History of neelam dhawan hp

  • Dhawan has over 38 years of experience in the information technology industry.
  • Neelam has held leadership and core roles at HP, Microsoft, and IBM. She is also a supervisory board member at Philips, a non-executive director.
  • In , she joined HP. The new century was the services era.

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    On a continuous learning path: The life and work of business leader Neelam Dhawan

    In , a Delhi University MBA graduate Neelam Dhawan found it difficult to find a proper job. The reason was simple — companies that came in to hire for marketing roles didn’t believe a woman could fill the position. 

    She was advised to apply for a banking job. However, “It didn’t sit right with me. I had learnt about the then-new technology and programming languages like Fortran, and I had specialised in marketing. However, soon I got an offer from HCL,” says Neelam. 

    Today, after 38 years, she is touted as one of the most powerful women leaders in the technology world and has been instrumental in shaping the Indian IT industry. 

    Neelam has held leadership and core roles at HP, Microsoft, and IBM. She is also a supervisory board member at Philips, a non-executive director at Skylo Technologies, ICICI Bank, Capita PLC, and Yatra. 

    In March , Neelam joined B2B ecommerce startup Moglix as an advisor. 

    She says, “I will be advising the board on how to think of business, growth strategy, raising capital, and the overall growth for the company. When you look at Make in India, it is a simple thesis where we want to do manufacturing in India. This creates jobs and has

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    FIRST LADY OF INDIAN IT

    Mother, wife and MD, Neelam Dhawan plays all the roles with the same enthusiasm. The MD of Hewlett-Packard India is a woman of grit and determination, and it is sheer passion that has made her reach the pinnacle of success. As the MD of Hewlett-Packard India, she is responsible for revenues and profitability, and ensuring the greatest leverage from HP’s Services, Personal Systems, and Imaging and Printing businesses.

    Neelam holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, New Delhi and a Masters in Business Administration from the Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University.
    She was also among the first women to head a technology firm in the country, when she was appointed India head of the world’s largest software company, Microsoft in

    Neelam effectively took over the India operations of the computer-maker Hewlett Packard in , and has scripted several success stories since then. She has also piloted the firm through rough times to take on rivals like Lenovo and Dell, and through the unstable market conditions in the first half of where a free fall of the rupee and scams deterred the economy, and decelerated private investment. She has worked on shaping the company’s overall business agenda, and leading its strategy and corpor

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