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

1. "List of Notable BITS Alumni - BITSAA International". bitsaa.org. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
2. ":: Chairman ::". kalyanigroup.com. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
3. http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/lok11/biodata/11mh18.htm
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6. "Institute of Semantic Information Sciences and Technology". insist.ac.in. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
7. "Mustaque Ahamad". gatech.edu. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
8. "Subramanian, Ravi". Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
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• BITSAA (Birla Institute of Technology & Science Alumni Association) (http://www.bitsaa.org/?page=whoswho)