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Natarajan Venkatakrishnan
Posted on May 21, 2015 by Prakash Advani
NatrajanVenkatNatarajan Venkatakrishnan (Venkat) is the Director of
Research & Development for GE Appliances, since 2006. He also leads
FirstBuild, an open source micro-manufacturing to create a new world of home
appliances. He has more than 25 patent filings to date.
Based in Louisville, KY, US
Education: B.Tech degree in Aerospace Engineering from Indian Institute of
Technology, Chennai, India.
Family: Wife Chitra, have two children.
Interests: running, marathon,
Other activities:
On the board of the Louisville Regional Science & Engineering Fair, Dupont
Manual Science Fair and the Kentucky Statewide EPSCoR Committee.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=56130439
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Sanjay Shah
Posted on February 12, 2015 by Prakash Advani
Founder, Chief Executive Officer, President and Chief Architect, Vistex, Inc
. Vistex is estimated to be valued at US$200 Million.
Has homes in Germany and India and recently bought a a penthouse on 89th
floor at the Trump Tower in Chicago, US for $17 Million from Donald Trump.
Sanjay Shah worked at Accounting and Logistics roles before joining SAP as
an Applications Consultant in 1993. At SAP he worked for 6 years as a
Platinum Consultant and Logistics Developer and contributed to over 80 SAP
projects.
Education:
B Com from Sydenham collage
CA
MBA from Lehigh University
Idol: Lee Lacocca, Chairman Chrysler
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Kanwal Rekhi
Posted on February 3, 2015 by vikrant panchal
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Kanwal Rekhi is a Venture capitalist Angel investor and entrepreneur,
currently serving as the managing director at Inventus Capital Partners.
Introduction:
Kanwal Rekhi is an Indian-American businessman.
He was borned during British-India in 1945 at Rawalpindi (now in Pakistan),
after partition they settled in Kanpur, India.
Venture Capitalist Angel investor and Entrepreneur. Currently he is serving
as M.D. at Inventus Capital Partners.
He is credited as the first Indo-American Founder & CEO to take a venture-
backed company public on the NASDAQ.
Education:
He graduated in 1967 as an Electrical Engineer from (IIT) Indian Institute
of Technology Bombay (now Mumbai).
He acquired his Master of Science degree from Michigan Technological
University.
Further he earned his honorary doctorates in both Business and Engineering
from the Michigan Technological University.
Industry Profile:
Mr. Kanwal is experienced working in many position such as engineer, systems
analyst, and manager before venturing in business.
In 1982, heco-founded Excelan in San Jose, California at the age of 36 & was
named as president in 1985. The company went public in 1987 and merged with
Novell in in 1989.
Kanwal served as an Executive Vice-President and the Chief Technology
Officer of Novell until 1995.
Social and Philanthropy:
Kanwal Rekhi co-founded TiE in 1995 The Indus Entrepreneurs, a nonprofit
support network to provide advice, contacts, and funding Indian owned
startups in Silicon Valley and then spread to other countries including
India.
He donated $3Million to IIT Mumbai to setup a new School of Information
Technology which is now named after him: KReSIT – Kanwal Rekhi School of
Information Technology.
He also contributed contributed $5 million to Michigan Tech in 2000 to
increase the profile of educational institutions in India.
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Vivek Ranadive
Posted on May 20, 2014 by vikrant panchal
Vivek Ranadive (Marathi: विवेक रण&
#2342;िवे) is an Indian businessman, engineer, author,
speaker and philanthropist.
Introduction :
Vivek Ranadive was borned on October 7, 1957.
Ranadivé grew up in the Juhu area of Bombay (now Mumbai), India.
He was the youngest of three children.
At 16, Ranadivé was accepted to MIT.
He is the founder and CEO of TIBCO
Education :
In 1970s, at the age of 16 Vivek was selected for MIT where he successfully
completed his Bachelors & Masters degree.
After MIT, he joined Harvard University in 1983 & completed his MBA.
He was titled Baker Scholar at Harvard University.
Industry Profile :
While still in college at MIT, Ranadivé started his first company, a UNIX
consulting company.
He also held management and engineering positions with Ford Motor Company, M
/A-Com Linkabit and Fortune Systems immediately after college.
