Mr. Jaswinder Singh Chadha
DASA Award Year: 2008 | Degree Year: 1990
Mr. Jaswinder Singh Chadha received his Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Delhi in 1990. He completed his MS in Industrial Engineering from The University of Texas at El Paso in 1992 and was a Doctoral candidate in Operations Research at Texas A&M University till 1995.
Mr. Chadha is presently Global Head of Analytics Practice at Cognizant. He is the founder of marketRx, a leading marketing analytic company.
Mr. Chadha founded marketRx in 2000. marketRx serves global life-science industry with a team of over 450 employees across offices in US, UK and India. marketRx has received many notable industry recognitions since its inception including Deloitte’s fastest growing technology companies in North America for three consecutive years (2005, 2006 and 2007), PwC & Entrepreneur Magazine’s ‘Hot 100’ fastest growing companies in the US (2005), Inc.500’s “Fastest Growing 500 companies” (2005) and Silicon India Magazine’s “si100 list of Top 100 technology companies formed in the US by people of Indian origin”. marketRx was acquired by Cognizant Technology Solutions for over $135M in November, 2007.
In recognition of his leadership and entrepreneurial achievements, Mr. Jaswinder Singh Chadha has been awarded the “Top Forty under Forty” award by NJBiz Magazine and “Entrepreneur of the Year Award” by Ernst & Young in 2004. As CEO of marketRx, his principal responsibilities included strategic planning and general management of the firm. He was deeply involved in the development of modelling techniques and advanced analytical software tools for sales and marketing optimisation. He has provided marketing strategies to a number of major global pharmaceutical clients, in virtually every major market in the world.
Mr. Chadha has taken keen interest in the growth of his Alma Mater. He has been responsible for the setting up of Jaswinder and Tarvinder Chadha Chair of Operations Research at IIT Delhi. He has also helped in setting up of Nilgiri 1990 Batch Scholarship at IIT Delhi. He has been a speaker at several IIT events and is a mentor to the IIT/TiE joint Mentorship program titled Mentor’s Circle.
In honouring Mr. Jaswinder Singh Chadha, IIT Delhi recognises the significant efforts and contributions made by him for the development and progress of the Institute.
