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Golden Peacock Award for Technology Leadership2010

Ashok Soota

Executive Chairman, MindTree Limited

Ashok Soota, Executive Chairman of Happiest Minds Technologies Limited, is widely recognized as one of the pioneering leaders of the Indian IT industry. He has led both companies where he was founding Chairman to successful IPOs. He has been the President of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), a member of the Prime Minister's Task Force for IT and was on the Advisory Council for the World Intellectual Property Organization, Geneva. He is a recipient of multiple awards for IT Person of the year (Dataquest and Elcina) and Lifetime Achievement (Financial Express, Dataquest and Chiratae Ventures, earlier IDG). In April 2022, Ashok announced the creation of Happiest Health, a knowledge enterprise focusing on health & wellness.

In April 2021, he launched SKAN, India's first private sector, non-profit organization exclusively dedicated to carry out medical research on ageing, neurological disorders and gut-microbiome axis. Ashok holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Roorkee (now IIT, Roorkee) and an MBA from the Asian Institute of Management, Philippines. He is co-author of the national bestseller "Entrepreneurship Simplified: From Idea to IPO" and his hobbies include trekking, the outdoors, yoga, taichi, meditation and swimming.