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List of Notable BITS Alumni

This list is a "Who's Who" of prominent BITSians in the world today. The names listed here include:

  • BITSians leading corporations/companies. CEOs, Presidents, Chairpersons, MDs or GMs of corporations (CEO and Executive Officers).
  • High ranked Government employees and politicians (Memebers of legislature, Parliament, IAS, IPS, Defence officers,etc).
  • People in Academics and Creative Arts.
  • Fund managers, VCs, Angel investors - Acknowledging achievement in professions not popular among BITSians.
  • Founders of Major Non-Profit organisation (Charities/Service organisation with significant reach/impact).

This list is a living document. BITSAA works very hard to keep these lists up to date. Given that the BITSian community is spread far and wide, BITSAA concedes that the information in this list is by no means absolute. If you would like to recommend edits to this list then please submit your request here.

# Name Job title Company Comment Sector Location
1 A P Mathur Professor Purdue University   Education USA
2 A S Lakshmi narayanan Vice President and Country Head - UK and Ireland Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Ltd. Indian software services company with revenues exceeding US$5.7 billion and over 140,000 employees Software Services and Consulting USA
3 Aadesh Goyal Center Head, Gurgaon and Vice President - HR Aricent     India
4 Agendra Kumar Managing Director Veritas India Indian Head of US multinational Software India
5 Ajay Chopra Founder Pinnacle Systems General Partner, Trinity Ventures     Silicon Valley
6 Ajay Mahajan Managing Director, Financial Markets & Private Banking Yesbank Ltd. Mgmt team of Yesbank Investment Banking Mumbai
7 Ajay Shah Managing Director, Derivatives Technology Credit Suisse First Boston Highest ranking BITSian on Wall Street Investment Banking New York
8 Ajay Waghray Chief Information Officer Verizon Wireless US Telecom Giant Telecom USA
9 Ajoy Misra Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing Taj Hotels Additional Director, Taj GVK Hotels and Resorts - Hotel chain comprising 76 hotels, 7 palaces, 6 private islands and 12 resorts and spas, spanning 52 destinations in 12 countries across 5 continents. Luxury Hospitality India
10 Ajoyendra Mukherjee Global Head (HR) Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Past: Vice President and Head of Operations, Switzerland and South Africa, TCS   India
11 Alagu Periyannan CTO Blue Coat Systems     Silicon Valley
12 Alok Gupta Country Head, Life Sciences and Biotechnology Yes Bank   Banking India
13 Aluri Rao Head Morgan Stanley Private Equity Past: Managing Director, ICICI Venture - India's largest Pvt. Equity Firm Financial Services India
14 Amar Lakhtakia Co-founder InfoKnox, Webify, Cymbal Corp, AristaSoft Awarded Upside 100, Named in Business India story High Tech Indians that won the valley Entrepreneur Silicon Valley
15 Amarjeet Singh Former CEO Tata Motors India's Largest Car Manufacturers Automotive India
16 Amit Kumar Senior Vice President and on Board of Directors Yes Bank   Banking India
17 Amit Sinha Roy Vice President (India and SAARC) Cisco Systems Past: Country Marketing Manager, Hewlett-Packard, India.   India
18 Amitabh Chaudhry Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Infosys BPO Revenues over US$250m and over 15000 employees BPO India
19 Amitabh Kumar President - Technology Dish Tv Head - Broadcasting Functions, Zee Network (India and Overseas)   India
20 Amitava 'Babi' Mitra Associate Director, Educational Innovation and Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Board Member, NERCOMP; Former Board Member, Sakai Projectk Education Boston
21 Anandh Haridh Fund Manager, Hedge Fund J Goldman Former MD, Prop Trading, Deutsche Bank Financial Services New York
22 Anand Rao Partner / Vice President Diamond Management and Technology Consultants   Management Consulting  
23 Anil Gupta CEO, 1 President, 2 1. Microtek 2. Honeywell 1. $400 million private company Hardware India
24 Anil Sethi President and CEO Sony Ericsson, India   Mobile handset, Telecom India
25 Anil Singhal Chairman Netscout Systems Founder of NASD traded company: NTCT IT Boston
