This is a document produced by BITSAA Pilani (Dean Nattu & many volunteers) showing a small sample of the top dreamers, achievers and performers among the BITS Alumni. Proud to be BITSians!

1. Proud to be BITSian
Dreamers Performers &
Achievers
[A Sample]
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2. Proud to be BITSian
Vivek P l
Vi k Paul
Instrumental
Instr mental in
transforming Wipro
From Million Dollar
to Billion Dollar
Company
Named by TIME
Magazine among
top Global Business
influentials

3. Proud to be BITSian
Dr. Krishna S
D K i h Saraswat
t
Rickey /Nielsen
Professor in
the School
of Engineering
Stanford
University, CA,
USA

4. Proud to be BITSian
Ramesh R
R h Ramanathan
th
Co-Founder
Co Founder
Janaagraha
g
Centre for
Citizenship
&
Democracy
y

5. Proud to be BITSian
Raju Reddy
R j R dd
Chairman
&
CEO
Sierra Atlantic
USA

6. Proud to be BITSian
Sunil Duggal
S il D l
CEO
Dabur
D b
India Ltd.

7. Proud to be BITSian
Kanna R j
K Rajan
NASA
Exceptional
Service Medal
Winner for
MAPGEN Mars
Exploration Rover
E l ti R
Project
j

8. Proud to be BITSian
Ram G
R Ganeshan
h
Associate
Professor
Mason School
of
Business, USA
B i

9. Proud to be BITSian
Srividhya Rajesh
S i idh R j h
Fund Manager
Sundaram BNP
Paribas Mutual

10. Proud to be BITSian
Upinder Z t hi
U i d Zutshi
Managing
Director
Infinite
Computer
Solutions

11. Proud to be BITSian
Kalpana N
K l Nayak
k
Superintendent
of Police at Govt.
of India Madras
Area India and
Area,
Now DCP
Tirunelveli

12. Proud to be BITSian
G Ravindra Kumar
R i d K
TIFR Professor
&
Shanti Swarup
Bhatnagar
Award winner

13. Proud to be BITSian
RAG
Goenka
k
Honorary Consul
Republic of Kenya
for
Developing
Business Relations
with India

14. Proud to be BITSian
Samonnoi Banerjee
S iB j
Investment
Professional
Bain Capital
p
Mumbai

15. Proud to be BITSian
Kishen Baheti
Ki h B h ti
Program Director
National Science
Foundation USA
Boston Marathon
2006
Finisher in 3 hour 43
Mins for his Age
Group p

16. Proud to be BITSian
Vijay Kedia
Vij K di
The WATER MAN
Rain Water Harvesting
Expert, well known for
his
Kedia Farm
Pattern, Aurangabad

17. Proud to be BITSian
PKR j
Rajgarhia
hi
Chairman
Rajgarhia
jg
Group

18. Proud to be BITSian
Pavan Kumar H
P K Hanumolu
l
2008 Oregon State
University School of
EECS Professor of
the Year Award
Recipient of Intel
Best of the Best
Fellowshipp

19. Proud to be BITSian
Raj K
R j Kumar
Member of
Indian Navy’s
Three P l
Th Pole
Mission Team to
Mt. Everest
North Pole
South Pole

20. Proud to be BITSian
Abani P t
Ab i Patra
Professor at Universityy
Of Buffalo - the team led
By him designed a
Screw pump that could
dramatically improve a
Decontamination
D t i ti
method that uses
photonics to eradicate
within minutes
dangerous bacteria,
g ,
viruses, etc

21. Proud to be BITSian
Vishal A
Vi h l Anand
d
CEO
Mahamaza
EComm Ltd.

22. Proud to be BITSian
Subramanyam V Dronaraju
S b D j
Vice President
of Worldwide
Sales and
Business
Development
Intoto Inc USA

23. Proud to be BITSian
Prithviraj Ch
P ith i j Chavan
Minister of Science &
Technology
Minister of State (Independent
Charge) of Ministry of Earth
Sciences
Minister of State in the Prime
Minister’s Office;
Minister of State in the Ministry of
Personnel,
Personnel Public Grievances and
Pensions and
Minister of State in the Ministry of
Parliamentary Affairs

24. Proud to be BITSian
Pratul Sh ff
P t l Shroff
CEO eInfochips
Ltd Gujarat's
leading chip
and systems
Design services
company

