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After a long, drawn-out search, we finally found Venkat from Andersen (long before the Enron scandal, thank you"). Shortly after, we recruited Vishweshwar Hegde from Motorola as our head of quality. Vishu, as he is better known, is credited with being part of a team that set up the world’s first Six Sigma facility for Motorola and had both a manufacturing and a service view of quality. When not working, he plays a variety of instruments, acts and can even walk on his hands!

Venkat & Vishu

The vision of MindTree was to build a company with two areas of specialization. On the enterprise side, we wanted to provide e-business consulting and implementation. On the technology side, we wanted to provide product realization services in the networking domain. The former was to be headed by KK and the latter by Jani.

Jani put together his leadership team with some outstanding people like Vinod Deshmukh, Sharmila Saha, S. N. Padmanabhan, C. Balu, Vilas Bhade Ram Chandran and Raja Shanmugam. While Balu came from Novell and Vilas came from Philips where the two were in senior positions, Vinod, Sharmila, Ramachandran, Padmanabhan and Raja had worked with Jani in Global R&D and were acknowledged as Star Performers in Wipro.

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Subroto Bagchi is co-founder and Chief Operating Officer for MindTree Consulting (P) Ltd. The "Making of the MindTree" is told in the first person by Subroto Bagchi. In condensed form, it was published by Business World, filmed by InfiniTV, and aired on CNBC, IT Hour. Websites: www.mindtree.com & www.mindtree.com/subrotobagchi