We are the biggest IT company in the world: Vyomesh Joshi ; A Valley veteran of 27 years, Vyomesh Joshi is also on the board of Yahoo. In India, on a rare trip 'back home' (to attend a family wedding), Joshi, or VJ to friends and colleagues, agreed to don his corporate duds for an hour and talk to BT's Kushan Mitra about his successes and the future of printing.

Five years ago, when Vyomesh Joshi took over the imaging and printer group (IPG) at Hewlett-Packard (HP), it had annual revenues of $19 billion and operating profits of $1.9 billion. In 2007, IPG had revenues of $28.46 billion and operating profits of $4.31 billion that's 27 per cent of $104-billion HP's overall revenues, but nearly half of its operating profits.

But that's not the only reason why the 53-year-old Joshi is a Silicon Valley heavyweight. A Valley veteran of 27 years, Joshi is also on the board of Yahoo. In India, on a rare trip 'back home' (to attend a family wedding), Joshi, or ...

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