Vinay Bharat Ram

Pro businessman




Vinay Bharat Ram came from Harvard to join the quality control department of the

textile division of DCM, run by Lala Shri Ram. He went on to become one of the

first in the country to venture into IT when in the 70s DCM introduced the first

desktop calculator. That division was subsequently spun off to become DCM-DP.

Unlike many of his contemporaries, his decision to move into the IT industry was

an assessed business move. And the move paid off handsomely, when during the 80s

the company was one of the leading hardware players brushing shoulders with the

likes of HCL, Usha, ORG and ICIM among others. DCM-DP might have faded away, but

Ram, also a trained Hindustani classical musician and globally acclaimed writer

on economic theory, has left his indelible mark on Indian IT.