Satjiv S. Chahil

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Satjiv Singh Chahil (born October 19, 1950 in Amritsar ) is an Indian-born American manager of the high-tech industry. He had a decisive influence on the development of marketing in California's Silicon Valley .

Life

childhood and education

Chahil was born on October 19, 1950 in Amritsar, India, to Pritam Singh Chahil (father) and Champa Chahil (née Dugal) (mother). As a member of the Indian hockey team, Pritam Singh took part in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin . He was employed in the public service and worked as a journalist and educational scientist. He is also responsible for the creation and development of the first automatic Punjabi typewriter. Pritam Singh also receives recognition for his translation of the Sri Guru Granth Sahib into English. Chahil studied at the Lawrence School, Sanawar, India, and received the Indian School Certificate in 1967 (issued by Cambridge University). In 1971 he graduated from Punjab University, Chandigarh, India with a bachelor's degree in economics. This was followed by a master’s degree at the Thunderbird School of Global Management in 1976.

Career

From September 1988 to February 1997, Chahil held various positions at Apple . His positions included senior vice president of global marketing and founding general manager of the new media, internet and entertainment departments. Later he was responsible for global marketing and corporate communications. Under Chahil, multimedia components (Quicktime video and audio technologies and CD ROMs) were integrated into private computers for the first time. He also worked with Toshiba and Warner Bros. to define the DVD standard and DVD authoring .

Chahil developed a partnership between Apple and the American Film Institute (AFI), which resulted in an alliance with Paramount Pictures and Tom Cruise for Mission Impossible . He also developed a cooperation with the singer Peter Gabriel and the car manufacturer BMW . He entered into partnerships with existing customers in the creative environment of the then new webcasting, audio / video downloads / streaming and thus promoted the creation of the CD. In 1996, Chahil hosted the world's first webcast at the Grammy Awards .

In 1992 he organized the Hakone Forum in Japan, which brought together experts from business and education in the fields of IT, publishing, film and television, which was the first time that a comprehensive multimedia agenda appeared. Just a year later, in 1993, Chahil became a member of the LPGA of Japan Tour - one of the first initiatives by a technology company in the country to recognize women as equal consumers. In 1996 he initiated special measures to make computers more usable for children. In 1994, Chahil organized a meeting between Apple CEO Michael Spindler and Indian Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao and Finance Minister Manmohan Singh (later Prime Minister). This was the first meeting between the CEO of a large technology company and members of the Indian government. Chahil began his career at IBM in 1976 , where he played a role both in the introduction of the first ATMs and in the market adaptation and diffusion of barcode technology. Chahil was with Xerox between 1979 and 1988 . As General Manager of the Strategic Business, he was instrumental in promoting the acceptance of the Unicode standard. In 2000, Chahil Palm joined and became Chief Marketing Officer. Here he helped spread mobile computing. He roughly left his footprints when he entered into a marketing cooperation with Claudia Schiffer to bring a handheld computer specifically for business women onto the market. In partnership with Panasonic , he also helped develop a new mobile storage medium ( SD card ). In his five-year tenure, Palm grew into one of the leading wireless brands. In 2005, Chahil became Senior Vice President Global Marketing and Head of Marketing for the Personal Systems Group at Hewlett-Packard (HP). During this time, HP grew to become the leading provider of PCs. He initiated the refresh campaign “The Computer is Personal Again”, which in cooperation with Jay-Z , Jerry Seinfeld , Vivienne Tam , Paulo Coelho and Serena Williams attracted attention. In October 2009, Chahil created a cooperation with Dr. Dre to create an edition of limited edition laptops, Beats by Dr. Dre with HP. Between 1997 and 1999, Chahil was a senior management consultant for digital convergence issues at Sony . Here he helped introduce the Vaio laptop product line .

Chahil is a member of the American Film Institute's Millennium Council . He has excellent relationships with creative communities in the publishing, film and music industries. He has been invited to speak several times at global technology conferences, as well as at Harvard University, Harvard University , Stanford University , INSEAD and the Sorbonne . In 2005, together with Christoph Loch and Markus Seidel, he authored an INSEAD treatise on change in the automotive industry. Chahil has been a member of the Clinton Global Initiative since its inception . He also serves as a confidante of the American India Foundation . He was significantly involved in the Digital Equalizer Program and helped in various initiatives in Punjab (India) to create an increased social balance and an improved social status for women. In December 2012, Chahil played a role in the partnership between Sony and the San Francisco 49ers that set new standards for stadium and fan experience: As part of this initiative, Sony will have 4K cameras all over the Santa Clara, California property set up so that fans will have access to various perspectives and close-ups of the game via smartphone and tablets. Chahil is a member of the Leadership Council of Cinequest, the organizer of the Cinequest Film Festival in Silicon Valley. In January 2014, Chahil gave a speech at Innovex 2014 in Tel Aviv, Israel, and shared his own experience of failure and success in the field of innovation. In March 2014, Chahil addressed the leaders of the technology industry in their conclave in San Francisco, and spoke about the impact of technology on society and culture. The French Paris Match describes Chahil in a title post as "the premier of multimedia ... somewhere between the video game hero Super Mario and Leonardo da Vinci ... like a protagonist from a Jules Verne novella ... his thoughts don't circle like that of normal Silicon Valley millionaires - but as a humanist who cares about the education of people worldwide.

