Laptop Battery SAN FRANCISCO -- Violence in Kashmir and nuclear proliferation
are dominating the mainstream headlines on President Clinton's trip
to South Asia. And while security issues are clearly on the agenda
in Clinton's meetings with Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari
Vajpayee, the press is ignoring an equally significant part of the
trip: trade. Traveling along with the Clinton family and US
officials is a large corporate contingent. Behind the scenes of the
first official state visit to India by a US president in 22 years,
more than 50 US corporate executives are meeting with Indian
officials and
business representatives. The
goal of these CEO's and other executives is to gain more access
to Indian markets.
"Computer industry analysts estimate that some 60 percent of all corporate data exists only on desktop and laptop computers, " said Walter Scott, CEO of Acronis. "Incorporating Acronis True Image with New Mexico Software backup server is the ideal solution to capture that corporate data and ensure that it is not lost. While traditional server backups are effective for protecting server data, every company should have a combination of server and workstation backup plans."
Thinkpad The Washington, D.C. based US-India Business Council (USIBC) is
hosting many of the events for the corporate delegates in India.
The USIBC's Board of Directors includes Frank Wisner, former
Ambassador to India, currently representing the American
International Group Inc. (AIG), one of the largest insurance
companies in the US. Also on the Council's board is Joseph W.
Sutton of Enron, a Houston-based natural gas giant whose power
projects in India have come under attack from
environmental and community groups.
Others on the board include Peter Howell of
banking conglomerate Citigroup,
Dinesh Keskar of Boeing India, Boyd Montgomery of UNOCAL and
Charles Saris of Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, to name a few.
According to the indictment, Jones would steal various IBM and Penguin computer servers from Verisign's warehouse in Virginia and sell them to Johnson. Johnson would then sell the servers to several individuals, who would sometimes place them for sale on eBay. As a result of this scheme, the indictment alleges that Jones and Johnson caused Verisign to lose more than $120, 000 worth of computer equipment. In the indictment, Jones and Johnson are charged in three counts with causing the interstate transportation of stolen property, namely IBM 330 and 335 servers, in violation of 18 U.S.C.
Microsoft The large corporate delegation accompanying Clinton includes
former ambassador to India Frank Wisner, Lou Gestner, IBM's
Chairman, Arun Netraveli, President of Bell Laboratories/Lucent
Technologies, John Smith, CEO of General Motors, Kenneth Lay,
Chairman and CEO of Enron and General Electric's CEO, John
Welch.
They went to places like Senegal, Uganda, India, and Thailand, using only laptop computers and a digital video camera.
Laptop Computers Many US corporations have increasingly come under fire from
Indian activists, whose concerns range from human rights to the
environment. Last year, Enron, the single largest foreign investor
in India, was implicated in human rights violations in India by a
Human Rights Watch report. A lawsuit was recently filed against
Union Carbide by victims of one of the worst industrial disasters
in history fifteen years ago in Bhopal, India. Warren M. Anderson,
chairman of the Union Carbide Corporation during the 1984 Bhopal
chemical disaster has apparently gone into hiding to avoid a
summons to appear in a Manhattan federal court as part of civil
proceedings against him and the company.
Back in the proverbial "stone age" it was a truism that he who controlled the corporate data center controlled the corporate data. Since then we've seen the explosive growth of desktop computers, laptops, personal data assistants, cell phones that can run corporate applications, and removable USB drives that hold from 16 MB to 120 GB. Today, some 60 percent of all corporate data lives outside the data center on users' computers and devices. Today, nothing defines the modern road warrior more than his or her laptop and gadgets.
Laptop Computer The following is a list of participants attending events hosted
by the US-India Business Council during the Clinton visit, and
includes corporate executives from both India and the US.
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Desktop Computer Anil Srivastava, CEO and President, AcrossWorld
Communication
Anat Bernstein-Reich, Senior Vice President, Corporate
Development AcrossWorld Communications
Kailash Kapur, President, India Operations Adaptive
Broadband
Ashok Bhatt Kumar, President & Commissioner, AIMS
Inc./Resource Soft Tech Inc./Public Utilities Comm.
Sunil Mehta, Country Head, India American International
Group
Frank Wisner, Vice Chairman, External Affairs American
International Group, Inc.
Jon Arthur Sherk, Chief Counsel, Amway Corporation
Shashanka Sharma, Deputy Geeral Manager, Amway India
Enterprises
Sudershan Banerjee, Managing Director and CEO, Amway India
Enterprises
Rajiv Maliwal, Director & Head, Corporate &
Investment Banking Anz Banking Group
Ltd.
