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The batch of 1987

Zindagi ko bahut pyar humne diya, Maut se bhi mohabbat nibhayenge hum"

Kishore Kumar, 1929-1987

Batchrep:

P. Srinivas (Srini)

Degree(s)

Chemistry/Chemical

Years:

1987–1992

Tel:

281 495 8347
   

Batchrep:

Priya Jadhav

Degree(s)

Physics/ EEE

Years:

1988–1993 (87 2nd Sem)

Tel:

408 733 0188

'87 Batchmates from all over,
Hello and welcome to our batch site. This is the place where one should (very soon) be able to find something about every person in the 87 batch. Do view the first edition of our class notes. Please send us an email if you would like any updates in your life to be included in the class notes, or, if your name is not included.

Srini: (87 B2A1) I work for Furnace Improvements, a consultancy firm for refinery heaters at Houston TX. Specialized in the field of Heat Transfer. Worked for Thermax at Pune, India for about eight years. Had a brief stint at Muscat, Oman and later moved into Houston, US in April 02. I am married to Padmapriya, and have a three year old daughter Subhiksha. I was actively involved in the Chemistry and Chemical Engg. Assocs. , and PTM at BITS.

Priya: (Physics, EEE) I live in the California bay area and try to make a living by selling software. After BITS I got an MS in Electrical Engg. from Boston University. Since then I made one move to India and back. I now work for the software services firm (Nagarro) I co-founded some years ago.

 

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Batch accomplishments & awards

  • Raj Kumar Koneru, first publicly traded BITSIAN firm on Nasdaq
  • Manish Sood, Top 100 fastest growing firms in Houston region

Our entrepreneurial batch mates

  • Raj kumar Koneru, Intelligroup (ITIG: NASDAQ), Indiainfo.com
  • Ramana Mulpury, Metricstream
  • Manish Sood, Salient Software
  • Sandeep Arora, Spark5 (sold in 2002)
  • KM Vivek, Pigtail Pundits,
  • Sanjay Anand, CLA-SAS Solutions
  • Venu Palaparthi, dreamcricket.com
  • CP Gopinathan and Ritu Vinayak
  • Anupendra Sharma, Indigo Capital

Our batch mates in Academics

  • To come

Class Notes from around the world - February 2003

Neha Goel nee Modi(second sem., Pharmacy) Neha lives in NOIDA with her husband Nitin Goel who she met while doing an MBA at Fore Foundation in Delhi. Nitin works at a trading house in Delhi. They have a daughter, Drishti (born in '00).

Neetu Khilnani (second semite, MMS). After working in Bombay for a while, and in Los Angeles for a few years, Neetu is now doing an MBA at UC Irvine, which she will complete in March this year.

Venu Palaparthi (Eco and Comp.Sci.) is Director of Business Audit and Risk Assurance at Instinet in New York City. Venu holds an MBA in Finance from University of Texas at Arlington (1994). Venu is married to Kranthi who is an alumnus of Guindy, Anna University, and did an MS in Texas Arlington. Venu co-founded BITSAA International in the US.

Sripriya Singh nee Srinivasan (second sem., Mech.) Sripriya lives in Noida with her husband Jagdeep Singh, and their 2 children - Saloni (born '96), and Sameer (born '99). Jagdeep founded a factory that makes machines used in manufacturing. He is an alumnus of IIT Delhi. Sripriya met him as her PS instructor.

Shanti Shri Katuri (Comp.Sci.) lives in Stamford, Connecticut with her husband Srinivas (also a BITSian). She has a daughter Gayatri (born '98). Shanthi currently works for Oxford Health Plan.

Sanjay Anand  or Beta (Comp.Sci.) and Anju nee Gupta (EEE) live in Seattle. They have 2 daughters, Aarti (born '98) and (Nov '02). Sanjay completed an MS in Computer Science from Arizona State University and works at Microsoft. Anju got an MS from University of Washington, and has worked at a few different companies.

M. Balasubramaniam (Maths/Chemical) :Bala (87B4A1) works for the pharmaceutial group of Bovis Lendlease and is currently stationed at Singapore. His previous assignments were with Lupin Laboratories, Bhopal and Dr.Reddys' Hyderabad. Bala has realised his college dream of working in a factory where he can "open and close lots of valves"! Bala is married to Bhuvana and they have a 5 year old son called Mukund - namesake of his college buddy. 

