Late Vijay K Gupta

Much before the more famous Indian telecom reforms of the 90s
started, private companies were allowed to manufacture selected telecom
equipment. Ratan Tata of Tata Group, decided to tap the opportunity and he hired
a young manager called Vijay K Gupta-a person with a very strong customer
orientation.

Gupta not only built a company to manufacture telephone
instruments, transmission equipment and small switching equipment, but also
created an organization which became a sort of GE-a source of managerial
talent-for the Indian telecom industry when it finally opened up fully in the
early 90s.

He died prematurely in 2003 in Bangkok, when he was still
working with Lucent Asia Pacific.