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IDCians in Places

This is a listing of IDCians from the first 25 batches (1969 to 1995) holding leadership positions in industry/ firms/ oranisations/ institutions.
Almost  one in every four graduates from these batches hold key positions.

Total in this list  = 174 out of the 522
(graduates from 1969 to 1999)
(the first 30 batches at IDC)
(One in every three students from IDC hold
leadership positions in industry/ firms/ organisations/ institutions)
Director/Heads In Academics  = 25
President /Vice Presidents of Multinationals/large company = 15
CEO  = 10
Started Own Company/Design Firms = 47
Working Abroad = 50
Head of Design in Product Design Industry  = 38
Head of Design in User Experience/Computing Industry  = 40
Head of Design in In Automobile Industry = 22
Head of Deign in Communication Industry = 15
Total PD of 25 batches  = 388
Total VC of 11 batches = 134
Total 25 batches = 522 student


 

PD 1970-72

B Bhaumik

Vice President of Product Development (Retired)
Mahindra and Mahindra, India

PD 1970-72 Kishore Munshi Professor and Head (Past)
IDC, IIT Bombay, India
PD 1970-72 Kadiru Ramachandran Professor and Head (Past)
DoD, IIT Guwahati, India
PD 1970-72 Harikumar Nair Director, 
Global Advanced Design Studio of Whirlpool, USA
PD 1971-73 Arun K Siddha Managing Director (Past), 
Kalyani Sharp, Pune
India
PD 1971-73 Neera Adarkar Urban Research and Urban Activism
Adarkar Associates, Mumbai, India
PD 1973-75 Vijay Bapat Professor and Head (Past)
IDC, IIT Bombay, India
PD 1975-77 K Joseph Peter Church Architect of Kerala
K J Associates, India
PD 1975-77 Kishore Babu Chief Executive Officer
Composite Technologies, Bengaluru, India
PD 1975-77 Ravi Poovaiah Professor and Head (Past)
IDC, IIT Bombay, India
PD 1976-78 Ashok Panwalkar Design Head and Creative Director (Retired)
Philips India, India
PD 1976-78 Gulu Bhumra

Senior Vice President,
Hawkins Cookers, Mumbai, India

PD 1976-78 Shrikant Potnis CEO,
Easun MR Tap Changers, Chennai
India
PD 1977-79 Satish Raut Head of Design (Retired)
MSME Development Institute, Mumbai, India
PD 1979-81 Rajkumar Konar

Professor in Design,
Silpa-Sadana,Visva-Bharati,Sriniketan, India

PD 1979-81 MN Shivram President,
TeleVital, Bengaluru, India
PD 1980-82 Ajith Kumar General Manager
Funskool India, India
PD 1980-82 KumKum Nadig Head of Graphic Design Department
Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology,
Bengaluru, India
PD 1980-82 Dinesh Verma Managing Director
Ace Group of Architects, Bengaluru, India
PD 1980-82 Basha Mohammad General Manager R and D
TVS Motor Company, Chennai, India
PD 1981-83 Y. D. Venkatesh Principal
Xavier Institute of Engineering, Mumbai, India
PD 1981-83 Vijay Kothari Design Director
Adaptive Design, Nagpur, India
PD 1982-84 Dilipan R Vice President R and D
Stovekraft Pvt. Ltd, Bengaluru, India
PD 1982-84 Ravi Mokashi Professor and Head (Past)
DoD, IIT Guwahati, India
PD 1982-84 Pradyumna Vyas Director
National Institute of Design (NID), India
PD 1983-85 Abhimanyu kulkarni Design Head and Creative Director
Philips India, India
PD 1983-85 Sunil Malhotra Chief Executive Officer and Head of Design
Ideafarms, New Delhi, India
PD 1983-85 Ravi Nafde Director and Chief Technical Officer
Cleantech, Nagpur, India
PD 1983-85 Anil Saini Director, 
Design Studio General Motors (GM), India
PD 1984-86 Sanjay Jain Director – Design Incubation Centre
MIT Institute of Design, Pune, India
VC 1984-86 Sunil Khullar Director Software Technologies
Summit, Delhi, India
PD 1984-86 Peer M Sathikh