Sanjay Anand or Alpha started his own company CLA Solutions after working with JD Edwards for years. He is getting married to his girlfriend, Jennifer whom he met at JD Edwards. Sanjay lives in New Jersey, USA

Gaurav Sharma (aka Anupendra) started Indigo Capital, aN investment banking advisory firm in New York. He worked in Mergers & Acquisitions at JPMorgan and Salomon Smith Barney after his MBA rom Cornell. Gaurav and Vidur ('87) were housemates at Cornell. He worked in London for four years prior to coming to the US. He lives in New York with his wife Rachna and son Rohan.  Anupendra maintains this website. Gaurav co-founded BITSAA International in the US.

Sriram Kanala (Eco/Instru) works for Nunet Technologies and lives in Vizag. He worked for Schlumberger in India and the US

Ravi Gautam (Eco/MMS) married Radhika and lives in Chicago. He works at NTRS bank where he has been since his MBA in the US.

Puneet Maheshwari (Eco/Instru) lives in New Jersey and works for a biotechnology company. He completed his MS in Biotech. He is married to Aditi and has a daughter.

Ajay Gupta is a Vice President in Mergers & Acquisitions at Morgan Stanley in New Delhi. He lives in Gurgaon and is married.

 

 

 

  Buvana Dayanandan (second semite, MMS) and Karthik Kannan (ET) live in the California bay area. They have a daughter called Anamika (June ‘00), and a son Rohan (Dec,'02). After BITS, Buvana got an MBA, and Karthik an MS in Industrial Engineering, from Lousiana Tech. They spent a few years on the East coast working for various companies. Karthik is currently working for Network Appliance. Buvana is taking a break from her Cisco due to the recent arrival!

Abhay Katailiha and Meenu Sharma (both second sem., MMS) live in Bombay. They have a daughter called Anoushka (born '95).

Sandeep Arora (MMS) Sandeep lives in NJ with his wife Rupali and son Neil. Sandeep currently is Director of Business Development at L&T Technologies based in New Jersey. He co-founded and sold Spark5 a company creating B2B solutions for the Healthcare Insurance industry which he sold to Webify Solutions (another BITSIAN company). Prior to that he worked for a number of years at at Intelligroup. Sandeep co-founded BITSAA International in the US.

Gopi or C.P.Gopinathan and Ritu nee Vinayak (both second sem., MMS) live in Madras. They run a computer training institute.

Vidur Luthra (Eco/Comp Sci) lives in Bellevue, WA with his wife, Gunilla, and his three children, Yasmin, Ruben and Linnea and works at Microsoft and shuttles back and forth between the US, India and China. Before joining Microsoft, Vidur worked at Andersen Consulting in New Delhi. Vidur graduated with an MBA from Cornell University in 1998. Gaurav and Vidur were housemates at Cornell.

Srikanth Jammulapati or Jamul (BioSciences, Chem.) lives in Salt Lake City, Utah with his wife Nimmy (Nirmala Challagulla, '88 batch). They have 2 children Maya (born '00) and Vishal (born '03). After BITS, Srikanth did an MS in Biotechnology from University of Texas, San Antonio in 1995 and currently works as a Bioinformatics Programmer Analyst at Myriad Genetics. Nimmi did an MBA from University of Utah in 1998 and works as a consultant for Mercer Human Resource Consulting.

V.P.Vedhanarayanan (Chemistry/Civil) 87B2A2484 is in Chennai at present, but is very soon relocating to Korea, to work with Hyundai heavy industries as HSE engineer. He has worked at Engineers India limited and Petrofac International Limited, Sharjah in the past. Vedhanarayanan was married in 1996. He enjoyed every moment of his life in BITS, except the days before tests and comprehensives.

Uday Sareen (Eco/EEE) is married to Ishita and has a son and a daughter. He works with Citibank in Mumbai and is responsible for the Western Region. He went to FMS Delhi for his MBA soon after graduation and has been with Citibank ever since.

Alok Gupta is a Healthcare investment banker with Rabobank. He lives in Mumbai with his wife and two children. He completed his MBA from IIM Calcutta and still listens to heavy metal

Amit Mathur lives in London and works in Risk Management for Abbey National bank. He worked with Sanwa Bank and Citibank/Navios in New York after his MS in Economics from Tulane University, prior to moving to Europe. He is married to Parul and has a daughter.

Naveen Dureja is married and lives in the US. He recently moved from New Jersey to California and is still as funny as ever.

Lincoln Chaudhary works for Net2Phone in New Jersey

Ramana Y. Mulpury is President, CTO and co-founder of MetricStream, based in the Bay area. He worked at Oracle after graduating with a Master's Degree in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University. He is married and lives in San Francisco.