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The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals® (IAOP®) is pleased to announce that Joshua R. Jewett, Senior Vice President – Information Technology and Procurement & CIO, Family Dollar Stores,  Dmitry A. Loschinin, President & CEO, Luxoft and the late Dewang Mehta, past president, NASSCOM are 2010 inductees into The Outsourcing Hall of Fame. The recipients were selected by IAOP’s Advocacy & Outreach Committee, chaired by Atul Vashistha, CEO of Neo Advisory, and were inducted into the Hall of Fame at IAOP’s Outsourcing World  Summit, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, on February 16, 2010.

Joshua R. Jewett Senior Vice President – Information Technology and Procurement, CIO Family Dollar Stores

Mr. Jewett has strategic and operational responsibility for all aspects of Information Technology for this $8 Billion national discount retailer.  He leads a team that designs, develops, deploys, and supports all hardware, software, networking, and telecommunications for all of Family Dollar’s stores, regional offices, distribution centers, corporate campus, several hundred mobile employees, and internet presence.  Mr. Jewett is also responsible for assuring the Information Technology department and its investments in technology align with, support, and deliver the company’s vision to be the best small-format convenience and value retailer serving the needs of families in our neighborhoods.  While in this capacity, Mr. Jewett has expanded the capacity of the IT function through multinational, strategic partnerships designed to augment both resources and skills, provide cost and process efficiencies through a global delivery model, and deliver several significant technological achievements for the company in recent years.  He and his team have overseen the design, development, and implementation of a new store systems architecture for all 6,600 plus retail location, several new financial and global supply chain management components, an enterprise data warehouse, and the variety of other solutions required to enable the chain to augment its store count and revenue considerably in recent years.

Mr. Jewett is also separately responsible for the Indirect Procurement function at Family Dollar.  He leads a team that selects and manages the suppliers of several hundred million dollars worth of goods and services Family Dollar requires to provision and operate its facilities across the country.  In this capacity, Mr. Jewett has overseen an analysis of all of the company’s indirect expenditures, prioritized structured sourcing efforts against areas of opportunity, and led a team to deploy processes and tools designed to support a new center-led procurement model for these essential goods and services for the company.  These efforts have led to a significant reduction in annual SG&A for the company over the past three years.

Mr. Jewett has joined other area CIOs to apply his leadership and technical experience to aid non-profit organizations to leverage technology to further their missions through his continued involvement in the NPower organization (www.npowercharlotteregion.org). 

Prior to his employment by Family Dollar Stores, Inc., Mr. Jewett served as Senior Director for Answerthink, Inc., an international management consulting firm.  In a ten year consulting career, Mr. Jewett’s extensive retail experience also includes the development and management of retail operations and information system implementations for a variety of national and international retail organizations. 

Mr. Jewett earned a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College. 

Dmitry A. Loschinin President & CEO Luxoft

Dmitry A. Loschinin has led Luxoft from its inception in April 2000. With over 20 years of IT experience Dmitry has built a superior team of professionals and has brought Luxoft to the vanguard of global IT outsourcing.

Under Dmitry’s stewardship Luxoft has enjoyed exponential growth and has become an emerging global IT outsourcing leader with a loyal client base that includes some of the world’s most successful companies.

Dmitry started his professional career as a software engineer in the late 1980s. In a short period of time he achieved management roles within leading multinationals such as KED GmbH, MCP GmbH and IBM. In 1998 Dmitry joined the IBS Group where he successfully established SAP R/3 implementation practice before taking charge of the IBS initiative to offer offshore software services. This initiative eventually became Luxoft.

Dmitry is a recognized expert on the issues of outsourcing and offshoring, and is a frequent speaker at various international industry and technology events, including Gartner’s Outsourcing Summits, RUSSOFT’s Outsourcing & Software Summits.

Dmitry holds a Master of Science degree from the Moscow State University. Dmitry has graduated The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

In honor of the late Dewang Mehta Past president, NASSCOM Award accepted by Dr. Ganesh Natarajan, past chairman, NASSCOM (2008-2009)

Dewang Mehta was born on August 10, 1962, in a sleepy hamlet called Umreth, in the interiors of Gujarat, India. The first six years of his life were spent in the idyllic rural surroundings, instilling within him a love for the soil.

The decision of his parents to move to Delhi in Mehta’s sixth year, brought him into the heart of metro action. His formal education began at the Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan, a school in the capital city, following which attempted to pursue a course in medicine. In 1979 he got admission in three medical colleges, including the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). However, owing to some admission policy rules--where his physics marks in the school examination did not measure up to the required standards--Mehta was unable to fulfill his long cherished dream of becoming a doctor.

