Mr. Vinod Mahendroo
Award Year: 1998 | Degree Year: 1974
Mr. Vinod Mahendroo received his Bachelor of Technology degree in Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 1974. Subsequently, he obtained his Master in Business Administration degree from the Graduate School of Business, Harvard University in 1978. He is currently the President of Installed Base Support Services (IBSS) business group at Applied Materials in the US.
After completing his studies, Shri Mahendroo joined the Intel Corporation in 1978 and held a variety of Marketing and General Management positions for products including memories, micro-controllers & microprocessors, single board computers software and system products. From 1989 to 1992 he was the Director of Corporate Marketing and New Product Technologies at Chips and Technologies company.
Shri Mahendroo joined Applied Materials in 1992 and in a short time there has made an impact far greater than his assigned role. As Head of Corporate Marketing, he took the group from an analysis focused corporate function to an organization that has a leadership role in the company. He developed an Opportunity Assessment process that profoundly changed the way the entire corporation analyses their markets. In January 1995, he was promoted to Vice President Marketing and in September 1995 he was appointed as the President of Applied Materials Installed Base Support Services (IBSS), one of the six business units of the company. This group is responsible for the technical support and spare parts infrastructure for more than 9000 wafer manufacturing systems worldwide. The IBSS group is a pivotal one for Applied Materials and represents about 20 percent of the company’s revenue amounting to approximately $ 800 million annually. Shri Mahendroo’s leadership of IBSS has been characteristically marked by outstanding accomplishments resulting in the growth of this unit in revenue and profitability while maintaining focus on customer satisfaction by delivering strongly improved operational performance.
In honoring Shri Vinod Mahendroo we recognize the outstanding contributions made by an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in his managerial assignments in the fast-growing electronics industry and who through his work ethic, dedication, commitment and pursuit of excellence has set an example of leadership thus bringing glory to the name of the Institute.
