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] | Polity | Former Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Former Union Minister for Science and Technology, Govt. of India | 1963-1967 |
| Gulu L. Mirchandani | Corporate | Founder and CEO of Onida Electronics | 1965–1970 |
| Rakesh Kapoor | Corporate | CEO of Reckitt Benckiser | 1975-1980 |
| Sunil Duggal | Corporate | CEO of Dabur | 1974-1979 |
| Kanak Madrecha | Past Jury DQA, DHDA & SKEA | Honoured by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President & Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai | 1974-1979 |
| Manu Sawhney | Corporate | CEO of ESPN Star Sports, Director of Manchester United F.C. | 1984-1988 |
| 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 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 | 1988-93 |
| Vinod Agarwal | Entrepreneur | Founder and chairman, SEMINDIA, India's first semiconductor fab. Founder & Former Chairman, LogicVision ($100 million NASDAQ traded company: LGVN) | 1968-73 |
| Rajiv Bapna | Entrepreneur | Founder, Director of AMKETTE, a storage media company | 1969-1974 |
| Sabeer Bhatia | Entrepreneur | Founder of Hotmail (sold to Microsoft for $400 million), joined Caltech after two years of study in BITS Pilani | |
| Phanindra Sama | Entrepreneur | Co-founder & CEO, Redbus.in, Online bus-ticketing company | 1998–2002 |
| Prof. S. P. Kothari | Educator-researcher | Deputy Dean, MIT Sloan School of Management | 1974-1979 |
| Prof. Krishna Saraswat | Educators/Researchers | Stanford University | 1963-1968 |
| Prof. Ravi Gomatam | Educator-researcher | Director of Bhaktivedanta Institute[4] and Institute of Semantic Information Sciences and Technology,[5] 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 | |
| Kanika | Artists/Entertainers | Actress, Tamil/Telugu/Kannada/Malayalam Movies, TV Show host | |
| 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 | ||
| Bazmi Husain | Corporate | CTO, ABB Group | 1974-1979 |
| Vinod Sawhny | Corporate | CEO, Reliance Communication | 1975-1980 |
| N Suresh Krishnan | Corporate | MD, Zuari Global | 1981-1986 |
| Sanjay Kaul | Corporate | Country Manager (India), Apple Inc. | 1991-1995 |
| VT Bhardwaj | Corporate | MD, Sequoia Capital | 1995-1999 |
| Parthasarathy NS | Corporate | President and COO, MindTree | 1978-1983 |
| Sanjay Jalona | Corporate | CEO and MD, L&T Infotech | 1986-1990 |
| Shalabh Seth | Corporate | MD, SABMiller India | 1989-1993 |
| Rahul Chandra | Corporate | Co-founder and MD, Helion Venture Partners | 1990-1993 |
| Santhosh Kumar | Corporate | MD, Texas Instruments India | |
| Sanjay Nath | Corporate | Co-founder, Blume Ventures | 1990-1994 |
| Amit Saxena | Corporate | Founder, CEO and MD - Karvy Capital | |
| Tulsi Mirchandaney | Corporate | MD, Blue Dart Aviation | 1967-1970 |
| Arvind Mathew | Corporate | CEO, Mahindra Reva | 1977-1982 |
| Sharat Dhall | Corporate | President, Yatra.com | 1987-1991 |
| S Balajee | Corporate | SVP and MD, Samsung R&D India | 1991-1992 |
| Ranvir Trehan | Philanthropist | General trustee, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts | |
| Hari Govind Dubey | Freedom Fighter | Quit India movement participant | |
| Ravi Garikipati | Corporate | Entrepreneur in Residence, Flipkart | |
| Ramesh Tainwala | Corporate | President - Asia Pacific, Samsonite | |
| Dr. Sanjay Putrevu | Educator/Researcher | Dean - College of Business, University of Wyoming | |
| Richa Kar | Corporate | Founder and CEO, Zivame | 1998-2002 |
| Ravi Vora | Corporate | Chief Marketing Officer, HOOQ | 1993-1997 |
| A K Srikanth | Corporate | Managing Director, OCS Group India | 1986-1991 |
| Uthej N Simha | Diplomat | Indian Foreign Service | 2010-2014 |
References
- ↑ "List of Notable BITS Alumni - BITSAA International". bitsaa.org. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
- ↑ ":: Chairman ::". kalyanigroup.com. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
- ↑ http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/lok11/biodata/11mh18.htm
- ↑ "Bhaktivedanta Institute". bvinst.edu. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
- ↑ "Institute of Semantic Information Sciences and Technology". insist.ac.in. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
- BITSAA (Birla Institute of Technology & Science Alumni Association) (http://www.bitsaa.org/?page=whoswho)
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