Lakshmi Narayanan new Nasscom chairman

NEW DELHI: Nasscom today announced the appointment Lakshmi Narayanan, vice chairman, Board of Directors, Cognizant Technology Solutions, as the chairman of Nasscom for the year 2007-08.

Dr Ganesh Natarajan, deputy chairman and MD, Zensar Technologies Limited has been elected as the vice chairman, Nasscom for the current year, Nasscom said in a statement.

Announcing the appointments for 2007-08, Kiran Karnik, president, Nasscom, said, "We are delighted to have Lakshmi Narayanan taking on the chairmanship of NASSCOM. He has played an important role, both as a member and as Nasscom’s vice chairman last year. With his direction, we are certain that Nasscom will attain even greater levels of maturity.”

“We are also extremely pleased to have Dr Ganesh Natarajan take the position of vice chairman, Nasscom for 2007-08," he added.

"I am honored to assume the Chairmanship of NASSCOM at a time when the industry is witnessing good buoyancy and is defining newer benchmarks globally,” said Narayanan.

“At this stage of the industry’s evolution and maturity, the three areas that would receive enhanced focus are innovation, talent development, and security and data protection. The industry needs to bridge the demand and supply dynamics through focused and rapidly scalable talent development, ensure that the high levels of security and data protection become a strategic differentiator, and look at innovation as a sustainable growth engine,” he added.

“The next two years will present challenges and opportunities in abundance for the industry and I look forward to joining the leadership team of NASSCOM in these interesting times and enable both continuity and change to happen,” Natarajan said.

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