The manager
Though a metallurgical engineer from IIT-Kanpur by training, IT has turned out to be Som Mittal's true calling. In Wipro Infotech, he established the peripherals business that in five years grew to over Rs 100 crore. The peripherals manufacturing factory he set up in technical collaboration with Seiko-Epson was the first in the group to achieve ISO 9000 certification and also the first unit to be nominated for the Rajiv Gandhi Quality Award. He was instrumental in turning around the fortunes of Digital in India till it was acquired by Compaq and subsequently HP. Currently, he is MD, HP Globalsoft. Mittal was Nasscom chairman, CII chairman, MAIT president, member of Karnataka CM's Task Force, Governing Council member of IIITB and founder member of Board of Education Standards.

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