List of BITS alumni
List of notable BITS Pilani Alumni[1]
| Name | Category | Achievement | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baba Kalyani[2] | Corporate | Chairman, Bharat Forge | 1965-1970 |
| Sanjay Mehrotra | Corporate | President & Cofounder of SanDisk | |
| Vijay Chandru | Corporate | Cofounder & CEO, Strand Life Sciences; Inventor of Simputer | 1975 |
| Prithviraj Chavan[3] | Government Institutions | Former Chief Minister of Maharashtra | 2009 - 2014 |
| Gulu L. Mirchandani | Corporate | Founder and CEO of Onida Electronics | 1965-1970 |
| Rakesh Kapoor | Corporate | CEO of Reckitt Benckiser | ? |
| Sunil Duggal | Corporate | CEO of Dabur | |
| Manu Sawhney | Corporate | CEO of ESPN Star Sports, Director of Manchester United F.C. | |
| Sudhir Nair | Corporate | CIO of Academic Partnerships, Corporate CEO Advisor Various Tech Companies | |
| Rakesh Verma | Corporate | CEO & Cofounder of MapmyIndia | |
| Sanjay Padode | Corporate | Secretary of Center for Developmental Education | |
| R Sukumar | Journalism | Editor of Mint (newspaper) | |
| Manoj Saxena | Entrepreneur | General Manager for Watson (computer) and serial entrpreneur | 1965 to date |
| B. Sandhya | Government Institutions | Police Officer and Author | ? |
| Rajesh Hukku | Corporate | Chairman & CEO, i-flex Solutions - Named Star of Asia, Businessweek 2003 | ? |
| Prakhar Bindal | Corporate | CEO of Axsiom | ? |
| Vivek Paul | Corporate | Consulting Professor, Stanford, Founder, KineticGlue, Partner, TPG, Vice Chairman,Wipro Ltd. CEO, Wipro Technologies. Named one of the world's 10 best managers by Businessweek(2003), Top 30 Global CEO's by Barrons in 2005, 2004 Business influentials by Time | ? |
| SK Roongta | Corporate | Chairman, Steel Authority of India Ltd. | ? |
| Saket Agarwal | Corporate | CEO, Spice Digital(erstwhile Cellebrum Technologies Limited) | 1988-93 |
| A K Srikanth | Corporate | CEO, Alchemist Foods Limited. | 1987-91 |
| Vinod Agarwal | Entrepreneur | Founder & Chairman, SEMINDIA, India's first semiconductor fab.Founder & Former Chairman, LogicVision ($100 million NASDAQ traded company: LGVN) | 1968-73 |
| Mayank Agarwal | Entrepreneur | Founder & CEO, JMK International, India's first Merchant Trader for Synthetic Rubbers.(Generates annual sales in excess of $500 million ) | 2007–present |
| Rajiv Bapna | Entrepreneur | Founder, Director of AMKETTE, a storage media company | ? |
| Sabeer Bhatia | Entrepreneur | Founder of Hotmail (sold to Microsoft for $400 million), joined Caltech after two years of study in BITS Pilani | ? |
| Mukesh Chatter | Entrepreneur | Founder, Axiowave (now defunct). Founder, Nexabit (sold to Lucent for $900 million, but Nexabit was never deployed by customers.) | ? |
| Pratul Shroff | Entrepreneur | Founder, eInfochips. Early employee at Daisy Systems. | 1972-1976 |
| Ajay Chopra | Entrepreneur | Founder & Chairman, Pinnacle Systems, A $350 million company (NASDAQ: PCLE) sold to Avid Technology Inc.(NASDAQ: AVID) in 2005 | ? |
| Phanindra Sama | Entrepreneur | Co-Founder & CEO, Redbus.in, Online bus-ticketing company | 1998 – 2002 |
| Prof. S. P. Kothari | Educators/Researchers | Head of Dept of Economics, Finance & Accounting, MIT Sloan School of Management | ? |
| Prof. Surendra M Gupta | Educators/Researchers | Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering,Director of Laboratory for Responsible Manufacturing (LRM), Northeastern University | 1978 to date |
| Prof. Kartik Hosanagar[4] | Corporate & Academic | Chairman, Yodle, Inc, Professor, Wharton School of Business | 1994-1999 |
| Prof. Krishna Saraswat | Educators/Researchers | Stanford University | ? |
