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following entrepreneurs and firms.


May 21 Monday - Delhi

India Study TripVisit National Institute for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development in Noida (outside Delhi). http://niesbud.nic.in/.

Visit Amnity University.
http://www.amity.edu

Dinner with leading Indian business consultant Mr. K. Jayaraman and two prominent local entrepreneurs in manufacturing.



May 24 Thursday - Chennai

India Study TripMeet with Mr. C. S. Subramanian (Founder and CEO -  Brij Datalink Pvt. Ltd.)
Mr C S Subramanian has more than 23 years experience in the IT sector including 10 years in US. CS had executed several projects for clients like Hindustan Motors, Permier Automobiles, RCF & Reliance, while he was employed with the Software consulting firm Mascon. During his time in USA, he had worked for Fortune 500 companies like Southern Company Services, Georgia, & AT&T, Georgia.
http://www.brijdatalink.com


Lunch with a senior entrepreneur.


Visit Allsec Technologies, a call center
Meet Mr. Adi Saravanan, the Founder and President
Meet call center employees
As President of Allsec Technologies Ltd., Mr. Saravanan is responsible for Business Development, Strategy and Finance. He also directly oversees the Marketing initiatives of the company across all geographic zones. Adi brings with him nearly two decades of corporate experience coupled with the visionary zeal and enthusiasm that is his own personal trademark.
http://www.allsectech.com/home.asp


Visit ICICI Onesource (a business process ousourcing company)
Meet Mr. Raju Venkatraman (Chief Operating Officer)
Raju Venkatraman has over 20 years of experience in the field of technology outsourcing. He began his career at EDS where he spearheaded the applications outsourcing business (now called BPO) in a variety of verticals including Healthcare, Manufacturing and Federal Government. In 1991, he launched Vetri Systems, an offshore outsourcing company. Scaling his original company to nearly 4,000 employees/contractors, he sold it to Lason, Incorporated in 1998. He served as the President of Data Management Services at Lason and was responsible for more than 7,500 employees and US$85 million in revenue. In early 2002, he set up RevIT Systems, a Chennai based BPO in the Healthcare and Print & Publishing space that was acquired by Firstsource in April 2005. Raju Venkatraman was named amongst the “top 75 Indian Entrepreneurs in America” for the Year 2000 by ‘Business India’ magazine. Raju Venkatraman has an Executive MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad and a Graduate degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai.
http://www.icicionesource.com


India Study TripDinner with Mr. Raghavendra Rao, Founder and Managing Director of Orchid Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals.
Shri K Raghavendra Rao has a Bachelors Degree in Commerce from Andhra University and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM-Ahmedabad. He is also a member of The Institute of Cost & Works Accountants of India and The Institute of Company Secretaries of India. He is the Founder and Managing Director of Orchid. Prior to establishing Orchid, he was associated with leading organisations in India in various capacities. He was singularly responsible for developing a multi-business conglomerate in the Gulf, which included the region’s first ever bulk drugs plant.

Orchid is a globally recognized, integrated pharmaceutical company with core competencies in the development and manufacture of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) and Finished Dosage Forms as well as in drug discovery.
http://www.orchidpharma.com/



May 25 Friday - Chennai (Madras)

India Study TripMeet with Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala (Professor of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai)
Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala is Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India and was department Chair till recently. He received his B.Tech degree from IIT, Kanpur, and his MS and Ph.D degrees from the University of Maine. From 1979 to 1981, he was with Washington State University as Assistant Professor. Since 1981, he has been teaching at IIT, Madras.
Dr.Jhunjhunwala leads the Telecommunications and Computer Networks group (TeNeT) at IIT Madras. This group is closely working with industry in the development of a number of Telecommunications and Computer Network Systems. TeNeT group has incubated a number of technology companies which work in partnership with TeNeT group to develop world class Telecom and Banking products for Rural Markets.
Dr. Jhunjhunwala is a Director in the Board of SBI. He is also a Board member of several companies in India, including TTML, BEL, Polaris, 3i Infotech, Sasken, Tejas, NRDC, and IDRBT. He is member of Prime Minister's Setup Scientific Advisory Committee
Read this article in the San Francisco Chronicle:
http://sfgate.com/cgi- bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/02/25/BUG5LOA6A21.DTL
http://www.tenet.res.in/Aboutus/People/Faculty/jhun/biodata/incubation.html


Visit companies incubated by Dr. Jhunjhunwala
Midas Communications Ltd.
Oops Pvt. Ltd.



