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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