Teknekron Corp., a technology incubator, provided $250,000 in seed capital
to Vivek Ranadivé in 1985; in 1986, Teknekron Software Systems was born.
In 1997, Ranadivé founded TIBCO Software Inc. with funding from Cisco and
Reuters.
In 1999, TIBCO’s revenues were $100 million, leading them to file for an
IPO on the NASDAQ.
Currently, TIBCO is active in a wide range of markets including retail (
FedEx and Amazon.com), manufacturing, financials (Chicago Mercantile
Exchange, NASDAQ and Goldman Sachs), the military (the Department of Defense
, United States Department of Homeland Security), airlines (Delta) and tech
companies (iPhone activation with AT&T, eBay).
By 2011, Ranadivé had grown TIBCO’s annual revenues to $920 million and
its customer base to 4,000.
In 2010, Ranadivé became the co-owner and vice chairman of the Golden State
Warriors, making him the first person of Indian descent to own an NBA
franchise.
On March 21, 2013 it was announced that Ranadivé has joined Ron Burkle and
Mark Mastrov to be a major investor in the attempt to purchase the
Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association.
On May 16, 2013 it was announced that the Ranadivé lead ownership group
came to an agreement with the Maloof family to purchase 65 percent of the
Kings for approximately $348 million and will keep the Sacramento Kings in
Sacramento.
At the 2012 World Economic Forum in Davos, Ranadivé, along with WEF’s
founder and chairman Klaus Schwab, launched TopCom, a private social network
for world leaders.
In 1999, Ranadivé published The Power of Now with a foreword by Sun
Microsystems co-founder Scott McNealy which details how winning companies
sense and respond to change using real-time technology.
The book was a New York Times bestseller.
In 2006, Ranadivé published The Power to Predict with a foreword from FedEx
founder Frederick W. Smith which explores how companies can break new
ground in their quest to anticipate customers’ needs, capture new
opportunities, and predict and avoid problems.
The book was an international bestseller and was profiled in Forbes, Harvard
Business School and The Wall Street Journal‘s SmartMoney.
In 2011, Ranadivé published The Two-Second Advantage: How We Succeed by
Anticipating the Future–Just Enough, which reveals how our understanding of
human mastery is being applied to the way computers “think.”
The book was a New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller
and was reviewed positively by David Stern and Marc Andreessen.
Awards, Acheivements & Recognition :
2005 Wharton Infosys Business Transformation Award (WIBTA): North America
Technology Change Agent Award.
InfoWorld’s 2002 Top Ten Technology Innovators.
2002 Ernst & Young Software Entrepreneur of the Year.
2008 South Asian CEO of the Year by the South Asian MBA Association (SAMBAA).
Social Life :
Ranadivé has three children: Aneel, Andre and Anjali.
He enjoys playing golf, cycling, tennis, hiking, and has a black belt in Tae
Kwon Do.
Ranadivé, along with TIBCO’s director of business development, former NFL
running back Roger Craig, used to coach his daughter’s national runner-up
junior basketball team.
Twitter Profile :
https://twitter.com/Vivek
Facebook fanpage :
https://www.facebook.com/VivekRanadivefanpage
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Amit Singhal
Posted on May 15, 2014 by vikrant panchal
Amitabh Kumar “Amit” Singhal
Amit is senior vice president and software engineer at Google Inc.
Introduction :
Amitabh Kumar Singhal was borned in Born in Jhansi, a city in the state of
Uttar Pradesh, India on Sept, 1968.
He is senior vice president and software engineer at Google Inc.
He is the head of Google’s core ranking team.
Education :
He completed his Bachelor of Engineering degree in computer science from IIT
Roorkee in 1989.
He then continued his computer science education in the United States, and
received an M.S. degree from University of Minnesota Duluth in 1991.
Amit continued his studies at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York and
received a Ph.D. degree in 1996.
Industry Profile :
As he completed his Ph.D, he joined AT&T Labs , where he continued his
research in information retrieval, speech retrieval and other related fields.
His friend Krishna Bharat persuaded him to join Google in the year 2000.
At Google he use to work in Google’s core search quality department.
Google search algorithms are the result of Amit & his team.
