Chairman since February 2002

Age: 37 years

Santanu Ghosh, Chairman & Managing Director of the Xenitis Group, believes that the new millennium has with its inception ushered in an era in which success in business depends largely on ideation, enterprise and an unrelenting study of the market conditions.

The market, he says, may not be taken for granted and all its changing nuances must be visible to the corporate scanner. These are changes that the group must remain alive to and frame its long and short term corporate and fiscal policies accordingly. “Ignorance and negligence of the unforgiving market has seen to the death of several business dynasties, to say nothing of smaller enterprises,” says Chairman. “And those who forget history are condemned to repeat it.”

Santanu Ghosh’s own spectacular rise has been guaranteed by his hawk-eyed understanding of the sector of his operation and is driven by his indomitable enterprise and business acumen. In 2002, he rewrote Eastern India’s business history by bringing Amar PC to the drawing room of the middle and lower end consumer. Xenitis Infotech, now manufactures desktops, laptops and the singular manufacturer of cases/cabinets, keyboards, mouse, power-supplies/smps and speakers in India.

The Xenitis Group has also forayed into motorcycle and scooter manufacturing under the brand banners of Xpression and Xpression plus, produced by Xenitis Group company Global Automobiles. The Group also includes Xenitis Technolab for  imparting hardware, networking and security training and Xenitis Telecommunications, which will manufacture mobile handsets and is set to storm the Indian market by end October.

A computer graduate with a six year stint with Digital (now Compaq) and IBM, Santanu Ghosh furthered the cause of computer literacy for the masses by launching India’s first sub 10K PC.