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following entrepreneurs and firms.
May
21 Monday -
Delhi
 Visit 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
 Meet 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
 Dinner
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)
 Meet 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.
 Lunch 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)
 Visit 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.
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http://www.cognizant.com
May 28 Monday -
Bangalore
  Visit 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
 Visit 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
 Visit 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
 Visit Reliance Industries Ltd
Reliance Industries is the largest publicly traded company in India - http://www.ril.com.
June 1 Friday - Mumbai (Bombay)
 Visit 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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