Logging Back On ; Microsoft India's Former Managing Director Rajiv Kaul; Great Lakes Institute of Management's Bala V. Balachandran; R-Adag's Anil Singhvi; Lakshmi N. Mittal, Chairman and Ceo, Arcelormittal; Quatrro's Raman Roy and Spic Group's A. C. Muthiah.

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Logging back on

A little more than two years after he moved to Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, US, and then to private equity firm Actis in London, Rajiv Kaul, 39, is back in India in a new avatar. He has tied up with a couple of large private equity players to scout for investment opportunities in India, except that Kaul, who was Microsoft India's Managing Director until March 2005, isn't playing native scout. In an interesting and untested model, he expects to be the owner (well, after a fashion at least) of the companies he invests in. He isn't telling yet who his PE partners are or how exactly the partnership will work, but expect him to play in areas he's familiar with, which is IT. For example, says Kaul, there are quite a few Tier-II IT companies that haven't realised their potential because they don't have the required management bandwidth. Kaul has no IT services experience, but he's got the smarts.

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Logging Back On ; Microsoft India's Former Managing Director Rajiv Kaul; Great Lakes Institute of Management's Bala V. Balachandran; R-Adag's Anil Singhvi; Lakshmi N. Mittal, Chairman and Ceo, Arcelormittal; Quatrro's Raman Roy and Spic Group's A. C. Muthiah.

The conscience keeper

Retiring after 35 eventful years was a tough call for Bala V. Balachandran, the first full-time Indian professor at the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at the Northwestern University. But the venerable profess...

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