School of Entrepreneurship & Business
Enterprise Fellowship Scheme: Members Bio
Dr Ganesh Natarajan
[Senior Enterprise Fellow]
Dr Ganesh Natarajan is Deputy Chairman and Managing Director of Zensar Technologies Limited, global firm that transforms technology and processes for Fortune 500 companies.
Ganesh has been one of the most successful professionals in the Indian information technology industry, having earlier been part of two major success stories in IT training and consulting, NIIT and APTECH. During his ten year stint as CEO of Aptech he grew the company’s revenues fifty times and listed it on the Indian and London Stock Exchanges.
A Gold Medalist in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering, Ganesh has completed his PhD in Knowledge Management at IIT Bombay. He is the author of three McGraw Hill books on business process re-engineering and knowledge management and has also authored a book titled ‘Winds of Change’. He is a regular columnist for India’s premier business and IT magazines.
Ganesh was named ‘CEO of the Year’ by the Asia Pacific HR Conference in 1999 and received the Wisitex Foundation’s CEO of the Decade - Knowledge Award from India’s Minister for Information Technology in 2000. In July 2005, he received the Asia HRD Congress Award for Contributions to the Organisation through HR. Ganesh was also the finalist at the Ernst & Young 2005 Award where he was recognised for exceptional entrepreneurship.
Ganesh chairs the Outsourcing Forum of the Confederation of Indian Industries in Western India and is also a member of the Executive Council of NASSCOM, India’s premier IT and BPO Association. He has been elected Chairman of the NASSCOM Innovation Forum for 2005-07.
Ganesh is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and the Harvard Business School.