Name Rajesh Hukku | ||
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Education Birla Institute of Technology and Science | ||
Rajesh Hukku was Senior Vice-President and Member of the Board of Directors of Oracle Financial Services Software limited. Rajesh graduated with B.E.(Hons) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (A3) from BITS Pilani. He attended post graduate studies studying local area networks at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA.
Since 1992, he has led the transformation of I-flex Solutions into a global software product company. He left Tata to join Citicorp Overseas Software Limited (COSL). CITIL was carved out of COSL in early 1990s and Rajesh was appointed head of CITIL after Ravi Apte, then CEO of COSL and CITIL, relocated to Hong Kong. CITIL was later renamed as i-flex solutions.
Rajesh Hukku has served on the NASSCOM (National Association of Software and Service Companies, India) Executive Committee. He has spoken at the World Economic Forum Summit, the Asia-Pacific Leadership Summit, Harvard Business School and the World Congress of Bankers in Jamaica and the Latin American Business Convention.
Hukku helped develop a stock trading system for wire service Reuters as an employee for Tata Consultancy Services.
Awards and honours
Rajesh Hukku was conferred Ernst & Young India's 'Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2002' in the Information Technology, Communications and Entertainment category. Rajesh Hukku also received an IT award from the Indian Government - 'The Dewang Mehta award for innovation in IT'. He also received a 2004 Global Entrepolis Award. He was conferred the 'Order of Bernardo O'Higgins - Great Official' - by the Chilean Government for work in Chile. Rajesh Hukku won an International Stevie Award in the third annual International Business Awards for Best Chairman on June 26, 2006.[1]
Rajesh Hukku has been profiled in several publications, including TIME Magazine's feature on 'Technology Gurus who survived the global meltdown'and Business Week's Star of Asia-2003. i-flex and Rajesh Hukku have featured in the Economist, the Wall Street Journal and the Far Eastern Economic Review. Hukku has been listed as an entrepreneur in the '25 leaders at the forefront of change,' by Business Week in 2003.