His venture (Virgo Softech Limited) has progressed by leaps and bounds winning some of the very prestigious projects of Government of India such as Elector Photo ID Cards and computerization and Publication of Elector Rolls for four biggest states of India viz. U.P, M.P, M.S.and C.G.

He has been guiding not only his venture through his keen understanding of the operational and technical issues, but he had been a consultant to various government departments such as Election Commission of India for their computerization projects. He has been actively guiding SCAFI as its board member and as a member of Transport Committee for the implementation of Smart Cards in transport sector. He is also a member of the technical committee on the MPIC (Multi Purpose ID cards) for the citizens of India, which is a very prestigious project of the GOI.

He is the founder director and CMD of Virgo Softech Limited, and has been instrumental in establishing VSL as one of the best Systems Integration and ITES Company in India. He is a crusader for bringing e-governance in all the government organizations and works relentlessly towards devising new solutions and technologies in this sector.

His biggest achievement is the successful implementation of SCOSTA based Vehicle Registration Project in the state of Maharashtra and Delhi. His project implementation methodologies have been proven by the implementation of the VRC project in 15 RTO of Delhi and 45 RTO of Maharashtra State putting together an implementation team of 400 people! His exceptional leader ship qualities and his ability to work as a team member has grown VSL from a small venture to a Multi Crore Company with many credits to it in the field of SI and ITES.

BRIJESH AWASTHI (46) Whole Time Director

He has graduated in Computer Science from College of Engineering, Amravati University in the year 1989. and finally joined the board of directors in year 2000. He is working in the capacity of Whole Time Director with Virgo Softech Limited since year 2003, enriching the company with his in depth knowledge of IT and ITES. He has been instrumental in winning and executing many large scale ITES projects for Government of India in the e-governance domain.

He has many first to his credit such as implementing the first national standard (SCOSTA) Smart card operating system, based Vehicle Registration project for the transport department, Delhi and, PDS project in GNCT of Delhi. He is also a designated project director by Transport Department, GNCTD, for the project and has worked in close association with National Informatics Center (NIC) for the maiden implementation of the project of this magnitude in the volume and the value. The size of the project is of issuance of 4 million smart cards based Vehicle Registration Certificates in Delhi 10 million smart card based VRC in Maharashtra which translates into approx Rs 500 Crores.

He has also successfully implemented many projects in M.S, M.P., C.G. and U.P. for computerization of Elector Rolls, Elector Photo Identity Cards, and Publishing of Elector Rolls. He has the distinction of consulting Election Commission of India on the Computerization of Electoral processes.

He is actively contributing to the smart card industry through its national forum SCAFI (Smart card forum of India) as a member and also a member of Transport Committee for implementation of Smart Cards in DL/RC applications. His white papers and concept notes on various e-governance projects of GOI, such as PDS (Public Distribution System), Pollution Control, etc has been well taken by the Government of India and is on the various stages of Implementation by the central and state governments.

ATUL PRAKASH ANAND (47) Whole Time Director

Mr. Atul Prakash Anand is a Commerce graduate from the Punjab University and a Management post-graduate from The University of Birmingham, U.K with over 2 decades of experience & understanding of critical business drivers in multiple markets and industries, PE market and PE funds.

He has established & managed Manufacturing Units, Marketing Networks, Techno-commercial operations in the Light engineering, Plastics, IT and Telecom (Specifically public access Internet) sectors and has been also a part of two IT start-ups and have sold turnkey projects globally. The extensive professional and social networks across continents add more value to his personality. Mr. Anand, was also the Team member of a UK based renewable energy fund, Berkeley Energy which has raised funds from CDC, KAF, BIO & other funds of funds.

He also presented papers in New Delhi and Paris on the subject of e-Governance and Smart cards at the “Smart Card Expo”, New Delhi and “The Cartes & IT Security 2004”, Paris. Mr. Anand has attended the UN Conference held in Italy on “Initiative of Business and the UN” at the UN Institute, Turin and was one of the attending member of the 6th World Summit and 7th World Summit of Young Entrepreneurs held at the Palais des Congress, Lyon, France and the World Trade Centre in New York, organized by the Institute of Leadership Development, York University, Toronto, Canada.He is also a holder of Diploma in Active Labour Policy Development from International Institute of Labour Studies, ILO, Geneva.

