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

1. "List of Notable BITS Alumni - BITSAA International". bitsaa.org. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
2. ":: Chairman ::". kalyanigroup.com. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
3. http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/lok11/biodata/11mh18.htm
4. "Bhaktivedanta Institute". bvinst.edu. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
5. "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)