Who has striked it big in Corporate Leadership from IIT K?

President and CEO of Keynote Systems Inc., California, USA, a high technology publicly traded NASDAQ Company. He is also the Chairman of IIT Kanpur Foundation USA and Co-Char of PanIIT USA. He was Founder President and Chief Executive Officer of Gupta Corporation, one of the first Indian entrepreneurs to take his company public in USA. The impact of his work stretches far beyond the size of his organization. Shri Gupta obtained Bachelor of Technology degree in Chemical Engineering in 1971 from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and MBA from the Kent State University, in Ohio, USA. He began his career in 1973 as Systems Engineer in the data processing division of IBM Corporation, soon rising to a senior marketing management positions before leaving IBM. During his career Shri Gupta was the Director of Marketing for Magnuson Computers, a manufacturer of IBM plug-compatible mainframes, he was also a Senior Executive with Oracle Corporation, including Vice President and General Manager of the Micro-Computer products division.

In 1988, he co-authored the SQL programmers guide, an introductory to tutorial to the fundamental concepts, commands and keywords of SQL. Structured query language (SQL) is the brain child of Mr Gupta and is today the de facto standard for DBMS applications. He is a leading authority in the area of SQL database management using PC’s LANs and main frame computers. He has written numerous papers and given many speeches on the topic in the United States and around the world. Mr. Gupta’a mission is to enable the development and deployment of corporate business application with PC based client/server software solutions. Mr. Gupta’s products are widely used by fortune one thousand companies and have been instrumental in the fast growth of the emerging market for PC based client/server tools and databases.

In my opinion Mr. Subbarao played a vital role in corporate leadership.

He is a 1972 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Andhra Pradesh cadre. On 5 September 2008, he was appointed the twenty-second Governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI); his term will end in September 2011.

Mr. Som Mittal has had a distinguished managerial career in different companies and is credited with the achievement of turning around Digital Equipment (India) Ltd (DEIL), of which he is the Managing Director. Under his tenure, DEIL’s financial performance improved from a loss of Rs 6.23 Cr in 1993-1994 to a profit of Rs 15.2 Cr in 1995-1996.
     
Mr Mittal was born on February 7, 1952 and graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1973 earning Bachelors degree in Metallurgical Engineering. Subsequently, he did his post graduation in 1975 from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmadabad.

Through a metallurgical engineer from IITK (by training), Mr. Mittal has demonstrated his competence in managing a large company in the high technology sector of information technology drawing on the analytical skills he developed at IITK. Earlier in Wipro Infotech, he established peripherals business which in 5 years time has grown to over Rs 100 Cr.

As the CEO of Business Solution Division from 1993-1994, Mr. Mittal consolidated the position of Wipro PC product in the market place. Prior to this in SRF Ltd he setup the Joint Venture in record time of 7 months with detailed planning and managing the project without cost over was a major achievement. Mr. Som Mittal was conferred with the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

After serving IIT Kanpur as Operations Manager in its Computer Center, he joined Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). During his 19 years at TCS, he contributed to its growth to make it one of the largest software and management consultancy organizations. In 1992, Mr. Kumar moved to RPG-Enterprises as Chief Executive of International Software Division of its joint venture with Fujitsu of Japan and ICL of UK. He was instrumental in making Fujitsu-ICIM the seventh largest software services export company of India. In 1996, Mr. Kumar joined IBM Global Services India as its President. Thereafter, Mr. Kumar was the President of DSQ Software Ltd for a year . From 2001 Mr. Kumar was Founder, Chairman and CEO of vMoksha Ltd. He is currently a Director on the Boards of Gujarat Venture Fund and Lord Krishna Bank. Mr. Pawan Kumar has been conferred with the Distinguished Alumnus Award, of IIT Kanpur, for his excellence in entrepreneurship.

My vote goes for Mr. Deepak.

Deepak Munganahalli has been one of the most successful professionals of the class which graduated in 1991. He has rapidly risen within the Oil & Gas Industry and apart from having achieved the top tier within Transocean, he is a recognized figure in the industry. Deepak contributes widely to social causes and has supported academic excellence initiatives within his alma mater. Deepak Munganahalli is Senior Vice President, Asia and Pacific Unit (APU), for Transocean Ltd. Before being named to his current position leading the APU, which covers Egypt, the Arabian Gulf, the Indian sub-continent, Asia, Australasia and the Pacific Rim, including the eastern sea-board of the Russian Federation, Mr. Munganahalli previously served as Manager of the company's India Division, which has grown in recent years from one rig to 13 mobile offshore drilling units.

Mr. Munganahalli joined a predecessor company in 1991 and has served in various positions of increasing responsibility, including head of operations in Gabon and Corporate Training Manager in Pau, France. He is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur and Harvard Business School's General Management Program.