Rajesh Hukku is 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 studiying local area networks at the University of Maryland, College Park

University of Maryland, College Park

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United States

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Since 1992, he has led the transformation of I-flex Solutions

I-flex Solutions

Oracle Financial Services Software Limited is an IT solution provider to the banking industry. Oracle Financial Services is majority owned by Oracle Corporation...

 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

NASSCOM

The National Association of Software and Services Companies of IT software and services related activities for use of both the software developers as well as interested companies overseas....

 (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

Harvard Business School

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 and the World Congress of Bankers in Jamaica

Jamaica

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  and the Latin American Business Convention.

Hukku helped develop a stock trading system for wire service

Wire Service

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 Reuters

Reuters

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 as an employee for Tata Consultancy Services

Tata Consultancy Services

Tata Consultancy Services Limited is a global IT services, business solutions and outsourcing company headquartered in Mumbai, India. It is the largest provider of information technology in Asia and second largest provider of business process outsourcing services in India...

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Awards and honours

Rajesh Hukku was conferred Ernst & Young

Ernst & Young

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 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 Bernardo O Higgins - Great Official' - by the Chilean Government for work in Chile. Rajesh Hukku won an International Stevie

Stevie Awards

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 Award in the third annual International Business Awards for Best Chairman on June 26, 2006.http://www.stevieawards.com|ref

Rajesh Hukku has been profiled in several publications, including TIME Magazine's feature on 'Technology Guru

Guru

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s who survived the global meltdown' and Business Week's Star of Asia

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-2003. i-flex and Rajesh Hukku have featured in the Economist, the Wall Street

Wall Street

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 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.