High-Profile Alumni of Indian Institutions:
Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande:
President and CEO, Sycamore Networks
Education: Bachelor’s, IIT-Madras, master’s, electrical engineering from the University of New Brunswick, Canada, Ph.D., Data Communications, Queens University, Canada
Vinod Dham:
Former senior vice-president, Intel; also known as the “Father of the Pentium” chip microprocessor
Education: Bachelor’s, Delhi College of Engineering, University of Delhi, master’s in electrical engineering, University of Cincinnati
Rakesh Gangwal:
Former President and CEO, US Airways
Education: Bachelor’s, IIT-Kanpur, MBA,
Wharton School of Management, University of Pennsylvania
Rajat Gupta:
Managing Director-Worldwide, McKinsey & Co.; Chairman of the Board of Associates, Harvard Business School and Dean’s Advisory Council
M.I.T. Sloan School of Management
Education: Bachelor’s, IIT-Delhi, MBA, Harvard Business School
Umang Gupta:
President and CEO, Keynote Systems
Education: Bachelor’s, IIT-Kanpur, MBA, Kent State University, Ohio
Vinod Khosla:
Co-founder, Sun Microsystems; Vice-Chairman, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers
Education: Bachelor’s, IIT-Delhi; master’s in biomedical engineering, Carnegie Mellon University; MBA, Stanford University School of Business
Victor Menezes:
Senior Vice-Chairman, Citigroup
Education: Bachelor’s, IIT-Bombay, MBA, Sloan School of Management, M.I.T.
Indra K. Nooyi:
President and Chief Financial Officer, PepsiCo
Holdings; Ranked 4th in Fortune’s List of Most
Powerful Women in Business
Education: Bachelor’s, Madras Christian College; MBA, IIM-Calcutta; MBA, Yale School of Management
Dr. Behruz Sethna:
President, State University of West Georgia
Education: Bachelor’s, IIT-Bombay; MBA, IIM-Ahmedabad; Ph.D. in Business, Columbia University
— By Shilpa Banerji
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