Vivek Ranadive
The Dream Merchant
Vivek Ranadive calls himself a dream merchant. And, he is on track to some extent. The chairman and CEO of Tibco, he founded the company in 1985 with the vision of bringing real-time technology into the mainstream. Ranadive has consistently been recognized as a visionary for the future of business integration. He envisions a metanetwork of the future. He predicts that therell be ubiquitous computing with billions of sensors and microprocessors.

Prior to founding Tibco, Ranadive was president and founder of a UNIX consulting company. Previously, he held management and engineering positions with Ford Motor Company, M/A-Com Linkabit, and Fortune Systems.

Dr Gururaj Desh Deshpande
Working Wonder

Dr Gururaj Deshpande, the Canadian billionaire of Indian origin, once described himself as A crackpot who hit the jackpot". However, not many will agree with him. Though jackpot he definitely hit, but his bounty is well deserved.

This co-founder and chairman of Sycamore Networks is a powerful technology entrepreneur and futurist. He has helped bring about a paradigm shift in the role and architecture of the optical networkfrom a once static optical infrastructure into an intelligent and dynamic network foundation for the delivery of new services.

Pradeep Sindhu
The Networking Guru
Considered a technical visionary in the field of high performance and network computing, Pradeep Sindhu counts in the ranks of the most powerful people in networking. The co-founder of Juniper Networks, he serves as the CTO of the company and is shaping up its technical roadmap. He handles the technical architecture, and design and development at Juniper.

He was behind the company's Infranet initiative, a public network that combines the ubiquitous connectivity of the Internet with the predictable performance and security of a private network. Sindhu was also the man behind the Juniper. He has also influenced the architecture, design, and development of Sun Microsystems' first high-performance multiprocessor system family, which included SS1000 and SS 2000.

Dr Narendra Karmarkar
Mathematician Par Excellence
Dr Narendra Karmarkar, an Indian mathemetician, made waves when he published the now well-known Karmarkar algorithm for linear programming in 1984. His algorithm and its variations are preferred over simplex. The consequence of his research and invention have been great, as the use of the Karmarkar algorithm allows solving complex optimization problems much faster. His algorithm, thus, enables faster business and policy decisions.

His algorithm has revived interest in interior methods, which are currently an important area of research in mathematical programming. His areas of individual research interests include computational mathematics, linear and non-linear programming, integer programming and combinatorial optimization and numeric, among others.

Krish Prabhu
Telecoms Favorite

Krish Prabhu doesnt need an introduction in the IT and telecom industry. Another in the line of global CEOs of Indian origin, Prabhu was once a rumored candidate for almost every big job in the telecom sector.

When appointed CEO of Tellabs in 2004, Prabhu bravely faced the daunting challenge of bringing fresh ideas to the company and improving its bottomline. Despite the recovery in the tech sector, Tellabs had been struggling to re-emerge as a telecom front-runner. Prabhu previously worked with Tellabs' rival Alcatel Telecom. At Alcatel, he managed the launch of its worldwide DSL products.

Nivruti Ra
Truly Global
Nivruti Rai was the first NRI to receive the Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI), a scheme that grants a life-long multiple entry visa. However, she has more claims to fame than just the first dual citizenship card, shattering the glass ceiling and becoming a top functionary with Intel.

She works on research and development pertaining to mobile platform technologies for handheld and laptop computers, working to make high performance computers lighter, faster, and with lower power requirements.

Jayshree Ullal
A Powerful Person
Jayshree Ullals 23 year long stint in networking spans across engineering, marketing and business domains. She is among the three highest-ranking Indians in Cisco today, heading a business that contributes to around one-third of the companys revenues. Ullal is one of the four women on CEO John Chamberss executive leadership team.

She is responsible for driving the direction and execution of Ciscos Switching, Security and the companys expansion into the data center product lines and is responsible for $8 bn in direct and $15 bn in indirect revenue. Ullal, in her previous roles with the company, has been successful in streamlining and doubling the metro optical business.

Sumantra Ghoshal
Ahead of his Time

One of the worlds most renowned management guru, Sumantra Ghoshal was one of the most influential figures in European management thought. He carried out research focusing on the strategic, organizational and managerial issues being faced by large, global companies; and was the first management expert to study the role of global companies and their effect on the society. His pioneering work includes a model of the Transational Firm, finally coining the phrase, the transational corporation along with Chistopher Barlett. Ghoshal was instrumental in setting up the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, and was its founding Dean.

Prof Mohanbir S Sawhney
An e-Commerce Expert
There are few who understand how business and technology work together. And Sawhney is among those select few, considered one of academia's top e-commerce experts. With more and more businesses donning the internet hat, Sawhney is not just the man of the moment but also of the future.

Sawhney has been exploring the World Wide Web and studying its implications for businesses from the time when there wasnt much happening in it. However, the visionary that he is, he recognized what Internet would do to businesses in the future.

His research and teaching interests include marketing and media in the connected world, process-centric marketing, collaborative marketing, organic growth and network-centric innovation. Sawhney is McCormick Tribunes professor, Technology, and director, Center for Research in Technology & Innovation, Kellogg School of Management.

Pramod Haq
The Midas Touch
Leading Venture Capitalist, Pramod Haq is the man who sees big opportunities. In 2004, Haq made it to the #1 venture capitalist slot in what Forbes calls its annual Top 100 Midas list based on performance over the last decade. He has also been ranked as a top dealmaker on the annual Forbes Midas List for the past five years. But, more than what number he is at, is the success of his ventures.

Haq has seventeen years of experience in the venture capital industry and currently serves as managing partner at Norwest Venture Partners. Haq focuses on investments in semiconductor and components, systems, software and services. He was an early investor of Cerent (acquired by Cisco), Siara Systems (acquired by Redback Networks), OnDisplay (acquired by Vignette), Winphoria Networks (acquired by Motorola), and Extreme Networks.

Rakesh Mathur
The Start-up Guy
Rakesh Mathur has an impressive track record. His career path reads like that of a typical Indian who has made it big in the Silicon Valley, yet he dons his own unique personality.

Rakesh has been a founder of three technology start-up companies within the past few years and has been an early stage investor in several other companies before he went on to set up his latest venture, Webaroo. Webaroo helps search and browse Web pages on the go. He is founder and CEO of Junglee, which was a huge success, and was later acquired by Amazon.com. He was also founder of Armedia and PurpleYogi.

Dr Amar G Bose
Making Wonderful Music

Dr Amar G Bosethe name sort of rings the bell of innovation and leadership in the science and engineering of sound reproduction. No doubt, then, that hes termed as the visionary in the world of sound.

This dynamo and head honcho of Bose Corporation has been crusading along since the age of thirteen, much before he founded the company that has come to be synonymous with sound quality. He was already building radios and had a radio repair business even while he was studying in school.

Bose has been awarded with significant patents in the two areas of loud speaker design and non-linear, two-state modulated, Class-D, power processing, which to this day are important to Bose Corporation.

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