Dr. P.B. Ram Reddy, President, Apex Technologies,
Inc.
Mohan Shah, Chairman, Appletree Group
Arun Bhumitra, CEO, Arjay.Net
Nirmal Sinha, President, Asian Indian American Business
Group
Vinayak Mahajan, Managing Director, Asian Gas Ventures
Limited
Virat Bhatia, Managing Director, AT&T India Ltd.
N. Anthony Wakim, International Export Sales Manager, Athey
Products Corp
Arun Duggal, Bank of America
Paul Prager, President, BBI Power Corporation
Swadesh Chatterjee, President, Brandt Instruments,
Inc.
Amrit Kiran Singh, Vice President & area Director-South
Asia, Brown-Forman Worldwide L.L.C.
Murray Jans, Executive Director, Canada-India Business
Council
Donald Conover, President, CBay Systems
V.Raman Kumar, Chairman, CBay Systems
Hitesh Shah, Sr Director, Product Marketing, Centigram
Communications Corp.
Brant Free, Sr VP The Chubb Corporation
Prem Jain, Vice President & General Manager, Cisco
Systems, Inc.
Chander Mittal, President, Founder & CEO, CM Automotive
Systems, Inc.
David Mengebier, VP, Gov't and Int'l Affairs, CMS
Energy
Brian Corbin, Vice President and Managing Director, CMS
Energy Asia PTE Ltd.
Robert Vastine, President, Coalition of Service
Industries
Alex VonBehr, President, CocaCola India
Joel Peres, Legal Counsel, CocaCola India
Raj Vattikuti, President & CEO, Complete Business
Solutions, Inc.
Sudipta Sen, CEO, Comsat Max
Nitin Kulkarni, Regional Director, South Asia Corning,
Inc.
Raj Rama, President CSG, Inc.
Anshuman Mishra, Executive Vice President, Deepak Chopra
Center
Deepak Talwar, President and CEO, Deepak Talwar &
Associates Inc.
Mukesh "Mike" Patel, President, Diplomat Hotels/
AA.HOA
Vikram Rajadhyaksha, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
DLZ Corp.
Hemendra Kothari, Chairman DSP, Merrill Lynch
Davinder Dogra, President & CEO, E-Indiabiz.com,
Inc.
Pankaj Vyas M.D, Eastern Carolina Medical Center
Ramesh K. Motwane, President & CEO, Eastern
Contractors, Inc.
Inderjit Motwane, Chief
Financial Officer, Eastern
Contractors, Inc.
Edward Hoppe, General Manager, Asia/Pacific Region, Eastman
Kodak Co.
Carl F. Kohrt, Assistant COO & Executive Vice
President, Eastman Kodak Co.
Joseph Sutton, Vice Chairman, Enron Corporation
Wade Cline, CEO, Enron India Pvt. Ltd.
Sanjay Bhatnagar, CEO, Enron, South Asia
Kashi Memani, Chairman, Ernst & Young India
Manu Sawhne, Managing Director, ESPN Software India
Ltd.
Sambhu Banik, President, Family Diagnostic and Theraputic
Center
Chandulal K. Patel, Former President and Chairman,
Federation of Indo-American Associations
Sanjay Mundra, President & CEO, First American Hotels,
Inc.
Prakesh Shah, Chairman, First Growth Group, Inc.
Sunil Puri, President & CEO, First Rockford Group
Jack Cotton, Regional Vice President, Foster Wheeler
Corporation
David F. Wolf, President, Fremont Group
Richard Swando, President and Managing Director, General
Motors India, Ltd.
Sri Palasamudram, President, Geotouch.com
Paresh A. Shah, CEO, Global Innovations, Inc.
Chacko Verghese, President & CEO, Global Market
Resources, Inc.
Niranjan Shah, CEO & Chairman, Globetrotter Engineering
Company
Abraham Robinson, President, Health Management Inc.
Pavan Nigam, Co-Founder, Healtheon-Web MD
Ganesh Ayyar, President, Hewlett-Packard India Ltd.
T.V. Krishnamurthy, Managing Director, Huber Chemicals
India Private Ltd.
Gopal Basisht M.D., IAAFPE & The Spirit of India
Ashok K. Trivedi, President & Co-Founder, iGate Capital
Corporation
Sunil Aghi, Founder/President, Indo-American Political
Foundation
Prabhat K. Andleigh, President & CEO, InfoDream
Corporation
Lalatendu Mohapatra, President, Infotel International,
Inc.
