National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) has announced the appointment of CP Gurnani as its chairman for 2016-17. He will take the new role as chairman of Nasscom. He will succeeds B V R Mohan Reddy, who served as chairman of Nasscom for the previous finacial year.

• Gurnani is part of Nasscom’s Executive Council and is the managing director and chief executive officer of Tech Mahindra.
• As chairman of the Executive Council he will lead and assist Nasscom in catalysing the growth of the Indian technology and services industry and enabling the fulfillment of its future goals and aspirations.
• CP was chosen as the Ernst and Young ‘Entrepreneur of the Year [Manager]’, CNBC Asia’s ‘India Business Leader of the Year’ and Dataquest ‘IT person of the Year’ – for the year 2013.
• CP has also won the ‘CEO of the Year’ Award for year 2014 declared by Business Standard.
• The Executive Council, which met here on Wednesday, also announced the appointment of Raman Roy, chairman and managing director of Quatrro Global Services as vice-chairman of Nasscom for 2016-17.
• BVR Mohan Reddy, former chairman, Nasscom, said that he felt very proud of the progress the industry has witnessed in the past one year.

Did You Know?

• The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) is a trade association of Indian Information Technology (IT) and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry.
• Established in 1988, NASSCOM is a non-profit organisation.
• NASSCOM is a global trade body with over 2000 members, of which over 250 are companies from the China, EU, Japan, US and UK. NASSCOM’s member companies are in the business of software development, software services, software products, IT-enabled/BPO services and e-commerce.
• NASSCOM facilitates business and trade in software and services and encourages the advancement of research in software technology. It is registered under the Indian Societies Act, 1860.
• NASSCOM is headquartered in New Delhi, India, with regional offices in the cities of Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune and Thiruvananthapuram.