26 Anita Gupta Vice President Flextronics Software Systems   Software India
27 Anjan Ghosh Asia Pacific Director - Corporate Affairs Intel   IT Hardware Singapore
28 Anjeneya Thakar President & CEO Xoomsys     Silicon Valley
29 Anupam Sahay Partner McKinsey Highest ranking BITSian at McKinsey Consulting New York
30 Anuradha Hasan Actress None Award winning Telegu and Tamil actress Artist / Entertainer India
31 Anurag Jain Head of BPO Perot Systems Sold co for $10MM to Perot IT/BPO Dallas
32 Arjun Valluri CEO Lanco Global Founder and former Chairman & CEO of NASD traded company: ITIG IT New Jersey
33 Arun K Bajoria President (Tyres) J K Industries Ltd. India's largest exported tyre brand   India
34 Arun Somani Department Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering Iowa State University   Education USA
35 Arvind Mathew Managing Director Ford Motor India   Automotive India
36 Arvind Singh CEO & Founder Utopia Sold phone card co for $6 million Software USA
37 Asheesh Saksena Deputy Chief Strategy Officer and Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy Time Warner Cables (USA) Past: Senior Executive and Partner, communi- cations and High Technology Strategy, Accenture   USA
38 Ashish Dixit Vice President, Hardware Engineering Tensilica Inc     India
39 Ashok Choudhry Vice President, R&D BPL     India
40 Ashok Kumar Agarwal Member of the Board of Directors SQL STAR International Founder of private co IT India
41 Ashok Luhadia Founder & CEO Amol Pharma- ceuticals Winner, Entrepreneur of the Year Pharma- ceuticals India
42 Ashok Pandey Former Chairman & CoFounder Intelligroup   communi- cations Equipment Silicon Valley
43 Atul Bhatnagar President & CEO Ixia   IT and Telecom USA
44 B R Natarajan Professor BITS   Education Pilani
45 B Sandhya IPS, IG Kerala Police, Author Kerala Police   Government India
46 Baba Kalyani Chairman & CEO Bharat Forge Founder of BSE traded co; world's largest forging co; President of the Association of Indian Forging Industry Automotive Mumbai
47 Bala Mahadevan President and Managing Director CSC, India     India
48 Bala Natarajan Professor Kansas State University   Education USA
49 Bala Vishwanath President Physware   Software USA
50 Balaji Krishnamurthy Chairman & CEO Planar Systems Inc. 2005 Time CNN World's most influential; Chairman & CEO of NASD traded co. PLNR Hardware Oregon
51 Bharat Narayanan CEO Hunter Foods   Food Dubai
52 Bhaskar Bijjam Founder and CEO BijjamIT   IT USA
53 Bijay Jayaswal CEO Agilenty Consulting Group, LLC   Consulting USA
54 Bindu Lohani Board of Directos, Vice President (Finance and Administration) Asian Development Bank   Banking Philippines
55 Binod K Patodia CEO GTN Textiles Founder of BSE traded co Textiles India
56 Brij Bhushan President RCG Inc. Founder of private co Networking Washington DC
57 Brijesh Khanna Director Sun Microsystems     Silicon Valley
58 C V Ananda Bose Indian Administrative Services (IAS) Administrative Civil Services, Government of India Additional Sectretary, Ministry of Agriculture. Government of India. IAS/ KERELA/ 1977 Govt. of India India
59 Chandra Bhople VP/Co-Founder Osellus Corporation/ Nuva College of Engineering & Technology Co-founder and director of academics of Nuva College of Engineering & Technology, senior advisor of POA Educational Foundation, and executive advisor of Karma Candy Inc. (contract manufacturer for Cadbury) Corporate, Education Silicon Valley
60 Chinmoy Panda Founder and CEO Mindfire Solutions   IT India
61 CP Rangachar CEO Yuken India Founder of BSE traded co Manufacturing India
62 Cuckoo Kochar President & CEO, DCR Group DCR/Phoenix Group of Companies One of Canada's largest private builder Construction / Real Estate Canada
63 D. Balasubramanian Director of Research L V Prasad Eye Institute Padma Shri winner; Winner of Legion of Honor of France Not-for-profit India
64 Damodar Periwal Founder and CEO Software Tree     Silicon Valley
65 Deep Kapuria CEO Hi-tech Gears Ltd.   Automotive India
66 Deepak Sharma General Manager - SAARC / South East Asia Eaton Electrical
IT and Services India
67 Deepanwita Chattopadhyay Chief Executive Officer ICICI Knowledgepark     India
68 Deepu Rathi Director Cisco Systems     Silicon Valley
