The USA Board meets once a month by telephone -
US Board Meeting Minutes.
- Chair Person: Umang Gupta, IIT Kanpur
Umang Gupta is the Chairman and CEO of Keynote Systems. His earlier successes include Gupta Corporation which was the first Indian-American founded software company to go public in the world. Prior to founding Gupta, Umang was at Oracle and was very instrumental in their success. He has held various positions with Oracle Corporation and IBM.
Interview with Umang Gupta.
USA Executive Committee Representation:
- President: Gunjan Bagla, IIT Kanpur
Gunjan is Managing Director of Amritt and teaches an executive seminar at Caltech on Doing Business in India. He is author of Business in 21st Century India (Warner/Business Plus, 2008).
- Secretary and Vice President: Siddhartha (Sid) Chowdhary, IIT Kharagpur
Sid the President and CEO of Credence Management Solutions, and the co-founder of Information Technology Growth Solutions. Sid also serves on the Board of Capital IIT Alumni Association since 2005. He received his B-Tech from IIT Kharagpur (1992), and has attended programs at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government (KSG) and Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute (SEI).
- Past President: Dilip Venkatachari, IIT Madras
Dilip earned an M.B.A. with distinction from the Harvard Business School, an M.S.E.E. from Rice University, and a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.
- Chapter Representative, PanIIT USA: Vacant
Distinguished Alumni Representatives
- Dr. Rajendra Singh, IIT Kanpur 1975
Dr. Singh obtained his MS from the University of Maine and PhD from Southern Methodist University. Beginning with his dissertation on Spectrum Efficient Schemes for Mobile Radio Communications, Dr Singh has actively contributed to the development of the wireless telecommunications industry. He has a distinguished record of academic achievements including the organization of and participation in the CTIA scientific panel which investigated time dispersion for TDMA and FDMA. He is currently the Chairman of the Board of Directors at both LCC International and Telcom Ventures, USA.
- Kanwal Rekhi, IIT Bombay 1967
Kanwal received his MS from Michigan Technological University. Kanwal was named Entrepreneur of the Year in 1987 by the Arthur-Young/Venture magazine. He was named to the Board of Advisors to the President of Michigan Tech and in 1997 was honoured with a doctorate in Business and Engineering. Kanwal is also involved in increasing the visibility of premier educational institutions in India. He gave US $3 million to IIT Bombay to help set up a new School of Information Technology, named KReSIT (Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology). Kanwal is a past Chairman and trustee of TiE, The Indus Entrepreneurs.
Presidents of IIT Alumni Associations/Foundations
- IIT Bombay: Ram Kelkar
Ram is a managing director in the Capital Markets and Hedging group affiliated with Milliman's Financial Risk Management practice in Chicago. Ram has more than 20 years of experience in the capital markets, having previously worked for Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, and Allstate. Ram did his Btech (EE) from IIT Bombay. He received his MS from the University of Wisconsin and MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
- IIT Delhi: Amit Kumar
Amit has been with IIT Delhi Excellence Foundation since its inception, and helped build the San Francisco Bay Area Chapterand the national organization. He is currently VP, Product Management at Dapper.net, working on the confluence of the Semantic Web and Display Advertising. Previously, he was responsible for Yahoo! SearchMonkey and other semantic web technologies,and has a long career in Search, including stints at Inktomi and Verity/Autonomy
- IIT Guwahati : Kiran Kumar Thota
- IIT Kanpur: Abhay Bhushan
- IIT-Kharagpur: Roy daSilva
- IIT Madras: Lavu Sridhar
- IIT-Roorkee: Purnima Gupta