Mr. Som Mittal has over 32 years working experience, of which the last 18 years have been in the IT industry. He has been Managing Director of Digital/Compaq and chief executive with Wipro.

Besides being actively associated with Nasscom (he was even its chairman in 2003-04), he has been closely associated with other industry bodies like MAIT and CII. He was directly involved with the formulation and implementation of Karnataka's IT policy.

He has been on the CII National Council for several years and on the chief ministers' IT Task Force. He is also the founding member of the IIIT, Bangalore and the Board of IT Education Standards.