Lalit Surajmal Kanodia: Difference between revisions

'''Dr. Kanodia ''' (born 30 March 1941) is an Indian business entrepreneur, is currently Chairman of [[Datamatics Global Services|Datamatics Group of Companies]] which he founded in 1975. He also holds the position of National President of the Indo - American Chamber of Commerce<ref name="iaccindia.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.iaccindia.com/page.asp?pageid=10|title=Indo-American Chamber Of Commerce}}</ref> and Vice President of the Indian Merchants Chamber,<ref name="imcnet.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.imcnet.org/media_center/listing/center/page/2|title=:: Indian Merchant Chamber ::}}</ref> both organizations of the Indian business community. He has also served as President of the Management Consultants Association of India.<ref name="flywithvip.com">{{cite web|url=https://flywithvip.com/celebrities/profile/104/|title=Lalit Kanodia}}</ref>

While at [[MIT]], Lalit taught a course on [[Decision theory|statistical decision theory]] to MBA students (1964–65). Later, in India he taught MBA students for 2 years (during 1968–70) at the [[Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies]], Bombay University.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.rpglifesciences.com/downloads/annualreports/annualreport_2007-08.pdf| title = rpglifesciences annual report}}</ref>

In 1965, [[JRD Tata]], the then Chairman of [[Tata Group]] was contemplating to start a software company. He chanced upon Lalit's CV and asked him to study the feasibility of computerization within the [[Tata Group]]. Lalit wrote three papers for the Tata Group which led to [[automation]] of the Load Dispatch System of the Tata Electric Companies by Westinghouse, Computerization of the electricity billing system of the company and formation of a software development center. Kanodia then returned to [[MIT]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.firstpost.com/printpage.php?idno=2670296&sr_no=0|title=Print :India and MIT: How we became a technological force to reckon with|access-date=26 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314101457/http://www.firstpost.com/printpage.php?idno=2670296&sr_no=0|archive-date=14 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> for his doctorate. He returned to India to form and head the software development center for the [[Tata Group]]. Kanodia formed the Company in 1967 as Tata Computer Center, christened later as [[Tata Consultancy Services]] in 1968.

While in the United States, Lalit consulted for Arthur D. Little and the [[Ford Motor Company]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://in.reuters.com/finance/stocks/officerProfile?symbol=RPGL.BO&officerId=1661185|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160509053832/http://in.reuters.com/finance/stocks/officerProfile?symbol=RPGL.BO&officerId=1661185|url-status=dead|archive-date=2016-05-09|title=Rpg Life Sciences Ltd (RPGL.BO)|work=Reuters India}}</ref> In India, he has been a consultant to the State Bank of India, the Somani Group and the Kamani Group of companies.<ref>http://www.rpglifesciences.com/downloads/annualreports/annualreport_2007-08.pdf {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}</ref>

Lalit established his own Group of Companies under the Banner "[[Datamatics Global Services|Datamatics]]" in 1975. What he started with a modest team of 10 employees is now 8000 strong. In 1979 he set-up the first dedicated offshore development center for [[Wang Laboratories]]. He also established the first satellite link for Software development from India, between its software development center in [[Mumbai]] and [[Bell Labs|AT&T Bell labs USA]] in 1991. This led to the foundation of [[Business process outsourcing|BPO]] services in India and Kanodia formally started another company "Datamatics Technologies Limited" with 100% focus on BPO and KPO services. The start of BPO services helped Datamatics spread its wing globally and it acquired SAZTEC<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/datamatics-technologies-limited-to-acquire-saztec-international-inc-72481732.html|title=Datamatics Technologies Limited to Acquire SAZTEC International, Inc.|author=SAZTEC International, Inc.|date=13 October 2003}}</ref> and CorPay,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2004-04-08/news/27371501_1_datamatics-technologies-corpay-acquisition-plans|title=Datamatics plans to buy overseas BPO firms|work=timesofindia-economictimes}}</ref>{{When|date=May 2017}} two US based companies in 1997 and 2003 respectively. Since then Datamatics has acquired other companies internationally. As of Lalit is Group Chairman of Datamatics<ref name="datamatics.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.datamatics.com/company/leadership|title=Leadership Team}}</ref> which comprises: