Dr. Bhupendra Kumar Modi, Global Chairman, Si2i
"Technology Futurepreneur"
From his early days, when he defied family business norms to introduce Photocopying to India, Dr. B K Modi has always shunned conformity in order to embrace the future.
As a "Futurepreneur" with 30 years of business leadership behind him, Dr. Modi has always lived and worked on the principal philosophy of challenging conventional wisdom. In his words "I want to ensure that people everywhere enjoy the highest levels of personal productivity. And today the mobility of the Internet will drive this more than any other phenomenon"
Over the last three decades Dr. Modi has consistently demonstrated this intent through a series of very successful alliances with category leaders like Xerox, Alcatel, Telstra, Olivetti and more recently with Telekom Malaysia. He pre-empted the revolutions in Office Automation, Internet infrastructure, Wireless Telephony and Specialty Retailing.
In keeping with this thinking, Dr. Modi now wants to foster Western levels of personal productivity for the youth in the exciting geography that extends from the Ivory Coast to Indonesia. To this end, he has created a US $ 2 bn organization called Si2i built on some exciting acquisitions to the Spice group. These include very successful entrepreneurial brands like Nexian in Indonesia, CSL in Malaysia, WellcoM in Thailand and Media Ring in Singapore, that together provide a brilliant orchestra of passionate professionals who will drive leadership in the region.
Dr. B K Modi is a Chemical Engineer and an MBA from South California, and was awarded a Ph D in Financial Management. He has also been conferred a D Litt in Industrial Management.