69 Deven Raut Director, Routing Alcatel USA     Silicon Valley
70 Devender Ahuja Managing Director Ahuja Engineering services Pvt Ltd
Power India
71 Devendra Verma Angel Investor None Former partner of Redback Ventures Private Equity Silicon Valley
72 Diaz Nesamoney President and CEO, Celequest Founder and COO Informatica     Silicon Valley
73 Dilip D'Souza Writer Rediff Award winning author of 2 books; Outlook India winner, runnerup, Scholarship by Dalai Lama Foundation Writer Mumbai
74 Dinesh Goradia President and CEO Sapphire Infotech.     Silicon Valley
75 Dinesh Mirchandani President India, Director Asia Pacific Boyden India Worldwide Board Member Search Mumbai
76 Dinesh Ramanathan Executive VP Cypress Semiconductor     Silicon Valley
77 Divya (Kanika) Actress Various Movies Telugu/Tamil actress in leading roles Artist / Entertainer India
78 G K Pillai Chairman & MD Heavy Engineering Corporation   Manufacturing India
79 G S K Velu Managing Director Trivitron   HealthCare India
80 Gopal Prasad Singhal Principal Secretary, Senior IAS Officer Government of MP   Government Bhopal, India
81 Gowri Shankar Sambatiur AGM Samba Financial Group (Formerly The Saudi American Bank)   Banking and Financial Services Saudi Arabia
82 Girish Bhargava Film Editor Dance in America, etc Winner of two Emmy Awards (Nominated for 5 others)   USA
83 G V Ramana Founder idlebrain.com Popular Telugu Film News website Internet India
84 Gopal Garg Senior VP Synaptics   Mobile Computing, Communi- cation Silicon Valley
85 Goverdhan Mehta Chairman NAAC   Government India
86 Gulu Mirchandani CEO Onida Founder of BSE traded co; India's #3 TV manufacturer. Board of Directors, Shopper's Stop Electronics Mumbai
87 Gunendar Kapur President and COO (Food) Reliance Retail Past: Vice Chairman & CEO, Unilever Nigeria and Former Board member of BSE traded co Food India
88 H N Nanani President - Global Infrastructure Spice Telecom Past: Past: Chief Operating Officer of US$ 2 billion Jumbo Group and Managing Director – Xerox India. Telecom India
89 Hans Raj Verma, IAS Chairman ELCOT   Government India
90 Hari Kumar Managing Director New York Life   Money Management New York
91 Hari Menon Features Editor Outlook India Senior editor of major magazine in India Writer India
92 Harish Bhat Chief Operating Officer Time Products Division, Titan Industries Ltd Former CEO of Tanishq -$400 million Indian co Retail London
93 Harish Kumar Portfolio Manager NY Life      
94 Harish Wadhwa Asso. Vice President Chemtrols Industries Ltd.   Instrumentation Mumbai - INDIA
95 Harsh Verma CEO Glocol     Silicon Valley
96 Inderpal Bhandari CEO VirtualGold Inc. Founder of private co Software New Jersey
97 Jai Raj Gupta CEO Worldcast Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (Shaadi Online) One of India's most famous wedding planners Services India
98 Jai Shekhawat CEO Fieldglass Raised $11 million in VC financing Software Silicon Valley
99 Janardan Menon Managing Director & Head of Semiconductor Research Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein   Financial Services London
100 Jay Natarajan Animator Dreamworks   Media Mumbai
101 Jayan Ramankutty CEO Yume Networks     Silicon Valley
102 JC Jain CEO Texplas Group CEO of $100 million private company Manufacturing India
103 K Narayan Kumar Professor Chennai Mathematical Institute   Education india
104 K Ramachandran Managing Director Philips India Indian Head of major European multinational Manufacturing India
105 K S Viswanathan Managing Director Dell India Indian Head of major US multinational Hardware India
106 K Vijay Rao Founder & Vice Chairman Epicenter Technologies Inc. $80 million in revenues. Vice President, Finance - Royal Orchid Hotels BPO India
107 Kamalakannan Thiruvadi Country Manager - India & SAARC, Platform Solutions (AutoCAD) Autodesk India   Software Bangalore
108 Kamalesh Dekka Director - Police (Telecommunications), DCPW - Ministry Of Home Affairs, Govt. Of India Indian Police     India
109 Kanna Rajan Sr. Research Scientist, Autonomy & Robotics NASA Rover Project Software Head Aerospace Silicon Valley
110 Kaushik I. Sheth Founder and CEO Rio Design Automation, Inc.     Silicon Valley
111 Khurshid Ghanai Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister, IAS J&K Govt 2nd rank, IAS-1982 Government India