ABHIJIT MUKHERJEE (46) Independent Director

Professor Abhijit Mukherjee graduated in Civil Engineering from Bengal Engineering College in 1980. Thereafter he was associated with the Development Consultants where he designed the nuclear power stations for the Department of Atomic Energy and rocket launching stations for Indian Space Research Organisation. He earned Ph D from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1987. He pursued post doctoral work in Max Planck Institute of Materials Research, Stuttgart and Institute of Computer Applications in Germany.

Professor Mukherjee was a Professor of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. His research interests are mechanics of composites, structural rehabilitation and retrofitting, structural health monitoring, and inverse problems of structural engineering. He has supervised eighteen Ph D students and fifty-two masters students. Professor Mukherjee has more than 150 publications in archival international journals, and conferences. He has overseen a number of projects including seismic rehabilitation of IFFCO fertiliser plant, Kandla and Maharashtra Emergency Earthquake Relief Project. Professor Mukherjee is the Principal Investigator of several research projects supported by the National science Foundation, USA, German Aerospace, Germany, European Union, Department of Science and Technology and Indian Space Research Organisation, India.

As recognition of his achievements in the field of Engineering, Indian National Academy of Engineering has conferred on Professor Mukherjee their Fellowship. He is also a Fellow of the Punjab Academy of Sciences for his contributions in Engineering Sciences.

Professor Mukherjee is currently the Director Thapar University, Patiala since July 2006. He has led a change management at the University to transform it from a teaching intensive organization to a research intensive one. The annual turnover of the University has jumped more than three times in two years.He is also an independent Director of the State Bank of Patiala.

AMRITPAL SINGH SRA (47) Independent Director

Mr.Sra is a graduate from the Punjab University and a post graduate from the San Jose State University in the USA. He has a MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA. Mr. Sra is a professional experienced in bringing innovative products to market at start-ups and large companies. Self driven, strategic thinker, articulate communicator, consensus builder, and negotiator with demonstrated ability to grasp the challenges in target market, and address them to meet business goals.

His specialties include Market Research, Opportunity Evaluation, Competitive Analysis, Risk Evaluation, Contracts Negotiation, Vendor selection, Cross-functional team management, Construction Management, Real Estate Development, Clean Technology and Renewable Energy.

In the last decade he has worked on public projects focused on Green building construction, implementing long term vision through development and execution of strategy in Acquisition, Development , and Disposition of properties. On a day to day basis he has coordinated with investors, lenders, and supervision of the Entitlement process with various Governmental and Public agencies. Functional responsibility includes supervision of Finance and Operations.

Mr. Sra was Co-Founder at Si-Bridge, Inc. developed a scalable, backward-compatible, I/O bus architecture for high-performance servers. He started his career at Filanet Corporation where he spearheaded the concept, design, and introduction of the InterJak platform, an award winning Internet Service Appliance. Managed the product definition, design, regulatory-certification, production-release, sales-support of the InterJak product line across a range or broadband connections from 802.11b, ADSL, SDSL, T1/E1, V.35, to ISDN. He played key role in growing the company from the founding team to over 100 employees and multimillion-dollar sales and made major contribution in several design-wins. He is currently President - Ventura Finishing Systems, California USA.

TARUN ARORA (44) Independent Director

Mr. Arora is a science graduate from the Delhi University and has a MBA from the Birla Institute of Management Technology, Delhi.

Mr. Arora is a successful businessman and has over 2 decades of experience in Indian industry specializing in printing and packaging.

ADITYA SHARMA (32) Independent Director

A graduate in marketing from APEEJAY School of Marketing, Delhi and a MBA from Amity University, Mr. Sharma has over a decades business experience both in India and overseas.

Mr. Sharma started his career establishing a wholesale garment and shoes business in the United Kingdom.

After successfully running his business for three and half years Mr.Sharma moved back to India and has since established himself as one of Delhi's leading developers specializing in IT Parks and logistics warehousing.