List of BITS alumni
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List of notable BITS Pilani
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Birla Institute of Technology and Science
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, is a private university located in Pilani, Rajasthan, India. BITS Pilani is considered one of the most prestigious and selective universities in India...
Alumni
| Name | Category | Achievement | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baba Kalyani Baba Kalyani Babasaheb Neelkanth Kalyani is an Indian businessman who serves as the chairman and managing director of Bharat Forge, the flagship company of the Kalyani Group and the world's second-largest forgings manufacturer after ThyssenKrupp of Germany.... | Corporate | Chairman, Bharat Forge | ? |
| Vijay Chandru Vijay Chandru Vijay Chandru is an Indian entrepreneur. He is the founder and chairman of Strand Life Sciences.- Biography :Chandru received his bachelor degree from BITS Pilani and PhD from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1982. He started his academic career in teaching and research in 1982. He served... | Corporate | Cofounder & CEO, Strand Life Sciences; Inventor of Simputer | 1975 |
| Prithviraj Chavan Prithviraj Chavan Prithviraj Chavan is the current Chief Minister of Maharashtra. The Indian National Congress selected him to be the successor of Ashok Chavan. He is a Member of the Parliament of India representing Maharashtra in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament... | Government Institutions | Chief Minister of Maharashtra | ? |
| Gulu L. Mirchandani | Corporate | Founder and CEO of Onida Electronics Onida Electronics Onida is an electronics brand, based in India. It was established as "MIRC Electronics" in 1981.-History:Onida was started by G.L. Mirchandani and Vijay Mansukhani in 1981 in Mumbai. In 1982, Onida started assembling television sets at their factory in Andheri, Mumbai. Since then, Onida has... | 1981-Present |
| B. Sandhya B. Sandhya B. Sandhya is the Inspector General of Kerala Police in India. She is also a painter, writer and author of few published books.The International Association of Women Police , based in USA recently awarded Sandhya Bharatdas an award and scholarship of distinction. This award was given in addition... | Government Institutions | Police Officer and Author | ? |
| Rajesh Hukku Rajesh Hukku Rajesh Hukku is Senior Vice-President and Member of the Board of Directors of Oracle Financial Services Software limited. Rajesh graduated with B.E. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from BITS Pilani... | Corporate | Chairman & CEO, i-flex Solutions I-flex Solutions Oracle Financial Services Software Limited is an IT solution provider to the banking industry. Oracle Financial Services is majority owned by Oracle Corporation... - Named Star of Asia, Businessweek BusinessWeek Bloomberg Businessweek, commonly and formerly known as BusinessWeek, is a weekly business magazine published by Bloomberg L.P. It is currently headquartered in New York City.- History :... 2003 | ? |
| Vivek Paul Vivek Paul Vivek Paul is an Indian-born businessman and founder of Akansa Capital, an India-focused Private Equity Fund. He is also a Consulting Professor of Radiology at Stanford University. Mr. Paul founded , a cloud software company in the enterprise social media space... | Corporate | Partner, Texas Pacific Group, Ex-Vice Chairman,Wipro Ltd. CEO, Wipro Technologies. Named one of the world's 10 best managers by Businessweek(2003), Also Named 2004 Business influentials by Time | ? |
| SK Roongta | Corporate | Chairman, Steel Authority of India Ltd. | ? |
| Saket Agarwal Saket Agarwal Saket Agarwal is the CEO of Spice Digital. He is an alumnus of the Birla Institute of Technology and Science , Pilani. Saket holds a Bachelor of Engineering Honors degree, and a Master of Science Honors degree in Physics from BITS.Born on January 26, 1971, Saket comes from a family of academicians... | Corporate | CEO, Cellebrum Technologies Limited Cellebrum Technologies Limited Spice Digital Limited, previously Cellebrum Technologies Limited, is a developer of Mobile Value Added Services and Internet products, services, and applications with headquarters at Parwanoo in Himachal Pradesh, India.... | 1988-93 |
| Vinod Agarwal Vinod Agarwal Dr. Vinod K. Agarwal is an Indian-American businessman and scientist. He was a professor at McGill University in Montreal, Canada from 1978 to 1992. He then founded LogicVision, which he took public in October, 2001, as the first technology IPO following the terrorist attacks earlier that year... | Entrepreneur | Founder & Chairman, SEMINDIA, India's first semiconductor fab.Founder & Former Chairman, LogicVision ($100 million NASDAQ traded company: LGVN) | 1968-73 |
