Som Mittal
President,NASSCOM
Som Mittal is President of NASSCOM, the premier trade body and the “Chamber of Commerce” for the IT – BPO industry in India. An alumnus of IIT Kanpur and IIM Ahmedabad, Som Mittal has rich corporate experience in industries ranging from manufacturing through automobiles to IT. He has worked at such organizations as Larsen & Toubro, Escorts, SRF, Wipro and Compaq and now in Digital. Mittal is today an often quoted example of the achievements possible in the Indian corporate sector.
Mittal has headed Digital GlobalSoft for the last five years. Between June 1998 and July 1999, he shouldered additional responsibility as managing director of Compaq India and DIGITAL INDIA. Under Mittal’s leadership, Digital GlobalSoft has rapidly transitioned into a successful software services company attracting top-notch professionals, creating a resource pool with a vast knowledge and skill base and establishing a worldwide presence with full-fledged sales offices in the US, Europe and Asia Pacific.
He has a rich and wide ranging work experience of over 30 years in corporate India, he has been a part of the Indian IT industry for the past 18 years. Before joining NASSCOM, he was heading the Services business for Hewlett Packard in Asia Pacific and Japan.
In addition to chairing NASSCOM in 2003-04, and being part of the NASSCOM Executive Council for several years, Som Mittal has been closely associated with other industry bodies like MAIT and CII. He has played and active role in the formulation and implementation of Karnataka’s IT policy. He has been on the CII National Council for several years and part of the Chief Ministers IT Task Force in Karnataka. He is also the Founding member of the IIIT, Bangalore and the Board if IT Education Standards.
Som Mittal holds a B.Tech from IIT, Kanpur and an MBA from Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad. Additionally, he has attended executive programs at Harvard and IMD.