Vijay Prasad named to PMI Board of Directors

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Newtown Square, Pa., 12 November 2009 — Project Management Institute (PMI), the world’s leading project management professional membership organization, has elected Vijay Prasad, M.Tech, PMP, and four others, to its Board of Directors. The volunteer leadership group governs PMI and carries out the purposes and objectives of the organization and is comprised of 15 elected directors-at-large, each serving three-year terms. Mr. Prasad is the first volunteer from India to serve as a PMI board member.
Mr. Prasad is an alumnus of the National Institute of Technology, Warangal and the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. He has more than 25 years of global project management experience and has assumed strategic leadership roles at both profit and not-for-profit organizations. He is a founding member of Health Management & Research Institute (HMRI), India, a not-for-profit organization delivering healthcare to the underprivileged through innovative technologies and best management practices. Earlier, Mr. Prasad was chairman of the Board for Knowledge Dynamics Pte Ltd., Singapore, and also a director on the Board of C&S System Technologies Pvt Ltd, a joint venture started between Computer Associates International Inc, USA and Satyam, which later became a wholly owned subsidiary of Satyam. Mr. Prasad held the positions of Head of Enterprise Applications and Business Intelligence Solutions global practice group and CIO at Satyam.
He is currently an advisor to Mahindra Satyam, a global IT services company.
Mr. Prasad has been a frequent contributor at PMI Leadership Institute meetings, presented at PMI Global Congresses, and remains a tireless advocate for PMI and the project management profession. He has been an advisor to PMI Pearl City Chapter, Hyderabad, India. He was the first chairman of PMI Team India, an integration of all chapters in India aimed to derive synergy to accelerate PMI’s envisioned goal.
“Project management is the most essential and transformational discipline of the 21st century,” said Prasad. “I welcome this opportunity to serve PMI on a global basis and provide continued and enhanced volunteerism, experience and passion for project management which is indispensible for business results.”
PMI Board of Directors, the international volunteer leadership group is responsible for setting strategy, establishing policies, and providing oversight to meet the needs of the PMI members and other stakeholders worldwide. Others newly elected to the Board of Directors for 2010 include Shirley Edwards, PMP; Frank Parth, MSSM, MBA, PMP; and Ricardo Triana, PMP. Eugene Bounds, PMP, was elected to his second three year term and named Chair of the Board. The newly-elected board and its Board-elected officers will take office on 1 January, 2010.
About Project Management Institute (PMI)
The world’s leading project management professional membership organization, PMI shares knowledge with nearly 500,000 members and credential holders in over 185 countries. Since 1969, PMI has impacted more than one million practitioners, businesses, governments, students and training organizations. Today, PMI’s products and services range from world-class standards for project, program and portfolio management to five professional credentials, including the gold standard Project Management Professional (PMP)®. PMI’s exclusive Global Corporate Council and European Corporate Networking Group engage large multinationals and government organizations in endorsing the value of project management. The only project management association with an established academic research program, PMI has invested more than US$14 million in support of dozens of research projects since 1997. Learn more at PMI.org.