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.

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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.

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