List of BITS alumni
This is a list of notable BITS Pilani alumni.[1]
| Name | Category | Achievement | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baba Kalyani[2] | Corporate | Chairman of Bharat Forge | 1965–1970 |
| Sanjay Mehrotra | Corporate | President and co-founder of SanDisk | |
| Vijay Chandru | Corporate | Cofounder and CEO, Strand Life Sciences; Inventor of Simputer | 1975 |
| Prithviraj Chavan[3] | Polity | Former Chief Minister of Maharashtra; former Union Minister for Science and Technology, Govt. of India | 1963-1967 |
| Gulu L. Mirchandani | Corporate | Founder and CEO of Onida Electronics | 1965–1970 |
| Rakesh Kapoor | Corporate | CEO of Reckitt Benckiser | 1975-1980 |
| Sunil Duggal | Corporate | CEO of Dabur | 1974-1979 |
| Kanak Madrecha | Past Jury DQA, DHDA & SKEA | Honoured by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President & Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai | 1974-1979 |
| Manu Sawhney | Corporate | CEO of ESPN Star Sports, Director of Manchester United F.C. | 1984-1988 |
| B. Sandhya | Government institutions | Police officer and author | |
| Rajesh Hukku | Corporate | Chairman and CEO of i-flex Solutions; named Star of Asia by Businessweek in 2003 | |
| Vivek Paul | Corporate | Consulting Professor at Stanford; founder of KineticGlue; partner at TPG; Vice Chairman of Wipro Ltd.; CEO of Wipro Technologies; named one of the world's ten best managers by Businessweek (2003), Top 30 Global CEOs by Barrons in 2005, and "2004 Business influentials" by Time | |
| SK Roongta | Corporate | Chairman of Steel Authority of India Ltd. | |
| Saket Agarwal | Corporate | CEO of Spice Digital | 1988-93 |
| Vinod Agarwal | Entrepreneurs | Founder and chairman of SEMINDIA, India's first semiconductor fab; founder and former Chairman of LogicVision ($100 million NASDAQ traded company: LGVN) | 1968-73 |
| Rajiv Bapna | Entrepreneurs | Founder and Director of AMKETTE, a storage media company | 1969-1974 |
| Sabeer Bhatia | Entrepreneurs | Founder of Hotmail (sold to Microsoft for $400 million); joined Caltech after two years of study in BITS Pilani | |
| Phanindra Sama | Entrepreneurs | Co-founder and CEO of Redbus.in, pnline bus-ticketing company | 1998–2002 |
| Prof. S. P. Kothari | Educators-researchers | Deputy Dean of MIT Sloan School of Management | 1974-1979 |
| Prof. Krishna Saraswat | Educators-researchers | Stanford University | 1963-1968 |
| Prof. Ravi Gomatam | Educators-researchers | Director of Bhaktivedanta Institute[4] and Institute of Semantic Information Sciences and Technology,[5] Berkeley and Mumbai | |
| Dilip D'Souza | Writers | Writer of social causes | 1976–1981 |
| Shashi Warrier | Artists/entertainers | Writer of fiction | |
| Anu Haasan | Artists/entertainers | Actress, Tamil/Telugu movies, TV show host | |
| Kanika | Artists/entertainers | Actress, Tamil/Telugu/Kannada/Malayalam movies, TV show host | |
| 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 | Politicians | President of Bharatiya Jana Sangh | |
| Nanaji Deshmukh | RSS functionary | ||
| Bazmi Husain | Corporate | CTO of ABB Group | 1974-1979 |
| Vinod Sawhny | Corporate | Ex-CEO, Reliance Communications | 1975-1980 |
| N Suresh Krishnan | Corporate | MD, Zuari Global | 1981-1986 |
| Sanjay Kaul | Corporate | Country Manager (India), Apple_Inc. | 1991-1995 |
| VT Bhardwaj | Corporate | MD of Sequoia Capital | 1995-1999 |
| Parthasarathy NS | Corporate | President and COO of Mindtree | 1978-1983 |
| Sanjay Jalona | Corporate | CEO and MD of L&T Infotech | 1986-1990 |
| Shalabh Seth | Corporate | CEO of Ola Fleet; ex-MD of SABMiller India | 1989-1993 |
| Rahul Chandra | Corporate | Co-founder and MD of Helion Venture Partners | 1990-1993 |
| Santhosh Kumar | Corporate | MD of Texas Instruments India | |
| Sanjay Nath | Corporate | Co-founder of Blume Ventures | 1990-1994 |
| Amit Saxena | Corporate | Founder, CEO and MD of Karvy Capital | |
| Sanjay V. Padode | Entrepreneur | Secretary of Center for Developmental Education, Bengaluru | 1984-89 |
| Tulsi Mirchandaney | Corporate | MD of Blue_Dart_Aviation | 1967-1970 |
| Arvind Mathew | Corporate | CEO of Mahindra_REVA | 1977-1982 |
| Sharat Dhall | Corporate | President of Yatra.com | 1987-1991 |
| S Balajee | Corporate | SVP and MD of Samsung R&D India | 1991-1992 |
| Ranvir Trehan | Philanthropists | General trustee of John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts | |
| Hari Govind Dubey | Freedom fighters | Quit India movement participant | |
| Ravi Garikipati | Corporate | Entrepreneur in Residence, Flipkart | |
| Ramesh Tainwala | Corporate | President of Asia Pacific, Samsonite | |
| Dr. Sanjay Putrevu | Educators-researchers | Dean of College of Business, University of Wyoming | |
| Richa Kar | Corporate | Founder and CEO of Zivame | 1998-2002 |
| Ravi Vora | Corporate | Chief Marketing Officer of HOOQ | 1993-1997 |
| A K Srikanth | Corporate | Managing Director of OCS Group India | 1986-1991 |
| Hari Menon | Corporate | Co-founder and CEO of BigBasket | |
| Samay Kohli | Corporate | Co-founder and CEO of GreyOrange Robotics | |
| Amitabh Chaudhry[6] | Corporate | MD and CEO of HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company Ltd | 2010-present |
| Rakesh Verma | Corporate | Co-founder and CEO of MapmyIndia | |
| Sanchit Sethi | Corporate | Co-founder and CEO of StayUncle | 2008-2012 |
References
- ↑ "List of Notable BITS Alumni - BITSAA International". bitsaa.org. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
- ↑ ":: Chairman ::". kalyanigroup.com. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
- ↑ http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/lok11/biodata/11mh18.htm
- ↑ "Bhaktivedanta Institute". bvinst.edu. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
- ↑ "Institute of Semantic Information Sciences and Technology". insist.ac.in. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
- ↑ Amitabh Chaudhry
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