Arjun Malhotra serves as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Headstrong's Board of Directors. Prior to Headstrong he was Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of TechSpan, which merged with Headstrong in October 2003.
A pioneer of the Indian IT industry, Mr. Malhotra founded TechSpan in 1998 with funding from Goldman Sachs and Walden International. The merger of TechSpan with Headstrong has built an end-to-end services organization with seamless integration across businesses and cultures, resulting in Headstrong's recognition as one of the fastest-growing IT-based Financial Services companies.
Mr. Malhotra is a Member of the Board of Governors, IIT (Kharagpur) Foundation; Member of the Board of Governors of the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad; and Member of the Indian Public Schools Society, which runs The Doon School. He is currently Co-Chair of the Pan-IIT Alumni Association. He founded the Prof. G.S. Sanyal School of Telecommunications at IIT Kharagpur through a personal endowment. He is Chairman of Vision 2020, an alumni initiative to create a US$200 million endowment fund for IIT Kharagpur by the year 2020. In "recognition of his outstanding contribution and services to the Institute", Mr. Malhotra was declared Life Fellow of IIT Kharagpur in February 2003.
Mr. Malhotra is a Fellow of the Institute of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineers, India (FIETE); and a Member of the Institute of Engineers, India (MIE). He has served on the Board of Governors for the Delhi College of Arts & Commerce, University of Delhi, and as Vice President of The Doon School Old Boys Society.
Mr. Malhotra is a Charter Member and Member of the Global Board of Trustees of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), a non-profit network with over 10,000 members across 44 chapters in 9 countries. TiE fosters global entrepreneurship through mentoring, networking and education. He is also one of the founding members of SPIC-MACAY, the Society for Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture amongst Youth. This is today India's largest non-government, not for profit, social and cultural organization.
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