Bhaskar Pramanik

Bhaskar Pramanik is presently the Chairman of Microsoft India. He will look after the Company's overall sales, marketing and all other transations across India.

Bhaskar Pramanik has resigned from Oracle India to join Microsoft India. Before Oracle, he was the Corporate Vice President and President, India GEM of Sun Microsystems India. He was responsible for the overall operations of the subsidiary in India.

Early days

Bhaskar is an engineering graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He has also attended the Advanced Marketing Management Program at the Stanford University.

Bhaskar has more than 30 years experience in the Indian IT industry.

Prior to joining Sun Microsystems, Bhaskar has held several senior management positions incompanies like Digital Equipment India Ltd., Blue Star Ltd., and NELCO. His last held position at Digital Equipment was Director, Enterprise Sales, Digital Equipment Asia Pacific Pte.Ltd., Singapore. In his earlier role as Vice-President, Sales & Marketing, Digital Equipment India Ltd.Bhaskar was part of the original Country Management Team responsible for setting up the joint venture in India.

Bhaskar was Oracle India Managing Director effective 1 April 2010. He quit Oracle on 3 March 2011.

He has become the chairman of Microsoft India, effective from 28 March 2011. Bhaskar will report directly to Jean-Philippe Courtois, President of Microsoft International.

Career at Sun

Bhaskar joined Sun Microsystems in November 1997 and has...
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