He now lives in Los Altos , California.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A Marketing Whiz Returns . Fortune. August 29, 2013. Archived from the original on October 6, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 15, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / money.cnn.com
  2. ↑ The Hard Drive as Eye Candy . The New York Times. March 8, 2007. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  3. ↑ Digits: Gadgets & Gambits In The World of Technology . The Wall Street Journal. August 3, 2000. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  4. ↑ Satjiv Chahil - Profiles . Forbes. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  5. ^ Periodicals look to colorful e-reader future . Financial Times. December 7, 2009. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  6. ^ Courting Consumer, Dell Takes Pages From Apple's Playbook . Wired May 29, 2007. Archived from the original on October 19, 2007. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  7. ↑ Style meets tech at New York's fashion week . San Jose Mercury News. September 10, 2008. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  8. ^ "Shrek" s' Princess Fiona lends a hand to HP's ad . Los Angeles Times. May 18, 2007. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  9. ↑ Palm Pilots Become Robots . ABC News. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  10. ↑ LeBron James' foundation spreading "Decision" wealth . USA Today. March 3, 2011. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  11. ↑ Report: HP May Build Android Notebooks . CIO. March 31, 2009. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  12. ↑ Online Video for Brand Advertising . Huffington Post. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  13. ↑ Palm OS unit filling with Apple alumni . Macworld. August 28, 2001. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  14. ↑ Apple cybercafes due in 1997 . CNET. November 12, 1996. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  15. ↑ Time to start getting personal with the PC . Irish Independent. July 17, 2008. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  16. ^ Leaving a lasting imprint with fashionable computers . The Economic Times. March 12, 2008. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  17. ↑ Casa digital impulsiona vends de PCs. apesar dos precos . Estadao Brazil. January 17, 2007. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  18. ↑ Stone Goes Under The Hammer . Gulf News. December 3, 2007. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  19. ↑ a b It's About People . Silicon India Apr 2001 Vol. 5 Issue 4 p 38. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  20. ↑ Honorees 2006 . Sikh Council of USA 2006. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  21. ↑ a b c d Satjiv S. Chahil . Business week. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  22. ^ High Tech Leader Satjiv Chahil Dedicated to Film and AFI . American Film Institute. Archived from the original on February 2, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 15, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.afi.com
  23. ^ Marketing Strategy: How Apple, Nike Mountain Dew Connect with Customers . Advertising Age. June 5, 2006. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  24. ^ Digital Heritage: Applying Digital Imaging to Cultural Heritage . Lindsay W. MacDonald. Routledge, 2006, Section 20.7. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  25. ↑ Apple? Japan Can not Say No . Bloomberg Business Week. June 28, 1992. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  26. ↑ La Apple e il computer per i bambini. (Apple and the Computer for Children) . Rai Educational, Italy. February 11, 1997. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  27. ↑ Claudia Schiffer: What a Woman Wants . Fortune. September 4, 2000. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  28. ↑ HP Mini Limited Editions: an America's Hottest Brands Case Study . Advertising Age. November 16, 2009. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  29. ↑ PC Marketing Chief Chahil to Retire From HP . CNN Money. January 29, 2010. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  30. ↑ Quo Vadis, Automotive Industry? A Vision of Possible Industry Transformations . INSEAD Papers, European Management Journal, Summer 2005. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  31. ↑ Satjiv Chahil - Profiles . Bloomberg Business Week. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  32. ^ Distribution of Scholarship . American India Foundation. January 3, 2013. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  33. ↑ Leadership . Cinequest. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  34. ↑ Interesting Failures and Unexpected Success . Innovex. January 29, 2014. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  35. ↑ Techonomists Weigh in on Tech's Future . Techonomy. March 25, 2014. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  36. ^ La Revolution Multimedia . Paris Match February 1994. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Chahil, Satjiv S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chahil, Satjiv Singh (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian manager
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Amritsar