Attendees' Profile
When CBS 60 Minutes described IITians as the, "smartest, most successful, most influential …", immigrants from India, it was a signal that Brand IIT had arrived on the global stage. What began with a Business Week cover story about "Whiz Kids" has become a tag line that perpetuates itself, in newspaper and magazine articles across the globe.
Among the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), IIT Bombay (IIT-B) has established its own special brand and reputation. IIT Bombay was the highest ranked IIT in the recent Times of London THES rankings. Both 60 Minutes and Tom Friedman’s The World Is Flat specifically featured IIT-B.
IIT alumni are:
- Mid-level to senior managers and CxOs who are among the top 2% earners in the US.
- CEOs and founding members of large and small companies who are still active in their entrepreneurial ventures and may be looking for solutions
- Distinguished Alumni (DAs) who sit on the Boards of companies
- Director, Deans and key members of the IIT-B Administration
- Talented engineers, business professionals, entrepreneurs, scientists, analysts and consultants
- High net-worth individuals that are looking for a host of premium products and services.
IIT alumni hold senior positions in a range of industries and academia
including:
- Banking & Finance (Berkshire Hathaway, Citigroup, The Hartford, World Bank)
- The Fortune 500 (Rohm & Haas, Cisco, IBM, Motorola, Reebok)
- Professional Services (McKinsey, Young & Rubicam)
- Academia (MIT, Univ. of California, Florida)
Startups founded by IITians include:
- WebEx
- Providian
- Sun Microsystems
- Cirrus Logic
- Sycamore Networks