Deputy Chair
School of Art, Design and Media (ADM),
NTUSingapore

VC 1984-86 Sridhar Ranghayan Film Director and Gay Activist
Mumbai, India
PD 1984-86 Simhan V Mandyam Chief Executive Officer
Triage Life Sciences, California, USA
PD 1984-86 Nitin Urdhwareshe Associate Vice President & Head -
User Experience Presitant Systems,
Santa Clara, USA
VC 1985-87 Srirang Sathye Director Animation
Tata Elxsi VCL, Mumbai, India
PD 1985-87 Pradeep Save Design Manager
Onida Design Centre, Mumbai, India
VC 1985-87 Anubir and Bhavana Singh

Directors
Face Graphics Potteries, N Delhi,India

PD 1985-87 Rajan Vernekar Managing Director
Ravedesign, Mumbai, India
PD 1985-87 Sunil Kolhe Vice President
Product Development
VIP Industries, 
Hong Kong
PD 1986-88 Suresh Hiremani Deputy General Manager
Integrated Design and Manufacturing Centre, 
Mahindra and Mahindra, Mumbai, India
PD 1986-88 B K Chakravarthy Professor and Head
Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay, India
VC 1986-88 Raghu Kolli Vice President and Head
Livelabs, IMRB International, Bengaluru, India
PD 1986-88 Vinay Mundada Director
Symbiosis Institute of Design, Pune, India
PD 1986-88 Boban Varghese Professor and Head
Department of Architecture at Nelson
Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa
VC 1987-89 Deepak Patil Chief Operating Officer
Mindsensors Robotics, Richmond, VA, USA
PD 1987-89 Prasad boradkar Professor, Director of InnovationSpace
Arizona State University, USA
VC 1987-89 Dipti Varghese Creative Director
Design@bay, Port Elizabeth Area, South Africa
VC 1987-89 Poornima Phaltankar Creative Director,
Tattva Design Studio, Mumbai, India
PD 1987-89 Unmesh Kulkarni Design Director
Philips Design, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
PD 1987-89

Puhazhendi Kaliyappan

Director - Global Customer Support 
Perfint Healthcare, Chennai, India
VC 1987-89 Vikas Saligram

Head of the Department
Department of Applied Art
Jawaharlal Nehru Architecture and Fine Arts
University , Hyderabad, India

PD 1988-90 Punya Mishra Professor and Director
of Master of Arts in Educational Technology
Michigan State University, USA
PD 1988-90 Rajeev Prakash Khare Art Director
Delhi Press, New Delhi, India
PD 1989-91 Sudheer Barve Chief Designer
ATG airports ltd, London, UK
VC 1989-91 Sudeep Dasgupta Lead Design Manager
ebay, San Jose, USA
PD 1989-91 Pankaj Junja General Manager of Design
Tata Motors, Pune, India
PD 1989-91 Satyendra Pakhale CEO
Satyendra Pakhale associates, Amsterdam
The Netherlands
PD 1989-91 Dhananjay shahane Design Manager
Balck and Decker, Pune, India
PD 1989-91 Prakash Unakal Professor and Senior Associate Dean
Business Design, We-School, Bengaluru, India
VC 1989-91 Ajay Thombre CEO
Fineline Advertising LLC, Dubai, UAE
PD 1989-91 Gayatri Rao Director
Animagic India, Mumbai, India
PD 1989-91 Phani Tetali Vice President and Producer (Past)
FXLabs Studios, Hyderabad, India
PD 1990-92 Sameer Bagga Vice President & Head of Marketing, 
HCL America at HCL Technologies, NY, USA
VC 1990-92 R. Venkatesh Deputy Director (Past)
Singapore Polytechnic Design School, Singapore
PD 1990-92 Swaminathan Iyer Design Manager
Electrolux SEA Pte Ltd, Singapore
VC 1990-92 Dinesh Khatre Associate Director and HoD
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing,
Pune, India
PD 1990-92 Sudhakar Lahade Manager for New Business Innovations and
Growth Initiatives
Steelcase, Grand Rapids, MI, USA
PD 1990-92 Sabanayaham P CEO
1 Message, Bangaluru, India
PD 1990-92 Samudra Sen CEO
Learning mate, Mumbai, India
PD 1991-93 Ganesh Gaikwad Head User Experience
Tata Consultancy Services, Pune, India
VC 1991-93 Satish Babusenan Film Maker and Partner
Fifth Element Film, Kerala, India
VC 1991-93 Ravi Krishnan Associate Vice President, 
Experience Design, Wipro BPO, Bengaluru, India
PD 1991-93 Mugendi M'Rithaa President Elect, ICSID 
Professor, Cape Peninsula University of Technology 
South Africa
VC 1991-93 P M Hashim Design Director
Design Difference, Cochin, India
PD 1991-93 Vijay Kumar Founder and Principal Designer
Ergoform Consulting, Bengaluru, India
PD 1992-94 Swapna Behar Director
Product Design and IPR, Icarus, Bengaluru, India
PD 1992-94 Sandeep Datar

