Anirban Mukerji

Age 39 Yrs ; D.O.B. 2nd September 1969

anirmukerji@yahoo.com
+91 98455 18520 (mobile)
Educational Qualifications

Postgraduate Diploma in Rural Management from IRMA 1992

MA Previous Sociology JNU 1990
B.Sc. Hon’s (Math’s) St. Stephen’s College 1989
Special Honours

NTSE scholar (A National scholarship awarded to only 250 students annually)

GMAT Score 750, among the Top 1% of test takers Worldwide

Career Summary

Date Employer Position/ Responsibility

Oct 07- present Fortune 50 Global IT Solutions National Manager e-Gov Solutions
Company.
Dec06 – Sep 07 Department of E-Governance, Consultant for e-Governance Project
Government of Karnataka
Oct 05 – Sep 06 Program Manager RDS project
May 03 – Sep 05 Hewlett-Packard (Emerging Market Manager Strategic Partnerships & New
Solutions ) Market Solutions ( Sept 04 – Sep 05)
Apr 02 – Oct 02 n-Logue Communications Deputy General Manager Projects
Nov 00 – Feb 02 Satyam Infoway Pvt. Ltd, B2B Senior Manager Business Development
Portals Division.
Jun 98 – Oct 00 Hindustan Lever Exports Division Trader – Agri Commodity Exports
Jun 96 – May 98 Hindustan Lever Ltd. Oils Division Buyer – Ghaziabad Factory
Nov 93 – Jun 96 Shriram Foods and Fertilizers Assistant Manager Oil Purchase
Jun 92 – Nov 93 M.P. Oilfed. Assistant Manager Exports
Fortune 50 Global IT Solutions Company. National Manager e-Governance
Solutions –Oct 07 onwards
Responsibilities in this position include
• Increase mind share of Company with key decision makers in e-Governance projects.
• Position Company products in e-Governance project implementation
• Develop a partner eco system for participating in e-Governance projects
• Mentor Company sales force in Government procurement procedures
Department of e-Governance, Government of Karnataka
Program Manager Rural Digital Services Project October 05 - Sept 06
The Rural digital services project ( RDS) is an initiative by the state government to build a
common platform for deployment of citizen centric services of all departments of the state
government.
My role as the program manager head of the RDS project included the following
• Enabled delivery of a wide range of citizen centric services of the Revenue department to
the rural citizens of the state through the network of village telecentres.

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 • Prepared the tender ( Request for Proposal ) documents for selection of the vendor that
would build own and operate a network of 800 village
• Executed all steps of the bid management process as per government norms
The RDS program has secured many awards including an International Public Sector
Achievement Award instituted by the Public Sector Technology Magazine and two National
innovation awards for implementation of a Citizen Centric e-Governance initiative. The program
has served over a million citizen requests from its inception in April 2004 till date.

Consultant Karnataka One Project Dec 06 to Sep 07

In April 2005, the State Government implemented the land mark Bangalore One project that
provides a 24/7 facility to a citizen to avail services of various utility companies and agencies of the
state government. In December 2006, the State government decided to replicate the Bangalore
One project to five other cities of Karnataka.
My role in the project included
• Preparing the project plan for replication of the project.
• Writing the Request for proposal of the Software Vendor, Citizen Service Centre Operator,
and the Banker to the project, and Bid management of the above RFP’s for selection of the
Vendor

e-Governance Consultant Dec 06 to Sep 07

In this role I have contributed to the e-governance department of Karnataka through the following
assignments
• Computerization of the Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies
• Selection of an e-Governance consultancy organization for the various department of the
State government
• Selection of Technical resources for the State Data Centre, Nemmadi Program and
Bhoomi Program

Hewlett-Packard Manager Strategic Partnership May 03 - Sep 05

Manager New Market Solutions Sept 04 – Sep 05
The Kuppam HP i-community program of Hewlett-Packard aims at holistic development of the rural
community through use of technology in manner that is self sustaining both for the community and
the company.
In the program I worked both to develop an eco system of strategic partners and developing new
business ideas that can further program objectives.
Achievements include
• Implemented the Digital Rural theatre program and village photographer program
The Kuppam Village Women’s Photographer program has been featured in numerous
magazines and media stories including “Business Week”, Economist and NDTV.
• Started an ITES Centre in Kuppam in partnership with Datamation Consultants Delhi, India
that is providing local youth with ICT based jobs and is a model for HP and other
organizations to start ITES businesses in rural areas.
• Partnered with American India Foundation and World Links to integrate ICT in education in
15 schools of Kuppam.
• Initiated a dialogue with ICICI Bank to develop a model to deploy financial services in
underserved communities.

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Satyam Infoway Ltd. Chennai, Nov 00 - Feb 2002
Sr. Manager Business Development B2B Portals
Was responsible for varied roles of launch, extension, product management business development
and Sales of B2B portals which included a) Teawebex - a portal, which aims to deliver real time
web based auctions to the tea community; b) Exportswebex – a marketplace facilitating trade
between American buyers and Indian exporters c) Expressmeet - A web based collaboration tool.

Hindustan Lever Ltd., June 96- Nov 00

Trader Agri Commodities Exports, Chennai, Mumbai July 99- Nov 00
Was responsible for managing an independent agro commodity business, and thereby handled a
whole gamut of functions including customer management, new business development, raw
material sourcing, factory operations and supply chain management. In this division first I managed
the soya export business and later worked on developing the new agro commodity business. In this
assignment .

Buyer (Ghaziabad Vegetable Oils Factory) June 96 - May 98

Responsible for all supply chain functions including Edible Oil Purchase, Packaging Material, Out
Bound Logistics, 3P Production and management accounting for the Vanaspati & Refined Oil
Factory of HLL
Publications and Seminars Delivered
• Produced a book of photographs taken by the Children of Kuppam ( 2005), the only such
initiative worldwide involving use of digital cameras by rural children.
• Jointly with Shri Rajeev Chawla wrote the article “E-Governance initiatives of Karnataka”
published in Yojana November 2007
• Submitted application for the “Bhoomi Program” under IBM Innovations award for
Transforming Government instituted by the Ash Institute of democratic governance and
Innovation, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. The program was
shortlisted among the 20 finalists for the award.
• Coauthored article “A journey through three states Common Service Centres Programme
(CSC) Review, NeGP, India” for i4D Magazine August 2007 http://i4donline.net/index.asp
• Article under publication “Issues in Implementation of e-Governance Programs - Learning
from the Bhoomi Program of Karnataka”
• Wrote “Rural Digital Services a Case Study” published in CAB Calling April – June 2006, a
magazine published by College of Agricultural Banking Reserve Bank of India
• Wrote case study on the Kuppam HP i-community published in
o World Business Council for Development
o ICT for Development – Case Studies from India – NISG Hyderabad
• Delivered Presentations in various Seminars and Conferences including the following
o Seminar on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Rural Financial
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Services College of Agricultural Banking Reserve Bank of India March 6 2006
o National Workshop on Capacity Building for Small Businesses of Orissa through
ICT, Institute of Management & Information Science Bhubaneswar
• Assisted Professor Chiranjib Sen in organizing Workshop on Innovation and Excellence in
Governance, Centre for Public Policy, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. 15-14
September, 2005