Arumugam M

Arumugam Murukiah, better known as Dr.M. Arumugam (Tamil: ஆறுமுகம்), is an Indian businessman and founder of Broadline.

Early life
Born in Suchindram, TamilNadu on 7 May 1963, Arumugam graduated with a Masters degree in communication engineering from the Regional Engineering College, Trichirapalli in 1985.

Career
Arumugam is a technology industry veteran, with more than two decades of experience in building business for Broadline Computer Systems Private Limited (BCSL), India mainly on the Government, Health, Power and Education space partnering with IBM, SAP, Oracle and Cordys. After earning two Masters Degrees, one in Engineering and the other in Management from India, Arumugam has been awarded with double Doctorates, one in Computer Science and Engineering from the Toronto University, Canada(in 1990) and a Doctorate in Business Administration (on Public Drug Logistics and Supply Chain Management from the Management School, Madras University.India, in 2008). He started his career with Digital Equipment Corporation Inc., USA in 1985 and went on to contribute to the World Bank as MIS Specialist during 1989. He founded Broadline, India in 1991 and turned it in to a full IT service company with professionals working from Asia, USA and Europe. Currently he resides in Chennai, India.

Broadline has been a business partner for IBM and was instrumental in closing few high value deals in 2006-07 and Won the Partner Award for year 2007 in the Global Summit at South Africa for influencing many prestigious deals in India and USA. With Oracle, Broadline won the partner of year awards consecutively for two years 2007 and 2008, the first People-soft Campus management solution in India and Technology sales in India. Broadline has been focusing on IBM-Z since 2007.

Education and Social involvement
He has been associated with Anna University and several other Education Institutions in India and had been holding positions like Member, Doctoral Committee, Syndicate member and member board of studies. He was attached as an Adjunct Professor of Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Zaragoza Logistics Center, Zaragoza, Spain. Currently, he is a visiting professor in Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems, University of Plymouth.

As an Honorary Secretary of two Schools and Post-graduate research institution under Sriman. N.K.Thirumalachariar National Education Society in Chennai, Arumugam has been closely involved in up-lifting the poor and under-privileged students by offering education and financial support. Has been a consultant in the Ministry of Home affairs, Government of India since 2007

Personal life
Arumugam is living with his wife and a Son. He is passionate about the environment and is also a keen advocate on work-life balance in today’s business culture. He enjoys Golf and travel with his family for personal health and wellbeing.