List of BITS alumni
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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 | ? |
| G V Ramana | Corporate | Founder, Idlebrain, a popular website for telugu film news | ? |
| Anil Sethi | Corporate | Executive Vice President, Sony Canada, Former Managing Director, Sony Direct Marketing Europe, Former Managing Director, Sony Robotics Europe, Former Managing Director, Sony Saudi Arabia, Former Service Manager, JUMBO-SONY, UAE | ? |
| 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 Bijjam IT | 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. D. P. Kothari, | Educators/Researchers | IIT Delhi | ? |
| 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. L. S. Ganesan | Educators/Researchers | IIT Madras | ? |
| 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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