25. Proud to be BITSian
RVSR
Ramakrishna
ki h
Managing Director ITW
Signode, India
Received Manager of
year award in 2004 f
from
Hyderabad Management
Association
A i ti

26. Proud to be BITSian
Manoj Saxena
M jS
Tech Entrepreneur
Presently
Presentl Vice
President, Global
Solutions and
Assets at IBM
A t t

27. Proud to be BITSian
Shashi Warrier
Sh hi W i
Author of books which
Include The Homecoming,
Sniper, Hangman's Journal,
p , g ,
The Orphan, Night of the
Krait, the Marblewood
Forest, Suzy’s Gift, The
Hidden Continent, etc
India Today review “Warrier
can give Ludlum and Co a
run for their money.

28. Proud to be BITSian
Reena A
R Aggarwal
l
Robert E. McDonough
Professor of Business
Administration and
Professor of Fi
P f f Finance,
Georgetown University
Named among
"Outstanding Faculty" in
the Business Week Guide
to the Best Business
Schools.

29. Proud to be BITSian
Ramesh T i
R h Tainwala
l
President
Asia Pacific
&
Middle East
Samsonite

30. Proud to be BITSian
Autar Krishen K
A t K i h Kaw
US Professors
of the Year
2004 award
Winner
University of
South Florida

31. Proud to be BITSian
Hitesh Bh t
Hit h Bhatnagar
Corporate Advisor
Played a key role in
BITS Pilani campus wiring
p g
project
Formerly
y
General Manager at
Open Silicon India Pvt. Ltd.
President Managing
Director at Logic Vision
India Pvt Ltd.
Pvt. Ltd

32. Proud to be BITSian
Balaji K i h
B l ji Krishnamurthy
th
• Director at Lattice
Semiconductor
• President at LogiStyle
• Time Magazine
named him as o e o
a ed one of
Global Business
Influentials

33. Proud to be BITSian
Rajendra Kh
R j d Khare
• Founder Chairman &
Founder,
Managing Director at
SureWaves
• Co-Founder at
Indusedge
g
Innovations
• Key alum behind
y
Oyster Lab at Pilani
campus

34. Proud to be BITSian
Rajesh H kk
R j h Hukku
ORACLE Senior Vice
President and General
Manager Financial
Services Global Business
Unit
Chairman i-Flex Solutions
Under his leadership, i- flex
became the only organization
in the Indian IT industry to
place itself on the global Map
with a 'Made in India‘ brand.

35. Proud to be BITSian
Agendra K
A d Kumar
Director — global
g
Accounts, Asia Pacific
and Japan Region at
Symantec Corporation
Ace Photographer today
A Ph t h t d
who took photography
as a serious hobby
during his years at BITS
Pilani yesterday.
y y

36. Proud to be BITSian
VN t
Natarajan
j
Recipient of Tatrakshak
Medal from President
of India on 26 Jan 2005
for developing software
p g
leading to savings of
crores of rupees for the
Indian Coast Guard

37. Proud to be BITSian
I S Narula
N l
President & CEO,
Value Added Retail
Estate (VARE) & Retail
Business
The man behind the
famous ISHANYA Pune
India's largest Design
Centre and Specialty
Mall
M ll

38. Proud to be BITSian
Rashmi D tt
R h i Datt
HR Expert
&
Management
M t
Consultant
Author of Book
“Managing you
a ag g your
Boss”

39. Proud to be BITSian
Baba Kalyani
B b NK l i
CMD
Bharat Forge, Pune
g
Second Largest
Forging Company in
g g p y
The World
Padma Bhushan
Awardee

40. Proud to be BITSian
Kishu T k h d i
Ki h Teckchandani
Ex. CEO India Aviation
Consulting & Support
Formerly
CEO RAK Airways
CMD CCI
Board Member IAAI
Director DGCA

41. Proud to be BITSian
Yogendra M Gupta
Y d G t
Professor of Physics &
Director of Institute for
Shock Physics
Washington State
University
Recipient of 2001 Shock
Compression Science
Award by the American
Physical Society

42. Proud to be BITSian
Punita P d
P it Pandey
Chairman & CEO
netCustomer
a company which
became a case
study in Stanford
y
Business School

