Manoj is an Information and Communications Technology Industry veteran, with a pioneering career spanning over 4 decades. He has managed and led businesses to achieve pole position, across Technology & Services domains with both Indian and Global Majors. He is a well respected Visionary leader, who is known to leverage technology for greater societal good and to build long term sustainable businesses.

He is credited with being the pioneer of Internet Revolution in India. Under his leadership, India witnessed the birth and creation of over 100,000 Networking Professionals and has also been recognized as one of the top ten people to have shaped the last decade of the Indian IT Industry.

Starting his career with the Startups of yesteryears- HCL and Wipro with whom he worked for 15 years, he shifted gears to work with Global Product Technology Firms over the next two decades, which included Scientific Atlanta, Cisco Systems and EMC as their President for the India & SAARC Region and subsequently as the Regional President (Global Accounts) – Asia Pacific/Japan for EMC. Whilst being at the helm of these organisations, he drove marquee initiatives that have served as the foundation of the modern IT Landscape including innovative citizen centric services.

Manoj enabled the establishment of Cisco and EMC’s Global Development Centres in India through a Multi-Billion Dollar commitment. These were amongst the earliest such Engineering Centers to be established in India. He led the Enterprise Business (Satyam acquisition) of Tech Mahindra, for six years, as it’s Global President, where he was responsible for Enterprise business units across 70 Global Markets.Manoj then moved to the parent, Mahindra Group’s; Group Corporate Office as the President- Group Public Affairs and Member of the Group Executive Board. He leads Public Policy and Advocacy across the Federation of 150 Firms, cutting across all major sectors of the Economy.