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Pratap S Gharge, Vice President & CIO, Bajaj Electricals Ltd

TITLE: Vice President & CIO

COMPANY: Bajaj Electricals Ltd

INDUSTRY VERTICLE: Manufacturing, consumer durables, engineering & projects and lighting

AGE: 49 years

FIRST JOB: Quality Control Supervisor at Indu Dye Works (A Textile mills from India United Mills, National Textile Corporations)

TOTAL EXPERIENCE: 27 years in IT & 2 years as QC Supervisor.

BIGGEST CAREER INFLUENCE: First Program developed using IBM S-30 old micro computer in Cobol programming language.

THE PERSON WHO INFLUENCED YOU THE MOST: N R Narayana Murthy

YOUR SUCCESS MANTRA: Keep performing your duties sincerely; maintain total commitment towards work; a positive approach to problem solving.

TECHNOLOGY YOU CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT: My laptop and BlackBerry

WHAT DO YOU ENJOY DOING THE MOST: Listening to music.

YOUR MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT: Birth of my two sons.

FAVOURITE MOVIE: Lagaan

FAVOURITE BOOK: The 7 Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

YOUR OBSESSION: Work

BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENT SO FAR: Successful implementation of our PROJECT SMILE (ERP, CRM, SCM, BI in a integrated manner simultaneously) for which we were awarded Nasscom IT User Award 2009 recently.

ONE THING YOU WANT TO CHANGE ABOUT YOURSELF: I have to learn to say 'No'.

ONE THING YOU WOULD NEVER WANT TO CHANGE ABOUT YOURSELF: My positive attitude towards things.

BEST ADVICE EVER RECEIVED AND FROM WHOM: I was advised by Srikant Kulkarni, a highly qualified, old acquaintance of mine to ‘Pursue a career in IT".

IF NOT A CIO YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN: A cricketer or a musician