Unlike the India heads of other global information technology (IT) firms, Sandeep Mathur, the new managing director of Oracle in India is not very well known in the industry circle.
It is because he had been silently growing one of the businesses of Oracle in India that today comprises almost 80 per cent of the company’s product business in the country. As the vice-president (technology) of Oracle’s database and exadata business in the country, he was responsible for the server & database business, which is Oracle’s largest business in the country, considering that the company is a leader in the database segment.
Besides, as the director of Oracle Direct, the North America business of Oracle, Mathur played a crucial role in setting up the company’s offshore inside-sale operations for the North American sales operations. Industry observers feel, while Mathur has grown with the company since he joined it in 2003, he may be lacking the charisma his predecessors — Bhaskar Pramanik and Krishan Dhawan — used to have. “He represents Oracle’s face of a product organisation in India; he is not the true face of the company in India,” said an analysts of a leading firm, requesting not to be named.
For Mathur, there is another thing to cheer about. This home-grown chief executive is a made-in-Bangalore product. he did his bachelors in electronics and communications from BMS College of Engineering, then under the Bangalore University. And, after his appointment as the MD of Oracle India, Mathur, unlike his predecessors, will be located out of Bangalore.