According to New York Times, Mr. Singhal is the master of what Google calls
its “ranking algorithm” — the formulas that decide which Web pages best
answer each user’s question.
Awards, Achievements & Recognition :
According to New York Times, Mr. Singhal is the master of what Google calls
its “ranking algorithm” — the formulas that decide which Web pages best
answer each user’s question.
In 2011 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing
Machinery.
Fortune named Amit Singhal one of the smartest people in tech.
In 2011, Amit Singhal was given the Outstanding Achievement in Science and
Technology Award at The Asian Awards.
Twitter Profile :
https://twitter.com/theamitsinghal
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Sujay Jaswa
Posted on May 14, 2014 by vikrant panchal
Sujay Jaswa
Sujay jaswa is the CFO of Dropbox.
Introduction:
He is the CFO of Dropbox.
Before that he also served as Vice President, Business at Dropbox.
Education :
He completed his High school in 1997, from Bellarmine College Preparatory,
California, USA.
He completed his Bachelors in Economics from Princeton Universtiy.
Finally after his bachelors he attended Howard University in the year 2008
to complete his MBA.
Industry Profile :
He worked less than a year as an intern in Selectica.
Sujay served as a Management Consultant at McKinsey & Company.
He also served as an Associate in Cisco Systems’ Corporate Development
group
Since April 2005 – 2006 he worked as a Director in CinemaNow (Now Best Buy).
In Sept 2008 as a Principal he worked at New Enterprise Associates for 2
years & 4 months till December 2010.
He was appointed as the VP (Vice President) of Dropbox in 2010.
In April 2014, as the new financial year began he was promoted as the CFO (
Chief Financial officer) in Dropbox.
LinkedIn Profile :
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/sujay-jaswa/0/6/35
Twitter Profile :
https://twitter.com/sujayjaswa
Facebook Profile ;
https://www.facebook.com/sujayjaswa
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Ruchi Sanghvi
Posted on May 13, 2014 by vikrant panchal
She was the first female engineer hired by the social-networking website
Facebook.
Introduction :
Ruchi Sanghvi was born on 20th January, 1982.
Ruchi was raised in Pune, India.
When she was young, she intended to join her father’s business after
completing her studies.
Education :
Sanghvi pursued her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical computer
engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
Industry Profile :
Prior to Facebook, she was a software engineer in the Real Time
Communication Group at Oracle.
Ruchi joined Facebook in 2005.
Sanghvi was Facebook’s first female engineer.
Sanghvi was one of the main people working on the first version of Facebook
’s news feed product, first launched in September 2006, and she wrote the
blog post announcing its launch.
In 2006, Sanghvi became the product lead for Facebook Platform.
In late 2010, she quit Facebook
In 2011,she started her own company Cove, with Aditya Agarwal.
Later this company was been sold to Dropbox in 2012.
In February 2012, Dropbox, the file synchronization and backup service
company, announced that it had acquired Cove and that Sanghvi and Agarwal
would be joining Dropbox.
Ruchi is the Vice President of Operations at Dropbox, managing product,
marketing, communications and other functions.
Ruchi Sanghvi is an investor and adviser in a number of Silicon Valley
companiesincluding privacy-oriented photo-sharing service Path and workplace
collaboration application Asana.
Awards, Achievements & Recognition :
Sanghvi was awarded a TechFellow “Best Engineering Leadership Award” in
2011 for her work at Facebook.
LinkedIn Profile :
http://www.linkedin.com/in/rsanghvi
Twitter Profile :
https://twitter.com/rsanghvi
Faacebook Profile :
https://www.facebook.com/ruchi
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Om Perkash Malik
Posted on May 13, 2014 by vikrant panchal
Om Perkash Malik
He is an Indian-American web and technology writer.
Introduction :
Om Malik was born in New Delhi on September 29, 1966.
He is the founder of and senior writer for GigaOM.
He is an Indian-American web & technology writer.
Education :
Malik completed his graduation from St. Stephens’ College in New Delhi in
1986, with an honors degree in chemistry.
Industry Profile :
Malik moved to New York City in 1993 to be a writer for India Abroad and
then for Forbes.
He was also a senior writer for Red Herring, focusing on the
telecommunications sector, and later became a senior writer there.
In late 1994, he launched DesiParty.com, an events site for Indian emigrants.
