Vikram Talwar is an Indian businessman who co-founded EXL Service.

Biography

In 1970, Talwar obtained his

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from the

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Ahmedabad Ahmedabad ( ), also spelled Amdavad (), is the most populous city in the Indian state of Gujarat. It is the administrative headquarters of the Ahmedabad district and the seat of the Gujarat High Court. Ahmedabad's population of 5,570,585 ...

, India. At the age of 25, he migrated to

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, United States, and worked for

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in various capacities in nine Asian countries, including as a Country Manager in India from 1970 to 1996. In 1991, he was among the youngest senior Vice Presidents of the bank. After 26 years of service with the bank, Talwar worked as

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and

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in India from 1998 to 1999. He quit Ernst & Young to start his own firm, Exl Service Holdings, Inc., with Rohit Kapoor, a colleague from Bank of America in April 1999. Talwar served Exl in various capacities—as a Chief Executive Officer from April 1999; as Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of company's board of directors from November 2002 to April 2008; as Executive Chairman from May 2008 to April 2011; and as a Chairman from April 2011 to February 2014. He retired on 5 May 2014. In an interview to Sudhir Chowdhary, a '' The Financial Express'' correspondent, he said "one is never too old to embark on a new adventure in life," and "Life is never perfect. You make plans, they have to be changed. But you keep moving, keep flowing along. I myself am trying to figure out how to reinvent myself from next month onwards".

References

1949 births Indian chief executives Businesspeople from Ahmedabad Living people {{India-business-bio-stub