Rekha Menon First Woman Chairperson Of Nasscom
<span style="font-weight: 400;">IT industry’s apex body Nasscom appointed Rekha M. Menon, Chairperson and Senior Managing Director at Accenture in India, as its chairperson for 2021-22. With this, she becomes the first woman to take on the role of chairperson for Nasscom in its 30-year history.</spa
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Apr 23, 2021 4:24 AM
IT industry’s apex body Nasscom appointed Rekha M. Menon, Chairperson and Senior Managing Director at Accenture in India, as its chairperson for 2021-22. With this, she becomes the first woman to take on the role of chairperson for Nasscom in its 30-year history. Menon, earlier the vice chairperson, succeeds U.B. Pravin Rao, chief operating officer, Infosys Ltd, who served as chairman of Nasscom for 2020-21. Nasscom also announced the appointment of Krishnan Ramanujam, head of Business & Technology services, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Ltd as their vice chairperson for 2021-22. In line with the evolving industry dynamics, the newly-appointed leadership along with President Debjani Ghosh, will spearhead the industry in its digital transformation journey, with the imperatives of making India a leading hub for digital talent, catalyzing innovation, and developing a favourable policy ecosystem, Nasscom said. In addition to this, Nasscom also announced its new executive council which comprises industry sectors such as engineering research and development (ER&D), business process management (BPM), IT services, global capability centres (GCC), small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and startups. The new executive council will play a strategic role in enabling India’s tech sector to take leadership on the global map through focused initiatives and programmes. The list of executive Council has 40% representation by women leaders.
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