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Entrepreneur magazine, in association with Client Associates, is proud to present the second edition of Guru Mantra lecture series with Phaneesh Murthy, CEO, iGATE Patni, better known as the man who built a US$1 billion empire in just 7 years.

An alumnus of the Indian Institue of Ahmadabad and Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Murthy began his journey in 1992 as a part of Infosys, a firm he helped become the bellwether company of the Indian IT sector.

His contribution to Infosys has been widely regarded as one of the major reasons why Infosys became the IT giant that represented the booming Indian economy along with other luminaries. Since his exit from Infosys in 2002, Murthy has served first as the founder of US-based consulting firm Primentor and then as the co-founder of Quintant Services in 2003.

The latter was acquired by iGate in 2003, bringing Murthy to the top of a major IT giant once again. At iGate, Murthy has helped improve the company’s performance by bringing in a new management team, changing the firm’s business models, putting emphasis on higher offshore revenue contribution and increasing resource utilization, amongst other measures.

Murthy also spearheaded iGate’s acquisition of Patni Computers, the sixth largest IT company in India for US$1.22 billion, creating an IT behemoth that employs a talent pool of 26,000 people to deliver solutions to 360 Fortune 1,000 clients across the Americas, Europe- Middle East-Africa, and Asia-Pacific.

Murthy will be talking to a select gathering of established entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and corporate executives at the ITC Grand Central, Parel on October 18, 2011 at 1930 hrs. The talk will be followed by an interactive Q and A session on the Indian entrepreneurial ecosystem with the audience, where Murthy will discuss his trials and tribulations as an entrepreneur and what it takes to succeed in the modern economy.

Click the link to register for the event http://entrepreneurindia.in/gurumantra

MxM media has joined on-board as the Online Media partner.

About Guru Mantra

Organized by Entrepreneur magazine, Guru Mantra is a lecture series that celebrates the spirit of entrepreneurship. Planned to be organized at premium venues across different cities, the series provides a knowledge sharing forum to the entrepreneurs. As part of the format, every session has a successful entrepreneur as the guest mentor who shares his entrepreneurial journey with the attendees, followed by a Q&A session where the attendees get a chance to ask questions specific to their business. The session ends in a networking lunch/dinner.

About Infomedia18

Infomedia18 [BSE: 509069; NSE: INFOMEDIA], the printing and publishing arm of Network18 is one of the leading publishers of business publications in the country. Its stable includes a number of leading publications like Overdrive, Chip, Better Photography, Better Interiors and AV Max. Apart from these, it also publishes a large number of business to business publications and Yellow Pages. Infomedia18 is also the India partner of Alibaba.com, the world’s largest business to business trading platform.

About Network18

Network18[BSE: 532798,NSE: Network18] is one of India’s leading full play media conglomerates with interests in television, print, internet, filmed entertainment, mobile content and allied businesses. Through its holding in Television Eighteen India Ltd (TV18) [BSE: 532299, NSE: TV-18], Network18 operates India’s leading business news television channels, CNBC-TV18 and CNBC Awaaz. It also runs one of India’s largest Internet players – Web18, as well as one of India’s leading real time financial information and news terminals – Newswire18. TV18 has recently expanded into print with Infomedia18, a newly formed entity following the acquisition of Infomedia, India’s leading player in the special interest publishing and printing operations space. Through its holding in ibn18 Broadcast Ltd (ibn18) [BSE: 532800,NSE: ibn18], Network18 operates in the general news and entertainment space with leading general news channels CNN-IBN and IBN7 and has launched IBN Lokmat, a Marathi news channel in partnership with the Lokmat group. ibn18 also operates a joint venture with Viacom, called Viacom18 which houses the MTV, VH1 and Nickelodeon channels in India – as also Studio18, the Group’s filmed entertainment operation and has launched ‘Colors’, a Hindi general entertainment channel. Additionally, Network18 holds the Group’s online & on-air home shopping venture, Homeshop18, its full spectrum events management venture, E18 and its sports management & marketing division, Sports18. In a pioneering foray, the group recently launched Forbes India, the nation’s first local edition of a foreign news magazine title and the world’s most influential business brand, in collaboration with Forbes media. For more information, log on to www.network18online.com

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