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COGNIZANT TO ACQUIRE MARKETRX, A LEADING PROVIDER OF LIFE SCIENCES MARKET ANALYTICS


COGNIZANT COMPLETES THE ACQUISITION OF MARKETRX





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Charles A. Sanders, M.D.
Former Chairman & CEO of Glaxo Inc.,
Charles A. Sanders, M.D., is the former chairman and CEO of Glaxo Inc., as well as a former member of the board of Glaxo plc.

Before joining Glaxo Inc., Dr. Sanders spent eight years with Squibb Corp., where he held a number of posts, including the position of vice chairman. He also served as chief executive officer of the Science and Technology Group and chairman of the Science and Technology Committee of the Board. Previously Dr. Sanders was general director of Massachusetts General Hospital and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. A native of Dallas, he is a graduate of Southwestern Medical College of the University of Texas.

Dr. Sanders is past chairman of the New York Academy of Sciences. He is currently a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, a trustee of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and of Meredith College, chairman of Project HOPE, and chairman of the Commonwealth Fund. In addition, he serves on the boards of several publicly traded companies and is a member of the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology.


William A. Schreyer
Chairman Emeritus, Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
William A. Schreyer is chairman emeritus of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., the global financial services corporation with offices in 43 countries and total client assets exceeding $1.8 trillion. During his tenure as chairman of the board from April 1985 through June 1993 and chief executive officer from July 1984 through April 1992, Merrill Lynch ascended to its position as the world's largest and most-profitable securities underwriter and a leading strategic adviser to corporations, governments, institutions, and individuals worldwide.

Mr. Schreyer joined Merrill Lynch in 1948 as a management trainee and rose through the ranks in a succession of sales, trading, investment banking, and management positions. As chairman and CEO, he was a leading advocate of fair, open, and harmoniously regulated global markets, of U.S. government policies encouraging greater savings and investment to secure the nation's international competitiveness, and of ethics in business. He served as vice chairman of the Board of the New York Stock Exchange from 1987 until May 1990, and was a leader of stock exchange delegations to the former Soviet Union and to the People's Republic of China to encourage the development of securities markets there. He has addressed numerous international forums on the vital role of finance in economic development.

A life-long supporter of education, Mr. Schreyer has served as a member of the Board of Trustees of his alma mater, The Pennsylvania State University, since 1986 and as Chairman from 1993 until 1996. He became trustee emeritus in 1998. He also serves as a member of its Smeal College of Business Administration Board of Visitors. In 1997, the Schreyers endowed the Schreyer Honors College at Penn State through a gift of $30 million. The college will create a model for undergraduate education in American higher education, will nurture a global perspective by actively incorporating international study, and will enrich the students' academic lives by teaming them with adult mentors who will serve as role models and inspire responsible citizenship. Mr. Schreyer initiated Merrill Lynch's unique Scholarship Builder Program in 1988, a trust that covers higher education costs for 250 economically disadvantaged grade school children in ten cities throughout the United States. Ninety-three percent of the students graduated in 2000 and are headed to college.


Thomas H. Patrick
Formerl Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
Thomas H. Patrick, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, served on Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.'s 20-member Executive Management Committee. Mr. Patrick has held the position of Executive Vice President and Chairman of the Special Advisory Services Group and also served as CFO in 1989 and 1990.
Mr. Patrick headed the Merrill Lynch Insurance Group from 1990 to 1992 and the Equity Markets Group from 1992 to 1994. He joined Merrill Lynch in 1978 with the acquisition of investment bank White, Weld & Co. Mr. Patrick has had wide experience in the financial services industry, including commercial banking, investment banking and insurance. He has advised numerous major corporations on financing strategy, structure and techniques. He was co-inventor of Merrill Lynch's proprietary LYONs™ product, and introduced many corporate issuers to its advantages.

Dennis Turner
Former CEO & Chairman, PMSI
Dennis Turner is an active Investor, Director and Consultant in the healthcare/life sciences, energy and technology industries. An extremely successful entrepreneur and executive, Dennis developed the original business strategy and co-founded Walsh International Inc. (NASDAQ: WSHI) to provide a new generation of information and marketing services to the global pharmaceutical industry.

He took over as Chairman of Walsh and took the company public on NASDAQ in the US in April 1996 and negotiated its sale to IMS Health (NYSE: RX) in April 1998. Concurrent with this public offering, he spun off a new private company, Source Informatics Inc, which successfully developed the next generation of product and sales measurement tools for the global pharmaceutical industry. Dennis was the Chief Executive of that business until it was sold to NDC Corporation (NYSE: NDC) in December 1997 for in excess of $150 million.

He was previously the Chairman and CEO of PMSI Inc. and has held senior executive positions at IMS Intenational including Senior Vice-President at IMS International and President of IMS America.

Robert P. Luciano
Chairman Emeritus, Schering Plough
Former Chairman Emeritus, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Schering-Plough Corporation. Mr. Luciano served as CEO of Schering-Plough from 1982 to 1996, and was Chairman of the Board from 1984 to 1998. Mr. Luciano was elected a Director of Merrill Lynch & Co., in 1989. Mr. Luciano is also a Director of Honeywell International, and Allied Signal, Inc.


