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Neelam Dhawan
Name: Age: Nationality: Education: Profession: Neelam Dhawan 48 Indian MBA Manging Director for HP India

Neelam Dhawan the Managing Director of HP India for Personal Systems,Imaging& Printing Business. She is legend of Indian IT field since 22 years growing with an aim to make the benefits of IT to common man in his affordable prices. She believes people rather than technology , as people create value for a enterprise. She was listed among the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business by fortune magazine she ranked in 37th place .She worked in Microsoft India as the Managing Director handling the sales and marketing group.

Neelam's biography
Neelam Dhawan is the Managing Director of Hewlett-Packard India. She has countrywide responsibility for revenues and profitability and ensuring the greatest leverage from HPs Services, Personal Systems and Imaging & Printing businesses.

With a portfolio that extends to offshore activities, BPO, Software Engineering, Research and IT Services, Neelam is focused on shaping the company's overall business agenda and leading its strategy and corporate development efforts to make HP the most admired company in India.

Career of Neelam Dhawan

Dhawan entered the sales and marketing team in HCL and stayed there for 14 long years. Neelam started her career with the FMCG companies like Asian Paints and Hindustan lever. She was unable to be part of the

marketing and sales as the organisation didnt prefer a woman to head the particular domain. She then had become the Vice-president of Customer Solutions Group before joining Microsoft. She also worked for four years in IBM and six years in Compaq.

She did her graduation in economics from St Stephen's College Delhi and Management Degree from Faculty Of Management Studies Delhi, Delhi University .

Previously, Neelam was the Managing Director of Microsoft India, a position she held from 2005 to 2008. During her tenure, she sharpened Microsoft's strategic focus and improved its operating efficiency and execution, as well as its financial performance and customer focus. Prior to this assignment, Neelam held a variety of successful leadership positions in leading Indian IT companies, including HCL and IBM.

Neelam holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from St.Stephen's College, New Delhi, and a Masters in Business Administration from the Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University.

More about Neelam Dhawan

She did her graduation in economics from St Stephen's College Delhi and Management Degree from Faculty Of Management Studies Delhi, Delhi University .

Dhawan Started her career with HCL in 1996 , Then She joined IBM As Vice President , was member of company board of directors.

She Joined HP as Vice President of customer solutions group , In her work she glances open the all areas of business form small to large enterprises , And was responsible fro strategic growth of Alliances and partnerships .

She joined Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd in 2005 as as head of Sales & Marketing Operations. Under her responsibility Microsoft was recognized as Subsidiary of the Years IN APAC by Microsoft Corporation in 20052006.