BITS Pilani movers and shakers rock India and the world!
New Delhi: In the last five decades, BITS Pilani has produced some of the most prominent leaders of leading corporations, politicians, high ranking government employees and big names in academics, arts, NGOs and investment firms.
These include the likes of Sabeer Bhatia, founder of Hotmail; Prithviraj Chavan, Chief Minister of Maharashtra; Vivek Paul, former vice chairman of Wipro; Gulu Mirchandani, founder of Onida; Brijesh Khanna, Director of Sun Microsystems, and Rajesh Saxena, founder of American Express.
|
Name |
Job title |
Company |
Comment |
Sector |
Location |
|
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 |
|
A.J. Gupta |
Managing Partner, Product Innovation and PLM |
Accenture |
 |
Management Consulting |
Washington DC USA |
|
Aditya Shrivastava |
Director General and VP |
Birla Research Institute for Applied Sciences; GRASIM – Aditya Birla Group |
 |
Research & Development |
Nagda India |
|
Ajay Chopra |
Founder Pinnacle Systems |
General Partner, Trinity Ventures |
 |
 |
Silicon Valley |
|
Ajay Shah |
Managing Director, Derivatives Technology |
Credit Suisse First Boston |
Highest ranking BITSian on Wall Street |
Investment Banking |
New York |
|
Ajoyendra Mukherjee |
Global Head (HR) |
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) |
Past: Vice President and Head of Operations, Switzerland and South Africa, TCS |
 |
India |
|
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 |
|
Amarjeet Singh |
Former CEO |
Tata Motors |
India’s Largest Car Manufacturers |
Automotive |
India |
|
Amit Sinha Roy |
Vice President (India and SAARC) |
Cisco Systems |
Past: Country Marketing Manager, Hewlett-Packard, India. |
 |
India |
|
Anil Sethi |
President and CEO |
Sony Ericsson, India |
 |
Mobile handset, Telecom |
India |
|
Arvind Mathew |
Managing Director |
Ford Motor India |
 |
Automotive |
India |
|
Arvind Vijh |
Director |
Deloitte |
 |
Consulting |
Toronto |
|
Deepu Rathi |
Director |
Cisco Systems |
 |
 |
Silicon Valley |
|
Dr. Surendra Pal |
Distinguished Scientist and Programme Director Sat. Navigation (ISRO) |
ISRO Satellite Centre |
 |
 |
Bangalore |
|
Girish Bhargava |
Film Editor |
Dance in America, etc |
Winner of two Emmy Awards (Nominated for 5 others) |
 |
USA |
|
Goverdhan Mehta |
Chairman |
NAAC |
 |
Government |
India |
|
Kanna Rajan |
Sr. Research Scientist, Autonomy & Robotics |
NASA |
Rover Project Software Head |
Aerospace |
Silicon Valley |
|
Kris Ramachandran |
Advisor to Chairman, Aditya Birla Group |
 |
 |
Higher Edution |
Mumbai |
|
Madhu Kannan |
CEO |
Bombay Stock Exchange |
 |
Financial Services |
India |
|
Manoj Kumar |
Executive Chariman, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director |
Jaypee Group |
The flagship company of US$ 700 million group |
 |
India |
|
Manoranjan ‘Mao’ Mohapatra |
Chief Executive Officer |
Bharti Telesoft |
Past: President and COO, Aricent |
 |
India |
On the BITS Alumni Association list, there are over 450 dream performers and achievers. The complete list is available on their official website.
BITS Pilani has the unique policy of offering direct admission to the toppers of all the boards across India in the courses of their choice. It helps in attracting talent. BITSAT or BITS Admission Test is quite competitive too and helps the institution to select best from thousands that apply.
|
Name |
Job title |
Company |
Comment |
Sector |
Location |
|
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 |
|
A.J. Gupta |
Managing Partner, Product Innovation and PLM |
Accenture |
 |
Management Consulting |
Washington DC USA |
|
Aditya Shrivastava |
Director General and VP |
Birla Research Institute for Applied Sciences; GRASIM – Aditya Birla Group |
 |
Research & Development |
Nagda India |
|
Ajay Chopra |
Founder Pinnacle Systems |
General Partner, Trinity Ventures |
 |
 |
Silicon Valley |
|
Ajay Shah |
Managing Director, Derivatives Technology |
Credit Suisse First Boston |
Highest ranking BITSian on Wall Street |
Investment Banking |
New York |
|
Ajoyendra Mukherjee |
Global Head (HR) |
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) |
Past: Vice President and Head of Operations, Switzerland and South Africa, TCS |
 |
India |
|
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 |
|
Amarjeet Singh |
Former CEO |
Tata Motors |
India’s Largest Car Manufacturers |
Automotive |
India |
|
Amit Sinha Roy |
Vice President (India and SAARC) |
Cisco Systems |
Past: Country Marketing Manager, Hewlett-Packard, India. |
 |
India |
|
Anil Sethi |
President and CEO |
Sony Ericsson, India |
 |
Mobile handset, Telecom |
India |
|
Arvind Mathew |
Managing Director |
Ford Motor India |
 |
Automotive |
India |
|
Arvind Vijh |
Director |
Deloitte |
 |
Consulting |
Toronto |
|
Deepu Rathi |
Director |
Cisco Systems |
 |
 |
Silicon Valley |
|
Dr. Surendra Pal |
Distinguished Scientist and Programme Director Sat. Navigation (ISRO) |
ISRO Satellite Centre |
 |
 |
Bangalore |
|
Girish Bhargava |
Film Editor |
Dance in America, etc |
Winner of two Emmy Awards (Nominated for 5 others) |
 |
USA |
|
Goverdhan Mehta |
Chairman |
NAAC |
 |
Government |
India |
|
Kanna Rajan |
Sr. Research Scientist, Autonomy & Robotics |
NASA |
Rover Project Software Head |
Aerospace |
Silicon Valley |
|
Kris Ramachandran |
Advisor to Chairman, Aditya Birla Group |
 |
 |
Higher Edution |
Mumbai |
|
Madhu Kannan |
CEO |
Bombay Stock Exchange |
 |
Financial Services |
India |
|
Manoj Kumar |
Executive Chariman, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director |
Jaypee Group |
The flagship company of US$ 700 million group |
 |
India |
|
Manoranjan ‘Mao’ Mohapatra |
Chief Executive Officer |
Bharti Telesoft |
Past: President and COO, Aricent |
 |
India |
This post was written by Aditya Singhal, managing director of askIITians.