Mehta’s next move was to Mumbai and the St. Xaviers College where he opted for a degree in Political Science, French and History.  This plan too ran into problems with his parents disapproving of his choice of subjects. Subsequently, he opted out of the Bachelor of Arts program and began working towards a career in chartered accountancy. He was a CA by 1984, though it was clearly not his only calling. Right through his student years, Mehta dabbled in an assortment of work, adding to his skills and professional credentials.

Apart from a brief flirtation with journalism and a long-time affair with writing, he also participated in politics. Another passion was computer graphics and he learnt about this emerging hi-tech segment at the Imperial College, London, where he also had his first encounter with movie and ad film making.

Mehta was always fascinated with the celluloid world and remained extremely keen, until the very end, to make a commercial Hindi film on his own. He also interacted actively with his Bollywood favorites, enlisting their help for pushing the cause of software—his first love. His interest in film making went back to 1977, when on a vacation in his village he was introduced to celebrated director of the “art cinema genre,” Shyam Benegal. For two entire months, Mehta worked with Benegal as a spot boy, absorbing the finer nuances of film making and getting a feel of the action behind the all-seeing camera.As the man behind the camera Mehta also created “Glimpses of India,” a 20 minute documentary on Indian tourism. Recognition came his way as the film—his debut into the “reel” world--won an award in the Commonwealth Film festival in Leeds in 1983.

Mehta’s love for the written word was yet another passion he carefully nurtured and used effectively in the course of his professional work.  He used his writing skills as a powerful tool to preach the bible of Information Technology to an India that was gradually awakening to the digital world. From opinions and columns in the country’s leading and business dailies, to special supplements on the Indian software industry in well known international journals such as Red Herring and Business Week—Dewang Mehta’s editorial repertoire was as rich as it was varied.

The turning point in Dewang Mehta’s life however came in 1991 when an old time friend and IT industry veteran Harish Mehta offered him charge of Nasscom, an association dedicated to the needs of the fledgling software industry. After much thought, deliberation and some hesitation, Mehta accepted a “three times a week” part-time assignment with the organization that allowed him to pursue his other interests.

Nasscom was clearly the most rewarding period of Dewang Mehta’s existence—possibly the most fulfilling, not just professionally but also personally. The period between 1991-2001 was one of transformation and growth, for both Nasscom and Mehta. Each drew sustenance from the other. As Mehta grew in stature, gaining respect within the Indian ICT sector as an industry leader, Nasscom too began to evolve into an association of substance.

It wasn’t long before the body had become the key voice of the Indian software and services segment. And it all happened thanks to the fact that visionaries like Dewang Mehta not only laid the foundation for a robust software sector, but also continued to play a key role in the building process.

Dewang Mehta certainly had reason to feel proud of the strides he had been able to make with the Government. No matter who was in power, software always received special treatment. Mehta’s intensive parlays with the “right” people in the corridors of power, his cooperative stance with IT related departments such as the DoE, the DoT, the VSNL and more recently, the Ministry of Information Technology, enabled him to wrest concessions that other industries found hard to get through or match.

From the zero duty on software imports, to crucial income tax concessions for software exporters, to stringent Copyright Laws, the introduction of the IT Act and resulting cyber laws—Mehta managed to push through an extensive software industry wish list.

Recognizing the potential of the software and services segment as a major foreign exchange earner, Mehta launched the India Inc. crusade, where he personally presented the country’s software industry to the world. Today, the software sector has set before itself an enormous ambition of $50 billion worth of software exports by 2008. Mehta dreamed this dream, championed this vision!

On the home side Mehta played the role of the guru, guiding the central and state Governments in their path towards IT-fication. He helped at least 19 state Governments draft their IT policies, and create the requisite infrastructure to aid the cause of software within their realms.

Besides a dream for the software industry, Mehta had a blueprint for the IT industry and how it could be used effectively to change the lives of India’s teeming millions. He wanted the benefits of IT to peter down to the grass root levels and his favorite slogan, “roti, kapada, makan, bijli and bandwidth” epitomized the needs of the emerging, 21st century Indian.

A bachelor, Mr. Mehta did not leave behind any close family. His personal wealth and assets have therefore been placed under a trust—the Dewang Mehta Foundation.  The Foundation is committed to fulfilling Mr. Mehta’s dreams of an IT literate India. It will support activities that help narrow the digital divide and take the benefits of IT down to the masses of the country.

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Previous recipients for 2009 were inducted into the Hall of Fame at IAOP’s annual conference, The Outsourcing World Summit®, on Feb. 17, 2009, IAOP’s Asia-Pacific Outsourcing Summit on May 12, 2009 and IAOP’s European Outsourcing Summit on October 15, 2009.  The ceremonies are produced in association with FORTUNE Custom Projects.  Click here to view the complete list of Outsourcing Hall of Fame inductees.  For more information on The Outsourcing Hall of Fame, email Pam O'Dell at pam.odell@iaop.org.