From business friendly to business person

 At 46, after putting in a little over 20 years in government service (you need to do 20 to get the government pension), Vivek Kulkarni has chosen just the right moment to make a big mid-career shift.

 The 1981 batch IAS officer of the Karnataka cadre, who had been its IT secretary for four years, has quit the government and become the chairman and CEO of B2K Corp.

 The company was formed in the US earlier by a top flight management academic Madhukar Angur, a chair professor at the management school of the University of Michigan with extensive work in CRM (customer relationship management), and a personal friend of Kulkarni. (They both hail from Hubli.)

 The Indian launch of B2K is a sort of rebirth, repackaging in the process two existing businesses