TiE -Hubli

Academics: 

 

1.      B.E. ( Elect ) from College of Engg, Pune. Stood first in Pune University.

2.      Post Graduation in Communications and Weapon Systems from Royal Naval Engineering College, UK.

1.      Served, with distinction, in the Indian Navy for 25 years with specialisation in Electronics, communications and Weapons Systems.  Key appointments held were, Director of Weapons & Electronics at Naval HQ, Naval Attache in London, Training Commander of the Navy’s Weaopns & Electronics School, Leader of the Acceptance Trials Team for Navy’s first Guided Missile Cruiser “ Rajput “ and Deputy General Manager ( Planning ) at Naval Dockyard, Mumbai.

2.      Executive Director of Maharashtra State Electronics Corporation

      ( MELTRON ) from May 1985 to Dec 1988, in charge of both Production

      and Marketing. Pioneered the production of the indigenous C-DOT

      Telephone exchanges as well key telephone systems. Set up UHF / VHF 

      radio communication networks in different states across the country for

      the Police, Railways and the Electricity Boards.

3.      Founded Yojana Systems, the first 100% EOU for software exports in Pune, in 1989. Entire work was done offshore, using a 1200 bps link, with a very strong and effective S/W development process in place.

4.      Managing Director of Motorola Software Centre in Bangalore. Received Motorola CEO’s prestigious Quality award, in March 1994, while heading the organization, which was the first to achieve

SEI-CMM Level 5.

5.      Managing Director of chip design centre, Cirrus Logic, in Pune, for 5 years. Pioneered the work in multimedia embedded s/w on programmable DSP and parallel processing chips.

6.      Founding Chairman of Pace Soft Silicon, a VC funded company focussed on creating IP and s/w products in the domain of video and multimedia on Mobile wireless, since July 2000. This company pioneered the software camcorder on Mobile phones in 2004. Pace received Nasscom Innovation award in Feb 2005. Pace was acquired in Dec 2005, by  Santa Clara based company, Nvidia, a world leader in graphics, multimedia and high performance computing.

7.      Director Pune Development Center of Nvidia and Chief Mentor from

Mar 2006 to April 2010, building it from 35 to 670 high performing people.

8.      Currently, Chief Mentor for a Students’ NGO called FUEL ( Friends Union for Energising Lives ). Website is “ www.studentsfuel.com “.

This NGO creates awareness amongst the rural and semi-urban students from 10^th and 12^th Standards, re various career opportunities available to them, including the different entrance exams, on-line filling up of the forms, basic computer knowledge etc. They also run a special “ Ahead of Times “ programme for the same audience, for personality and leadership development. Main objective is to encourage and nurture enormous talent from the Rural areas of India which remain dormant for lack of opportunities.

1.      First Chairman of the IT Committee of Marhatta Chamber of

     Commerce and Industries in Pune, in 1996. Prepared and drove the  

     Strategic Plan for making Pune, a major IT destination, along with a  

     few committed S/W Entrepreneurs and the STPI ( Pune ). Pune’s

     IT exports grew from Rs. 125 Crores ( US$ 25 Million ) in

     Mar 1996, to Rs. 30,000 Crores ( approx US$ 6 Billion ) in Mar 2010.

2.      Ex-Chairman of Board of Studies at the University of Pune for I.T. and Computer Management Courses. Active involvement with Student Projects in IT companies.

3.      Appointed in 2006, by the Govt of Maharashtra, on the Board of Governors of College of Engineering Pune ( COEP ), a premier Engg Training Institution in India, founded 150 years ago.

4.      Has mentored many  software companies in Pune like Compulink

Systems, KPIT-Cummins, Persistent Systems, etc.

5.      Co-Founder of Kalyan Charitable Trust ( KCT ) along with wife Dr. Veena Khandekar, a Paediatrician. KCT is an organisation devoted to giving free vaccinations of Hepatitis B, Typhoid, Hib and MMR to children under 5 years, from economically backward communities, in and around Pune. These vaccines are not covered under the Govt’s free Immunisation programme. KCT has Conducted over 150  camps ( on alternate Sundays) in the last 8 years, covering over 60,000 children.

      Website “www. kalyantrust.org”.

6.      Received the “ IT People Award for Excellence ( for Innovations

      category  ) “ in Jan 2007, at Mumbai.

7.      Chairman of the newly formed Animation and Gaming Committee of the Mahratta Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture ( MCCIA ), since Feb 2007 till November 2009, for the promotion of this sunrise industry in Pune and Maharashtra.                                                                            

8.      Chairman of the Board of Studies and member of Governing Council of Govt Polytechnic, Pune. Has revised the syllabii of all the branches of the Polytechnic, taking into consideration the key Technology roles that the Diploma graduates from the Polytechnic will play in the industrial environment. This is a pilot and will be implemented across the State of Maharashtra Polytechnics, in the future.