112 Kiran Deshpande President Airtight Networks Former President & CEO, Mahindra BT Tele- communi- cations India
113 Krian Kundragi CEO,CTO Apsora     Silicon Valley
114 Kiran N Kavale Board of Directors Knowledge Dynamics (Satyam) Vice Presdent and Global Head of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Practice at Satyam   India
115 Krishna Memani Managing Director; Director - Fixed Income, High Yield and Utilities Putnam Investments   Fund Management St. Louis
116 Krishna Saraswat Professor Stanford University Rickey/Nielsen Professor in the School of Engineering Education Silicon Valley
117 Krishna Vavilala Founder and Chairman Foundation of India Studies Non Profit Education Houston, Texas
118 KRV Subramaniam CEO, Answerpal CEO, Answerpal   IT India
119 Kuldip Kaura CEO -1, Managing Director -2 1- Vedanta Resources, 2- Sterlite Industries 1- US$6.5 billion revenue company. Past: Managing Director, Hindustan Zinc -BSE traded co Steel/ Infrastructure India
120 Kumar Rajaram Professor UCLA Anderson School of Management   Education USA
121 Lalit Ahuja CEO SunTech Data Systems Former CEO of NewsCorp India, LG and Datamatics Media India
122 Lata Narayanan Professor Concordia University   Education Montreal, Canada
123 Madhu Kannan Managing Director, International Listings NYSE Highest ranking Indian on NYSE Financial Services New York
124 Mani Shankar Director Various Movies Director of Hindi Movies Artist / Entertainer India
125 Manish Singh Indian Administrative Services (IAS) Administrative Civil Services, Government of India IAS/MADHYA PRADESH/1997. 8th Rank All India. Govt. of India India
126 Manoj Saxena Vice President, Solutions and Assets Management IBM Global Business Services Past: Chairman & CEO, Webify Solutions - Sold co to Commerce One for $90 million Software Austin
127 Manoj Kumar Executive Chariman, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director Jaypee Group The flagship company of US$ 700 million group   India
128 Manoranjan 'Mao' Mohapatra Chief Executive Officer Bharti Telesoft Past: President and COO, Aricent   India
129 Manu Sawhney Managing Director ESPN Software-Star Sports   Media India
130 Matthew Cherian CEO HelpAge India   NGO India
131 Mukesh Chatter Founder Axiowave Networks, Inc. Red Herring Entrepreneur of the Year 1999; Sold co for $900 million to Lucent Semiconductors Boston
132 MYS Prasad Associate Director Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota Range Operations Director (ROD) - Chandrayaan Mission - India's space mission to the moon Indian Space Research Program India
133 N S Parthasarathy COO Mindtree Consulting Ltd   IT and R&D India
134 Nagendra Venkaswamy Managing Director Juniper Networks Previously Managing Director, Datacraft Networks India and SAARC
135 Naren Dubey Vice President, Product Development Moser Baer Photo Voltaic Ltd.     USA
136 Narendra Saxena Managing Director Xansa India Indian Head of UK multinational BPO India
137 Naresh Khattar Chairman Avalon Resorts Founder and CEO of BSE traded real estate co Construction / Real Estate India
138 Naresh Kumar Head, Operating Assets and Executive Director GMR Industries and GMR Ferro Alloys & Industries Ltd.   Construction India
139 Narpat Bhandari CEO Vasona Systems Inc. Founder of Aspen Semiconductor, sold to Cypress Semi- conductors Silicon Valley
140 Naveen S. Bisht President & CEO Nayna Networks Inc.     Silicon Valley
141 Navindra Jain VC       Silicon Valley
142 Nikhil Khosla COO & SVP WebConverse     Silicon Valley
143 Nirmal C. Mathur Director, Corporate & International Marketing Jindal Strips Board member of BSE traded co Steel India
144 Nitin Vaidya Professor University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   Education USA
145 P J Nath Executive President - Enterprise Solutions Sify Past: National Sales Head, Wipro and Senior Vice President, VSNL Internet India
146 Paddy Srinivasan Director and Country Head, R&D Oracle, India     India
147 Padmanabhan Sreenivasan Founder, VP Zmanda     Silicon Valley
148 Padmini Chettur Dancer     Artist / Entertainer India
149 Pankaj Patel Senior Vice President Cisco Systems Senior management of NYSE co Communi- cations Equipment Silicon Valley
