Oracle India MD quits

MUMBAI: Oracle India, Managing Director, Shekhar Das Gupta has quit the company, while the formal announcement of his resignation and the appointment of his successor is yet to happen.

Gupta has not disclosed anything about his future plans. He is on notice period till end of May 2005. When asked, Gupta said, " its a natural process, people come and go."

"I'm proud to have been a part of the growth and development of Oracle in India from its very inception. My 12 years at Oracle have been filled with challenge, growth and learnings. I feel that my experience at Oracle will as I enter the next phase of my career in academia," said Gupta.

"Shekhar has been instrumental to helping build Oracle into a leading enterprise software provider in India over the past 12 years. His leadership and hands-on management style has helped us meet the expectations of more than 6250 enterprise customers in the country," said Keith Budge, Vice President, Oracle Asia Pacific. "I have enjoyed working with Shekhar immensely over the past decade and look forward to an ongoing relationship with Shekhar as part of the extended Oracle community in India."

Having joined the global software major in 1992, Gupta held various positions including alliances director, before being appointed country manager in March 1998 and subsequently promoted as the Managing Director.

Prior to joining Oracle India, Gupta worked for eight years with PSI Data Systems (a then affiliate of Group Bull, France). His last position at PSI was Product Marketing Manager (Mainframes). He began his career with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) formerly known as the Association of Engineering Industry, where he worked for over two years as an Economist.

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