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Dr. Ramani Ayer has had an outstanding career in the field of insurance and financial management.nnDr. Ayer joined The Hartford, one of the oldest and largest international insurance and financial enterprises in USA, in 1973 and rose up through the rank in the organisation. He was elected Assistant Secretary and Staff Assistant to the Chairman and Chief Executive of The Hartford in 1979 and in 1983 he was named Vice President of HartRe, The Hartford’s reinsurance subsidiary. In 1986, Dr. Ayer was named President of Hartford Speciality Company. He was elected a Senior Vice President of The Hartford in 1989, and Executive Vice President in 1990.n

Dr. Jitendra Bhatia has had the unique distinction of pursuing his entire post-school academic education at IIT Bombay. After a stint with Hindustan Lever at Mumbai, Dr. Bhatia joined Balmer Lawrie & Co. Ltd. in 1980 as Manager (R&D) and subsequently General Manager ( R&D) at Calcutta, where he had the responsibility of establishing and managing the R&D Centre of the company.nnIn 1990, Dr. Bhatia took over the Grease and Lubricants SBU of Balmer Lawrie, and played a key role in developing cooperation with the Fuchs Group of Germany, which eventually led to the formation of the new Indo-German joint venture company, Balmer Lawrie- Fuchs Ltd. Dr. Bhatia was nominated wholetime Director of the new company in 1994 and became its first Managing Director in 1995.n

Dr. Dileep Bhandarkar is recognised for his outstanding contributions in research and management in the Computer Systems Industry.nnAs Director (June 1997 onwards), System Architecture, Workstation Products Division, Business Platforms Group with Intel Corporation he is responsible for defining workstation platform direction, long term product planning and system performance analysis. Dr. Bhandarkar was earlier Director, Systems Performance Analysis and Architecture, Microprocessor Products Group of Intel.n

Dr. Ravindran Kannan is the recipient of the highest award in Discrete Mathematics – the Fulkerson Award.nnnConsidered as one of the world leaders in the areas of “geometry of numbers” and “probabilistic approximate algorithms”, his work with Dwyer & Frieze on a probabilistic approximate algorithm for the computation of the volume of a polytope, for which he & his coauthors won the Fulkerson award in 1991, has opened up an important area of research. Dr. Kannan has also had the honour of being a visiting Miller Research Professor, University of California, Alexender Von Humboldt Fellow, University of Bonn and a Member of New York Academy of Sciences. Following his B.Tech. at IITB where he took the silver medal in his discipline, Dr. Kannan did his masters and doctorate from Cornell University.n

Dr.-Ing Bharat Balasubramanian has had a distinguished career in the prestigious and renowned company, Daimler-Benz AG.nDr. Balasubramanian did his Mechanical Engineering (Hauptdiplom) at the technical University of Karlsruhe and obtained the degree Diplomigenieur’ with distinction in 1977. He did his Ph. D. at the technical University of Karlsruhe and obtained the degree ‘Doktor-Ingenieur’ with distinction.nnnHe began his career in 1977 with Daimler-Benz AG as computational analysis engineer in the CAE department and rose through the ranks in the Company. In 1981 he was promoted as a senior staff engineer. In 1984 he became the Manager of the Computational Analysis Department and in 1988 Senior Manager, “Computational Analysis and CAD”. In 1992 he rose to the position of Vice President “Full Vehicle Design ” Vice President “CAD/CAM, Product Documentation Standards,” Head of CAD/CAM competence centre and also Vice President Project “Total Quality Management” in the passenger car R&D. In 1997 he became Senior Vice President “Support Functions in the passenger car R&D and also became the Head of Daimler Benz EDM-Competence- Centre.

Mr. Nandan Mohan Nilekani has been one of the driving forces behind the emergence of the Indian software industry on the global map and holds the distinction of establishing, along with six others, a software company that is a role model for Indian industry. He is known to be an outstanding strategist, an excellent analytical thinker & an extraordinary communicator.nnnMr. Nilekani started his professional career in the software group at Patni Computer Systems Pvt. Ltd. Co-founder of Infosys, he was based in the US from 1981 to 1987, managing the marketing and development efforts. Since 1987, he has been based in Bangalore and has been responsible for world wide sales and marketing. He is currently the Managing Director/President and Chief Operating Officer.nnnInfosys Technologies Limited is one of the most respected software companies in India and the first to receive immediate ISO9001 certification. It is also the first Indian company to institute an Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP). Infosys, with a market capitalisation of over Rs. 4000 crores, is recognised as a leader of the Indian stock markets.n

Mr. Deepak Satwalekar did his IIT Bachelor’s Degree in 1971 and obtained Master’s Degree in Business Administration in 1977 from The American University, Washington D.C.nnnMr. Satwalekar has been working with HDFC for the past 20 years. He rose up through the organisation from Finance Manager, General Manager Finance, Deputy Managing Director to become its Managing Director in 1993.nnnHDFC is the premium housing finance company in India and is today rated as one of the two best managed companies in the country.n

Mr. Atul Vijaykar did his Bachelor’s degree at IIT, and went on to do his M.S. in Industrial Engineering at University of Cincinnati and MBA at University of California.nnnMr.Atul Vijaykar has headed Intel’s operations in India since 1st July, 1995 and is responsible for the emerging markets in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Mr. Vijaykar has been with Intel for 18 years and has extensive experience in a broad spectrum of disciplines such as finance, operations management and business development.nnnPrior to his current assignment, Mr. Vijaykar was Business Development Manager in the Microprocessor Products Group at Santa Clara, U.S.A.n

Dr. Shankar Sastry did his B.Tech at IIT Bombay where he received the President of India medal. He did his M.S. EECS in 1979, M.A. Mathematics in 1980, and Ph.D EECS at University of California, in 1981.nnnDr. Sastry was Assistant Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, before joining the University of California, Berkeley, where presently he is Director ERL and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Dr. Sastry has had the opportunity of working as Professore A Contratto at Universita di Pisa, Gordan Mckay Professor at Harvard University and visiting Vinton Hayes Professor at MIT.nnnHis other professional experience includes the position of Directeur Recherche, Center Nationale Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Toulouse, France, Summer 1991.

Mr. Shashikant D. Limaye, in a distinguished career with the Indian Railways has made outstanding contributions to major infrastructural engineering projects in the country. He joined the Western Railway in 1975 as Asst. Engineer and at present works in the higher echelon of the management of Western Railway, as Divisional Railway Manager, Ajmer, Managing the entire gamut of the division earning Rs. 900 crores per annum with 16,000 employees on roll.nnHis major contribution in the field of Civil engineering came during his 7 1/2 years stint with the Konkan Railway Corpn. Ltd. (KRCL). Since its early stages in 1990 till 1994 as Chief Engineer (Designs) and thereafter as Chief Engineer (Coordination) till January 1998, he was closely associated in vital planning, designing and implementation activities of the KRCL a megaproject of Indian Railways comprising construction of 760 km, broad guage railway line. With an estimated cost of Rs.2400 crores it involved construction of 179 major bridges, 92 tunnels and 90 million cu-m earthwork.nnDuring the year 1988 he held charge of the post of Chief Track Engineer on the South Eastern Railway at Calcutta. In that capacity he managed the large fleet of on – track machines meant for maintenance & relaying of track effectively and improved their productivity by as much as 50%.nnFrom 1983 to 1989 he also worked in the capacity of Professor (Bridges) in the prestigious Indian Railways Institute of Civil Engineering at Pune. During this tenure he held appointment as Dy. National Project Director on a UNDP Project for development of Indian Railways Institute of Bridge Engineering Pune.n