150 Parameswaran B Indian Administrative Services (IAS) Administrative Civil Services, Government of India IAS/ RAJASTHAN/ 2008 Govt. of India India
151 Pingali Prabhu Director, Agriculture and Development Economics Division Food and Agricultural Organization, United Nations Past: President - International Association of Agricultural Economists. One of the 18 foreign associates - National Academy of Sciences Agriculture Italy, Rome
152 Piyush P Amin, P.E. Chief Operating Officer E L Robinson Engineering Co. Former Senior Vice President-South Region for Michael Baker Jr   Ohio
153 Prabhir M Dastidar Inspector General of Police (Commuication) and Director of Police, Assam Indian Police     India
154 Pradipta Sen Managing Director Emerson Electric India Indian Head of US multinational Manufacturing India
155 Prakash Parthasarthy Chief Investment Officer Azim Premji Investments (API) Funds ranging from Rs. 1500-2000 crore   India
156 Prashant Chatterjee Venture Advisor Industry Ventures     Silicon Valley
157 Pratap G Pawar Managing Director, Sakal Papers Ltd and Chairman, Ajay MetaChem group Sakal Papers and Ajay Metachem   Corporate India
158 Pratul Shroff CEO einfochips 500 employees Semi- conductors India
159 Praveen Chakravarty COO and Head of Research BNP Paribas India Past: Deputy Managing Director, (#2) Thomas Weisel India, Founder, Mumbai Angels Investment Banking New York
160 Prem Jain Senior Vice President Cisco Systems Sold co to Cisco for $60MM; Highest ranking Indian in Cisco Communi- cations Equipment Silicon Valley
161 Preetish Nijhawan CFO JME Software, Scalable Software and Neon Enterprise Software Co-founder Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM) Internet Silicon Valley
162 Prithvi Haldea Managing Director MD Praxis Consulting Investor watchdog; BoD Nucleus Software Financial Services India
163 Prithviraj Chavan Minister of State, PMO Government of India Cabinet minister; Govt of India Government New Delhi
164 Punita Pandey CEO netCustomer, Inc. Subject of Stanford GSB case study IT Silicon Valley
165 Purnendu Ojha Founder Nextag 2nd largest comparison shopping engine Internet Silicon Valley
166 R C Maheshwari Chief Executive Officer (CV) Bajaj Auto Past: Board of Directors, Eicher Group   India
167 R Ramanujam Professor Institute of Mathematical Sciences   Education India
168 R V S Mani CTO, L&T Infotech L&T Infotech   IT India
169 Raj Kumar Koneru Founder Intelligroup Founder of NASD traded co; ITIG IT New Jersey
170 Raj Gollamudi Partner Bluestream Ventures Former board member of Thomas Weisel; VC Private Equity Silicon Valley
171 Raj Gupta Director CNX Gas Corp USA's largest producer of Coalbed Methane Gas. Past: Chairman, Quetzal Energy and Board of Directors, Yokos Oil Company, Moscow. Oil Exploration USA
172 Raj Rathi Managing Director Cyberstar, India   IT Disribution Bangalore, Singapore
173 Rajbala Verma, IAS Secretary, Science & Technology Government of Jharkhand Senior ranking IAS officer Government India
174 Rajendra Kumar Khare Chief Executive Offier IndusEdge Chairman, Indian Semiconductor Association. Past: Managing Director, Broadcom India communi- cations Equipment Bangalore
175 Rajendranath Reddy Kasireddy DIG, Commissioner of Police IPS   Polics Vijayawada
176 Rajesh Saxena CEO American Express Previously Sales and Marketing Head, Citicards, Japan Global payment and travel company India
177 Rajesh Hukku Chairman iFlex/Oracle BSE; Second Dewang Mehta Award for Innovation Software New Jersey
178 Rajiv Bapna Managing Director Amkette Founder of $100 million private co Hardware India
179 Rajiv Kapur Chief Executive Officer Broadcom, India     India
180 Rajiv Kaul Partner Actis Capital LLP Former Managing Director, Microsoft India IT and Services United Kingdom
181 Rajiv Maliwal Managing Director Sabre Capital Private Equity Former Head of Investment Banking, ANZ Grindlays Private Equity India
182 Rajiv Pant President Hexaware   BPO US
183 Raju Bhatnagar Vice President - BPO and Government Relations NASSCOM Former President & COO, ICICI One Source and Head, Congnizant BPO BPO India
184 Raju Reddy CEO Sierra Atlantic   IT Silicon Valley
185 Rakesh Kalra CEO Eicher Goodearth Ltd. CEO of BSE traded company Automotive India
