Raju Vanapala
Raju Vanapala

V V Raju, Founder & CEO of way2sms.com.

V V Raju is main pillar behind the success of way2sms.com.

Mr. Raju  completed his MCA (Master Of Computer Application) in 2003 and then he started company named Way2Online Interactive India pvt ltd, and in 2006 Mr. Raju started way2sms.com website that provides  free messaging (SMS) services.

way2sms.com is India’s first free sms service started in Jan 2007 in Hyderabad and having Millions of subscribers currently and from May 2012 owned by ValueFirst Messaging.

Ajit Balakrishnan
Ajit Balakrishnan founded  Rediff.com when he was 48 year old.

He is  the founder of rediff.com as well as current Chairman and CEO of Rediff.com

Mr. Balakrishnan, at the age of 22 , co-founded Rediffusion, one of the largest advertising agencies and now it has been renamed to Rediffusion-Dentsu, Young & Rubicam Ltd.

Mr. Ajit Balakrishnan is also Chairman of board at IIM (Indian Institute of Management ) Calcutta.

Mr.Balkrishnan has been serving as Managing Director of Rediffusion-Dentsu, Young & Rubicam Ltd and Rediff.com since 1993 and 2008 respectively and with that he is Chairman Emeritus of the IAMAI i.e. Internet and Mobile Association of India.

Ajay V. Bhatt
Ajay Bhatt well known as Co-founder or Co-Inventor of the USB : Universal Serial Bus Device.

Mr. Bhatt is co-founded not only USB but also develped AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port), PCI Express, Platform Power management architecture (PPMA) etc.

Mr.Bhatt got his Bechlor’s Degree fom M.S. University Baroda, India and his Master’s Degree from New York, USA then he joined at ‘Intel Corporation‘.

Mr. Bhattis also known as ‘Intel Rock Star‘.  He is Intel Fellow, Chief Client Platform Architect of Intel Architecture Group.

Sabeer Bhatiya
Sabeer Bhatia is the co-founder of Hotmail.com – the world’s first webmail service.

He has announced three more ventures – Arzoo, Instacoll and SabseBol – after Hotmail.Sabeer Bhatia and Yogesh Patel has started JaxtrSMS which is a free messaging service that allows users to send text messages for free  anywhere in the world.

Narayana Murthy

Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy

Narayana Murthy is the GURU of Information Technology.

He is the co-founder of Infosys Technologies and  is one of the most well known personalities in the Indian IT sector.

He was the CEO of Infosys for twenty years.

In 2002 Nandan M. Nilekani took over as CEO from N.R. Narayana Murthy . Narayana Murthy then worked as Chairman and Chief Mentor from 2002 to 2006.

After his retirement in August 2006 he continues as Chairman Emeritus.

Vinod Dham
Vinod Dham

He is known as “Father of Pentium Chip” or “Father of Pentium” for the role in the development of highly successful Pentium Processors from Intel.

Vinod Dham is also one of the co-inventors of the Flash memory.

Azim Premji
Software tycoon Mr. Azim Premji is India’s Bill Gates and one of the Richest Indian for the past several years.

He is Founder and Chairman of Wipro Technologies – one of the largest software companies in India.

He is Providing his guidence to company from last four decades and one of the great indian leader of Software Field.

In 2011, he has been awarded with Padma Vibhushan.

Sashi Reddi
Sashi ReddiThis man is associated with the  world’s largest software testing and quality management company named ‘AppLabs‘, he is  founder and executive chairman of this company.

Mr. Sashi is also a founder and chairman of FXLabs, a company that develops game products in India for computers and Videogame consoles.

Sashi Completed his Bechlor degree in Computer Science (BTech) from the IIT : Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India and completed his Master in Computer Science from New York,USA and Ph.D.  from the Pennsylvania University.

Nandan Nilekani
Nandan Nilekani, one of the co-founder of Infosys with Narayan Murthy and he is the CEO and managing director of the Infosys.

In 2002 Nandan M. Nilekani took over as CEO from N.R. Narayana Murthy before that he was Managing Director, President and Chief Operating Officer at Infosys.

Mr. Nilekani  started his career with Patni Computer Systems where he met Mr. Narayan Murthy then he worked at Infosys and served there for many years and left Infosys in 2009.

India’s one of the best entrepreneurs : Mr. Nilekani is currently working as the Chairman of the UIDAI : Unique Identification Authority of India.

Dr Sam Pitroda
Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda.

He is well known as Dr Sam Pitroda and “The father of India’s communication revolution“.

He is Currently Advisor to the Prime Minister of India on Public Information Infrastructure & Innovations.

He is founder and CEO of company named C-SAM, Inc. Morever he is the Chairman of India’s National Knowledge Commission and of World-Tel Limited : an International Telecommunication Union.

He completed his schooling from Vallabh Vidyanagar,Gujarat and his Masters in Physics and Electronics from M.S. University,Vadodara and completed further study from US.

Pranav Mistry
Pranav Mistry is a computer scientist from Palanpur, Gujrat, India.

Currently Pranav  is a Ph.D. candidate in the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT Media Lab and also a research assistant there.

Pranav is founder of Sixsense and best known for his work on Sixth Sense Technology.

Narinder Singh Kapany
Narinder Singh Kapany is best known as ‘Father of fiber optics‘.

Mr. Narendra has done is gradution from Agra University, India and further study and Ph.D. from London.

Fortune Magazine honoured him as a one of the seven ‘Unsung Heroes‘.

Krishna Bharat
Krishna Bharat is creator of Google News.

Bharat is one of the Principal Research Scientist at Google.

Bharat is from Banglore,India and completed schooling from there and Graduation from IIT, Madras, India and Ph.D.  from Georgia.

He has joined Google in 1999.

Currently Krishna Bharat is handling Google’s new Reasearch & Development Center in Bangalore,India.

Vinod Khosla
Vinod Khosla, one of the co-founder of Sun Microsystems and co-founder of Daisy Systems.

Mr. Khosla was the first Chairman and CEO of Sun Microsystems.

In 2004, Vinod established his own venture firm named Khosla Ventures.

Mr. Khosla got is Bachelor degree from IIT, New Delhi and Master’s from Carnegie Mellon University, and then completed MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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