List of BITS Alumni

List of notable BITS Pilani Alumni

Name Category Achievement Year
Baba Kalyani Corporate Chairman, Bharat Forge 1965-1970
Vijay Chandru Corporate Cofounder & CEO, Strand Life Sciences; Inventor of Simputer 1975
Prithviraj Chavan Government Institutions Chief Minister of Maharashtra 2009 till date
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
Rakesh Verma Corporate CEO & Cofounder of MapmyIndia
R Sukumar Journalism Editor of Mint (newspaper)
B. Sandhya Government Institutions Police Officer and Author ?
Rajesh Hukku Corporate Chairman & CEO, i-flex Solutions - Named Star of Asia, Businessweek 2003 ?
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, Cellebrum Technologies Limited 1988-93
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.) ?
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. Kartik Hosanagar 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 and Institute for Semantic Information Sciences and Technology, 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 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 Speaker on Ancient Indian scriptures in Sanskrit and Tamil. Renders musical discourses and is a regular speaker in leading Indian TV Channels 2004-2009
Deendayal Upadhyaya Politician Founder of BJP
Nanaji Deshmukh Social Activist and politician RSS functionary
Raj Koneru Corporate Founder and CEO Kony Solutions
Ashok Pandey Film Producer Producer of Phas Gaye Re Obama 1974-1979
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., Executive Director at CIITM Engineering College & Editor-In-Chief at Jan TV 1994–present
Shishir Joshipura MD SKF India Limited 2009–present
Harish Bhat CEO and Managing Director Tata Global Beverages ?

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