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Uppal has effectively created a strong IT team and groomed senior managers to handle technology decisions. With his team in place, Uppal has identified his role around business alignment of IT. This has got further crystallized with the addition sales and dispatch to his IT portfolio.

Rajesh Uppal, chief GM, IT, Maruti Udyog

Through this journey from operations to impact, Uppal has done it allmarket the idea to business, get managements buy in, propose solutions and implement them, et al. True to his unassuming self, he insists that even though he has built credibility and is part of top management, he still makes a business case for IT projects before getting budgets. The strong manufacturing processes enabled by IT at Maruti are seen as a benchmark by the industry.

Epitomizing Versatility
Gadre began his career as a maintenance engineer in 1973, and is still confident of servicing a valve and a pump with his own hands. After completing his IIM he joined Tata Economic Consultancy Services, which was followed by a stint of more than 10 years with Garware Polyester. Here is where he had his first encounter with IT. Gadre feels that since he looked after strategic planning in addition to playing the role of a CIO, he is in a good position to ensure that IT policies are aligned with corporate strategies.

Vikas Gadre, CIO, Tata Chemicals

Secure Banker
I take pride in the fact that during my decade-old tenure here, there has not been a single instance of threat attack on the network, says Atul Kumar. A banker for the last 18 years, Kumar began his journey with UBI and moved on to the State Bank group. But it was at Syndicate Bank that Kumar turned his attention to making the banking network secure by implementing the Network Intrusion Prevention system. He also built a team of security professionals for monitoring the network 24x7. His other projects include the Unified Threat management system and automated patch management. Kumars latest interest is investment and merchant banking.

Atul Kumar, assistant GM, IT, Syndicate Bank

Petro-Man
He is the classic example of someone coming in from a dissimilar background and making it big in another industry. A mechanical engineer, Bose had a leaning toward IT.

But what makes Bose stand out is his ability to perform beyond the expected and play a critical role in the organizations growth. Perhaps it is this that prompted the management to assign him the role of a CIO and HR head. Bose is essaying the two roles with relative ease. His efforts have surely paid off with IT becoming a core part of Haldias business strategy.

Anjan Bose, CIO, head, HR & senior VP, Haldia Petrochemical

The CEO Aspirant
Beginning his journey in sales and going on to become a CIO, Venkat Iyer has successfully managed to utilize technology for business growth. Iyers entry into IT was rather unplanned when he was asked to take over the IT functions at Canon, USA where he joined after his MBA (Information Systems). Iyers major professional achievement, as he puts it, was when he was able to make a difference to the lives of the rural people. This was while working at Gujarat Energy where he introduced the smokeless choolah.

His ultimate dream: to become a CEO. As traditionally CEOs have come from the sales or finance side, itll be interesting to see how an IT person rises to the occasion.

Venkat Iyer, director, business technology & distribution, Pfizer

The Risk Taker
For Dhiren Savla a successful CIO is one who the business believes in and trusts. True to that belief, he sees himself as a business person who knows IT rather than an IT person.

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