Prashant Jhawar
Chairman & CEO

Mr. Prashant Jhawar is the Chairman & CEO of UshaComm. Mr.Jhawar has been instrumental in the formation, planning and growth of the company. He is involved in setting corporate business strategy, guiding expansion to leverage market opportunities, developing partner collaboration initiatives and maintaining investment banking relationships. He additionally oversees the European operations of UshaComm.
Mr Jhawar is also Vice Chairman of the Usha Martin Group (www.ushamartin.com), a $900 million entity with diversified interests in steel, wire ropes, telecom and IT products and services. Since joining the family business in 1982, he has been actively  involved with all its divisions. From 1994 onwards, he has provided leadership to both the old and new economy parts of the business.

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Dr. Saugata Banerjee
Executive Director Operations

Dr. Saugata Banerjee is the Executive Director of UshaComm. He is responsible for strategic & operational planning, and execution of all UshaComm's activities globally.
Prior to joining UshaComm, Saugata worked as a Strategy Consultant & Trainer for a range of large- and medium-sized organizations (including The World Bank, Duke Energy, AT&T, Sprint Telecom, The Aditya Birla Group, BHEL, Reuters, Hindustan Lever, etc.). In the past, Saugata worked for Monitor Company (Management Consultants) at their global headquarters in Cambridge, USA, advising Fortune 500 clients.
Dr. Banerjee has a PhD in Management from INSEAD, France, and an MBA from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA. He has also been a Research Fellow at Harvard University, USA. He is a Guest Faculty at IIM (Calcutta).

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Monila Das Gupta
Senior Manager Human Resources

Ms. Monila Das Gupta is responsible for the overall HR activities of UshaComm, which includes a major chunk of Developmental Activities. Prior to joining UshaComm Ms.Das Gupta has been associated with CMC Limited Kolkata for over 15 years. At the time of leaving CMC she was in charge of overall HR activities of CMC Limited Eastern Region. Ms Das Gupta has done her Masters in International Relations from Jadavpur University.

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Ranjan Mukherjee
Head of Products Development

As Senior Director, Product Development, Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee draws on his 18 years of experience in software development and technology leadership to foster the research and development activities of UshaComm's products and solutions. A 10-year Telecom Billing and OSS veteran, he has engineered and directed several products in the Telecom and Financial domain. He has the experience of successfully building, leading and managing large teams as well as customer and partner relationships to meet the organizational objectives. Mr. Mukherjee has also been involved in implementing billing solutions at multiple customer locations as part of his career.
His current responsibilities also includes staffing, organization, training, project management and process quality improvement efforts in the area of product development.
Mr. Mukherjee has an M.Sc Tech from Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad and a PGCBM from XLRI, Jamshedpur.
 

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Arijit Bhattacharyya
Global Head,Information Systems

Mr. Arijit Bhattacharyya heads the combined Information Services team of Ushacomm and Eppixcomm. He and his team is responsible maintaining and managing the entire IT resources of Usha and Eppix distributed across offices in India, South Africa and UK. His team is also responsible for ensuring IT facility management and providing project support for the organization.

One of the key initiatives that Arijit carries in personal capacity is to explore new and contemporary technology on an on-going basis and make the same available for the organization that help improving performance whilst maintaining lower costs.

Arijit has a rich experience base of 10 years in IT and Telecom Industries as Network and System Management/Administration. Prior to joining Ushacomm, he has served organizations like L&T Information Technologies Ltd, Modi Telstra, Spice Telecom and Bharti Airtel Enterprise Services Ltd.
 

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 Sandip Bose
Vice President, BPO

As Vice President, BPO, Mr. Sandip Bose pioneers the business process outsourcing initiative of UshaComm. He is  also involved in advisory capacity in the HR, Quality Assurance and Information System (IS) groups of the company.  

Responsible for the entire BPO operations and delivery of services, Mr. Bose spearheads the company’s roadmap and methodology to ensure quality service for all projects undertaken.

