Amit Chatterjee has been appointed as the new managing director of Microsoft India Development Centre (MSIDC). Srini Koppolu, corporate vice president and managing director is leaving in September 2010 after spending 21 years with the company. Amit, who is the general manager for the visual studio test and lab management team at the centre, has been with Microsoft for the past 22 years and will now expand his responsibilities to lead MSIDC. He will continue to be based out of Hyderabad and will report to S. Somasegar, senior vice president, developer division, Microsoft Corporation.
Amit, as the managing director of MSIDC, will be a member of the leadership team of Microsoft India and will work with Ravi Venkatesan, chairman and corporate vice president, Microsoft India, to leverage the combined capabilities and assets of Microsoft here in India to enhance the company’s overall image, develop talent and energise the IT ecosystem in India.
Making the announcement, Somasegar said, “Srini’s contributions to Microsoft’s growth in India and global R&D are immeasurable. After spending nine years in Redmond, Srini returned to India to set up MSIDC in 1998, driven by his passion for the country and his faith in its talent. Starting with only 20 people working on two products, he grew the centre over the past 12 years to over 1,500 people working on 20 product groups. Under his tenure, MSIDC has driven end-to-end engineering of several Microsoft products, in addition to doing shared development work for our other major products. The innovative work done by MSIDC teams has contributed to the filing of over 270 patents for Microsoft in the past five years. We wish him all the best in his future endeavours.”
Commenting on his appointment, Amit said, “MSIDC is an important part of Microsoft’s product innovation and development lifecycle and I look forward to working with my peers and colleagues in the leadership team to grow and nurture our talent amidst the unique innovation culture of Microsoft.”
Amit joined MSIDC in 1998 and has had a variety of roles including being the general manager for the Windows technologies group. He took over as the general manager of the visual studio test business at MSIDC in the year 2007.
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