IDG Ventures India on Thursday announced that Kiran Karnik, former president of National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) and a recipient of the Padma Shri has joined the company, on their global advisory board. IDG Ventures India's advisory board includes icons like N Balasubramanian, K B Chandrashekar, Arjun Malhotra, Sridhar Mitta, Jagdish Sheth and V Sumantran. Kiran Karnik was president of Nasscom till January 2008.
The announcement was made by Corporate Affairs Minister P C Gupta, whose ministry had earlier moved the Company Law Board to disband the erstwhile Satyam board after disclosure of fraud by company founder Ramalinga Raju
After heading the apex body for six years, and being instrumental in placing the Indian IT industry on the global map.
'Indians are merely going for software programming: it is like a car mechanic repairing cars, which is a tremendous ability. But though we can repair cars we cannot design them!' says Nasscom president Kiran Karnik.
Kiran Karnik has decided to step down from his role as president, Nasscom. The premier software association has already initiated a search process to locate a successor.
Acknowledging him as the person trying to direct the path of the offshoring movement, US magazine Forbes has described, Nasscom president Kiran Karnik, as the 'Face of the Year'.
'But I would not like to write it myself. I don't think it will be right.'
India is at the edge of a precipice. It can now take off and soar, going ever higher, it can stay where it is; or it can suddenly begin to fall. Giving it wings and confidence is the IT-BPO sector, says Nasscom president Kiran Karnik.
The tax authorities challenged a Gujarat high court judgement that had dismissed their appeal holding that Karnik could not be held guilty of even deemed concealment. A Bench headed by Justice D K Jain, while posting the matter for final hearing, rejected Karnik's counsel P K Manohar's plea to allow him to file a counter affidavit.
The six-member board -- comprising HDFC chairman Deepak Parekh, former Nasscom president Kiran Karnik, former Sebi member C Achuthan, CII chief mentor Tarun Das, renowned chartered accountant TN Manoharan and LIC nominee Suryakant Balakrishnan -- met in Hyderabad on Thursday for the third time after it was constituted January 12.
ndia's IT and BPO exports are expected to grow by 33.47 per cent to $31.9 billion in 2006-07 from $23.9 billion
The government is likely to appoint more directors on the board of the crisis-ridden Satyam Computer Services soon. "More directors will be appointed within two days," a senior official of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs said.
The government's help to the crisis-ridden Satyam Computer Services may include financial support as well, as it is a question of saving jobs and institutional investment, Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath said.
Moving quickly to stabilise the fraud-devastated Satyam Computer, the government on Sunday nominated noted banker Deepak Parekh, IT expert Kiran Karnik and former Sebi member C Achuthan to the infotech company's board.
Ganesh Natarajan, deputy chairman and managing director, Zensar Technologies Limited has been appointed vice chairman, Nasscom for the current year.
Later Mahindra Satyam said its board of directors has allotted 19.86 crore additional shares to Venturebay, which would take Tech Mahindra's stake to approximately 43 per cent of the outstanding share capital. A Tech Mahindra spokesperson said after the preferential allotment Venturebay's stake in Mahindra Satyam would be 42.7 per cent.
Satyam Computer has 10,000 excess employees, its new owner Tech Mahindra said on Friday.
The meetings with Singh and Ahluwalia have taken place just two days before the announcement of the results of the general elections for the 15th Lok Sabha. Besides Karnik, the other nominees on the Satyam board are HDFC chairman Deepak Parekh, former ICAI chairman T M Manoharan, CII chief mentor Tarun Das, LIC executive S B Mainak and former presiding officer of Securities and Appellate Tribunal C Achuthan.
Early on Monday morning, the chairman of the government-appointed board of Satyam Computer Services, Kiran Karnik, hurried into the Taj President Hotel in south Mumbai to begin one of India's strangest corporate sell-offs.
IT industry body Nasscom announced on Wednesday forming a panel of experts to help budding entrepreneurs build strong software companies.
Scam-tainted Satyam Computer is planning to restate its financial results for the third quarter ended December 2008 by March-end. "Our auditors are working towards this end," a Satyam spokesperson said on Friday, adding that the only caveat to this possibility would be if the auditors decide to restate results of the company over the past several years, which could further delay a clearer picture of the Hyderabad-based IT company's actual financial position.
The government does not see any conflict of interest in HDFC chairman Deepak Parekh and former Nasscom President Kiran Karnik, who are directors on the board of Satyam's competitors, being on the troubled company's board.
A top company official said, "We are still waiting to receive any communication from the new board. we might make a presentation to the new board."
The Board of Mahindra Satyam will meet on July 10 to clear the proposal of Tech Mahindra seeking a second round of preferential share allotment to hike its stake in the newly acquired company to about 43 per cent after an open offer evoked a weak response.
The board -- which includes, Kiran Karnik, T N Manoharan, former chief, ICAI, and HDFC chief Deepak Parekh, appeared relieved after a marathon run of selecting a bidder for the scam-tainted firm.
Fraud-hit Satyam Computer, which will soon have a new owner in Tech Mahindra, has lost about 5,000 employees during September-March period of the past fiscal.
Satyam Computer moved a step closer towards finalising bids for selling a majority stake in the trouble-torn IT company with the board meeting investment bankers on Thursday.
Nasscom president Kiran Karnik on Wednesday suggested the government should allow establishment of private higher and technical educational institutions on the lines special economic zones to provide quality education in the country.
The Satyam Computer board plans to invite bids for a strategic investor in the next few days and expects to garner a healthy amount as investment, company chairman Kiran Karnik said on Monday.
On the possibility of the company tapping banks for funds, he said, "We need a bank loan...as this is a viable commercial company. This is not a so called bailout". The board was given the tough task of protecting the interest of over 50,000 Satyam's employees and stakeholders following Raju's revelation of fudging accounts.
"There is a great deal of similarity between the advertising industry and the IT industry. One of them is that they both provide services," Kiran Karnik, former president of Nasscom, said during his address on the first day of Goafest 2008, the three-day meeting of the advertising industry.
India's information technology sector would require nearly 500,000 professionals in the next five years to cater to the growing needs of this booming industry
Kiran Karnik, president of National Association of Software and Service Companies day hinted on Thursday at a possible slowdown in the momentum of India's information technology exports after 2010,due to the recent tax impositions on the sector.
The $55 billion Remote Infrastructure Management business is on the topmost agenda of an increasing number of Fortune 500 companies and Global 500 enterprises.
National Association of Software & Services Companies President Kiran Karnik has said that information technology and business process outsourcing industry in India is beginning to see an 'opportunity loss' on account of the rupee appreciation against the dollar.
Last week, three of Satyam's big clients -- Nestle, Nissan and CIBA -- who were on wait and watch mode, assured the firm of their continued support with with the firm. Nestle is also believed to have given some additional business to Satyam. Analysts had feared that post the acquisition of the firm by Tech Mahindra, clients of Satyam, who were sitting on the fence, would jump to other vendors.
IT firm Tech Mahindra on Monday deposited Rs 2,910 crore (Rs 29.10 billion) for 51 per cent controlling stake in Satyam Computer.
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