Nairobi, May 24 -- VS Hariharan is looking back at his life. 100-hour weeks. Working across six continents. Travelling to 53 countries, about 25 days a month.

"I've been blessed," he says, with such conviction and conviviality that he borders on the evangelical. Blessed, he is. Group CEO of Redington Global, a technology solutions provider valued at more than $10 billion.

Father of 21-year-old twins. A husband still learning how to be married all these years later. "In India, we marry once, and we stay married forever," he says of his arranged marriage. He does not know how to be a husband any other way.

Now 63, the march toward finiteness has begun. Every now and then, he watches tennis and still loses himself in cricket. It was one o...