186 Ram Gupta President & CEO, Castironsys Sr VP Peoplesoft     Silicon Valley
187 Ram Raghunath Chaudhary MLA Rajasthan Govt. Govt. of Rajasthan Government India
188 Ram Ramasundar CFO Ranbaxy CFO of BSE traded company Pharma- ceuticals India
189 Raman Ravinath MVAP Indian Administrative Services (IAS) Administrative Civil Services, Government of India IAS/ UTTARANCHAL /2004 Govt. of India India
190 Ramana Mulpury CTO & Co-Founder Metric Stream Merged with Vinod Khosla co; raised $100 million in financing Software Silicon Valley
191 Ramesh Grover CEO CMS Computers Founder of co with $400 million in revenues Hardware Mumbai
192 Ramesh L Adige Member, Board of Directors Ranbaxy and Syndicate Bank Head of Corporate Policy & Strategy. Pharmaceuticals and Banking New Delhi
193 Ramesh Padamnabhan Sr Director Juniper Networks     Silicon Valley
194 Ramesh Ramanathan Founder Janagraha Founder of high-profile charity Vice Chariman - Sanghamithra Rural Financial Services Past: Managing Director & European Head of Corporate Derivatives at Citibank - New York and London. India
195 Ramesh Tainwala Managing Director Samsonite India Founder of JV co with $x million in revenues Consumer Products India
196 Ranjan Pant Senior Managing Director Perseus India Board member of DSP Merrill Lynch Fund Managers; HDFC Standard Life Insurance; Former BHEL Board Member; Fund Management Mumbai
197 Ranvir Trehan President & CEO SETA Corporation Founder of $90 million private company IT Washington DC
198 Rashmi Yajnik Board of Directors Asian Indian American Business Group Largest Business Group in Central Ohio. Commissioner, Ohio Civil Rights Commission. Also, Founder and President, California Hydrocarbons Corp.   Ohio
199 Ravi Menon Head of Investment Banking HSBC Securities and Capital Markets (India) Private Limited Head of investment banking of co in India Investment Banking Mumbai
200 Reena Aggarwal Professor McDonough School of Business Georgetown University   Education USA
201 R Gopal Chief Executive Officer Matches SBU, ITC     India
202 RK Arora Former Managing Director CDAC Maker of Param, Indian supercomputer Government India
203 Roop Jain Former CEO Aarcee System Inc     Silicon Valley
204 S K Roongta Chariman SAIL   Public Sector India
205 S Mohan Executive Director (HR) Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), India A Fortune Global 500 company with revenues exceeding US$28 billion and 15000 employees   India
206 S Nagarajan Indian Administrative Services (IAS) Administrative Civil Services, Government of India IAS/TAMIL NADU/2005. First Rank, IAS 2005. Govt. of India India
207 S P Kothari Professor / Managing Director MIT Sloan School of Business / Barclays Global Investors   Financial Services Boston/ San Francisco
208 S R Ramanujam CEO CRISIL Risk & Infrastructure Solutions (CRIS)   Infrastructure Advisory Services and Risk Solutions. India
209 S R Sonkusale Professor Tufts University   Education USA
210 Sabeer Bhatia Founder Hotmail Founded and sold Hotmail to Microsoft for $400 million Internet Silicon Valley
211 Saket Agarwal CEO Cellebrum Technologies Limited   Telecom India
212 Samarjit Dey President - Strategic Initiatives NIIT     India
213 Sanjay Dube Chariman Unilever, Poland and the Baltics Past: Executive Director (Sales and Customer Development), Hindustan Lever    
214 Sanjay Minocha CEO Armaan Inc     Silicon Valley
215 Sanjeev Kaushik Managing Director HSBC Securities Managing Director & Head of Equities, Lehman Brothers, Former Global Head of Investment Banking & Equities, UTI; IAS officer Investment Banking India
216 Sanjeev Sahi Board of Directors (Director, Personnel) Hindustan Aeronautical Ltd. (HAL) Indian Public Sector company with revenues over US$2.3b Aerospace and Defense India
217 Sanjiv Sawhney Managing Director & Head of Fund Services, EMEA Citigroup   Financial Services Luxembourg
218 Saran Saund CEO Pico Mobile Networks     Silicon Valley
219 Sarath Babu Founder Food King Caterers   Catering India
220 Sarath Sura Managing Director, India Operations Sierra Atlantic Founder of private company; $22 million revenues IT Silicon Valley
221 Satish Gupta Chairman BPO Frontline Founder of Cradle Technologies, Raised $41 million Semi- conductors Silicon Valley