43. Proud to be BITSian
Ramesh H j i
R h Harjani
Professor
University of
Minnesota
Mi t
Co-founder and
Chief Technology
Officer Bermai Inc

44. Proud to be BITSian
Srinivasan Nagarajan
Si i N j
IAS
2005 Batch
All India
Topper

45. Proud to be BITSian
C V L Srinivas
Si i
Director, Times Private
,
Treaties (Bennett,
Coleman & Co Ltd)
Formerly
• CEO, Asia Pacific at
GroupM (MAXUS)
• COO at Madison
Communications,
• Media Supervisor at
Fulcrum (JWT)

46. Proud to be BITSian
Subodh Karnik
S b dh K ik
Executive
Vice President
Air Jamaica
Made Aviation
History by
becoming CEO of
ATA Airlines USA

47. Proud to be BITSian
Arvind M th
A i d Mathew
President
Nacelle Division
Suzlon Energy
Formerly
Managing Director
Ford India

48. Proud to be BITSian
Muthuswamy
M th
Nuclear Physicist
Author of the Book
The Art of War
on
Terror

49. Proud to be BITSian
Raj M h N
R j Mohan Neervannan
Entrepreneur
Formerlyy
CTO
MajescoMastek
and CTO
ePolicy
P li
Solutions

50. Proud to be BITSian
Manu Sawhney
M S h
Managing Director
ESPN Star Sports

51. Proud to be BITSian
Sudhir Kumar
S dhi K
Professor
Arizona State
University
2004 2005 Top 10
2004-2005 Top-10
Most-Cited Author for
Papers classified as
Computer Science by
Science Citation Index
(ISI),
(ISI) PA

52. Proud to be BITSian
T N Prabhu
P bh
CEO
U
UTV New Media
e ed a
Formerly
Director, Walt
Disney Internet
Groupp

53. Proud to be BITSian
Srivatsa S i i
S i t Srinivasan
Techie
&
Producer
Curry Rock
Album
H1Bees

54. Proud to be BITSian
Madan Bi l
M d Birla
Owner
Innovation Culture Group
Formerly
Managing Director
at
FedEx
Author of Book
“FedEx Delivers”

55. Proud to be BITSian
Jai N t
J i Natarajan
j
• Advisor and
Evangelist at
DuxSoft
• Group EVP,
Business
Development and
Marketing at Maya
Entertainment Ltd

56. Proud to be BITSian
Indrajit S
I d jit Sen
Country Head
&
CEO
Stroer Media

57. Proud to be BITSian
Sharat Jain
Sh tJ i
President
&
Co-founder
Online Recharge
Services

58. Proud to be BITSian
Pavan Gupta
P G t
General Manager
at
esys technologies
FZE UAE

59. Proud to be BITSian
Uma B l k i h
U Balakrishnan
CEO
Axcend

60. Proud to be BITSian
Sarath Babu
S th B b
FoodKing
Pepsi MTV
Youth Icon 2008

61. Proud to be BITSian
Anupendra Sh
A d Sharma
Investment
Partner
Siemens
Venture
Capital
p

62. Proud to be BITSian
Vivek Pendharkar
Vi k P dh k
Serial Entrepreneur
CEO, VuCast Media

63. Proud to be BITSian
Mohan S
M h F Sancheti
h ti
Senior Vice President
Manufacturing
at
VNUS Medical
Technologies,
ec o og es,

64. Proud to be BITSian
Paresh Shah
P h Sh h
Managing Director
CONVERGYS
Information
Management

65. Proud to be BITSian
Gulu Mi h d i
G l Mirchandani
Chairman
&
Managing
Director
ONIDA

66. Proud to be BITSian
Anirudh P bh k
A i dh Prabhakaran
Executive Director
&
President
South Asia
3i Infotech

67. Proud to be BITSian
Vikram Sh h
Vik Shah
President
India Operations
NetApp

68. Proud to be BITSian
Raju P d t
R j Pudota
Managing Director
Denali Systems

69. Proud to be BITSian
Pramod Jajoo
P dJ j
Managing Director
p
India Operations
&
Vice President
of
Engineering
E i i
XORA

70. Proud to be BITSian
Saket Agarwal
S k tA l
CEO
Cellebrum

71. Proud to be BITSian
Atul Bh t
At l Bhatnagar
President
&
CEO
IXIA

72. Proud to be BITSian
RAS i i
Srinivas
Vice President
Marketing
ESI Oregon
USA

73. Proud to be BITSian
Prabhat Pani
P bh t P i
CEO
Roots Corporation Ltd
Spearheading
Tata Group
p
Budget Hotel
Brand Ginger

