CHAIRMAN
XANSA INDIA LIMITED
NOIDA, INDIA

Mr Saurabh Srivastava was born on March 4, 1946 in Allahabad. He did his early schooling at St Joseph’s high school in Allahabad. In 1961 he passed the senior Cambridge examination in the first division and was ranked 6th in the state of Uttar Pradesh and given a state scholarship.

In 1963, he appeared for the All India Joint Entrance Examination for the IIT’s. He stood 2nd in the All India exam and chose to join IIT Kanpur in the Mechanical Engineering Department. HE graduated from IIT Kanpur in 1968 with a CPI of 9.1.

On graduating from IITK, Mr Srivastava chose to go to the US for further studies. From amongst the various acceptances, which included the school like Columbia and Cornell, Mr Srivastava chose to accept a full fellowship offered by Harvard University and completed his Masters degree there.

After a distinguished academic career at IIT Kanpur and Harvard University, he worked for several years in USA and joined IBM, thus entering in the field of Information Technology. He is among the few IITians who returned to India leaving a comfortable life and career in USA. He visualized the potential of software exports at a time when there was hardly any software export from India. In 80’s he successfully built the software exports for Indian Companies like A V Thomas Software Research Limited and Tata Unisys Ltd. (IIS Infotech) which has become one of the top 20 software companies in India and the first software company to get ISO 9001 Quality Certificate. With liberalization he saw great opportunity to expand business worldwide through acquisitions and collaboration and now have presence in several countries.

He became the Chairman of the Electronics and Computer Software Promotion Council (ESC) and served in that capacity for 4 years. He is also a founding member of National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) and is currently its Vice President. The contributions made by Mr Srivastava for the cause of Indian software export are outstanding. He is an enterprising entrepreneur with a vision, an excellent professional and an out standing alumni.