- List of BITS alumni
List of notable BITS Alumni
Name Category Achievement Year Baba Kalyani Corporate Chairman, Bharat Forge ? Prithviraj Chavan Government Institutions Minister of State , (Prime Minister’s Office) ? B. Sandhya Government Institutions Police Officer and Author ? Rajesh Hukku Corporate Chairman & CEO, i-flex Solutions - Named Star of Asia,Businessweek 2003? Vivek Paul Corporate Partner, Texas Pacific Group, Ex-Vice Chairman,Wipro Ltd. CEO, Wipro Technologies. Named one of the world's 10 best managers by Businessweek(2003), Also Named "2004 Business influentials" by Time ? Pratap G. Pawar ,Corporate Managing Director, Sakal Papers Ltd., Chairman, Ajay Metachem group ? SK Roongta Corporate Chairman, Steel Authority of India Ltd. ? Vikram Shah Corporate Vice President, NetApp ? Saket Agarwal Corporate CEO, Cellebrum Technologies Limited 1988-93 Manoranjan Mohapatra Corporate CEO, Bharti Telesoft ? G V Ramana Corporate Founder, [http://idlebrain.com Idlebrain] , a popular website for telugu film news ? Anil Sethi Corporate President and CEO, Sony Ericsson, India, Executive Vice President, Sony Canada, Former Managing Director, Sony Direct Marketing Europe, Former Managing Director, Sony Robotics Europe, Former Managing Director, Sony Saudi Arabia ? Shivan Subramanian Corporate Chairman & CEO, FM Global, A $3 billion commercial and property insurance company in the USA ? Vinod Agarwal Entrepreneur Founder & Chairman, SEMINDIA, India's first semiconductor fab.Founder & Former Chairman, LogicVision ($100 million NASDAQ traded company: LGVN) 1968-73 Rajiv Bapna Entrepreneur Founder, Director of AMKETTE, a storage media company ? Sabeer Bhatia Entrepreneur Founder of Hotmail (sold to Microsoft for $400 million), left for Caltech after two years of study in BITS Pilani ? Amar Lakhtakia Entrepreneur Co-founder of InfoKnox, co-founded Webify (sold to IBM for $100M+), Cymbal Corp (sold to Patni Computers for $68M), co-founded AristaSoft, Awarded Upside 100, Named in Business India story High Tech Indians that won the valley 1982-1986 Bhaskar Bijjam Entrepreneur Founder and CEO of BijjamIT 1982-1986 Mukesh Chatter Entrepreneur Founder, Axiowave (now defunct). Founder, Nexabit (sold to Lucent for $900 million, but Nexabit was never deployed by customers.) ? Ajay Chopra Entrepreneur Founder & Chairman, Pinnacle Systems, A $350 million company (NASDAQ: PCLE) sold to Avid Technology Inc.(NASDAQ: AVID) in 2005 ? Diaz Nesamoney Entrepreneur Co-Founder, Informatica ($500 million NASDAQ traded company). Founder, Celequest ? Chinmoy Panda Entrepreneur Founder & CEO, Mindfire_solutions - Indian IT company? Jayan Ramankutty Entrepreneur Co-founder, Lara Systems (sold to Cypress Semiconductor for $250 million) ? Manoj Saxena Entrepreneur Founder, Chairman and CEO, Webify Solutions Inc. (sold to IBM reportedly for ~$100m in 2006). Founder & CEO, Exterprise (sold to CommerceOne for $78 million in 2001) ? Dr K R V Subramanian Entrepreneur Founder & CEO, Ascendum Systems Pvt Ltd., a global technology service provider ? Manohar Chapalamadugu Upcoming Entrepreneur CEO, MantraGroup Inc. ? SasiKanth Chemalamudi Upcoming Entrepreneur Founder & CEO, Habits Edutainment Pvt. Ltd. One of Asia's 20 best entrepreneurs under 25 (by Businessweek in 2006); Kellogg, LBS and INSEAD Executive Program admit. 2000-2004 Anand Morzaria Upcoming Entrepreneur CEO, Pennywise Solutions ? Ramakrishna Gaddipati Upcoming Entrepreneur Founder & CEO, BridleIT Solutions. Also nominated as Asia's Best Entrepreneur Under 25 1998-2002 Matthew Cherian NGO CEO, Help Age India ? Dr. S. P. Kothari Educators/Researchers Head of Dept of Economics, Finance & Accounting, MIT Sloan School of Management ? Dr. K. Narayan Kumar Educators/Researchers Chennai Mathematical Institute ? Dr. Aditya Mathur Educators/Researchers CS Dept Head, Purdue University ? Dr. Lata Narayanan Educators/Researchers Concordia University, Montreal ? Dr. Bala Natarajan Educators/Researchers Kansas State University ? Dr. B.R.Natarajan Educators/Researchers BITS, Pilani ? Dr. Kumar Rajaram Educators/Researchers UCLA Anderson School of Management ? Dr. R. Ramanujam Educators/Researchers Institute of Mathematical Sciences ? Dr. Srinivasan Ramasubramanian Educators/Researchers University of Arizona ? Dr. Krishna Saraswat Educators/Researchers Stanford University ? Dr. S. R. Sonkusale Educators/Researchers Tufts University ? Dr. Nitin Vaidya Educators/Researchers University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign ? Dr. Arthi Jayaraman Educators/Researchers University of Colorado at Boulder 1996-2000 Dilip D'Souza Writers Writer of social causes 1976-1981 Shashi Warrier Artists/Entertainers Writer of Fiction ? Anu Haasan Artists/Entertainers Actress, Tamil/Telugu Movie, TV Show host ? Kanika Artists/Entertainers Actress, Tamil/Telugu/Kannada/Malayalam Movies, TV Show host 1999-2003 Mani Shankar Artists/Entertainers Director, Indian Movies ? Padmini Chettur Artists/Entertainers Dancer 1987-1991
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