Not a bean counter Surjeet Singh (39) CFO, Patni Computer Systems BEEN THERE: Worked in pharma and IT for almost two decades DONE WHAT: Improving the company’s margin profile “The entrepreneurial bug bit me at 30. I wanted to do something different. So I packed my bags and moved to the Silicon Valley where I set up Cymbal Corporation, an IT services firm focussed on the telecommunication vertical.”