Prakash Puram

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Prakash Puram is President and CEO of Ixmatch, and a member of President Bush's Export Council.

Puram has had leadership and product management roles at Net Perceptions, Honeywell, IBM, Pillsbury, and Unilever. He received a BS from Loyola College, Madras, India; a Business Management diploma from XLRI, Jamshedpur, India; an MBA from the University of Minnesota; and a Master's in Competitive Strategy and Trade Policy from Harvard University. Prakash serves on the advisory board of the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. He is a private pilot, and speaks Japanese and some Russian. Prakash was a torch-runner for the Atlanta Olympics. On 2005-09-22 U.S. President George W. Bush nominated Prakash to be a member of the President's Export Council. Following a breakfast with Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Alan Greenspan, Prakash and other new members were sworn-in on 2005-12-06 by U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez who administered the oath of Office. White House Chief of Staff, Andrew H. Card Jr., attended the swearing-in ceremony, representing the President. [1]

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