shipping and "environmentally friendly disposal" of their old systems. 

Stock options issue :- 

 In 2001, Steve Jobs was granted stock options in the amount of 7,500,000 shares of Apple with an
exercise price of US$18.30, which allegedly should have been US$21.10, thereby incurring taxable
income of $20,000,000 that he did not report as income. Apple overstated its earnings by that same
amount. If found liable, Jobs may face a number of criminal charges and civil penalties. Apple claimed
that the options were originally granted at a special board meeting that may never have taken place.
Furthermore, the investigation is focusing on false dating of the options resulting in a retroactive US$20
million increase in the exercise price. The case is the subject of active criminal and civil government
investigations, though an independent internal Apple investigation completed on December 29, 2006
found that Jobs was unaware of these issues and that the options granted to him were returned without
being exercised in 2003. On July 1, 2008 a $7B class action suit was filed against several members of the
Apple Board of Directors for revenue lost due to the alleged securities fraud.

Pixar and Disney  :-

In 1986, Jobs bought The Graphics Group (later renamed Pixar) from Lucas film’s computer graphics
division for the price of US$10 million, US$5 million of which was given to the company as capital The
major cause of the low purchase price was George Lucas' need to finance his 1983 divorce without
significantly reducing his stock and control of the Star Wars enterprises.

The new company, which was originally based in San Rafael, California but has since relocated to
Emeryville, California, was initially intended to be a high-end graphics hardware developer. After years of
unprofitability selling the Pixar Image Computer, it contracted with Disney to produce a number of
computer-animated feature films, which Disney would co-finance and distribute.

The first film produced by the partnership, Toy Story, brought fame and critical acclaim to the studio when
it was released in 1995. Over the next ten plus years, under Pixar's creative chief John Lasseter, the
company would produce the box-office hits A Bug's Life (1998), Toy Story 2 (1999), Monsters, Inc.
(2001), Finding Nemo (2003), The Incredibles (2004), Cars (2006), Ratatouille (2007), and WALL-E
(2008) . Finding Nemo, The Incredibles and Ratatouille each received the Academy Award for Best
Animated Feature, an award introduced in 2001. In the years 2003 and 2004, as Pixar's contract with
Disney was running out, Jobs and Disney chief executive Michael Eisner tried but failed to negotiate a
new partnership, and in early 2004 Jobs announced that Pixar would seek a new partner to distribute its
films once its contract with Disney expired. Personal animosity between the two executives was largely
blamed for the companies' failure to renew their partnership.

In October 2005, Bob Iger replaced Eisner at Disney, and Iger quickly worked to patch up relations with
Jobs and Pixar. On January 24, 2006, Jobs and Iger announced that Disney had agreed to purchase
Pixar in an all-stock transaction worth US$7.4 billion. Once the deal closed, Jobs became The Walt
Disney Company's largest single shareholder with approximately 7% of the company's stock. Jobs’s
holdings in Disney far exceed those of Eisner, who holds 1.7%, and Disney family member Roy E.
Disney, who holds about 1% of the company's stock and whose criticisms of Eisner included the soured
Pixar relationship and accelerated his ousting. Jobs joined the company's board of directors upon
completion of the merger.

Jobs also help oversee Disney and Pixar's combined animation businesses with a seat on a special six-
man steering committee. One of the committee's first decisions was to discontinue the production of so-
called "cheapquels" (cheap direct-to-video sequels). Many also see Jobs as a valuable and influential
advisor to Iger and Disney on technology matters.

 
Management style  :-

Much has been made of Jobs's aggressive and demanding personality. Fortune noted that he "is
considered one of Silicon Valley's leading egomaniacs." Commentaries on his temperamental style can
be found in Mike Moritz's The Little Kingdom, one of the few authorized biographies of Jobs; Jeffrey S.
Young's unauthorized Steve Jobs: The Journey Is the Reward; The Second Coming of Steve Jobs, by
Alan Deutschman; and iCon: Steve Jobs, by Jeffrey S. Young & William L. Simon.

