DV Seminar: Arjun Batra
Seminar Details:
Date: Tuesday May 31, 2007
Time: 3:30-5pm
Location: Nora 103
Seminar Speaker:
Arjun Batra, Director - Intel India, manages Business Development and US Operations for Intel India and is based at Intel’s world headquarters in Santa Clara, California. The mission of this function is to help Intel capitalize on the opportunities presented by the availability of high quality talent in India. He has played a key role in the establishment, success and rapid growth of the Intel India Development Center at Bangalore, India which now employs about 3000 professionals and has become a true microcosm of Intel Corporation in a short span of six years.
Arjun also drives all internal and external interaction in the US and oversees key initiatives including an ILH Program - a vital program to attract and hire professionals, with critical skills and experience, from the USA wishing to return to India.
Arjun did his undergraduate work at Delhi and his Master of Business Administration, MBA, from the Indian Institute of Management at Calcutta and McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He has worked in various leadership positions in IT, engineering and marketing, with Dow Chemical, IBM and Intel, in India, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the US. Arjun is a naturalized citizen of the USA and the Silicon Valley has been his family’s’ home for the last two decades.
