ExlService Holdings announced the election of Kiran Karnik to the Board of Directors of EXL with effect from September 25, 2008. Mr. Karnik is expected to draw on his three decades of leadership experience in providing strategic focus to EXL's long-term development strategy, talent acquisition and management initiatives and infrastructure development. Mr. Karnik was the immediate past President of NASSCOM, India's apex industry body representing companies in the information technology (IT) and IT-enabled services sectors.  During his tenure as President of NASSCOM, Mr. Karnik worked closely with the industry as well as the central and state governments in India to advance this sector in India and globally. Since joining NASSCOM in 2001, Mr. Karnik has worked relentlessly to build India's brand equity for the service industry and to position India as the premier off-shoring destination.

Prior to his tenure at NASSCOM, Mr. Karnik was the Managing Director at Discovery Networks in India where he spearheaded the launch of Discovery Channel and Animal Planet in South Asia. Earlier, he was Founder-Director of the Consortium for Educational Communication, which was responsible for the UGC's Countrywide Classroom broadcasts and other ICT initiatives. He has also worked for over 20 years at the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in various positions including Founder-Director of ISRO's Development and Educational Communication unit and was also a key player in the pioneering India-USA Satellite Instructional TV Experiment (SITE).

He is a recipient of the Padma Shri award by the Government of India in 2007 and the ‘DATAQUEST IT Person of the Year - 2005'. BusinessWeek named Mr. Karnik as one of the ‘Stars of Asia' in 2004 and he was selected as Forbes magazine's ‘Face of the Year 2003', for being a driving force behind India's offshoring wave. A post-graduate from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, Mr. Karnik holds an Honours degree in Physics from Bombay University.

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