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'''Vikram Talwar''' is an Indian businessman. He is now retired from the firm he co-founded and worked at for almost 15 years, [[EXL Service]].<ref name="retirement" /><br />
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In 1970, Vikram obtained his [[M.B.A.]]([[Postgraduate education|Postgraduation degree]]) from [[Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad|Indian Institute of Management]] (IIM), [[Ahmedabad]], India. At the age of 25, Vikram migrated to [[San Francisco]], United States, and worked for [[Bank of America]] (BOA) in various capacities in nine countries in [[Asia]], including as a Country Manager in India from 1970 to 1996. At BOA, Vikram was among the youngest senior Vice Presidents of the bank in 1991.<ref>{{Cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/jobs/20boss.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Ar%2C%7B%222%22%3A%22RI%3A14%22%7D&_r=0|title = It's Clearly Not Retirement|access-date = 17 Dec 2014|work = The New York Times}}</ref><br />
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After 26 years of service with the bank, he worked as [[chief executive officer]] and [[managing director]] at [[Ernst & Young]] in India from 1998 to 1999. He quit Ernst & Young to start his own firm ''Exl Service Holdings, Inc.,'' with Rohit Kapoor, a colleague from Bank of America in April 1999.<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.forbes.com/2008/01/25/exl-outsource-talwar-lead-manage-cx_tw_0125facetime.html|title = Global Nomad|access-date = 17 Dec 2014|work = Forbes}}</ref><br />
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From the inception of his own firm, he served at his company in various capacities—as a Chief Executive Officer from April 1999; as Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of company's board of directors from November 2002 to April 2008; as Executive Chairman from May 2008 till April 2011; and as a Chairman from April 2011 to February 2014.<ref name="retirement">{{cite web|title=VIKRAM TALWAR TO RETIRE FROM EXL BOARD OF DIRECTORS|url=http://ir.exlservice.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=814714|website=EXL|access-date=12 December 2017}}</ref><br />
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In an interview to Sudhir Chowdhary, a ''[[The Financial Express (India)|The Financial Express]]'' correspondent, he says "one is never too old to embark on a new adventure in life," and further adds:<ref>{{Cite news|url = http://archive.financialexpress.com/news/the-late-bloomer/766990/0|title = The late bloomer|access-date = 17 Dec 2014|publisher = The Financial Express}}</ref>{{Cquote|Life is never perfect. You make plans, they have to be changed. But you keep moving, keep flowing along. I myself am trying to figure out how to reinvent myself from next month onwards.}}<br />
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==Awards==<br />
He won the Metro New York Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for Business Services in 2008.<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://ir.exlservice.com/committees.cfm Committee Composition - Chairman of the Board:Vikram Talwar]<br />
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[[Category:Indian chief executives]]<br />
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