Ashok Soota

Entrepreneur CEO




Ashok Soota has been both a successful CEO and an entrepreneur. When in 1984 he

took over as the president of Wipro Infotech, it was only a Rs 7 crore company.

When he left in 1999, it was a Rs 1,000 crore giant, and the largest publicly

listed IT company in India. His second innings as entrepreneur when he started

Mindtree Consulting has been equally successful. Not only is the Rs 449 crore

Mindtree a financial success with an IPO planned in 2007, but it has been

recognized as one of the five most admired knowledge enterprises in India by

Teleos, in association with The KNOW Network. Even as CII president during

2002-03 and now as a member of the Advisory Council of World Intellectual

Property Organization in Geneva, Soota has been a shining beacon for the entire

IT industry.