| Prof. Arun Somani | Educators/Researchers | Jerry R. Junkins Endowed Chair Professor, Iowa State University | ? |
| Prof. Srinivasan Ramasubramanian | Educators/Researchers | University of Arizona | 1993-1997 |
| Prof. Ravi Gomatam | Educator/Researcher | Director of Bhaktivedanta Institute[5] and Institute for Semantic Information Sciences and Technology,[6] Berkeley, and Mumbai | ? |
| Prof. Mustaque Ahamad | Educator/Researcher | Professor, College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology and Director, Georgia Tech Information Security Center[7] | 1977-1981 |
| Dr. Ravi Subramanian | Educator/Researcher | Steven A. Denning Professor of Technology and Management and Faculty Director of the Denning Technology and Management Program at the Scheller College of Business at Georgia Tech [8] | 1993-1997 |
| 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 | 1993-2009 |
| Kanika | Artists/Entertainers | Actress, Tamil/Telugu/Kannada/Malayalam Movies, TV Show host | 1999-2010 |
| Mani Shankar | Artists/Entertainers | Director, Indian Movies | ? |
| Padmini Chettur | Artists/Entertainers | Dancer | 1987-1991 |
| Dushyanth Sridhar | Speaker/Writer | Noted Scholar in Sanskrit and Tamil on Ancient Hindu Scriptures | 2004-2009 |
| Deendayal Upadhyaya | Politician | President of Bharatiya Jana Sangh | |
| Nanaji Deshmukh | RSS functionary | ||
| Raj Koneru | Corporate | Founder and CEO Kony Labs | |
| Ashok Pandey | Film Producer | Producer of Phas Gaye Re Obama | 1974-1979 |
| Prof. Autar Kaw | 2012 U.S Professor of the Year | University of South Florida | 1976-81 |
| Manoj Gaur | Chairman | Jaiprakash Associates, Flagship of the Jaypee Group | |
| Raj Kishor Pareek | Corporate | Regional Technical Head, DLF,Gurgaon | |
| Surendra Kumar Surana | Corporate & Media | MD, Compucom Software Ltd.,[9] Executive Director[10] at CIITM Engineering College & Editor-In-Chief at Jan TV[11] | 1994–present |
| Shishir Joshipura | MD | SKF India Limited | 2009–present |
| Harish Bhat | CEO and Managing Director | Tata Global Beverages | |
| Singaram Narayanan | Sales, Fizer, | Adelaide, Australia | |
| Bandanjot Singh | Expeditioner | First civilian Sikh[12] to raise an Indian Flag on an Antarctic Expedition | 2013 |
| Arun Pareek | Adventure Scout | Work for National Geographic Channel[13] | 2013 |
| Pramad Jandhyala | Entrepreneur | Co-Founder & Director of Finance & Human Capital of LatentView in Chennai [14] | 2006 |
| Rakesh Reddy Anugula | Politician | Secretary of State BJP Youth Wing, Telangana State, Ex-General Secretary of BITS Students Union & Founder of Nirmaan Organization | 2002-2007 |
References
- ↑ http://www.bitsaa.org/?page=whoswho
- ↑ http://www.kalyanigroup.com/chairman.asp
- ↑ http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/lok11/biodata/11mh18.htm
- ↑ http://opim.wharton.upenn.edu/~kartikh/
- ↑ Bhaktivedanta Institute
- ↑ Institute for Semantic Information Sciences and Technology
- ↑ Georgia Tech SCS Faculty Pages
- ↑ Scheller College of Business at GaTech
- ↑ "Compucom Software Limited Website". Compucom Software Limited. May 15, 2012. Retrieved July 7, 2012.
- ↑ "CIITM College". ciitm.org. May 15, 2012. Retrieved July 7, 2012.
- ↑ "Jantv Official Website". CSL Infomedia Pvt. Ltd. May 15, 2012. Retrieved July 7, 2012.
- ↑ "Global warming effect on Antarctica, ice cover disappears from King George Island". The Times of India. March 17, 2013. Retrieved March 17, 2013.
- ↑ "Global warming effect on Antarctica, ice cover disappears from King George Island". The Times of India. March 17, 2013. Retrieved March 17, 2013.
- ↑ BITSian Entrepreneurs
- BITSAA (Birla Institute of Technology & Science Alumni Association) (http://www.bitsaa.org/?page=whoswho)