Manish Malhotra,
Country Director – Software Practice
Sun Microsystems India

Manish is Country Director of Software Practice, responsible for Sun's software business in India. He has been at Sun for over 9 years, having held key management positions in Sun's US and India operations.

In his 15 year IT career, Manish has worked in the areas of industry research, product development, marketing, sales and partner engineering. Prior to leading India software sales, he worked in Sun's Java Enterprise Products and Tools business, where by revamping operations to support Sun's developer adoption business strategy, he led the Java Enterprise Tools group in significantly growing user base. Prior to this, he led a Sun-wide effort to establish Sun's software middleware partnering program to grow an ecosystem of ISVs and enable solutions-selling of Sun software by global Systems Integrators in the US and EMEA markets.

Before joining Sun, Manish worked for Lucent and Stanford University. Manish holds a M.S. and Ph.D. in HPTC from Stanford University and a B.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.