74. Proud to be BITSian
Kanika – Divya
Venkatasubramaniam
Multi
M lti Talented
Film Actress
Playback Singer
TV Host

75. Proud to be BITSian
P J N th
Nath
Executive Vice
President
Sify
Technologies

76. Proud to be BITSian
Sushil K
S hil Kumar Roongta
R t
Chairman
SAIL

77. Proud to be BITSian
Kesar K th i
K Kothari
Managing Director
Elfit Arabia
Ajman UAE
His company won
Ajman Industrial
Excellence
E ll
Award 2007

78. Proud to be BITSian
Yogesh Agarwal
Y hA l
Chairman
&
Managing Director
IDBI

79. Proud to be BITSian
Sharat Dhall
Sh t Dh ll
Managing Director
TripAdvisor
Formerly MD Expedia,
VP eCommerce India
Times and Business
Head Rural Venture
Hindustan Lever

80. Proud to be BITSian
Anurag J i
A Jain
MD Asia Pacific &
Head
Applications Solutions
pp
&
Insurance
&
Business Process
Solutions
S l i
Perot Systems

81. Proud to be BITSian
Sunil S
S il Sapra
Country Director
India / SAARC
at
t
WatchGuard
Technologies Inc.

82. Proud to be BITSian
Seetharaman Mohan
S th M h
Executive Director
Human Resources
BPCL
Coauthor of Book
“The Indian CEO : A
Portrait of Excellence
Excellence”

83. Proud to be BITSian
Baradwaj Rangan
B d jR
53rd National
Film Awards
winner for Best
Film Critic

84. Proud to be BITSian
G S K Velu
V l
MANAGING
DIRECTOR
METROPOLIS
HEALTH
SERVICES
&
TRIVITRON

85. Proud to be BITSian
Janak Si h B j
J k Singh Bajwa
Managing
Director
Quest
Diagnostics
India
I di

86. Proud to be BITSian
Sunit
S it Rikhi
Vice President,
Technology and
Manufacturing Group
&
General Manager
Manager,
Custom Intel
Architecture Foundry
c tectu e ou d y
INTEL
CORPORATION

87. Proud to be BITSian
Khurshid Ahmad Ganai
Kh hid Ah d G i
Principal Secretary
to
CM J&K
Recipient of Gold Medal
for Honesty, Integrity
and Meritorious Service
by the Govt. of J & K

88. Proud to be BITSian
Kannan P
K Panchapakesan
h k
Area Sales
Manager
g
Indium
Corporation

89. Proud to be BITSian
Rakesh Verma
R k hV
Managing Director
MapmyIndia
'World's GPS
World s
Businessman
of Year 2007'

90. Proud to be BITSian
Ajoy M kh j
Aj Mukherjee
Head
Global HR
TCS

91. Proud to be BITSian
Ratnesh Kumar
R t hK
Head
Institutional Equities
Anand Rathi
Financial
Fi i l
Services Ltd.
Had Led India research
teams to #1 rankings in
g
Institutional Investor
polls in 5 out of last 9
years.

92. Proud to be BITSian
N S P th
Parthasarathy
th
CEO
Independent Testing
&
IMTS
MindTree Ltd
Ltd.

93. Proud to be BITSian
Vikram S
Vik Sampath
th
Manager
General Electric
Author
of
Splendours of
Royal Mysore

94. Proud to be BITSian
Ajay Waghray
Aj W h
Vice President
&
Chief Information
Officer
Verizon Wireless
AABDC 50 Outstanding
Asian Americans in
Business Award winner

95. Proud to be BITSian
KRVS b
Subramanian
i
CEO
Radix Learning
Bangalore
Spearheading BITSAA
S h di
Bengaluru Chapter

96. Proud to be BITSian
Bijay K
Bij Kumar J
Jayaswal
l
CEO
Agilenty Consulting
g y g
ASQ 2007
Crosby
Medal winner

97. Proud to be BITSian
Rajiv Chandra Pant
R ji Ch d P t
Hexaware
President-North
America
Formerly Vice
F l Vi
President Enterprise
Solutions Wipro
Technologies

