Subroto Bagchi, Co-Founder & Gardner, MindTree Ltd

Subroto Bagchi is best known for co-founding MindTree in 1999 where he started as the Chief Operating Officer. MindTree is among India's most admired companies across industries. In 2008, Bagchi took on the role of Gardener at MindTree.

In this new role, Bagchi spends one-on-one time with the Top-100 leaders at MindTree on their “personal-professional” issues to expand leadership capacity and build readiness for taking MindTree into the billion-dollar league. In addition, Bagchi works at the grassroots by making himself available to its 45 Communities of Practice that foster organizational learning, innovation and volunteerism within the organization. Bagchi serves the Board of MindTree as Vice Chairman.

He has written extensively in leading newspapers and magazines, and spoken at industry platforms and educational institutions the world over. His Business world column Arbor Mentis and Times of India column Times of Mind were widely read and discussed. Currently, he writes a column titled “Zen Garden” in Forbes India. Bagchi is on the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

Bagchi has authored three business best-sellers: The High Performance Entrepreneur, Go Kiss the World and The Professional as Penguin Portfolio books.