There is an article on Times of India web site about Jayant Murthy who heads Intel Asia Marketing Division.
Here is the full article.
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Intel-ligently yours
He sees a movie a day, is a compulsive traveller and sometimes in life wants to pen a joke book. That's Jayant Murthy, who also happens to head the marketing division of Intel, Asia
CHANDIGARH: It's impossible to be an interesting conversationalist without being an interesting person yourself. Jayant Murty, general manager, marketing, Intel Asia Electronics Inc. is someone who is both. In city to discuss the future of Pentium 4, he confides, "I have done many strange things in my life".
He spent a major part of his childhood at Kalpakkam, the site of the Chennai atomic power plant. Since his father was a nuclear engineer, he too decided to become one and after studying in Central Schools all his life, enrolled in IIT, Chennai.
He recollects, "After spending 13 years on the coast where Kalpakkam is situated, life took a newer meaning and then IIT was something else altogether." Terming his sojourn at IIT "as the best years of his life" he says, "Because the campus is adjoining a deer park, antelopes, black bucks, deer and lots of snakes were what used to greet me every morning and was the best thing in all those four years."
Then he went on to get an MBA degree from the Bajaj Institute of Management and then embarked on some really interesting professional stopovers.
He worked at Coates Viyella, a textile company, also joined the advertising firm Lintas and what's more, turned entrepreneur and put up the Vanity Fair brand of premium lingerie. If that's not enough, he went on to head the Bombay outfit of Contract, also an advertising firm.
So many switchovers would give ulcers even to a man made of the finest steel, not our man though, for he says, "My engineering course from IIT made me a naval architect so I knew that I could get a job anywhere and thus I experimented but did all this with only one thought - that I should enjoy my work and see the world."
His present job at Intel is what he says, "enjoyment personified". Hound him for the reasons and he says, "Somewhere in my mind that germ of being an engineer was ticking and since I come from a family of engineers where things were never bought, only made, I decided to follow the line." His liaison with Intel he says," will last for a long time because this is the place where "the adrenalin is, where the ideas are".
India he feels "is just about to explode in terms of PC penetration and I want to be here when the explosion happens". As for the city beautiful, he says, "It's the most livable city after Bangalore that is open to all kinds of technologies."
This 35-year-old man is an intense chess player and likes to dabble in tennis and swimming. A big-time movie buff, he says "I see movies everyday" and also is a compulsive traveler which he says, "is how I manage to see the world". His one big dream is to "give something back to the community like teaching a few children, something what my father does".
What's next is "probably a joke book or a stint as an assistant cameraman with the National Geographic channel." Knowing him, we can surely expect it!
HARNEET SINGH