In iCon: Steve Jobs the authors point out that Paul Jobs, who adopted Steve, was also known to be
aggressive: "Paul was soon hired as a kind of strong arm man by a finance company that sought help
collecting on auto loans — an early repo man. Both his bulk and his aggressive personality were well
suited to this somewhat dangerous pursuit, and his mechanical bent enabled him to pick the locks of the
cars he had to repossess and hot-wire them if necessary."

Jobs has always aspired to position Apple and its products at the forefront of the information technology
industry by foreseeing and setting trends, at least in terms of innovation and style. He summed up that
self-concept at the end of his keynote speech at the Macworld Conference and Expo in January 2007 by
quoting ice hockey legend Wayne Gretzky:

"There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it
has been.' And we've always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very very beginning. And we always will."

—Steve Jobs

 
Personal life  :-

Jobs married Laurene Powell, on March 18, 1991. Presiding over the wedding was the Zen Buddhist
monk Kobun Chino Otogowa. The couple have three children. Jobs also has a daughter, Lisa Brennan-
Jobs (born May 17, 1978), born to Chrisann Brennan, an early girlfriend. She briefly raised their daughter
on welfare when Jobs denied paternity, claiming that he was sterile; he later acknowledged paternity. Lisa
Brennan-Jobs is a journalist who wrote for The Harvard Crimson, and Apple's Lisa Computer was named
for her.

In the unauthorized biography The Second Coming of Steve Jobs, author Alan Deutschman reports that
Jobs once dated Joan Baez. Deutschman quotes Elizabeth Holmes, a friend of Jobs from his time at
Reed College, as saying she "believed that Steve became the lover of Joan Baez in large measure
because Baez had been the lover of Bob Dylan." In another unauthorized biography, iCon: Steve Jobs by
Jeffrey S. Young & William L. Simon, the authors suggest that Jobs might have married Baez, but her age
at the time (41) meant it was unlikely the couple could have children. Baez included a mention of Jobs in
the acknowledgments of her 1987 memoir And a Voice to sing with.

Steve Jobs is also a devoted Beatles fan He has referenced them on more than one occasion at
Keynotes and also was interviewed on a showing of a Paul McCartney concert. When asked about his
business model on 60 Minutes, he replied:

"My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each other's negative tendencies in
check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts. Great things in
business are not done by one person; they are done by a team of people."

In 1982, Jobs bought an apartment in The San Remo, an apartment building in New York City with a
politically progressive reputation, where Demi Moore, Steven Spielberg, Steve Martin, and Princess
Yasmin Aga Khan, daughter of Rita Hayworth, also had apartments. With the help of I.M. Pei, Jobs spent
years renovating his apartment in the top two floors of the building's north tower, only to sell it almost two
decades later to U2 front man Bono. Jobs had never moved in.

In 1984, Jobs purchased a 17,000-square-foot (1,600 m2), 14 bedroom Spanish Colonial mansion,

designed by George Washington Smith in Woodside, California, also known as Jackling House. Although
it reportedly remained in an almost unfurnished state, Jobs lived in the mansion for ten years. According
to reports, he kept an old BMW motorcycle in the living room, and let Bill Clinton use it in 1998. He
allowed the mansion to fall into a state of disrepair, planning to demolish the house and build a smaller
home on the property; but he met with complaints from local preservationists over his plans. In June
2004, the Woodside Town Council gave Jobs approval to demolish the mansion, on the condition that he
advertise the property for a year to see if someone would move it to another location and restore it. A
number of people expressed interest, including several with experience in restoring old property, but no
agreements to that effect were reached. Later that same year, a local preservationist group began
seeking legal action to prevent demolition. In January 2007 Jobs was denied the right to demolish the
property, by a court decision.

He usually wears a black long-sleeved mock turtleneck made by St. Croix, Levi's 501 blue jeans, and
New Balance 992 sneakers.

