Manish Srivastava and Balaji Sampath
Manish Srivastava is a Principal Architect with the Microsoft Technology Center, Infosys. As a solution lead for the Catalytic IT initiative, he is responsible for formulating business and technology solutions on the Microsoft platform. He has been with Infosys for 12 years. He is currently working on solutions in Legacy Modernization, Business Intelligence and Enterprise Collaboration.
Balaji Sampath heads the Flat World marketing initiative at Infosys. He joined Infosys in 1993 and worked for leading clients in Switzerland and the US. In 1998 Balaji left Infosys to pursue his MBA at UCLA. Subsequently, he worked at a startup in the San Francisco Bay Area during the dot-com era. In 2001 he joined Microsoft in Redmond as part of the company's product marketing group, where he was responsible for product planning of Microsoft Content Management Server 2002. He later worked as a Business Manager, responsible for both SharePoint Server and Content Management Server. He returned to India in 2004 and joined Infosys' Corporate Marketing group. In his current role, Balaji is also responsible for Microsoft solutions and alliance marketing as well as marketing new business initiatives.