Mohan Sawhney, PhD
McCormick Tribune Professor of Electronic Commerce & Technology, Kellogg Graduate School of Management
Mohanbir Sawhney is the McCormick Tribune Professor of Electronic Commerce and Technology and the Director of the Center for Research in Technology, Innovation, and E-Commerce at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

Prof. Sawhney is a globally recognized author, speaker, teacher, and consultant in e-Business strategy and technology marketing. In May 2000, Business Week named him as one of the 25 most influential people in e-Business. In November 1999, Crain’s Chicago Business named him a member of “40 under 40”, a select group of young business leaders in the Chicago area. The World Economic Forum has invited him as a Forum Fellow to its annual meeting in Davos since 1999. In August 2001, the editors of FORTUNE invited him to their Brainstorm 2001 conference as one of the “smartest people we know”.

Prof. Sawhney is the co-author of two recent books - The Seven Steps to Nirvana: Strategic Insights into eBusiness Transformation (McGraw Hill, 2001), and Techventure: New Rules for Value and Profit from Silicon Valley (John Wiley & Sons, 2001). His research has been published in leading journals like California Management Review, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Interactive Marketing, Management Science, Marketing Science, and Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. He has won several awards for his research, including the 2001 Accenture Award for the best paper published in California Management Review in 2000. He also writes for leading trade publications like the Financial Times, CIO Magazine, Context, and Business 2.0.

Prof. Sawhney has created three new MBA courses at Kellogg - Technology Marketing, TechVenture, and Technology & Global Resource Arbitrage, as well as a popular executive course - Winning Strategies for e-Business. He has won several awards for teaching. He was named the Outstanding Professor of the Year at Kellogg in 1998, and has been a finalist for this award in 1997 and 1996. He also received the Sidney Levy Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1999 and 1995.

Prof. Sawhney advises and speaks to Global 2000 firms worldwide. A much-sought after speaker, he addressed senior executive audiences in over 15 countries in four continents in the past year. His speaking and consulting clients include Accenture, ADP, ABN-AMRO Bank, Bank of America, Bell Canada, Dell Computer Corporation, Deloitte Consulting, Denstu, Dow Chemical Company, Eli Lilly, Estee Lauder, General Mills, Goldman Sachs, Hallmark, Honeywell, Infosys, Kraft Foods, Microsoft, Nomura Research Institute, Rockwell Automation, Sears Roebuck & Company, Stena AB, Telemar, Thomson Corporation, and USA Networks. He is a Fellow at DiamondCluster International; a member of the TechBrains advisory board at Merrill Lynch; a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE); and a member of the NRI Advisory Committee on Telecom for the Government of India. He also serves on the boards and advisory boards of several technology startup companies.

Prof. Sawhney holds a Ph.D. in marketing from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania; a Master’s degree in management from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta; a Master’s degree in Arts from the University of Pennsylvania; and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.


Rick S. Braddock
Partner at Mid Ocean Partners
Rick Braddock has joined MidOcean Partners as a partner recently. He is also serving as a Chairman of the Board of Directors of priceline.com since August 1998 and was most recently Chief Executive Officer of the company from May 2001 to November 2002 and from August 1998 to May 2000. From 1973 to 1992, Mr. Braddock held a variety of positions at Citicorp and its principal subsidiary, Citibank, N.A., including President and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Braddock also served as CEO of Medco Containment Services, non-executive Chairman of True North Communications, Inc., and special advisor to General Atlantic Partners LLC. Mr. Braddock also serves as Director of Eastman Kodak Company, Cadbury Schweppes plc, MphasiS-BFL Limited, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and Lennox Hill Hospital, and is a trustee of the Cancer Research Institute.


Robert Brown, DSc
Former Vice President, marketRx, Inc.
Robert Brown, D.Sc., has over 25 years of healthcare sales and marketing experience. Dr. Brown worked at marketRx as VP, Special Projects, where he combined his knowledge of pharmaceutical sales & marketing with emerging trends in the pharmaceutical marketplace, to guide the development of new product concepts. Dr. Brown is a widely recognized authority on sales force design and promotion optimization. Before joining marketRx, Dr. Brown served as CEO and Chairman of Health Products Research, Inc., now a division of Ventiv Health, Inc. Dr. Brown was a manager of Corporate Marketing Services at Johnson & Johnson. He holds a doctorate in Operations Research from George Washington University.



About Sequoia Capital India

Sequoia Capital India (previously WestBridge Capital Partners) is the Indian arm of Sequoia Partners, USA. The fund focuses primarily on cross-border U.S.-India corporations that are targeting global markets. It invests in both Information Technology and Outsourced Services companies across all stages. Sequoia Capital nurtures the seeds that grow into the giants of the technology and services companies. The parent venture capital firm backed such little acorns as Apple Computer, Yahoo!, Cisco Systems and fertilizes some of Silicon Valley's most promising seedlings. Sequoia Capital India's investors include leading institutions and entrepreneurs across the globe. For more information, visit http://www.sequoiacap.com/india/



About Andwel Group

Founded in 1979, Andwel Partners is a privately owned equity fund that actively pursues investments in the information services, communications and healthcare industries.





 

 

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