Ravi Venkatesan, Chairman of Microsoft India

20:09 | Kamla Bhatt | May 21st, 2007 4:48pm |

Ravi Venkatesan is the chairman of Microsoft. Ravi is directly responsible for marketing, sales, operational and business development of Microsoft’s efforts in India.

I caught up with Ravi at TiECon 2007 in Santa Clara, to get a comprehensive picture of Microsoft’s India operations. What is Microsoft’s broad India strategy? What are the challenges of working in India given the country’s diverse population, the digital divide, price sensitivity and piracy? How is Microsoft tackling all these different issues? What about Microsoft’s mobile strategy in India? Tune in to find out what Ravi has to say about Microsoft in India.

Prior to joining Microsoft in 2004, Ravi was CEO of Cummins, a diesel engine company.

Ravi has engineering degrees from IIT, Mumbai and Purdue University and an MBA from Harvard University.

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