Jay Desai, President, CEO and Founder, Institute of Global
Competitiveness, Inc.
Suresh L. Malik, Vice President, International Jacobs
Engineering Group Inc.
Walter Barber, Group President, Asia, Jacobs Engineering
Group Inc.
J. Bennett Johnston, President, Johnston and Associates,
LLC
Bharat Raut, Constituted Attorney, KPMG Peat Marwick
Jay Kumar Patel, President, Kumar Enterprises, Inc.
Robert Ziegenhagen, Managing Director, Lever Johnson
Limited
Dayanand Rachakonda M.D., Lung Institute of Nevada
Dinesh Patel, Chief of Arthroscopic surgery, Massachusetts
General Hospital
Ramesh Kapur, President, Medical-Technical Gases,
Inc.
Gordon Young, Senior Advisor, Merrill Lynch
Rajir Nair, President, Microsoft Corporation
Sanjay Mirchandani, Microsoft Corporation
Gopal Prasad, President, Minerals and Fertilizers
Limited
Mody Mukund, M.D.
Haresh Panchal, President, National Federation of Indian
American Association
Jaskaran S. Teja, Chief Representative Director, India
Nationwide Global
Craig A. Alvey, Associate VP & Director, Business
Development Asia Nationwide Global
Gary G. Benanav, Chairman and CEO, New York Life
International, Inc.
Raymond Sander, Vice President, New York Life
International, Inc.
Georges Ugeux, Group Executive Vice President, New York
Stock Exchange
A.J. Patel, CEO Odyssey Enterprises, Inc/The Indus
Entreprenuers
Kent Burton, Senior V.P., Ogden Energy
T. Srinivasan, Sales Director, Oracle
Shekhar Dasgupta, Country Manager, Oracle
Lauren Lenfest, Vice President, Oracle Corp.
Ranjan Chak, Executive Director, Oracle India Development
Oracle Corp.
Krishna Srinivasa, President, PCS
Robert A. Lewis, Director International Sales and Services
Pratt & Whitney, Division of United Technologies
Corporation
Neil Mehta, President and CEO, Premier Medical Corp.
Ashok Chhabra, Director, Legal &Public Affairs, Proctor
& Gamble Hygene & Healthcare, Ltd.
Arun Savkur, President, Quantum Leap Systems, Inc.
Mahesh Veerina, CEO/President, Ramp Networks
Viru Raparthi, President and CEO, RBCA Services, Inc.
Dr. Devendra Verma, General Partner, Redwood Venture
Partners, III, LLC
Atul Thakrar, Managing Director, Rohm and Haas India Pvt.
Ltd.
Ravi Subramanian, Chairman, Silverline Technologies
Inc.
Anu Yallapragada, Regional Director, Sinclair Group
Ravi Patel, President &CEO, SREE Hospitality
Group
Sudhir Parikh, President, Sudhir Parikh, M.D.
Deepak Bhagat, Director, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Anant Agarawal, Sr. Vice President, Sun Microsystems,
Inc.
Avinash Agrawal, Director, India Design Center Sun
Microsystems, Inc.
AC Gupta, Country Manager, Swagelok Company
Kenny Desai, President, TAK Group
Ashok Mehta, President, TATA, Inc.
Hari Nath, Chief Executive Officer, Technology Planning and
Management Corp. (TPMC)
Alan Weinberger, CEO, TechnologyNet, Inc.
Shriramkumar Rajha, President and CEO, Telesis
Technologies, Inc.
Suhas Patil, Former President, The Indus
Entreprenuers
Kailash Joshi, Charter member, The Indus
Entreprenuers
K.B. Chandrasekhar, The Indus Entreprenuers
Kanwa Rekhi, The Indus Entreprenuers
Mark J. Reidy, Partner, Thelen Reid & Preist LLP
Shan K. Thever, President, Senior Partner Thever &
Associates
Kanwal Rehki, President TIE
Hasmukh R. Shah, Chairman TV Asia
Polly Holcombe, Director, Asia Pacific Unisys
Sampat Shivangi, President, US Infosystems
Nalluru Murthy, Ventue Capital and Investor
Pradeep Saraogi, Vice President of Marketing, Water Systems
International, Ltd.
N. Krishnan, Vice President of India Operations, Water
Systems International, Ltd.
Myrna K. Creek, CFO, Water Systems International,
Ltd.
Howard J. Siemers, CEO, Water Systems International,
Ltd.
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