Prior to that Basab was the Head of Global Sales & Marketing at Infosys Technologies (NASDAQ:INFY), a leading IT Services company based upon the offshore service delivery model. In his 11 years at Infosys, Basab was part of the creation of an industry - the offshore IT services industry - and its leading exponent - Infosys.

At Infosys, Basab served in many roles in the Sales organization. He established the company's New York office in 1995 and started many of the company's current Financial Services clients. The last 3 years at Infosys, Basab was responsible for worldwide Sales, Marketing and Industry Solutions. He additionally had operational P&L responsibility for a clutch of businesses amounting to a third of the company's revenues. Basab was largely responsible for the successful re-organization of the company into vertical P&Ls in 2003. While delivering industry-leading revenue growth, he led the transformation of Infosys' client services organization into a high-performance team, able to take on and win against global competition. In FY05, Infosys grew 49% in revenues to $1.6B, thereby becoming the fastest growing, most profitable IT Services company with revenues over $1B.

Prior to Infosys, Basab worked at Hindustan Lever, Unilever's India subsidiary, in Mumbai. Basab has an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad and an Engineering degree from IIT Kanpur. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.