Global Board of Directors

The Global Board meets four times a year by telephone - Global Board Meeting Minutes.

• Chair: Rajat Gupta, IIT Delhi
  Rajat is an IIT Delhi Alumnus. He joined McKinsey & Company in 1973 and went on to become the firm's first managing director born outside of the US. He is on the Advisory boards of Harvard Business School and the Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. He is Chairman of the Board of the Indian School of Business at Hyderabad, India, and is also Chair of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. He has many other professional and business affiliations.
  
• Co-chair: Arjun Malhotra, IIT Kharagpur
  Arjun is an IIT Kharagpur alumnus and in 1975 he co-founded one of India's leading computer companies: HCL. He is presently CEO of Headstrong which has a dozen offices in India, USA and elsewhere. Arjun also founded SPIC-Macay an arts group, which is now India’s largest non-government, not for profit, social and cultural organization.
  
• Co-chair: 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 client/server software company to go public. 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.
  
• Pan-IIT Alumni India: Ashank Desai, IIT Bombay
  Ashank is CMD of Mastek, Mumbai and has an M.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Bombay, 1974. He was conferred with the Distinguished Alumnus award in 2002.
  
• Pan-IIT Alumni USA: 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 (Hachette/Business Plus, 2008).

  
  
• Three Distinguished Alum (DA), one representative from each IIT and one representing Rest of the World.