98. Proud to be BITSian
Chandra Bh l
Ch d Bhople
Director Business
Development Osellus
USA
Founding President of
BITSAA Silicon Valley
Chapter

99. Proud to be BITSian
N C M th
Mathur
Director
Corporate Affairs
JSL Ltd
Winner of Stainless
Steel Udyog Ratan
Award by All India
y
Stainless Steel
Industries Association
(AISSIA)

100. Proud to be BITSian
Adil Mistry
Mi t
Multimedia Expert
at
Central TAFE,
eCentral Campus,
East Perth
Australia.

101. Proud to be BITSian
D P K th i
Kothari
Vice Chancellor
VIT Vellore
Active Researcher and
author of several
Books in Power
Systems and other
allied areas

102. Proud to be BITSian
George Jacob
G J b
Museum Expert
Star Spangled
Banner Gallery at
Smithsonian
Involved in Museum
Projects across the
Globe

103. Proud to be BITSian
Anil G t
A il Gupta
President Honeywell
International India Ltd
Formerly
• Marketing Executive
at General Electric
• Regional Marketing
Leader -Africa ,
eade ca
India & Middle East
at GE Energy

104. Proud to be BITSian
Anu Hassan
A H
Multi Talented
Entrepreneur, Film
Actress, Model,
Jazz Singer, TV
g
Star and TV
Anchor “Koffee
Koffee
with Anu” show

105. Proud to be BITSian
Mani Shankar
Bollywood
y
Film Director
16 December
Fame

106. Proud to be BITSian
Aditya P M th
Adit Mathur
Professor
&
Head of
Computer Science
Purdue University

107. Proud to be BITSian
Prabhu Pingali
P bh Pi li
Deputy Director
Agricultural
Policy &
y
Statistics for the
Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation
Formerly Director,
FAO, United Nations
,

108. Proud to be BITSian
DB l
Balasubramanian
b i
Director of Research
L. V. Prasad
Eye Institute
Recipient of Padma Shri
Works in the area of
Public Understanding
of Science

109. Proud to be BITSian
G K Pill i
Pillai
Chairman
&
Managing Director
HEC Ranchi

110. Proud to be BITSian
S P Kothari
K th i
Global Head
Equity Research Barclays
Global Investors
&
Professor
MIT Sloan School of
Management
&
Chairman BITSAA
International

111. Proud to be BITSian
Vikram Bh
Vik Bhargava
Director
of Mechanical
Engineering
Services at
Motorola
Enterprise Mobility
Division in
Holtsville, NY

112. Proud to be BITSian
Yatin T i di
Y ti Trivedi
Director
Industry
Alliances
Alli
at
Magma Design
Automation,
A t ti
USA

113. Proud to be BITSian
Mukesh Chatter
M k h Ch tt
CEO
Axiowave Networks
USA

114. Proud to be BITSian
Project E b
P j t Embryo at BITS
t
Links BITS alumni in Industries, research labs and
universities around the globe to the BITSian
student community over the Internet
• d li
delivery of i t
f interactive l t
ti lectures t ALL campuses
to
of BITS

115. Proud to be BITSian
AcYut – India’s First Humanoid –
from BITS Pilani
wins Bronze @ ROBOGAMES 2009

116. Proud to be BITSian
Ravi Sankar Ippili
Robogames USA 2009 Winner

117. Proud to be BITSian
Year 2001 to 2008
Indu Mohan, Neelam
Prabhu Gaonkar, Shanta
Boddapati, Sonu Swaika,
Ravi H i hbh i P t l
R i Harishbhai Patel,
Uzma Hussain Barlaskar,
Digbijoy Neelim Nath,
Nath
Swagat Borah, Hema
Arora, Pushp Saurav,
Rachit Chandra, Namrata
Raman, Piyush Suraj
Raathor

118. Proud to be BITSian
Kris R
K i Ramachandran
h d
Management Consultant
g
Advisor - Aditya Birla
Group Higher
Education Projects
Formerly CEO Indian
Subcontinent Philips
Electronics India Ltd.

119. Proud to be BITSian
BITS Pil i fi l b li
Pilani firmly believes that there
th t th
are no dreams too large, no
innovation unimaginable and no
frontiers beyond our reach.
The journey begins …..

120. Proud to be BITSian
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