Satyam director bags award

Satyam Computer Services Limited in a release said that its director, senior vice-president, and head (Asia-Pacific operations), Virender Aggarwal, became the first Indian national to receive the prestigious International Management Action Award (IMAA) from Singapore.

Aggarwal, shares the honour with three other business leaders who were presented the award by Cedric Foo, Singapore's minister of state for defence and national development.

Aggarwal was commended for growing the Asia-Pacific operations of Satyam from a three-member team in 2000 to eight development centres and eight sales offices across 11 countries with over 1,000 employees.