Vivek Paul

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footnotes = Vivek Paul, Partner, TPG

Vivek Paul is a Partner at the Texas Pacific Group, one of the world’s leading investment firms. Prior to joining TPG in 2005, he was Vice Chairman of Wipro and CEO of its global information technology, product engineering, and business process services segments. Mr. Paul grew this business from under $150m in revenue to over $1.4b with 50,000 employees, and led its listing on the New York Stock Exchange.

Prior to this role, Mr. Paul was employed at GE for 10 years, where he ran GE's Global CT (Computerized Tomography) business, reporting directly to the current Chairman of GE. Mr. Paul also served as the CEO of GE's medical equipment joint venture in India, recognized by the Economist as the best joint venture in Asia.

In the year 1990 vivek paul a young and bright engineer from USA was selected by GEMedical to look after its fledgling business in India.GEMedical was known as IGE and it wasn't going great guns compared to Siemens and Philips in India.GEIOC also had Steve Brandon who was looking at Indian market with different glasses.HCL and WIPRO were two very small PCmaking companies who fought the battle of winning the joint venture with GE.Premji and his team were smart and able to get the JV in their favour.DAPrassanna was appointed as the President of Wipro GE who was an old Premji loyalist and an efficient and effective leader.Vivek was the business development manager with GEIndia office overseeing WGE operations.He was a bright young man and very hilarious with his team members.His laughter was contagious. He could be in USA on a day and fly over to Singapore and come back to delhi and stand on nathu sweet shop trying to sell Nathu's son an MRI machine.He took over from DAPrasanna and turned the company around and that is where he got a chance to work with Premji very closely.People who know Premji and Vivek will have no surprise that their relationship came to an end--those two personalities are entirely different.

Prior to working at GE, Mr. Paul worked at Bain & Co. and at PepsiCo. Mr. Paul received an MBA from the University of Massachusetts and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from B.I.T.S., Pilani.

Mr. Paul has been ranked among the best managers in the world by BusinessWeek, among the top global business influentials by Time magazine and among the top 30 most respected global CEOs by Barron's.

Mr. Paul currently serves on the Board of Electronic Arts, the world’s leading game publisher, and Elevance Renewable Sciences Inc., a leader in developing chemicals from renewable sources, as well as on the Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve of San Francisco. He is an Advisor to FPT Corporation, Vietnam’s leading ICT company, to Amyris Biotechnologies, a leader in biofuels using synthetic biology, and to the Radiology and Molecular Imaging Department of Stanford University.