Wipro's Vivek Paul makes it to TIME/CNN's global list
Bangalore: The Vice-Chairman and CEO of Wipro Technologies, Vivek Paul, has been named among the Global Business Influentials for 2004 by TIME and CNN. TIME has acknowledged Paul's contribution in transforming Wipro Technologies from a $150-million software developer into a $1-billion force in offshore outsourcing, handling IT and customer service for companies.

In the TIME/CNN honouree list for 2004, Paul joins the elite company of renowned global business leaders as Jeffery Immelt, GE; Chuck Prince, Citigroup; and Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase, among others, said a Wipro press release.

The honourees of TIME/CNN are a new breed of business leaders who have redefined the way business is done, with innovative management strategies and a commitment to transparency, clear accountability and even helping change society along the way.
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Biospectrum awards for 2004 announced
Bangalore: Dr. Cyrus Poonawalla, Chairman of Serum Institute of India, Pune, has been chosen Person of the Year and Dr Manju Sharma, former DBT Secretary, named for Lifetime Achievement for the second annual Biospectrum awards in biotechnology for the year 2004.

The DBT Secretary, Dr M.K. Bhan, in Bangalore, gave away the awards. Dr Poonawalla gets the award for putting India on the global vaccines scene and Dr Sharma for starting the Department of Biotechnology and putting it on the reforms path until her retirement in March 2004, a release said.

In the other two categories, Dr K.K. Narayanan, MD of agri-biotechnology company Metahelix Life Sciences, was adjudged the biotech Entrepreneur of the Year; the diagnostic kit JEV Chex to detect Japanese encephalitis virus, and developed by Bangalore-based Xcyton Diagnostics, was named the biotech product of the year.

The awardees were chosen from five biotechnology segments - biopharmaceuticals, agri-biotechnology, bio-informatics, bio-industrial and bio-service, the release said.
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