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 Sandeep Sahai, the President and Chief Operating Officer of Headstrong  has got 19 years  of distributed consulting experience. Sahai co-founded TechSpan with Arjun Malhotra, in which he acted as Managing Partner of US Operations (East) & Financial Services which has been merged with Headstrong in October 2003. Before entering Techspan  he was the CEO of Virginia-based SkanSoft, a company related to the financial and telecom markets.

Sandeep Sahai is an IIM product as he completed his MBA from IIM, Calcutta.He completed his schooling from Doon school, Dehradun and gained his engineering degree from Institute of Technology, Varanasi.  Mr. Sahai has been invited to speak at several industry conferences on offshore outsourcing as a strategic tool for IT managers. Mr. Sahai also played a vital role in organizing and development of HCL James Martin, a joint venture between HCL and James Martin & Company, aimed at higher-end consulting in which he  served a 10-year tenure with the HCL group.

Sandeep Sahai performed exceedingly well in providing relationship management for major number of TechSpan’s Financial Services clients during the period in which he served as Managing Director for Clients, Sales and Consultants in North America.Sahai is interested in financial sector as he stated that “We want to be the best consulting company for the financial services industry across the world. We don’t want to be the best IT consulting company. That is not our ambition.”

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              Wind energy is renewable & posses no major environmental problems. Wind energy potential for different applications cannot be overlooked in a country like India where considerable amount of wind power is available. There is growing international consensus on the challenges in the energy sector from the high cost of oil & long term energy security, to environmental concerns & commitments like Kyoto protocol. Many countries are trying to adopt policies to encourage investment in wind energy and the development of the industry.

There is no fundamental reason why wind turbines cannot be a major part of any utility grid where there are good wind resources, provided they can complete with more familiar systems on the basis of cost , reliability & public acceptance. In this context , wind energy has found a very conducive environment to build synergies in operations around the world. Although wind energy technology demands careful attention to scientific & engineering detail, it is well within the capabilities of most if not all countries & is becoming economically competitive is many regions around the world. In parallel Indian industry has gone through a resurgence of entrepreneurship & emerged with a will to take on the world.

A country wide wind pump demonstration program is being undertaken in India & over 2000 wind pumps have already been executed. It has been verified that the average capital cost & cost of power generation for 1Mw projects undertaken is India so far , ranging between Rs 1.5 to 1.75 crores/Mw & Rs 1.25 to 1.5 Kwh respectively, depending upon the site. These costs are already comparable to those for thermal power generation & lower than generation of power from thermal units. Exactly capitalizing on this Suzlon energy limited ,just over a decade worked to harness the wind across India & became the world largest wind turbine manufacturer in terms of market capitalization.

However due to the diminishing supplies of conventional fuels , cost for thermal power generation has been considerably increasing which made wind energy to play an increasingly important role in world full of booming economics, to power the world with bright future.

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