6/7/2013  Although he's well-known in many circles as a wildly successful entrepreneur, MIT grad Jeet Singh is making headlines in another area this week — the music industry. Singh, who co-founded the e-commerce company Art Technology Group in 1991, later sold the company in a 2011 deal with Oracle Corp. for an estimated $1 billion. And now, Singh's band, known appropriately as "The Singhs," just released the group's fourth album earlier this week on Tuesday, June 4. |
| 5/30/2013  The Graduate Management Admission Council, the global nonprofit council of the world's leading graduate schools of business and management, tabbed Sangeet Chowfla as president on May 28. Chowfla, who will join GMAC as president in September and assume the role of CEO on January 1, 2014, is replacing David Wilson — who served as the company's president and CEO for roughly 18 years. Indian by birth, Chowfla is a U.S. citizen currently residing in New Delhi. He will relocate to northern Virginia as part of assuming the new role.
"I sought this opportunity because it has such great promise for leading a company with not only a great brand and a history of success, but also a company poised for greater success in the future. The council — the work it does and the products it makes — has the potential every day to positively change someone's life," Chowfla said.
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5/29/2013  Virtusa Corporation, a global business consulting and IT outsourcing company that combines innovation, technology leadership and industry solutions to transform the customer experience, announced the promotion of Raj Rajgopal to president on Tuesday. Rajgopal, who formerly served as the executive director of MIT's Communications Futures Program, has been with Virtusa for approximately eight years. Prior to joining the Mass.-based IT company Rajgopal's experience included over a decade of services industry experience with large enterprises both in the United States and Europe.
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| 5/29/2013  Former Harvard Business School graduate Renuka Ramnath was one of five people recently appointed to oversee the financial restructuring plan for Air India — one of the country's largest aviation operators still reeling from economic losses incurred in 2012. The appointments, which were made by the Ministry of Civil Aviation, are part of the government's plan to take action on a number of issues still plaguing the airline. Some of those issues, according to a report by VCCircle, include reducing debt and monetizing assets.
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5/24/2013  In a unaninous and historic vote Thursday, Harvard lecturer Sri Srinivasan was confirmed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Disctrict of Columbia — a move that makes the Indian native the first circuit judge of South Asian descent in American history. Srinivasan will join the Court of Appeals — considered one of the nation's most influential courts — following the Senate's 97 to zero vote Thursday.
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| 5/23/2013  Indra Nooyi — an Indian-American currently serving as the CEO of PepsiCo — has been named the 10th most powerful woman in the world according to Forbes, which published an article, "Redefining Power: The World's 100 Most Powerful Women" on Wednesday. Born in India, Nooyi graduated with a bachelor's degree in physics, chemistry and mathematics from Madras Christian College in 1974 before receiving an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta in 1976. |
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5/21/2013 A lecturer at Harvard Law School has moved one step closer to joining America's second-highest court following approval last week from a key Senate committee. On May 16, the 18-member body of the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved the nomination of Srikanth Srinivasan — an Indian native — to the DC Circuit Court. |
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Vivek Ranadive secured a groundbreaking deal last week to buy a majority stake in the NBA's Sacramento Kings. The Mumbai-born businessman is the founder and chief executive officer of Tibco Software — a provider of infrastructure software and one widely credited with digitizing Wall Street.
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5/16/2013
 Author Don DeLillo once said: "America was and is an immigrant's dream." And this crossed my mind when interviewing journalist, foreign policy analyst and author Fareed Zakaria, an extraordinary Indian immigrant, who has made his American dream come true and inspired us all. He is the son of well-known Indian politician Rafiq Zakaria and journalist Fatima Zakaria. He started his journey as he says in a "salaried middle class family with enormous possibilities and wonderful sense of opportunity." His passion for international affairs led him from India to the United States where he says "people are judged by their talents and not by their origins."
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| 5/16/2013  Mangadhara R. Madineedi, M.D., a physician with the VA Boston Healthcare System, has been honored by his peers of the Norfolk District Medical Society as the district's 2013 Community Clinician of the Year. Originally established in 1998, the Community Clinician of the Year Award recognizes a physician from each of the society's 20 medical districts who has made a significant contribution to his or her community. |
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4/25/2013
 The founders of Romulus Capital truly believe that the world's next great companies are emerging out of the efforts of students at top universities — and they should know as their venture capital firm was started when most of them were still in college. Krishna Gupta, Anantshree Chaturvedi and Cankut Durgun co-founded Romulus Capital in 2008, while Gupta and Durgun were at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The firm launched as a seed-stage venture capital firm raising a $1 million fund to invest in startups, particularly those launched out of MIT and Harvard University. Now, more than a dozen companies later, Romulus is raising a second much larger fund of $50 million to continue the firm's work, which has clearly struck a rich vein in the startup world.
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 Dr. Sanjiv Chopra is a man who appears to be able to do it all, and does it on a continual basis, so it is no surprise that he recently received one of the highest honors bestowed upon immigrants to the United States — The Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
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 Dinesh Paliwal, president, chairman and chief executive officer of audio-giant Harman, was recently honored by the American India Foundation for his corporate leadership efforts, but for him it is all in a days work and if his business efforts contribute in some way to a global economy of values like those AIF reflects he will be more than satisfied. |
| 12/20/2012
 An experienced lawyer, Asker Saeed did not set out on his professional career intent on one day working as a "Director of Diversity," but his path has led him to that role and now he believes his task is of utmost importance. In September, Saeed was appointed director of diversity at the Hartford-based law firm Day Pitney LLP. A member of the firm's senior management team, Saeed guides the further development and implementation of Day Pitney's strategic diversity plan and serves as a key leader, ambassador and advocate on diversity, inclusion and equity, keeping diversity in the forefront of all of the firm's initiatives.
"I have always just been kind of involved in the diversity issues every since I have been involved in law," said Saeed, who joined Day Pitney from IAE International Aero Engines AG, a Pratt & Whitney joint venture, where he served most recently as vice president of commercial customer business. |
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6/1/2012
Dr. Sanjiv Chopra is a man who appears to be able to do it all, and does it on a continual basis, so it is no surprise that he recently received one of the highest honors bestowed upon immigrants to the United States — The Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
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| 2/2/2012
Dinesh Paliwal, president, chairman and chief executive officer of audio-giant Harman, was recently honored by the American India Foundation for his corporate leadership efforts, but for him it is all in a days work and if his business efforts contribute in some way to a global economy of values like those AIF reflects he will be more than satisfied. |
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9/23/2011
Late last year, outdoor shoe and clothing giant Timberland turned over its technology reigns to Suja Chandrasekaran naming her vice president and chief information officer. And for a large retail company looking to better utilize technology in its business there is no one better to turn to than Chandrasekaran. |
| 4/21/2011
From dorm start, CEO leads GoECart on constant evolution
Manish Chowdhary, 32, is a businessman who was always going to be an entrepreneur. In fact, the founder and chief executive officer of GoECart couldn’t even wait until he was out of college to start his own business — a move that put him on the path to running the successful company he does today.
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3/7/2011
 CEO relishes challenge of evolving digital media sector
NEW YORK — Nick Pahade is one of those guys who started a business out of his dorm room in college. So even though he is only 35, his move last July to take over as chief executive officer of Traffiq was an attempt to get back into the startup world he had grown to miss.
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| 2/8/2011
 Startup vet vows to help entrepreneurs find success
SILICON VALLEY, Calif. — Sramana Mitra remembers her early days in the startup world and the painful lessons she learned running her own business – and she has dedicated her life now to sharing this knowledge with other fledging entrepreneurs.
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