Monday, July 4, 2011

Sudha Murthy


Sudha Murthy was born in 1950 in Shiggaon in north Karnataka. She did B.E. in Electrical Engineering from the B.V.B. College of Engineering & TechnologyHubli. She stood first in Karnataka for which she received a gold medal from the Chief Minister of Karnataka. She also completed her M.E. in Computer Science in 1974 from the Indian Institute of ScienceBangalore, stood first in her class and received a gold medal from the Indian Institute of Engineers.
She was also the first woman engineer to be selected in Telco (now Tata Motors), Pune. She had written a postcard to JRD Tata complaining of the gender bias in Tata Motors (Telco then had a men-only policy) and she was invited for a special interview by Tata Motors.[1] She was living in Pune from 1974–1981, later she moved to Mumbai. It was her savings of Rs. 10,000 that was instrumental in the founding of InfosysN.R. Narayana Murthy proudly mentions this fact on several occasions.

Books

Sudha Murthy is a writer and has written many stories, mostly published by Penguin, which deal with common lives and her views on donations, hospitality and realisation. Some of them include Sweet Hospitality and Wise and Otherwise (book).
Some of them are following -
1- How I Taught My Grandmother To Read 2-The Bird with Golden Wings 3-Gently Falls the Bakula 4-Dollar Bahu 5-Mahashweta 6-Old Man And His God 7-Wise & Otherwise 8-Magic Drum & other Favourite Stories 9-fasal cut 10- A wedding in Russia

Awards

On November 19, 2004, she was presented with the Raja-Lakshmi Award "in recognition of her outstanding contribution to social work" by the Sri Rani-Lakshmi Foundation, Chennai.
In 2006, she was awarded the Padma Shri , a civilian award from the Government of India and received an honorary doctorate

Personal details

Mrs. Murthy is the wife of software industrialist N.R. Narayana Murthy, the sister of Jayshree Deshpande (wife of billionaire telecom tycoon Gururaj Deshpande) and renowned Caltech astrophysicistShrinivas Kulkarni.
The couple have two children - Rohan and Akshata. On Aug. 30, 2009, Akshata Murthy tied the knot with her Stanford classmate Rishi Sunak, in a well-attended ceremony at the Hotel Leela Palace Kempinski, Bangalore. Akshata, is a former associate of Siderian Ventures, a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley. Rishi Sunak, a British citizen of Indian origin, is a partner at the UK-based charitable hedge fund TCI, The Children’s Investment fund.

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Siegfried S. Hecker


Hecker's parents came from SarajevoBosnia and were moved during World War II to Tomaszew, where Hecker was born.[2] When his father had not returned from the war at the Eastern Front, his mother remarried and settled in Rottenmann, Austria.[2] The family emigrated to the US in 1956. Hecker completed his Bachelor of Science in Metallurgy in 1965, his Master of Science in Metallurgy in 1967, and his Doctor of Philosophy in Metallurgy in 1968, all from Case Western Reserve University. Hecker began his professional career as a senior research metallurgist with theGeneral Motors Research Laboratories in 1970 after two years as a postdoctoral appointee at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Siegfried S. Hecker visiting the disabled Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center, North Korea, in 2008
Since 1988 Hecker has been a visiting Professor in Materials Engineering at Stanford University. In 2007 he became co-director of the Stanford University Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He also acts as advisor to the Nuclear Threat Initiative board of directors and belongs to the advisory council of CRDF Global, an independent nonprofit organization that promotes international scientific and technical collaboration.






Awards

His achievements have been recognized with the American Nuclear Society's Seaborg Medal and many other awards including the Navy League of the U.S.'s TR & FD Roosevelt Gold Medal for Science Award in 1996. The Secretary of Energy named Dr. Siegfried S. Hecker, Lab director from 1986-1997 and a Los Alamos senior fellow until 2000, co-recipient of the 2009 Enrico Fermi Award. This Presidential Award is one of the oldest and most prestigious given by the U.S. Government and carries an honorarium of $375,000. He shares the honor with John Bannister Goodenough, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Subroto Bagchi , Co-Founder, Vice Chairman, Member of Investor Grievances Committee and Member of Administrative Committee, MindTree Limited

Subroto Bagchi, B.A, Co-Founded MindTree Limited (formerly known as Mindtree Consulting Ltd.) in August 1999 and served as its Chief Operating Officer until April 2008. Mr. Bagchi was responsible for leading the Global People Function, Global Marketing and Facilities and Administration, and oversees Special Projects, Culture and Competence and Knowledge Management initiatives. Prior to MindTree, he served as Vice President of Product Realization, Lucent Technologies from 1998 to 1999. His other assignments included setting up Wipro's six Sigma initiatives as Corporate Vice President of Mission Quality. He also served as Chief Executive of Wipro's global R&D division, oversaw its growth from an 80-person cost center to a 600 person-strong international 'lab-on-hire' that designed technology solutions for Fortune 500 technology companies. He was also credited with setting up Wipro's U.S. operations in Silicon Valley, where he lived from 1990 to 1993. He has been Vice Chairman of MindTree Limited since July 2009 and serves as its Executive Director. He has written hundreds of articles on management and technology issues in leading newspapers and magazines, and has lectured at management schools and industry platforms in India, the U.S. and Singapore. Mr. Bagchi holds a Degree in Political Science from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India.