Moser Baer chief, Deepak Puri, has won the coveted 'IT Man of the Year 2003' award by Dataquest for `putting India on the global hardware manufacturing map by making Moser Baer the world´s third largest manufacturer of optical media.´
"Under Deepak´s leadership, Moser Baer has been growing at a CAGR of 177% in the last five years and has increased manufacturing capacity by over 30 times, in spite of all the slowdown," says the top industry magazine in a statement.
The two other awards announced were Lifetime Achievement Award, conferred upon Vijay Bhatkar, chairman ETH Research Lab, and the Pathbreaker Award, conferred on Ashok Jhunjhunwala of IIT, Madras.
Vijay, known as the father of Indian supercomputing, was honored for making India self-reliant in high-end computing, and his role in promoting multilingual computing to take IT to the masses. Ashok, nationally accepted as a classic example of academics-industry-entrepreneur confluence, was chosen for the award for his low-cost telecom solutions for taking IT and communications to rural areas.
The panel of judges who decided the winners, included Sunil Bharti Mittal, CMD, Bharti Group, S Regunathan, IT secretary, Delhi Government, Kiran Karnik, President, Nasscom, Ajit Balakrishnan, CEO, Rediff.Com, Suresh Kalpati, Chairman and CEO, SSI, SR Balasubramanian, CIO, Hero Honda, Pradeep Gupta, MD, Cyber Media and Shyam
Malhotra, Editor-in-Chief, Cyber Media.
The awards were presented by Sunil, himself, a winner of "IT Man of the Year 2002". Sam Pitroda received the Lifetime Achievement Award and Raman Roy walked away with the Pathbreaker Award, last year.
Also presented on the occasion were the 'Dataquest Top 20' corporate awards to following companies:
Tata Group | : | Top IT Group |
Tata Consultancy Services | : | Top IT Company |
HCL Infosystems | : | Top PC Vendor |
Tech Pacific India | : | Top IT Distributor |
Microsoft India | : | Top Packaged SW Vendor |
Hewlett Packard India | : | Top Printer Vendor |
Samsung India | : | Top Peripherals Vendor |
Cisco Systems India | : | Top Networking Company |
Hewlett Packard India | : | Top Hardware Vendor |
Moser Baer | : | Fastest Growing Company |
NIIT | : | Top Training Company |
Cadence Design Systems | : | IT Best Employer |
GE Caps | : | BPO Employee Satisfaction Award |