Gupta was MD of Honeywell India earlier, but is now the outside face for Honeywell too. Dr Krishna Mikkilineni, who was earlier the outside face for Honeywell, continues to be the managing director of Honeywell Software Solutions.

Chauhan was previously vice president, enterprise solutions for Nortel India, and he grew Nortel's enterprise business in India. His leadership philosophy is focused on 'sharing the vision'-with customers, with employees, and with all stakeholders for the organization.

Caspari is actually the vice president of Service Provider Operations for Cisco, Asia Pacific. Currently he is the acting president of Cisco India, while a search for a permanent replacement for Rangu Salgame, who has suddenly moved, is conducted.

Murugesh is now the chief of Syntel in India. He had joined the company as the chief financial officer in May 2002. Prior to joining Syntel, Murugesh served as VP Finance at ITC Infotech.

He was with Redington before moving on to be the CEO of eSys in 2005. Considered to be a distribution and channel management expert, Govendan is known to be media shy.

Manglore is the new boss at Datacraft India, responsible for managing and expanding the business in India and the sub-continent. He was previously the general manager, West region for the company. He has over 16 years of experience in the Telecom and Hardware industry.

Anandan was the vice president and general manager, Dell International Services, South East Asia. He has now taken over as country head for India operations.

Kenyon is the new boss at CSC. He has been closely associated with CSC India during the last few years and has played a key role in the growth of the organization. He joined CSC 20 years ago from the North American Consulting Group in 1985. He comes in place of Arun K Maheshwari, MD, president and CEO of CSC India.

He Is now MD-South Asia, Lenovo. His first job was with PCL, before he joined IBM. Later he moved to Singapore as Regional Brand manager IBM, ASEAN and South Asia, and in 2003 was made the country manager, PC Division of IBM India.

Ramamurthy Sivakumar (Siva) replaces Amar Babu; he comes in as country manager (South Asia). An 18-year veteran of Intel, he was most recently worldwide director of business development for the mobility group, based in the USA. He was also part of the initial team that set up Intel operations in India over a decade ago.

Franklin Jones took over as president, Intel, last October. Intel's India activities report in to Jones, who is directly responsible for the development center and government relations. Before this, Jones was VP of Intel's finance and enterprise services.

Pai, who was the India head of Dell, moved on to take up a separate responsibility in Dell International Services where he will now be looking after Dell's outsourcing partner relationships.

President of Cisco India, Salgame was a low key CEO who held fort till the end of 2005-06. However, a sudden press release from Cisco announcing his departure in the third week of July, came as a surprise, after a great performance from his India team. As big a surprise as it was with predecessor Manoj Chugh.

Chairman of Tata Infotech, Kavarana moved out after the Tata Infotech merger with TCS, where S Ramadorai is at the helm of affairs. Kavarana continues to be on the board of Tata Industries.

Walia was the low profile leader who took Nortel to a strong position in both the enterprise and service provider space. He moved back to Canada recently to take up the role of vice president, corporate development.

Having over 21 years' experience in the Indian and international IT industry, Venkaswamy was the president of Datacraft India before Sunil Manglore moved in. Venkaswamy now heads Juniper's operations in India.

Intel India managing director Amar Babu moves out, heads back (probably to Intel USA) in August. He's been with Intel for seven years, most recently as director, sales and marketing.

Ketan Sampat

Ketan Sampat was president, Intel India, until October 2005-end, when he rather suddenly moved out and back to the US (where he's now at Oregon, part of Intel's Digital Enterprise team). His tenure was marked with ups (growth in business and R&D headcount) and downs (delays that caused Whitefield to be shelved).

(Late) Arun Kumar

One of the leading faces of India's IT industry, Arun Kumar, president and MD of Flextronics Software Systems (FSS), passed away on July 7, 2006. Kumar, 57, suffered a cardiac arrest in the US.