Arun Kumar takes over as Nasscom chairman

Arun Kumar, MD of Hughes Software System (HSS) and Chairman Of Hughes Network

System (HNS), has been appointed as the new Chairman of Nasscom for the year

2002-03. He takes over this position from Phiroz Vandrevala.

Arun Kumar has previously served as the Vice Chairman of Nasscom in the last

financial year.

Prior to coming to India to head operations of HSS, Kumar was the head of the

West Coast operations for HNS, based in San Diego, California. Kumar was part of

the team that developed the first VSAT and cellular telephony system. Coming to

India in 1995 to head HSS, Kumar has been credited with much of the successes

enjoyed by HSS, including its landmark IPO.

Kumar holds a BTech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur and has an MS

in Computer Science.

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