PanIIT Global

PanIIT Global Mission

PanIIT Global provides legitimacy, oversight, and guidance to the various national and regional PanIIT organizations. The focus of PanIIT is on common issues for all IIT campuses such as branding, advocacy and wider networking. The specific goals of PanIIT organizations are:

1. To manage, enhance and protect the “IIT Brand” that supports the highest standards in education, professional excellence, and giving back to society
2. To provide a wider forum for alumni networking and a broader range of alumni services. These services will include – but not limited to – the opportunity to network amongst each other and the surrounding community, mentoring new graduates and aspiring entrepreneurs, to offer direct assistance and such other conveniences that enhance the value of IIT alumni membership.
3. To provide a forum for advocacy. This will include – but not limited to – the opportunity to express alumni views on the governance of the IITs, offer opinions on matters pertaining to business, education, the environment and such other global matters that will enhance the future of all members of the IIT community.
4. To contribute to Nation Building, the economic and social development of India.

The Global Board meets four times a year by telephone - Global Board Meeting Minutes.

• Co-chair: Arjun Malhotra, IIT Kharagpur
  Arjun is an IIT Kharagpur alumnus and in 1975 he co-founded one of India's leading computer companies: HCL. He is presently CEO of Headstrong which has a dozen offices in India, USA and elsewhere. Arjun also founded SPIC-Macay an arts group, which is now India’s largest non-government, not for profit, social and cultural organization.
  
• Co-chair: Umang Gupta, IIT Kanpur
  Umang Gupta is the Chairman and CEO of Keynote Systems.  His earlier successes include Gupta Corporation which was the first Indian-American founded client/server software company to go public. Prior to founding Gupta, Umang was at Oracle and was very instrumental in their success. He has held various positions with Oracle Corporation and IBM. 
  
  Interview with Umang Gupta.
  
• Pan-IIT Alumni India: Ashank Desai, IIT Bombay
  Ashank is CMD of Mastek, Mumbai and has an M.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Bombay, 1974. He was conferred with the Distinguished Alumnus award in 2002.
  
• Pan-IIT Alumni USA: Gunjan Bagla, IIT Kanpur

  Gunjan is Managing Director of Amritt  and teaches an executive seminar at Caltech on Doing Business in India. He is author of Business in 21st Century India (Hachette/Business Plus, 2008).

  
  
• Three Distinguished Alum (DA), one representative from each IIT and one representing Rest of the World.