INDIA

Roshan D'Silva York (India) Consulting Services Pvt. Ltd. 402-4 Wellington Business Park 1, Andheri Kurla Road Mumbai 400 059 India Tel:- +91 22 40264409 Fax:- +91 22 40264410

Roshan has a depth of experience in selling complex services into the Financial Services, Government and Telecom sectors in the Middle East. He graduated from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay with a Bachelor of Technology (EE).

Among his recent experiences, Roshan played a key role in the restructuring of two of the largest Middle Eastern Call Center initiatives - Mace W.L.L. in Qatar and Global Tech FZ LLC in Dubai Internet City. Prior to this, Roshan founded Myzus - a cellular products company based out of Bombay, India with direct presence in the Middle East, Asia Pacific and CIS. Myzus was recently named by Business Today as one of "Ten Companies for Tomorrow".

Roshan grew up in Qatar and is widely traveled in the U.S., Western and Eastern Europe as well as Asia-Pacific. He is a member of the IIT Bombay alumni association, TIE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) and the SVASE (Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs). He is also on the advisory team of the Entrepreneurship cell at IIT-Bombay.

Deepak Jain Senior Consultant The York Group, India Incorporated in India as York(India) Consulting Services Pvt.Ltd., 14, Jain Chambers, 577, S.V.Road, Bandra, Mumbai, India Tel:+91-22-640 2044 /2048 Fax: +91-22-640 0639 Mobile:+91-98200-72364 E-mail: djain@theyorkgroup.com

Mr. Jain is the Senior Consultant, of The York Group , India incorporated as York(India) Consulting Services Pvt. Ltd . He has a Business Management degree ( MBA - Marketing ) and brings with him over a decade of business and IT entrepreneurial experiences .His key strengths include a solid base and infrastructure in Mumbai, professional culture, ethics and management in his company, as well as financial strength . Mr.Jain is a keen advocate of outsourcing software development and remote services to India.

With strategic alliances & relationships established with high quality partners , we are in a strong position to offer an entire range of on ground co-ordination , project management & implementation support services to international IT companies desiring to set up operations in India , as well as providing a broad gamut of business development services to Indian companies overseas.

Regional Spending on Information and Communications Technology
(Data provided by WITSA - www.witsa.org/digitalplanet )

Technology Sectors	Spending ($millions)
Hardware	4,413
Software	902
Services	2,589
Communications	18,495
TOTAL ICT Spend	26,399
Vertical Markets
Agriculture	435
Manufacturing	4,600
Utilities	479
Construction	526
Wholesale & Retail	2,248
Transportation & Communication	2,815
Finance & Bus. Services	2,207
Other Services	435
Government	4,178
Consumer	8,371
Software Piracy	73%

 

THE INDIAN MARKET

“ Although China is often named as the key driver for growth in many industries, India, with a legal system familiar to a US based company, and a strong workforce of engineers who speak English is the most attractive market in the world” -

- CISCO senior vice president Howard Charney.

TOP 5 REASONS TO CONSIDER INDIA:

1. A stable, established, mature democracy which is the 4th largest and also the fastest growing emerging economy in the world;
2. Favorable demographics: more than 550 million under 25 years old; India as a nation is growing younger ( population in working age group projected to increase) as the developed world faces the problem of aging;.
3. A huge reservoir of English speaking, skilled and relatively inexpensive manpower: over 2.6 million engineers (degree and diploma holders), 814,000 software professionals, growing every year.
4. Well-developed banking, with over 67,000 branches and banking practices conforming to international best standards -net non performing assets ratio for all commercial banks 1.2%.
5. A sophisticated, well regulated capital market: 23 stock exchanges of which the two largest, the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange rank no 3 and 5 by number of transactions.


For all these reasons and more, India today is a country on the move, destined to occupy its place in the comity of nations as a major economic power. It has attracted favorable international attention thanks to its recent remarkable growth as well as its undoubted potential to sustain this performance for years to come. Thus, the Goldman Sachs famous BRIC report lists India as the only country with the prospect of registering at least 5 % growth in GDP for the next fifty years.

This offers exciting opportunities to industry and business the world over to partner India in its growth process since India today has perhaps one of the friendliest Foreign Direct Investment policy regimes.

INDIA: TOP 5 VERTICALS TO SELL TO :

1. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SECTORT: the IT sector is India’s fastest growing sectors with over 50 percent average annual compounded growth since 1991. Today, two in five of the Fortune 500 companies outsource their software requirements to India. Opportunities in the IT sector include communication infrastructure, optic fiber cable, gateways, satellite-based communication wireless, IT-enabled services, IT enabled education, data centers and server farms, and software development. Companies like Infosys, Wipro, TCS , Satyam are world class IT companies from India.

2. TELECOMMUNICATION SECTOR: India’s telecom sector has been growing at a rate of about 20 percent per annum for the past few years. India’s wireless market by far is the fastest growing market in the world. The number of cellular subscribers has increased from 1 million in 1998 to 41 million in 2004. India is looking forward to achieve an annual growth rate of 13% in cable TV subscribers, 18% in TV set owners, 27% in PC penetration, 28% in cell phones, 30% in telephones and 58% in internet subscribers in the next four years. The proportion of households moving towards richer and well to do category is going up in India. There also exist huge untapped rural potential. Reliance Telecomm, Bharti Telecom, Tata Telecom, MTNL are the major telecom players.

3. ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY: The entertainment industry is one of the fastest growing verticals in India growing at 18% compounded and expected to touch USD 10 billion by 2009. While content will remain the king, it is technology that will propel this sector into the next decade. Digitalization is the way forward as it will deliver entertainment to the consumer faster, cheaper and in a format easily accessible.

4. HEALTHCARE SECTOR: The healthcare sector has been growing at a rapid pace in the past few years. The windfall began when the developed world discovered that it could get quality service for less than half the price. With an annual growth rate of 30 percent, India is already inching closer to Singapore, an established healthcare hub that attracts 150,000 medical tourists a year. With the expected increase in the pharmaceutical market, the total healthcare market could rise from $22.2 billion currently (5.2% of GDP) to $69 billion (8.5% of GDP) by 2012.

5. RETAIL SECTOR: The retail sector in India is witnessing a huge revamping exercise as traditional markets make way for new formats such as departmental stores, hypermarkets, supermarkets and specialty stores. A.T. Kearney has estimated India's total retail market at $202.6 billion which is expected to grow at a compounded 30 per cent over the next five years making it the 2nd most attractive emerging retail destination in the world. Pantaloon, Shoppers Shop, Trent are the leaders in this vertical.

INDIA ADDITIONAL SERVICES

Besides The York Group’s core international services, our India office works alongside key strategic partners to offer a single window service to guide a company at every step of the way in establishing a business in India. We are able to structure, conceive and implement the entire project on a turnkey basis considering client’s objectives from a legal, commercial, financial and fiscal angle and make a coordinated implementation plan providing services along the way as required.