[7] Mr. Rao stayed on as non-executive chairman of MphasiS and for some time as advisor to EDS.
He was Head of the Development Division of Citicorp and Chairman and CEO of Transaction Technologies Inc., based in California.
[8] Rao is an alumnus of Loyola College, Chennai, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and the University of Chicago.
He has also been given a Distinguished Alumnus Award from Loyola College, IIM Ahmedabad and the University of Chicago.
strategy, customer relationship management (CRM) and e-commerce – a subject on which he has testified before the US Congress[citation needed].
He has been the Chairman of India's National Association of Software and Service Companies – NASSCOM.