In 1995 he helped launch the now-defunct magazine, Masala, and its website
Masala.com, a South Asian portal.
In 1997, Malik was on the original team at Forbes.com led by David Churbuck.
He then left Forbes in the year 1999.
In 2000, he moved to San Francisco, California to write for Business 2.0
magazine.
In 2001, he started GigaOM, a Web 2.0 blog published by GigaOmniMedia, Inc.
in San Francisco.
The website has a monthly global audience of 500,000, is among the top 50
blogs worldwide by Technorati Rank, and is part of CNet’s 100 Most
Influential Blogs.
His first book, Broadbandits: Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist, was
released on May 15, 2003.
Malik’s writings have also appeared in newspapers and magazines such as The
Wall Street Journal, Brandweek, and Crain’s New York Business.
Malik announced on June 12, 2006, that he was going to work on GigaOM full-
time, although he is still a contributing editor and writes a column for
Business 2.0. In addition to GigaOM, he also writes for the blogs Web Worker
Daily and Tablatronic.
Twitter Profile :
https://twitter.com/om
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Navin Shenoy
Posted on May 13, 2014 by vikrant panchal
Navin Shenoy
He is vice president of the PC Client Group and general manager of the
Mobile Client Platform Division at Intel Corporation.
Introduction :
Navin Shenoy is associated with Intel since 1995.
Education :
Shenoy graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor’s degree
in electrical engineering.
He attended the Stanford Executive Program.
Industry Profile :
Navin Shenoy joined Intel in the year 1995.
At first he served different roles in sales & marketing department including
which he was responsible for end-user, ISV and service provider
relationships and Northern California district manager for Intel Online
Services where he worked closely with Google.
Shenoy was also the technical assistant to Paul Otellini, Intel’s president
and CEO for 3 years. In this role he assisted Otellini in the development
and implementation of Intel’s long-term corporate strategy and the daily
management of Intel’s global business.
LinkedIn Profile :
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/navin-shenoy/7a/9/9b6
Twitter Profile :
https://twitter.com/NavinShenoy1
Facebook Profile :
https://www.facebook.com/navin.shenoy
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Francisco D’Souza
Posted on April 9, 2014 by vikrant panchal
Francisco D’Souza
Francisco D’Souza is the CEO of Cognizant.
Introduction:
Francisco D’Souza was born in Nairobi, Kenya, Africa. on 23 August 1968.
His father, Placido D’Souza (born in 1933, ex-Anjuna, Goa), was a diplomat
with the Indian Foreign Services.
His mother was Sushila. His sisters are Jacinta, Lucia, and Maria.
He is the CEO of Cognizant and was part of the team that founded the NASDAQ-
100 company in 1994.
Francisco is Cognizant’s CEO since January 2007 .
Francisco D’Souza is among the youngest Chief Executive Officers in the
software services sector.
He has been noted for his quick rise to the top of his profession.
Industry Profile:
Francisco D’Souza has more than 20 years of experience in the information
technology industry, in both operational and advisory roles.
From February 1995 to December 1995, D’Souza was employed as Product
Manager at Pilot Software a company funded by Keyur Patel of Fuse Global.
At Cognizant, which he joined in its early days, D’Souza was elected Chief
Operating Officer (COO) in December 2003.
Prior to that, from November 1999 to December 2003, he served as Senior Vice
President (SVP), North American Operations and Business Development.
From March 1998 to November 1999, he served as Vice President (VP), North
American Operations and Business Development and as Director-North American
Operations and Business Development from June 1997 to March 1998.
From January 1996 to June 1997, D’Souza was engaged as a consultant.
Effective January 1, 2007, D’Souza was appointed President and Chief
Executive Officer and a member of theBoard of Directors of Cognizant.
In February 2013, D’Souza was appointed as independent director on the
board of General Electric.
Awards, Achievements &Recognition:
D’Souza has received the following honors:
2002 – Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist[citation needed]
2005 – The Economic Times Entrepreneur Award[citation needed]
2009 – named among “America’s Best CEOs” by Institutional Investor
magazine
2013 – named among “100 CEO Leaders in STEM” by STEMconnector
2013 – Recognized as the Best CEO in the Multinational Company category by
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