222 Satnam Alag Vice President, Engineering NextBio     CA, USA
223 Saurabh Srivastava Partner Artiman Ventures $250MM VC fund Private Equity Silicon Valley
224 Shailesh Shukla VP RedBack Networks     Silicon Valley
225 Sharad Mehrotra Founder, President and CEO Fabric7 Systems Inc. Founded and raised $100 million from VCs Semi- conductors Silicon Valley
226 Sharad Sinha VP, Industry Strategy Oracle     Silicon Valley
227 Shashi Warrier Writer Writer Well known fiction writer Writer India
228 Shivan Subramanian CEO FM Global Chairman and CEO of $3 billion US company Financial Services New York
229 Sivakumar Anantha- subramanian Movie Director     Media Chennai
230 SK Garg Chairman Eldeco Group Founder of $30 million private co Construction / Real Estate India
231 Skrikant Acharya President & CEO Margi Systems Inc     Silicon Valley
232 SN Zindal Director General STPI Chairman of $100 million software parks Construction / Real Estate India
233 Sona Dubey Managing Director Applied Materials India India head of US MNC Semiconductors India
234 Sreekanth T Indian Administrative Services (IAS) Administrative Civil Services, Government of India IAS/ AGMUT/ 2004 Govt. of India India
235 Sreenivas Kopparapu Managing Director, Head of Credit Trading Barclays   Financial Services New York
236 Sridhar Kamineni Managing Director Oil Country Tubular Ltd   Oil And Gas India
237 Sridhar Krishna Vice President Accenture Past: COO, Tranquil Money. CEO, Imagine Technologies   India
238 Sridhar Obilisetty Founder, President & CEO Vianeta communi- cations Raised $17MM in financing, former Architect of BVN's main product Software Silicon Valley
239 Srinivas Bala- subramanian CEO & Founder Infravio Raised $10 million in VC financing Software Silicon Valley
240 SPS Grover Vice President, Sales Oracle Corp Responsible for all Technology Sales in India   India
241 Srinivasan Rama- subramanian Professor University of Arizona   Education USA
242 Srividhya Rajesh Fund Manager Sundaram Mutual   Fund Management Chennai
243 Subodh Karnik Principal Consultant Boutique Management Consulting Firm Former President and CEO, ATA Airlines Aviation USA
244 Subramanian Venkates- waran Chief Administrative Officer, IT Lehman India   Investment Banking Mumbai
245 Subrotah Biswas Country Manager - India & SAARC Logitech
US Multinational
IT Peripherals
New Delhi
246 Subroto Mukherjee Vice President, Worldwide Delivery Application Services Technology Solutions Group, Hewlett Packard Past: Country Manager, USA, Wipro, Technology Division   USA
247 Sudeep Jain IAS Managing Director Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu Ltd. Senior ranking IAS officer; Guinness Book of Records for planting trees Government Chennai
248 Sudhir Dixit Head of Network Technology (USA) Nokia Siemens Networks     USA
249 Sudhir Narang Managing Director British Telecom, India Past: SVP, India and SAARC - CISCO Telecom India
250 Sujit Panigrahi CEO Convergent Technologies Head of Technology (Additional Director General - Technology) at Common- wealth Games Delhi 2010 IT India
251 Sukumar Rajagopal Senior VP and Chief Knowledge Office Cognizant Technology Solutions
IT India
252 Sunil Duggal CEO Dabur Group CEO of BSE traded company Food New Delhi
253 Sunil Sapra Country Manager - India and SAARC WatchGuard Technologies   Internet Security New Delhi
254 Sunit Rikhi VP and GM Intel   Semi- conductors Silicon Valley
255 Suresh Vasudevan SVP Network Alliance   Communi- cations Equipment Silicon Valley
256 T M Vijay Bhaskar Indian Administrative Services (IAS) Administrative Civil Services, Government of India Joint Sectretary - Ministry of Rural Development, New Delhi. IAS/ KARNATAKA /1983 Govt. of India India
257 T G B Ramakrishna Chief Operating Officer Idea Cellular COO for the Kerela Circle Telecom India
258 Taizoon F Khorakiwala Founder and CEO Switz Group (Monginis) and owner: Wockardt and Akbarallys Group Producer of Malyalam movie "Alashagopuram" and co-producer of "Mangal Pandey"   India
259 Thampy Thomas Chairman PostX Founded Tata Elxsi Software Silicon Valley
260 Tirthankar Das Music Director     Media Chennai
261 Udit Prakash Indian Administrative Services (IAS) Administrative Civil Services, Government of India IAS/ AGMUT /2007 Govt. of India India
