The following appeared in yesterday’s Herald newspaper. On behalf of Anjunkars, I congratulate Francisco on making it to the Forbes list. Our congratulations also go to his parents, Placido & Sushila and the whole family. Francisco, we are proud of you!
Moi-mogan, Domnic Fernandes Gaumvaddy, Anjuna ------------------------- Goan in Forbes list of top-earning young CEOs NEW YORK, AUG 16 (Agencies) – Global outsourcing major Cognizant’s CEO Francisco D’Sousa, a businessman of Goan origin, has made it to the Forbes magazine list of young chief executive officers with fattest pay packages in the United States. The list also includes another person of Indian origin, publishing software giant Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen. While D’Souza is at the 15th position, with an annual pay packet of $3.7 million (Rs.16 crore), Narayen, who makes $12 million (Rs.52 crore) a year, is ranked in the fifth place, in a list of 15 young CEOs aged 45 years or less. Interestingly, the list is topped by a person of Pakistani origin, CEO of chipmaker MEMC Electronic Materials, Nabeel Gareeb, who earns a staggering $79.6 million (Rs.342 crore) a year. At 39, D’Souza is the youngest of the 15 CEOs. D’Souza was born in Nairobi on August 23, 1968 (he will be 40 next week). The son of Sushila and Placido D’Souza (ex-Anjuna, India’s former Consul General in New York and High Commissioner in Port of Spain, Hong Kong and Nairobi), his sisters are Jacinta, Lucia and Maria. He is married to Ines, a Brazilian. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree from the University of East Asia and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from Carnegie-Mellon University. He was appointed as the president and chief executive officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Cognizant Technology Solutions on January 1, 2007. With 18 years of experience in the information technology industry, D’Souza has won the Economic Times Entrepreneur Award in 2005. He was also a 2002 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist. He oversees much of the operations and business development of the company, and has masterminded its expansion into emerging markets like China and India, as the US economy has been slowing over the last year-and-a-half. “Investments being made in those geographies will start showing results two to three years from now,” D’Souza has said. Almost three quarters of the company’s 59,000 employees are based in India, providing software development services, mainly to US and European companies, but increasingly, to Asian and Indian companies as well. (Herald) _________________________________________________________________ Chose your Life Partner? Join MSN Matrimony FREE http://www.shaadi.com/msn/matrimony.php
