Bangalore: NASSCOM, India's premier trade body and the chamber of commerce for the IT software and services industry, today (April 14, 2004) announced the appointment of Jerry Rao, Chairman and CEO (chief executive officer), MphasiS BFL, as the Chairman of NASSCOM for the year 2004-05.

S Ramadorai, CEO, TCS, has been appointed Vice Chairman, NASSCOM, for the current year, NASSCOM said in a statement.

Speaking on his appointment, Jerry Rao, said, "My endeavour will be to establish India as a high-quality, secure, reliable software powerhouse and centre for best practices in the BPO (business process outsourcing) industry."

"We will continue to build on the global trade development programme and pro-actively engage with think-tanks, policy-makers and academics. During this year, NASSCOM will also attempt to put in place a long-term vision for the industry and NASSCOM, beyond revenue targets to focus on multiple parameters of industry's value proposition with measurable indices to define them," he added.