262 Upinder Zutshi Managing Director Infinite Computer Solutions
IT and Services India
263 Utkarsh Rai Managing Director Infinera Corp.
Telecommunication Equipment California
264 V V Srinivasa Rao Superitendent of Police SP, Visakha Rural   Indian Police India
265 Venk Krishnan CEO Nuware Founder of private co in US; $20 million in revenues IT New Jersey
266 Vijay Chandru Founder & CEO Strand Genomics First Dewang Mehta Award for Innovation Bioinformatics Bangalore
267 Vijay Grover Managing Director Idea Cellular Cellular Company Tele- communi- cations India
268 Vijay Parikh Partner Global Catalyst Partners Founded and sold co for $400 million Private Equity Silicon Valley
269 Vijay Pathak CTO Kawasaki Microelectronics     Silicon Valley
270 Vijay Vaidyathan CEO Net Effect Media Producer and distributor of films in USA Media Silicon Valley
271 Vijay Yadav Managing Director 3Com Indian Head of US multinational Communi- cations Equipment India
272 Vikram Punj Managing Director, Corp BD Cypress Semiconductor     Silicon Valley
273 Vikram Sampath Writer     Writer India
274 Vikram Shah VP and GM NetApp   Software Bangalore
275 Vinay Chhajlani CEO Webdunia   Media India
276 Vinay Shroff Sr. Vice President Reliance Industries Ltd.   Retail India
277 Vinod Agarwal Fmr Chairman LogicVision, Inc. Founder of NASD traded company: LGVN Semi- conductors Silicon Valley
278 Vinod Mirchandani Vice President - Advanced Technology Applied Biosystems N(ow Life Technolgies) - Revenue of over US$2 billion   USA
279 Vinod Sawhney Regional CEO (Punjab, Haryana), Airtel Former CEO of Spice Telecom Tele- communi- cations India
280 Vivek Paul Partner, The Pacific Group Former CEO, Wipro 2005 Time CNN World's most influential; 2004 Businessweek World's best manager; Vice Chairman of NYSE traded co Venture Capital San Francisco
281 Vivek Pendharkar COO, New Product Development Xilinx     Silicon Valley
282 Yogesh Agarwal Chairman IDBI   Financial Services India
283 Yogesh Vaidya Chairman & CEO Software Technology Group Founder of BSE traded co IT Silicon Valley
284 Yogesh Verma Managing Director DLF Info-City Developers, Chandigarh   Construction India

This is a list of a few BITSians who graduated from the Birla Inter College and Birla Engineering College, Pilani, which were forerunners of BITS, Pilani as we know it today.


# Name Job title Company Comment Sector Location
1 Late. Banarasi Das Gupta Former Chief Minister of Haryana (twice), Freedom Fighter Indian Government Birla Inter College Indian Government India
2 Late Deendayal Upadhyaya First General Secretaty (UP) Bharatiya Jana Sangh (Now, Bharatiya Janata Party) Birla Inter College (1937) Indian Government India
3 Lt. Col. H. Bhuban Singh Lieutenant Colonel Indian Military Birla Engineering College (1953) Military India
4 Maj. Gen K B Narang Major General Indian Military Birla Engineering College Military India
5 Lt. Gen LM Rajgopal Lieutenant General Indian Military B.E. Mechanical, Birla Engineering College (1951) Military India
6 S C Agarwal Former Justice Supreme Court BSc (1950), Birla Engineering College Law India
7 Ram Raghunath Chaudhary Former Member of Parliament (12th and 13th Lok Sabha) Indian Goverment Birla Engineering College Goverment India
8 Ranbir Singh Former Rajya Sabha Member Indian Government MSc, Birla Engineering College Government India


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