India Study TripLunch with an entrepreneur in the music industry. Meet the founders of Carnatica.
Carnatica is an organization involved in various activities aimed at promoting and propagating Carnatic music worldwide. Carnatic music is the classical music of South India.
http://www.carnatica.net


Visit an auto parts manufacturer or auto assembly plant in Chennai (known as the Detroit of India)


India Study TripVisit the Great Lakes Institute of Management
Meet with MBA students interested in entrepreneurship



Dinner with Mr. Murthy Srinivasan (Head – Technology, Creditinfo Support Services India Pvt. Ltd.) and an executive from Cognizant Technologies.
CSS is the Indian subsidiary of Compucredit Corp. Compucredit . Compucredit is a marketer of branded credit cards. It outsources many of its operations to India through its Indian subsidiary. Mr. Srinivasan manages Compucredit’s vendors in India. - http://www.compucredit.com
Cognizant is a US based company which has extensive outsourcing operations in Chennai. - http://www.cognizant.com



May 28 Monday - Bangalore

India Study TripIndia Study TripVisit Indian Institute of Management – Bangalore
IIMB is the # 1 B-school in India. Meet with MBA students interested in entrepreneurship. Meet Prof. J. Ramachandran (BOC Professor of Business Policy). Meet with Prof. (Mrs.) Kalyani Gandhi (Professor and Chairperson, Raghavan Center for Entrepreneurial Learning)


Lunch with a female Indian entrepreneur


India Study TripVisit Infosys
The world’s most prominent and dominant software consulting and outsourcing firm.
Visit a call center and a BPO owned by Infosys - Contrast this experience with the call center and BPO visited in Chennai.









May 29 Tuesday - Bangalore


India Study TripVisit Strand Life Sciences
Meet Vijay Chandru - Chairman, Co-founder, and CEO
Strand Life Sciences, is a premier in silico technologies innovation company. Strand leverages its core strengths in Data Mining, Predictive Modeling, Computational Chemistry, Software Engineering and Research Biology to develop technologies and products for research biology and drug discovery - http://www.strandgenomics.com/.


Lunch with employees and executives of Accenture Inc. in Bangalore who have previously worked in the US.
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and consulting company. It is a US based company (a spinoff of the now defunct accounting firm Arthur Andersen) with major operations in Bangalore. A significant number of its Banagalore previously worked in the US offices of Accenture (primarily in Atlanta) but now are working in the Accenture office in Bangalore - http://www.accenture.com/Countries/India.


Visit the towns of Ramanagaram and Channapatna to meet entrepreneurs in the silk industry.At Channapatna also meet entrepreneurs and artisans who make hand crafted wooden toys.
Ramanagaram and Channapatna are small towns in the state of Karnataka about 45 kms. and 60 kms. respectively, southwest of Bangalore (on the Bangalore – Mysore highway). Here you will see the entire silk products supply chain, starting with the cocoons upto the weaving of silk threads into cloth. Ramanagaram has the biggest cocoon market in Asia. You will meet the entrepreneurs who are part of this supply chain. Channapatna is also famous for handcrafted wooden toys. You will meet artisans/entrepreneurs who make these toys.


Dinner with Prof. Ramamchandran and Prof. Kalyani Gandhhi and other Bangalore based entrepreneurs.



May 31 Thursday - Mumbai (Bombay)

Visit Hindustan Lever Research Center. Meet with Dr. A.S. Abhiraman (Executive Director – Research)
Hindustan Lever is the Indian subsidiary of Unilever, PLC (an Anglo-Dutch company). It is the Proctor and Gamble of India. - http://www.hll.com/index.htm


India Study TripVisit Reliance Industries Ltd
Reliance Industries is the largest publicly traded company in India - http://www.ril.com.



June 1 Friday - Mumbai (Bombay)

India Study TripVisit Tata Consultancy Services
TCS is one of the world’s leading information technology companies. It is a major competitor of Infosys.


Entrepreneur Dinner Celebration


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