Penguin India is delighted to announce the
publication of Engineered in India: From
dreams to billion-dollar CYIENT by BVR
Mohan Reddy.
This
is the story of a young man who steps out of the precincts of IIT Kanpur in 1974 with a dream in his heart – to
become an entrepreneur and contribute to nation-building. Undaunted by the
dearth of experience and means to capital in pre-Liberalization India, B.V.R
Mohan Reddy’s enterprising spirit takes the long and winding road, never losing
sight of his ambition. He gains overseas education on scholarship and dons
multiple hats for eighteen long years before embarking on his life’s mission at
forty. A mission that propels the company he incorporated, Cyient, to pioneer
and excel in outsourced engineering services and introduce the brand ‘Engineered
in India’.
Engineered in India takes readers on an entrepreneurial rollercoaster
ride, allowing them to see human truths with tools that let them breathe life
into their business aspirations and experiments.
Announcing the release, the author said, “Engineered in India gives experiential
evidence of what it takes to ideate and scale a global enterprise. It
also addresses the intangible dimensions of being an entrepreneur in
India as well as offers practical lessons in customer centricity, people
management and crisis management. My hope is to inspire the next generation of
entrepreneurs to learn from my journey, dream even bigger and
engineer their own success.”
B.V.R.
Mohan Reddy is an Indian entrepreneur and founder-chairman of Cyient,
a global technology solutions company. By pioneering outsourced engineering
services from India in 1991, Mohan led Cyient to contribute over $5 billion in
cumulative exports, firmly placing India on the global engineering, research
and development (ER&D) services map.
The author spearheaded several industry
bodies and served as the chairman of NASSCOM and chairman of CII, Southern
Region. He is also the founding director of T-Hub, India’s largest start-up
incubation centre. He took up several leadership positions to promote higher
education. He is the chairman of the Board of Governors of IIT Hyderabad and
IIT Roorkee, a member of the Leadership Advisory Board (LAB) at the University
of Michigan College of Engineering, the USA, and a member of the Court of
Governors of Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI). He was the recipient
of India’s fourth-highest civilian award, the Padma Shri, in 2017 for his
contribution to trade and industry.
Price: INR 699 /
Format: Hardback /
Pages.: 320 / Publisher:
Penguin India
PRAISE FOR THE BOOK
‘Contains some of the finest business lessons’
―Anand Mahindra, chairman,
Mahindra Group
‘Mohan’s biography is a heart-warming story of an indomitable young man
who has risen from modest beginnings to become one of India’s first-generation
IT billionaires’
―Professor Raj Reddy, winner
of the ACM A.M. Turing Award
‘This book brings out the DNA of Mohan’s personality- leadership,
courage, determination, honesty, integrity, simplicity, conviviality and
concern for the less fortunate’
―N.Narayana Murthy, co-founder,
Infosys Limited