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The IITGN Benefactor Circle recognises donors who have made a lifetime donation Rs 20 lakhs ($30,000) to Rs 50 lakhs ($70,000) to IIT Gandhinagar. Their generosity and kindness supports academic and research excellence at the Institute.

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Dr Arvind Jain

Dr Arvind Jain

Dr Arvind Jain is an internationally recognized authority in the aluminum industry. He founded AXJ Resources LLC, a metals and mining consulting company and has been at the forefront of the IIT alumni movement in the USA for the past 30 years.

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Mr Atul Jain

Mr Atul Jain

Mr Atul Jain is Chairman & CEO of TEOCO (The Employee Owned Company' Corporation. TEOCO is a leading global organization providing cost, routing, revenue and network management solutions to top communications service providers worldwide.

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Mr Bhupen Shah

Mr Bhupen Shah

Mr Bhupen Shah has over 25 years of experience in technology development, product development, and engineering management in embedded digital media and communication solutions at Sling Media, Emuzed, Dazzle, RealChip, Philips Semiconductors, IBM, etc.

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Mr Bipin Shah

Mr Bipin Shah

Mr Bipin Shah is CEO and Chairman of Kovair Software in Milpitas, Californi. He is active in several nonprofit organizations, including The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) and Ahimsa Center at California Polytechnic University in Pomona. Shah is a founder of the IIT Gandhinagar Foundation in USA.

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Mr Deepak Sultania

Mr Deepak Sultania

Mr Deepak Sultania is the Director of Durga Bearings group, the largest distributor of bearings in India. He has transformed his company from a small trading company to a strong market leader.

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Mr Jignesh Patel

Mr Jignesh Patel

Mr. Jignesh Patel founded and runs a commercial real estate oriented private investment firm Charioteer Capital. Previously, he spent two decades on Wall Street in various investing and trading roles for structured products. He has been an active participant in various IIT related nonprofit activities, and also serves on the board of Pratham USA, New York.

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Mr Nandan Nilekani

Mr Nandan Nilekani

Mr Nandan Nilekani is the former Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). Mr Nilekani is currently the chairman of the board of directors of Infosys Technologies Limited, which he co-founded in 1981. He was awarded one of India's highest civilian honours, the Padma Bhushan, in 2006.

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Mr Nirmal Jha

Mr Nirmal Jha

Mr Nirmal Jha is a 1977 B.Tech (Electrical Engineering) graduate from IIT Kanpur. He has more than 38 years of experience in multinational power industry across Asia, USA and China. He has also served on the board of several international companies. Post retirement from the industry, he is currently associated with IIT Gandhinagar as Advisor (Industry Partnerships).

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Prof. Nitish V Thakor

Prof. Nitish V Thakor

Prof. Thakor is a Professor of Neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine with appointments in the Whiting School of Engineering’s Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prof. Thakor directs the Neuroengineering & Biomedical Instrumentation Laboratory at JHU and the NIH Training Grant on Neuroengineering. He also served as the founding Director of SINAPSE from 2008-2022 and headed their Neuro Engineering Research Centre during this period.

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Dr Prabhakar Goel

Dr Prabhakar Goel

Dr Prabhakar Goel has held positions in engineering and technical management with IBM and Wang Laboratories. Dr Goel is a private venture capitalist involved with several companies and is a founding member of The Indus Entrepreneur (TiE).

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Prof Raghubir Sharan

Prof Raghubir Sharan

Prof Sharan served at IIT Kanpur for more than 35 years in the discipline of electrical engineering and moved to IITGN in 2012 as a visiting professor and served till May 2019. Post retirement, Prof Sharan has received two awards from IIT Kanpur: Distinguished Teacher Award (2013) and Institute Fellow award (2016). His research interests include technological progress and human values, semiconductor devices, transducers and instrumentation, noise, engineering education.

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Mr Sandeep Singhal

Mr Sandeep Singhal

Shri Sandeep Singhal, a co-founder and Managing Director of WestBridge Capital is based out of Bangalore, India. Sandeep has over two decades of public and private investing experience in India.Sandeep holds an MBA with distinction from IIM Ahmedabad, an MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois where he was awarded the Abraham Lincoln Fellowship and a B. Tech. in Chemical Engineering from IIT Delhi.

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Prof Sudhir K Jain

Prof Sudhir K Jain

Prof Jain is an internationally reputed scholar of earthquake engineering and recognized as one of the most dynamic educators in India. He is currently serving his third 5-year term as director of the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, which he joined as founder director in June 2009. He was on the faculty of IIT Kanpur for 35 years from 1984-2019. He was elected Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2003, and was conferred Padma Shri by the Government of India in 2020.