BWI: EMC India COE Appoints Debashis Patnaik to Lead Human Resources

Press release from Business Wire India
Source: EMC Corporation
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 12:00 PM IST (06:30 AM GMT)
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EMC India COE Appoints Debashis Patnaik to Lead Human Resources


Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Wednesday, March 23, 2011 -- (Business Wire India) -- EMC India Center of Excellence (COE) today announced the appointment of Debashis Patnaik as the Head of the Human Resources division. Debashis will be taking over from R.Vidyasagar in this role who is moving on to the next phase of his career in human resources. Debashis will be responsible for overseeing talent acquisition, building a strong foundation in many of the key people management practices that can enable future growth, employee engagement and organizational development of the India COE with particular reference to developing industry leading talent within the COE.

Commenting on the announcement, Sarv Saravanan, Senior Vice President & Managing Director, EMC India COE said, "While data is becoming a highly valuable asset to organizations, the information infrastructure industry continues to grow at an alarming rate and is demanding more and more trained IT professionals. We have a holistic talent management strategy that aligns with EMC's vision of being the undisputed leader in enabling cloud computing in customer and service provider environments. At EMC we believe talent leveraging can happen through innovation and creativity. We provide employees the opportunity to do cutting edge-work and are a futuristic thinking organization. I believe with Debashis's stature and experience we will continue to nurture this culture at the COE."

Debashis brings over 21 years of experience with him. He joins EMC COE from Cisco Systems where he worked as Director - HR, in an HR Business Partner role for the Services Sales group within Emerging Markets and Asia Pacific. While at Cisco, Debashis helped set up a global enterprise technical support center at Bangalore and in implementing a new organization for Emerging Market Technical Support Services. Debashis has also worked with Microsoft, Ernst & Young Consulting India, Cadence Design Systems and Hughes Software Systems in his prior assignments.

As EMC's largest R&D center outside of North America, India COE delivers sustained performance excellence and regularly invests in scaling up its operations and services. It fosters a culture to constantly enhance the quality of research and development coming out of India through initiatives that are dedicated to inspire and empower the technical community and to ultimately expand EMC's market leadership with new products, capabilities and processes. The India COE has also created advanced development groups and teams who work on incubating ideas around solutions for emerging markets. Every year, the COE also focuses on building distinguished engineers in India who are sent to the US and mentored by divisional Global CTOs and other distinguished engineers. The objective is to create teams in India, which will eventually have greater ownership of products and architecture.

About EMC Corporation

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at www.EMC.com

EMC commenced its Indian operations in 2000. Today, it has a wholly owned subsidiary which has business and sales offices in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Pune and has its India Center of Excellence (COE) in Bangalore. EMC also has seven Logistics and Support facilities across India. EMC, through its partners, has a strong customer base in India, spanning the Telecom, BFSI, Manufacturing and the Technology sectors.

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