A B Tech in Electronics & Telecommunications from University of Calcutta, Mr. Bose has over 22 years of experience in the IT industry.  Prior to joining UshaComm, Mr. Bose had been associated with Tata Consultancy Services as Business Development Director in the Quality Consulting Service Practice. Mr. Bose has also worked for renowned IT majors like Satyam Computers and NIIT.

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Tamal Kumar Bardhan
Head Of Marketing

Mr. Tamal Bardhan leads the marketing initiatives of UshaComm. Mr. Bardhan is responsible for developing and executing the marketing strategies for services and solutions of in Telecom and allied fields. He helps in defining and planning the offerings of UshaComm and executes the positioning of them in the target markets.
He is also responsible for developing of partnership and alliances for the organization. Tamal has around 10 Years of Telecom experience, wherein he has been involved in various aspects of the business like solution definition, sales support, market research, client and investor interactions etc.
Tamal is featured speaker in trade shows and seminars and also has co-authored papers on High Tech Marketing published in Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. Tamal holds Masters degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
 

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Bipradas Basak Head-Global Delivery “Mr. Bipradas Basak is the Head of the Global Delivery in UshaComm. He has more than 22 years of industry experience in solution development and delivery for various organizations across the globe. He has been responsible for end – to – end design and delivery of high value projects with values excess of 20 Million USD and size of 4000+ person-months. Mr.Basak has served for Global IT organizations like CMC Limited, PCL – Mindware, Siemens, Interra Technologies etc. and has has extensive experience in reengineering projects, building and designing total solutions using case tools, building fresh teams in new technologies. Even he is a guest faculty of "IIM Indore" as well. His responsibilities in UshaComm also include staffing, organization, training, project management, customer deliveries and process quality improvement efforts in the area of Global delivery. Mr. Basak has a B.E. from SHPB and an M. Tech from IIT.”

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Rahul Kalla Head Of sales   Rahul Kalla is the Head of Global sales for Ushacomm driving the worldwide sales effort through offices in London, Kolkata, Atlanta and Johanessburg. Prior to joining Ushacomm he did independent strategy consulting for leading companies in Turkey, Middle East, India and Europe assisting in both business development and fund raising activities. Key assignments included conceptualising and bringing to fruition a worldwide mobile content delivery platform for a European Football Organisation. Previous experience included running over 100 million $ businesses in Turkey and Dubai which he exited profitably. Rahul is a Sloan Fellow of the London Business School, where he was awarded the prestigious Emerging Economies Scholarship. He has an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management at Kolkata and a Bachelor in Engineering (Hons) from BITS, Pilani. He has recently served as a Senior Associate with the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge assisting them in developing and funding new courses in Managing Strategic Outsourcing.

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Saikat Biswas Head Of Delivery & Implementation Mr. Saikat Biswas is the Head of the Delivery and Implementation Unit in UshaComm. He has more than 21 years of industry experience in product development and delivery for various organizations across the globe. Saikat's domain experience is spread over Telecom OSS/BSS, Voice Mail, Interactive Voice Response, Financing, Leasing and Insurance. He has successfully executed projects on Billing & Customer Care, Datawarehousing/OLAP and other business functions. Mr.Biswas has served for Global IT organizations like Birla Technical Services, Comverse Inc., USA. He has worked with Bull-Honeywell Inc., CIT Inc. and MIB Inc. as long term consultant .His responsibilities in UshaComm includes delivery at customer site, customization, managed service operations and business achievement programs. Mr. Biswas has Post Graduate degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.

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Dipak Sen Chief Financial Officer Mr Sen is a Chartered Accountant (A.C.A.) with more than 14 years of experience and had been working for IFB Automotive Pvt. Ltd. before joining Ushacomm. He has worked for the Usha Martin Group, the Apeejay Group and the RPG Group. He has comprehensive domestic and international financial management experience. He has also contributed a number of articles in leading newspapers and financial websites in India.

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