Vikas Kapoor

Vikas Kapoor (November 17, 1961) is the CEO of Mezocliq, an enterprise technology company providing a fully integrated end-to-end cloud-based application. Kapoor is a member of the board of directors of The Metropolitan Opera and Newport Jazz Festival.[1][2][3]

Early life and education

Kapoor was born in Ajmer, India on November 17, 1961.[4] He grew up in India, England and Australia. He is the son of Kusum and Major General S. B. L. Kapoor, VSM (Retd) of the Indian Army. At 16, Kapoor won a scholarship to study at Sevenoaks School in Kent, England, where he received his high school diploma. In 1984, he graduated magna cum laude, with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Princeton University.[5] In 1989, he graduated from Harvard with a dual degree in Philosophy from the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and an MBA from the Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar.[6]

Career

Kapoor’s first job following business school was as a business analyst in the financial services practice of McKinsey & Company. Thereafter, he was a Principal at the global management consulting firm A.T. Kearney.[7] In 1994, Kapoor co-founded the global consulting company Mitchell Madison Group,. He also led Mitchell Madison Group’s buyout of the financial services practice of A.T. Kearney. In 1999, the firm was sold to tUSWeb/CKS for several hundred million dollars.[8] In 2000, Kapoor was appointed President and CEO of Walker Digital, an incubator of several internet businesses including priceline.com. In 2002, Kapoor was appointed CEO of Toronto-based Delano Technology Company, a publicly held customer relationship management software company.[7]

In January 2004, Kapoor was appointed CEO and President of iQor[7][9] a global technology-enabled business processing and services outsourcing company. In 2009, Kapoor was on the expert panel, ‘The Forecast for Emerging Markets’ at the Milken Institute’s Global Conference.[6][10][11][12]

Kapoor has been a speaker at the World Economic Forum’s 2nd Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, People’s Republic of China, the Milken Institute’s Global Conference on the Rise of India, and was the moderator at Cooper Union for its new President’s Pre-Inaugural Colloquium, “Educating Students To Lead In A Global Context.”[13][14]

References

  1. ↑ "Mr. Vikas Kapoor". zoominfo. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
  2. ↑ "NFF Jazz and Folk". Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
  3. ↑ "Board of Directors: Who we are". Metropolitan Opera. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
  4. ↑ "Vikas Kapoor". IndUS Business Journal. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
  5. ↑ "Princeton Alumni Weekly". Retrieved 1 September 2016.
  6. 1 2 "Event Speaker: Vikas Kapoor, President and CEO, iQor, Inc.". Milken Institute. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
  7. 1 2 3 "Executive Profile: Vikas Kapoor". Bloomberg. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
  8. ↑ "USWEB/CKS To buy Mitchell Madison, a consulting firm". The New York Times. July 31, 1999.
  9. ↑ "Vikas Kapoor President & CEO of iQor". IT Management. 1 January 2009. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
  10. ↑ "iQor CEO Vikas Kapoor praises Philippines' outsourcing growth". Sourcing Focus. 28 May 2009. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
  11. ↑ "Executive Bio: Vikas Kapoor". insideARM. 27 August 2009. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
  12. ↑ "The Forecast for Emerging Markets". Milken Institute. 27 April 2009. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
  13. ↑ "Building a Global Power: The Rise of India". Milken Institute. 30 April 2008. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
  14. ↑ "EDUCATING STUDENTS TO LEAD IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT". cooper.edu. 17 October 2011. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/22/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.