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 and co-founder of SanDisk
Vijay Chandru Corporate Cofounder and 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 and co-founder of MapmyIndia
Sanjay Padode Corporate Secretary of Center for Developmental Education
R Sukumar Journalism Editor of Mint
Manoj Saxena Entrepreneur General manager for Watson (computer) and serial entrepreneur 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 CEOs 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 and 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) 2003–2007
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 of 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 and 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 Educator-researcher 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 of 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
Satheesh Kumar Sirivoru Quality and Delivery expert, certified PMP, CSM and Senior Manager Alumnus of IIM Bangalore, Process Improvement Champion, MBB from ISI and Mtech from BITS Pilani
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 HR
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 and founder of Nirmaan Organization 2002–2007
Kumar Sudarshan Entrepreneur Director and co-founder of QwikCilver Solutions 2008–present

References

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  2. ":: Chairman ::". kalyanigroup.com. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  3. http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/lok11/biodata/11mh18.htm
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