Sanjeev Aggarwal,
Managing Director - Investment Advisor,
Helion Venture Partners
Sanjeev Aggarwal was the Founder & CEO of Daksh, having been with the company since its inception in 2000 to its acquisition by IBM in 2004. He ran the company as its CEO till June 2006. Daksh was a pioneer in the BPO sector in the year 2000 and had over 20,000 employees by June 2006. Daksh delivers business process outsourcing services across several industries and for several horizontal segments such as CRM and Finance & Accounting to Fortune 500 clients. It has centres/marketing offices in India/Philippines/UK and USA. Daksh raised three rounds of financing from blue-chip investors like Actis, Citigroup and General Atlantic Partners.
During this period, Daksh won the “Contact Centre Outsourcing Vendor of the Year (2006)” award by Frost & Sullivan. Daksh was also rated as the world's Best Managed BPO company (Black Book of outsourcing) and was ranked as the #1 employer in the Indian BPO market by IDC. Sanjeev was chosen “Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the year” in 2002.
