The John Locke Foundation
Cordially invites you to Shaftesbury Society Luncheon

With our special guest - Diju Raha, Chairman & CEO, EximSoft International.

The Challenges of Globalization

Monday, March 01, 2004 , 12pm
John Locke Foundation-200 W. Morgan St., Ste 200, Raleigh

Mr. Raha is a publicly acclaimed leader in global work, creating Nortel Networks’ major knowledge work Research & Development facility in 1989, and expanding this capability over the past decade. At Nortel, Mr. Raha served as Vice President for International Research and Development, breaking new ground in India, China as well as in Russia and Brazil. Mr. Raha was credited with jump starting the Indian IT tech boom.and was rightly called “India’s Catalyst”. Since his retirement from Nortel in 1999 Mr. Raha has been active in Information Technology initiatives. He has founded two companies, IPmeeting, a web-based product company in Canada, which he sold in 2000, and Eximsoft at Cary NC., a specialist in software product and services in the area of Mobile E Commerce, Secure Smart Card and Payment System.

Mr. Raha has been a visiting lecturer at Waterloo University, Ontario, Canada, Consultant to UN .and has held several executive positions with professional societies and charitable organizations .He was the Executive Director of United Way Palm Beach County, Member of Education Committee of the Florida Chamber of Commerce. Currently, Mr. Raha is the board member of the Canada India Business Council. He is a graduate in physical science from the University of Calcutta and electrical engineering from the University of Aston in Birmingham, England.