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Ravi Venkatesan Speaker Profile

​Chairman of Bank of Baroda. Former Chairman of Microsoft India and Cummins India. Board Member at Rockefeller Foundation.  Venture Partner at Unitus Seed Fund. Author of besteller “Conquering the Chaos- Win In India, Win Everywhere” published 2013 by Harvard Business Review,

Ravi has a wealth of experience in corporate leadership, globalization, innovation and private sector. He served as Consultant at Unitus Seed Fund India. He served as a Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Microsoft Corporation (I) Pvt. Ltd until February 2011 and served as its Chairman from 2004 to 2011. He helped build India into Microsoft’s second-largest presence in the world, one of its fastest growing markets and one of the country’s most respected companies and best employers.

Ravi was instrumental in creating Microsoft India's Project Shiksha, a computer literacy program which has so far trained over 40 million school children in India. 

Ravi currently serves as the Chairman of the Board at Bank Of Baroda UK. He has been the Non Executive Chairman at Bank of Baroda since August 14, 2015. He served as Co-Chairman of the Board of Infosys Limited from April 13, 2017 to August 24, 2017. He is also the Founder-Chairperson of Social Venture Partners India.

Ravi. Venkatesan served as Chairman of Cummins India Ltd. until April 1, 2004 and led its transformation into India's leading provider of engines and power solutions. He had been an Independent Director of Infosys Limited from April 15, 2011 until May 11, 2018. He is Chairman of the Board of Junior Achievement India. He is Director on the Board of Rockefeller Foundation. He is a Member of the Executive Council of the Society of Indian Automotive Manufacturing and the Confederation of Indian Industry and executive council of NASSCOM.and is a member of advisory board of Harvard Business School and Indian Institute of Technology.

Ravi is the author of the book “Conquering the Chaos: Win in India, Win Everywhere”. He has written three articles published in the Harvard Business Review: The Strategy that Wouldn't Travel, Strategic Sourcing - to Make or not to Make and Cummins Engine Flexes its Factories.

Ravi was voted as one of India's best management thinkers by Thinkers50. Mr. Venkatesan was awarded Purdue University's Outstanding Industrial Engineer award for the year 2000 and the Distinguished Alumnus award by the Indian Institute of Technology in 2003. Mr. Venkatesan received his BS in Mechanical Engineering in 1985 from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay. He received his M.S in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University in 1986 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1992, where he was a Baker Scholar.

Ravi Venkatesan- Speaking Topics

  • Leadership and the Fourth Industrial revolution
  • Innovation
  • Technology
  • Digital
  • Leadership & Management
  • Social Enterprise

Ravi Venkatesan- Speaking Videos