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SAP India Head Ranjan Das passes away

Ranjan Das, CEO and Managing Director, SAP Indian Subcontinent, who played huge role in taking business of SAP India to greater height in the last two years, died today morning due to heart attack. It is learnt that he collapsed at his home in Raheja Bay, Bandra, after returning from the building's in-house gym.

In July 2007, Das was relocated to Mumbai from SAP's offices in Silicon Valley in the U.S. At SAP Labs in the U.S, he co-founded the business unit for xApps, the first packaged composite business applications in the industry.

Friends in the industry said Das was an unlikely candidate for a heart attack, since he was known to exercise regularly and be scrupulous in his food habits. Nagaraj Bhargava, a former Director, marketing and strategic initiatives, SAP India, who worked with Das for more than 18 months, described him as a smart, intelligent and ambitious individual. "He would never miss a gym routine, come what may," Bhargava added.

Born in 1967, Das earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

"He was a promising and dynamic person. This is a terrible loss and he will certainly be missed," said Girish Paranjpe, CEO, Wipro.

Prior to joining SAP, Ranjan was the Founder and CEO of Patkai Networks, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital-funded software startup company. Earlier, he held a variety of roles at Oracle in Redwood Shores, California. He started his career as a software engineer at InterSystems and Kenan Systems, both based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The long hours and frequent travel between different time zones required by the industry have led many people to wonder if executives in the IT industry are more susceptible to the dangers of a heart attack. However, Nasscom President Som Mittal said that it is not specific to the industry. "I don't think it is an IT industry issue. He never looked over-stressed to me. It is very unfortunate," he said.

1 comments:

  1. Explosive news: Ranjan Das murdered.

    Following are the extracts from the blog
    http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/SAP_India_Head_Ranjan_Das_passes_away-nid-62215.html/1/2

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    Adulterous wife killed Ranjan Das.

    The whole world was shocked by the news of passing away of Ranjan Das, but for some it was not unexpected. Late Ranjan Das had expressed his troubles of family life and threats, to a few. These issues are totally unknown to his colleagues in SAP India, though some of his colleagues in the US and family in Assam ware aware of it.

    It is a Rs.3,000 crore scandal. His house in San Fransisco is alone worth some Rs.500 crore. Insurance claims, bank balances, investments, SAP contract etc consolidated make this amount.

    For some years his family life was not going smooth. His wife Rupa Barua (alias Rajashree) is extravagant in her spending. She is not a caring mother, discarded Ranjan’s primary kins. Poor fellow Ranjan had been digesting all these things. Moreover he became aware of that she has developed illicit relationship with other men. She is a big flirt. All these made him to make up his mind for divorce. There is information that he was discussing of filing divorce petition with some lawyer. Divorce compensation to wife in case of her proven infidelity is negligible. So, Rupa addicted to luxury killed him like a chicken.

    Late Ranjan Das was administered some drug along with his food which caused cardiac arrest. After the cardiac arrest delays were made to take him to hospital, though Lilavati Hospital is just in the back side of his apartment. He was proceeded to hospital when he was almost dead. In the hospital Rupa coolly accepted his death. She, as a guardian turned down proposal of autopsy which as a procedure is done in case of sudden death of healthy people. Media was also bluffed. To maintain privacy or what so ever reason it was not allowed to go in detail. Simply said Ranjan Das passed away after a massive heart attack, which everyone found hard to believe.

    After his death there was a hurry to cremate the body. Ranjan’s mother and siblings were not even informed about his death. They came to know through media and indirect sources. Rupa than made a phone call and asked them not to bring Ranjan’s brother (as pressure may be created for investigation). The SAP AG administration has officially taken into account the information in the link below.
    http://www.telegraphindia.com/1091027/jsp/nor theast/story_11661026.jsp

    I recall the Srimad Bhagawat Geeta’s statement that in this material world, from the lowest position to the top position, all are full of misery.

    I appeal to the young generation that be careful in choosing your life partner.

    ( Note: I am a family friend of late Ranjan Das. The above statements are true to the best of my knowledge. I prefer to remain anonymous. )
    Posted by: Ashok Srivastav - 04 Nov, 2009

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    money and amourous relationships makes people mad. i have heard from insiders at his residence that rupa and her relatives were gorging themselves on meat during the mourning period and also that she introduced imposters as ranjan's family to SAP employees and an imposter did his mukhagni. it's surely a murder.
    Posted by: ravindra - 05 Nov, 2009

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