Date of Birth June 22, 1953

12.

Board of Directorship in the Companies

Sasken Communications Ltd., Bangalore

Banyan Networks Pvt. Ltd., Chennai

Polaris Software Lab Ltd., Chennai

Jataayu Software (P) Ltd., Bangalore

n-Logue Communicatons Pvt. Ltd., Chennai

HTL Ltd., Chennai

Shyam Telecom, New Delhi

Enmail.com, Chennai

Tejas Networks Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore

NMSWorks Private Limited

BSNL

VSNL

Midas Communication Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

I-softech Private Limited

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Advisory board/Governing council

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  Member of the Governing Council of AU-KBC Centre for Internet & Telecom Technologies, Anna University, Chennai, 2000 – Present
  
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  Member of the Panel of Experts for the Investment of UTI Venture Capital Fund, Bangalore, 2000 – 2002
  
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  Member of the Apex Committee of the Incubation Centre at IIT Kanpur, 2000 – Present
  
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  Member of Advisory Council of Nadathur S. Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneural learning (NSRCEL), IIM Bangalore, 2001-present.
  
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  Member of the Technical Advisory Board of Media Lab Asia, IITKanpur, 2001-present
  
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  Member of the ICICI Venture’s Advisory Board, Mumbai, 2001
  
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  Member of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). Governing Body, Department of Science and Industrial Research (DSIR), Delhi.
  
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  Advisor on the Information Technology Committee of Directors of Punjab National Bank – September, 2002
  
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  Member of the Advisory Committee for Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (2002) in engineering Sciences.
  
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  Member of the Advisory Committee for the book titled “Disruptive Technologies :The Indian Contribution” – Tata sons Limited, Mumbai, October, 2002.
  
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  Member of an Inter- Ministerial Advisory Committee, Universal Service Fund (USF), Department of Telecommunications, New Delhi, December, 2002
  
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  Member of the Working Group on Flow of Credit to SSI Sector, Reserve Bank of India, Mumbai, 2003-04