Group President - Oxigen Services (India) Pvt. Ltd.
Rajpal Singh Duggal is responsible for Corporate Strategy and Planning, and has been instrumental in developing an aggressive push for rural markets and developing the financial inclusion strategy. This has given Oxigen an impressive growth in overall business and profitability over the last 5 years. He is also credited with successfully leading a multi-departmental team to develop a new low cost General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) terminal. More than 50,000 of these new terminals have been placed in the market and are operating successfully. The terminals are now the backbone of Oxigen's new business growth strategy for the future.
With over 40 years of working experience in diverse industry segments, he started his career as a Management Trainee with the DCM Group where he worked for 10 years. He handled Commercial, Finance and development of Management Information Systems (MIS). He then joined the Raunaq Group (Apollo Tyres) working with a diverse portfolio of functions from Finance to Sales and Marketing. His last position was Vice President of Business Development, handling identification of new project ideas, foreign and joint venture collaboration, and management of JVs at the operational phase. He has been in the forefront of innovative financial solutions including fundraising from banks and financial institutions.
As an entrepreneur, he established India's first ever discount format retail store called Discount Circuit, when India did not have any large format retail stores. His four large format stores in NCR had a successful response. This is now being restructured on a web format. He holds a MBA Degree from the Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) Delhi, India.