Jobs had a public war of words with Dell Computer CEO Michael Dell, starting when Jobs first criticized
Dell for making "un-innovative beige boxes." On October 6, 1997, in a Gartner Symposium, when Michael
Dell was asked what he would do if he owned then-troubled Apple Computer, he said "I'd shut it down
and give the money back to the shareholders." In 2006, Steve Jobs sent an email to all employees when
Apple's market capitalization rose above Dell's. The email read:

"Team, it turned out that Michael Dell wasn't perfect at predicting the future. Based on today's stock
market close, Apple is worth more than Dell. Stocks go up and down, and things may be different
tomorrow, but I thought it was worth a moment of reflection today. Steve."

Accenture : William D. Green

William D. Green is the chairman & CEO of Accenture. In addition to chairing the board of directors, he is
responsible for managing the company, formulating and executing long-term strategies, and for all
interactions with clients, employees, investors and other stakeholders. Mr. Green is Accenture's primary
decision maker and policy maker, setting the tone for the company's values, ethics and culture. He has
served on Accenture's board of directors since its inception in 2001.

Mr. Green personifies Accenture's commitment to delivering the highest quality services to its clients
around the world. He has built a reputation for his strong work ethic, results-oriented consensus building
and exceptional ability to forge and maintain major client relationships.

Mr. Green has significant experience as a member of Accenture's senior management team. Prior to
becoming CEO on September 1, 2004, he was Accenture's chief operating officer—Client Services with
overall management responsibility for the company's operating groups.

Mr. Green has held executive positions in most of the company's operating groups. With expertise in the
high-tech, aerospace and telecommunications industries, he was group chief executive of the
Communications & High Tech operating group from 1999 to 2003. Under his leadership, the group grew
to become the company's largest business unit. He was also group chief executive of the Resources
operating group for two years. Earlier in his career, Mr. Green led the Manufacturing industry group and
was managing director for Accenture's business in the United States.

Mr. Green represents Accenture in a number of external venues. He is a member of Business Roundtable
and chairman of its Education, Innovation and Workforce Initiative. He is also a member of the G100 and
the International Advisory Panel of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore. Mr. Green has
been a featured speaker at international business and technology conferences.

Mr. Green joined Accenture in 1977 and became a partner in 1986. He attended Dean College and is a
member of its Board of Trustees. He holds a bachelor of science degree in economics and a master of
business administration from Babson College. He also holds an honorary doctor of laws from Babson. He
and his wife have two children

Sun MicroSystems - Jonathan Ian Schwartz

Jonathan Ian Schwartz (born October 20, 1965) is the current President and CEO of Sun Microsystems,
as well as a member of the Company's Board of Directors.

Schwartz attended Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Bethesda, Maryland, and graduated in 1983.
He spent freshman year of college at Carnegie Mellon University in 1983-1984, and then transferred to
Wesleyan University, where he studied economics and mathematics.

Schwartz started his career in 1987 at McKinsey & Company in New York City. During that same year,
Schwartz was riding on the Amtrak Colonial train that crashed in Chase, Maryland. According to him, the
incident had a profound impact on his life. In 1989, Schwartz left McKinsey and moved to Chevy Chase,
Maryland, where he was a co-founder of Lighthouse Design. In the early 1990s, Lighthouse Design
moved to San Mateo, California. Eventually, Schwartz became chief executive officer of Lighthouse.

In 1996, Lighthouse Design was acquired by Sun Microsystems. Schwartz became the director of product
marketing for JavaSoft in 1997 and then transitioned through a series of 5 vice president positions. In
2004, Schwartz was promoted to president and chief operating officer of Sun. On April 24, 2006, he
replaced Scott McNealy as CEO.

Schwartz maintains a blog at http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/. As one of the few Fortune 500 CEO
Bloggers, Schwartz is recognized for his efforts to bring greater transparency into the corporate world and
had a public exchange with SEC Chairman Christopher Cox about the use of websites and blogs to meet
Regulation Fair Disclosure.
Schwartz regularly promotes his view that the Information Age has given way to a "Participation Age," in
which people create news, ideas, and entertainment, as well as consuming them. Schwartz also speaks
about the networks as a social utility -- comparable to electricity or railroads -- that creates an opportunity
to drive social, economic and political progress. He is "one quarter (Asian) Indian, one quarter Welsh (on
his Mother's side), one quarter Hungarian, and one quarter Russian (Father's side)."

 
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