This 55-year
old executive is a perfect example of thinking out-of-the-box. For instance, at a time, when PCs were not
advertised on hoardings, Dhawan in 1986 launched the first affordable PC called
the HCL BusyBee. Not only did she launch it, she also went a step further by
advertising the product (read PCs) on hoardings and in newspapers.
Next such
bold step was taken in the 1990s, when she set up India’s first network channel
for Tier-II towns, to sell IBM machines. This was followed by her joining HP in
1999. She is credited for getting HP its first two outsourcing contracts in
2003, at a time when the BPO industry was blooming at its best. She later moved
to Microsoft India, and once again returned to HP in 2008 as its India head.
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