The AOL India Story

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Guidance for Today and Tomorrow

The AOL India Leaders

The AOL India venture has been guided from the start by outstanding leaders. Their educational credentials are superior. Their technical abilities have been proven. Their business acumen and management style have been validated over the years. They manage the three functions of the Bangalore site. They keep the channels with AOL's international technical and service centres open. And they are one of the best reasons employment at AOL India is such an excellent opportunity.

Maneesh Dhir - EVP AOL International and Country Head, All AOL Business Units in India

Maneesh Dhir has the educational foundation for leadership in a global endeavor: a B. Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, an MS from UCLA, and a Stanford MBA. His work resume began at Sun Microsystems, where he founded the company's server appliance business. He then moved to Kiva Software, which was acquired by Netscape, which was acquired by AOL. Maneesh went on to become VP of AOL's West Coast operations. And now he has applied his experience at home and abroad to launch and nurture all three of AOL's Indian Operations.

Rajiv Ahuja - VP, Service Center Operations

If AOL's Bangalore Service Centre runs like clockwork, Rajiv Ahuja is the reason. His career is based on degrees from Stanford University and St. Xavier's College in Calcutta, a certificate in International Management from the National University of Singapore, and nine years in charge of training for the Indian Army Special Task Force. After serving as COO at vCustomer, Rajiv assumed leadership of Dell's US Consumer division in India. In 2002, he accepted the challenge to establish an AOL Service Centre in Bangalore that would be second to none.

Rajiv Jain - VP, Software Development Centre

Rajiv Jain began his education in India with a B.Tech from Rourkee University and continued in the states with a PhD in Electrical/Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California. He became an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin and then left academia to join Agilent. After returning to India, he dedicated his talents to semiconductor and software development for Infineon, a Seimens subsidiary. Now he is combining his teaching and engineering skills to lead AOL's Software Development Centre in Bangalore.

Every day, the work of the AOL India Teams is in evidence on AOL. It’s there in the Snapshots and Web Offers. It’s there in the millions of annotated video streams. It’s there in the connectivity and bug-free applications that users take for granted. It’s there in the efficient and friendly late-night voice that offers help over the phone. AOL India also supports MapQuest, AIM, Moviefone, Singingfish, and Netscape. And a good many back office functions–from finance to call volume forecasting for the service Centres–owe substantial improvement to the work of AOL India employees.This link leads to coverage in the AOL in-house and in the Indian Press about our efforts in the three Bangalore Centres.