Technology Achievement
Corporate Executive
Rajiv Manucha
Asim Ghosh
President & CEO MSR Customs
President and CEO of Husky Energy
Born in Faizabad, India, educated at the University of Toronto
Asim Ghosh was born in New Delhi in 1947. He graduated from
(Engineering and MBA) with IBM experience, Rajiv Manucha
the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi in 1969 with a Bach-
launched his own technology company in 1981 – MSR Customs,
elor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, and later earned an MBA
which automates international trade compliance processes,
from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
and provides importers with duty refund opportunities. He began his career in Canada in 1971 with multinational conRajiv has led MSR to a successful multimillion dollar interna-
sumer goods company Procter and Gamble. He joined Roth-
tional company with its own 40,000 square foot building,
mans International in 1980, eventually becoming senior vice
employing over 120 people.
president of subsidiary Carling O’Keefe, one of Canada’s largest
Rajiv developed software to automate the production of import documents for freight forwarders and customs brokers in 80s and Networks and the internet enabled development of centralized and distributed models of customs management software in 90s.
breweries. He was the co-founding CEO of Pepsi Food’s startup operation in India, and eventually moved to Hong Kong to set up a consumer goods joint venture between Pepsi and investment holding company Hutchison Whampoa. Shortly thereafter, he became the CEO of AS Watson Industries, a Hutchison subsid-
Rajiv invented software that automated the screening of
iary.
people against international government ‘watchlists’ ensuring trade transactions complied with national security laws
In 1998, Ghosh took on the role of leading Hutchison Wham-
in 2000. MSR now has 100 thousand users globally, including
poa’s telecommunications joint venture in India, Hutchison Essar,
in India. The cloud and ERP/Web connectivity furthered the
growing the business from a one city operation into the coun-
technical evolution, allowing quick integration into common
try’s second largest mobile phone provider, with more than 63
business applications, as well as mobile options in 2010.
million subscribers.
Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies. The US’s Top 100 Lo-
In June of 2010, he became CEO of Calgary-based Husky En-
gistics Companies. Certifications include those from Canadian
ergy.
and US Customs authorities, Microsoft, Oracle, and Salesforce. Asim sits on the Board of the Canadian Council of Chief ExecuRajiv generously supports United Way (India, Canada), Juvenile
tives, serves as a director of the charitable Li Ka Shing Founda-
Diabetes Research Foundation and Doctors without Borders.
tion, and is a Distinguished Alumnus of the Indian Institute of
Rajiv lives in Toronto with his wife, Laurie. Three of their four
Technology.
boys are still at home, the eldest is at Yale University.
2015
38
YEARS
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