| Rajiv Bapna Rajiv Bapna Rajiv Kumar Bapna is an alumnus of IIT Delhi and BITS Pilani, and is most famous for being the founder of Amkette in 1986.The company was the first-ever domestic manufacturer of floppy diskettes in India. In a short span of time, Amkette gained a strong name in the Indian market due to Bapna’s... | Entrepreneur | Founder, Director of AMKETTE, a storage media company | ? |
| Sabeer Bhatia Sabeer Bhatia Sabeer Bhatia is an Indian American entrepreneur who co-founded the Hotmail email service and Jaxtr.- Background :... | Entrepreneur | Founder of Hotmail (sold to Microsoft for $400 million), joined Caltech after two years of study in BITS Pilani | ? |
| Mukesh Chatter Mukesh Chatter Mukesh Chatter is the founder of Nexabit, which he sold to Lucent for $900 million in 1999. He is also the founder & CEO of Axiowave, a Boston-based company he founded with Ray Stata, which folded in 2004. He has also since started the company NeoSaej running the website MoneyAisle.com.... | 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 | ? |
| Prof. S. P. Kothari S. P. Kothari S.P. Kothari is the Gordon Y Billard Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and an editor of the Journal of Accounting and Economics. During 2008-2009, he was Global Head of Equity Research, Barclays Global Investors, acquired by BlackRock on June 11, 2009... | Educators/Researchers | Head of Dept of Economics, Finance & Accounting, MIT Sloan School of Management MIT Sloan School of Management The MIT Sloan School of Management is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.... | ? |
| Prof. Kartik Hosanagar | Corporate & Academic | Chairman, Yodle, Inc, Professor, Wharton School of Business | 1994-1999 |
| Prof. Krishna Saraswat Krishna Saraswat Krishna Saraswat is a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University in the United States. In May 2002, he was recognised for his work on dielectric science and technology, being awarded the Thomas D. Callinan Award by the Electrochemical Society. In 2004, he was awarded IEEE Andrew S.... | 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 Ravi Gomatam Ravi Veeraraghavan Gomatam is the Director of Bhaktivedanta Institute and the newly formed Institute for Semantic Information Sciences and Technology... | Educator/Researcher | Director of Bhaktivedanta Institute and Institute for Semantic Information Sciences and Technology, Berkeley, and Mumbai | ? |
| Dilip D'Souza Dilip D'Souza Dilip D'Souza is a Mumbai-based writer and journalist. He writes about social and political causes, with a left-centrist, liberal perspective, as well as some travel and current affairs articles... | Writers | Writer of social causes | 1976-1981 |
| Shashi Warrier Shashi Warrier Shashi Warrier is an Indian author who wrote Hangman's Journal. He was born in Kerala and has an M.A. in Economics from BITS Pilani. His father was in the Indian armed forces and Warrier spent his childhood in different parts of the country. He is also an avid biker and has travelled around India... | Artists/Entertainers | Writer of Fiction | ? |
| Anu Haasan Anu Haasan Anu Hasan is a Tamil actress and TV anchor. She made her film debut in the critically acclaimed film Indira and has since appeared in a few Tamil films, playing supporting roles. She currently hosts the celebrity talk show Koffee with Anu on the Tamil channel Vijay... | 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 Mani Shankar Mani Shankar is a Bollywood director, best known for his direction of Hindi films such as 16 December, Rudraksh, and, Tango Charlie Mukhbir and Knockout.... | Artists/Entertainers | Director, Indian Movies | ? |
| Padmini Chettur Padmini Chettur Padmini Chettur is an Indian contemporary dancer, trained by dancer-choreographer Chandralekha. She runs her own dance company based in Chennai, India, "Padmini Chettur Dance Company".-Early life and education:... | Artists/Entertainers | Dancer | 1987-1991 |
| Deendayal Upadhyaya Deendayal Upadhyaya Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya , along with Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee, was an important leader of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, now the Bharatiya Janata Party.-Earlier Life and Education:... | Politician | Founder of BJP | |
| Nanaji Deshmukh Nanaji Deshmukh Chandikadas Amritrao Deshmukh aka Nanaji Deshmukha was a social activist in Bharat/India. He did exemplary work in the field of education, health and rural self-reliance and has been honored with Padma Vibhushan title by the Government of India... | Social Activist and politician | RSS functionary | |
| Ashok Pandey | Film Producer | Producer of Phas Gaye Re Obama Phas Gaye Re Obama Phas Gaye Re Obama is a 2010 Bollywood satire film directed by Subhash Kapoor and starring Rajat Kapoor, Neha Dhupia, Sanjay Mishra, Manu Rishi and Amole Gupte in the lead roles. The music and the background score of the film is composed by Manish. J. Tipu and lyrics are penned by Shellee and... | 1974-1979 |
| Manoj Gaur | Chairman | Jaiprakash Associates, Flagship of the Jaypee Group | |
| Raj Kishor Pareek | Corporate | Regional Technical Head, DLF,Gurgaon |