| Dr. Sridhar Mitta |
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Dr. Mitta is the former Managing Director of e4e in Bangalore, India – a leader in next generation outsourcing services. Sridhar has known the Managers for over a decade. He has worked with Kanwal and Saurabh building The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) organization across India, and worked at Wipro with Samir for nearly ten years. Dr. Mitta has been an internationally recognized expert in the effective management of multi-national R&D in Information Technology. He was involved with Wipro Technologies since its inception in 1980, ultimately becoming the CTO and head of Global R&D helping to pioneer global delivery of outsourced product development services to technology majors such as Intel, Cisco, Lucent, and Sun Microsystems. Wipro became the highest valued company in India during his tenure, and today is a $2.5 billion revenue Indian IT company with nearly 20% operating profit margins and a $22 billion market capitalization. Dr. Mitta was the President of the Bangalore Chapter of The IndUS Entrepreneurs through 2006 and serves on several Boards of companies located in the United States and India.
He holds a PhD and MS from Oklahoma State University; an MS from IIT-Kharagpur; and a BSEE from Andhra University, India. He is a senior member of IEEE and Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering.
