Gautam Thapar (Chairman & CEO)
Gautam Thapar is Chairman & CEO of India's foremost diversified corporation, the Avantha Group. Gautam represents the third generation of a business family, founded by his grandfather, Karam Chand Thapar, in Calcutta (now Kolkata) eighty years ago. Over the decades, the organization has shown resilience and entrepreneurial spirit, and has continuously reinvented itself without wavering from its core values of integrity and creating lasting value for its stakeholders.

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Manoj Malhotra (Chief Executive Officer)
Manoj Malhotra joined the erstwhile Thapar Group (now Avantha Group) in 2003 as Vice President - Strategy Planning and Business Development in New Initiatives. One of his key mandates was to identify new avenues of growth in the IT & ITES segment. Salient Business Solutions is the first step towards that direction. Manoj also brings with him over a dozen years of relevant multinational consulting experience in Corporate Finance, Strategy Building and Investment Banking.

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B. Hariharan (Director)
B. Hariharan is the Group Director – Finance, Avantha Group. An astute finance professional with the Group in 1985. Since then, he has played a pivotal role in the Group’s transformation. A key member of the core team spearheading Group company BILT’s turnaround strategy in the mid-1990s, he has held various senior executive positions, including Group Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of BILT.

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