Head and Director of User Experience
Search Products, Yahoo,
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

PD 1992-94 Rattan Gangadhar Head of Department of Digital Design, 
Indian School of Design, Pune, India
PD 1992-94 Sandeep Karyakarte Head Passenger Car Design
Tata Motors, Pune, India
PD 1992-94 Sujit Kolke Manager QA
PTC, PUne, India
VC 1992-94 Sachin Paliwal Principal Architect
Design Avenues, Bhopal, India
VC 1992-94

Julie Zachariah

Technical Director
NIC, Kerala, India
VC 1992-94 Vikar Sharon CEO
Regalix, Palo Alto, USA
VC 1992-94 Nimish Vohra Senior Vice President
Regalix, Bengaluru, India
VC 1992-94 Vandana Balwally

Senior Manager, Graphics
Financial Technologies India, Mumbai, India

VC 1993-95 Joy Banerjee Director
Woodapple Design, Gurgoan
India
PD 1993-95 Rupa Narayan Head of Department
Communication Design, NFT, Mumbai
India
VC 1993-95 Suni Hadap Senior Research Manager
Adobe Research, San Jose,
USA
PD 1994-96 Ashok George Abraham

Design DirectorVolvo AB, Shangai, China

VC 1994-96 Debasish Mahapatra

Managing Director Pancham Studios, Bhuvaneshwar
India

PD 1994-96 Chandrashekar Vyavahare

DirectorFuturing Design Studio, Pune, India

VC 1994-96 Ben Anthony

Head of Department (Past)
T.K.M.College of Engineering Kollam, India

PD 1995-97 Ananthan Ramkripa Design Head
Mahindra and Mahindra, Mumbai, India
PD 1995-97 Utkarsh Biradkar Co-founder and Head of Design, UX, Product,
Momoe, Bengaluru, India
PD 1995-97 A K Das Professor and Head of Department (Past)
Department of Design, IIT Guwahati
India
PD 1995-97 Narendra Ghate Chief Designer, Service Design
Tata Elexsi, Bengaluru, India
PD 1995-97 Manjit Singh Kholi Project manager, Visualisation,
Technology and Research,
Ford Motor Company, Michigan, USA
VC 1995-97 Prasanna Kulkarni Executive Creative Director,
JWT, Delhi-Mumbai, India
VC 1995-97 Malini Rao Principal User Experience Designer,
Acquia, Inc. Massachusetts, USA
PD 1995-97 Rajesh Shelke Vice President, R and D
Veol Medical Technologies, Mumbai, India
VC 1995-97 Sanjay Sundaram Artist
Delhi, India
VC 1995-97 Hemedra Kumar Director of User Experience Design,
LinkedIn, Mountainview, CA, USA
 
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