Anil Kumar
Anil Kumar | |
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| Born | January 1, 1958 |
| Occupation(s) | Consultant, Management expert |
Anil Kumar (born 1958) is a disgraced former senior partner at management consultancy McKinsey & Company. He graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in India, Imperial College in the UK, and the Wharton School in the US.
Kumar was widely admired for pioneering the concept of Knowledge Process Offshoring,[1] which laid the groundwork for India's tremendous economic and outsourcing boom. Correctly predicting the rise of both Silicon Valley and India, he founded and led McKinsey offices in both locations, Silicon Valley in the 1980s and then India in the 1990s. Among other senior leadership roles at McKinsey, Kumar chaired the firm's Knowledge Center and Asia Center. Together with friend and colleague Rajat Gupta, Kumar co-founded the Indian School of Business, today a top-ranked business school. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and Young Presidents' Organization, and was US chair of the Confederation of Indian Industry.
Kumar fell from grace in 2009 when he was arrested in conjunction with an ongoing US governmental investigation into insider trading.[2] As of December 2009, he was no longer with the firm.[3] In January 2010, he pleaded guilty to insider trading and fraud at a federal court in New York.[4]
References
- ^ http://www.spendmatters.com/index.cfm/2009/10/16/Godfather-of-KPO-and-McKinsey-Director-Anil-Kumar-Arrested
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/17/business/17insider.html
- ^ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704342404574576134130532484.html
- ^ http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8c1de872-fbd3-11de-9c29-00144feab49a.html?nclick_check=1
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