Mr. Kiran Sharadchandra Karnik, the leading man and driving force behind India's outsourcing industry, is well known. Karnik is best known as the President of NASSCOM (an apex body representing the country's software sector) from 2001 to 2008. Karnik has worked with the Central & State Governments of India to develop policies and strategies to help the local IT sector grow. and internationally.

    He is currently one of the trustees of NASSCOM. He was recently appointed as one of the ten board members of Satyam Computer Services after the company went into liquidation due to gross irregularities in accounting.

   Post graduate from Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. Also holds degrees from Mumbai University and Physics. He was an important part of promoting India's technological strengths to the rest of the world during the outsourcing setbacks.

   Karnik has held many leadership positions in his life and has a very commendable body of work behind him. He was the Director of the Development and Educational Communication Unit from 1983 to 1991. He was instrumental in the creation of Discovery Channel South Asia in 1995 and Animal Planet in 1999. He was the Managing Director of Indian Discovery Networks from 1995 to 2001.

   For more than 20 years, he has been associated with the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). He has worked in many areas related to the planning, conception and implementation of space technology applications, with a special focus on communications for development.

   He was also a member of the management team of India's USA Satellite Instructional TV launch. (SITE). The International Astronautical Federation awarded him the Frank Malina Medal for Space Education. In 2001, he was elected as the president of Nasscom.

   And the mild-mannered Karnik has managed to silence his critics as he steers the services industry through an anti-US outsourcing wave, BPO data theft scandals and the H1B visa crisis. He has proven that there is strength behind quiet power and politeness and a quiet exterior An important step in the fast-changing e-waste sector, he was appointed as the first "Independent Director" of the Atero Recycling Board in 2008. He was also appointed to the board of Sasken Communication Technologies Limited in 2009, a telecom services company.

   Karnik Kheda was involved in the conception of the Communications Project and supervised it for many years. His pioneering efforts have earned him international and national acclaim. He received UNESCO's first IPDC Prize for Rural Communication. He was a key member of the management team of the India-USA Satellite Instructional TV Experiment (SITE), the first large-scale use of satellite direct broadcasting (1975–1976). This experiment brought education and development to rural India.

    As Special Assistant to the Secretary General of UNISPACE 82, he is an international advisor. He has completed consulting assignments for the WHO and the World Bank, the UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UN Institute for Disarmament Research), the Ford Foundation, as well as an extended assignment for UNESCO in Afghanistan.

   Karnik's career spanned three decades and he received numerous accolades and awards. The International Astronautical Federation awarded him the Frank Malina Medal for Space Education in 1998. Also received the Padma Shri Award by the Government of India in 2007 and 'DATAQUESTIT Person of the Year - 2005'. In 2004 Business Week named him one of the "Stars of Asia". Forbes magazine named him "Face of the Year 2003". For his role in India's offshoring boom.

   He has extensive experience in media and IT and is a member of the Global Advisory Board at IDG Ventures India. He also served as a director at Mid-Day Multimedia Limited.

   Cornick has published and edited several publications. He also gives lectures in national educational institutions.