Titlagarh, Orissa Province, British India (present–day Odisha, India)
Citizenship
India (birth; current) United States (former)[2]
Alma mater
Maharaja Sayajirao University Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
Occupation(s)
Telecom engineer, entrepreneur
Employer
Former advisor to the prime minister on Public Information Infrastructure & Innovations (PIII)
Spouse
Anjana Pitroda
(m. 1966)
Website
www.sampitroda.com
Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda (born 17 November 1942), also known as Sam Pitroda (Hindi:[sɔt̪jɔnaːraːjɔɳɔɡɔŋgaːraːmɔpiʈroɽaː]), is an Indian telecommunication engineer, and entrepreneur. He was the chairman of Indian Overseas Congress.[3] He was born in Titlagarh in the eastern Indian state of Odisha[4] to a Gujarati family. He was also an advisor to then Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and for the United Nations.[5]
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Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda (born 17 November 1942), also known as SamPitroda (Hindi: [sɔt̪jɔnaːraːjɔɳɔ ɡɔŋgaːraːmɔ piʈroɽaː]), is an Indian telecommunication...
garnering praise from both critics and audiences. She has worked with SamPitroda on the National Knowledge Commission, to help with revamping the education...
report recommending creation of a separate company for this purpose. SamPitroda, who developed the telecommunications services in India, became its first...
where he worked on the first Railway reservation system and later joined SamPitroda and his team at the Center for Development of Telematics to develop an...
Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Motilal Vora, Oscar Fernandes, Suman Dubey and SamPitroda to appear in the court on 7 August 2014. She said that according to the...
commission were revisited by the National Knowledge Commission headed by SamPitroda in 2005. List of Indian commissions National Policy on Education National...
Parliament and researcher at Nesta for about two years. In London Poirson met SamPitroda, then minister of the government of Manmohan Singh in India. She joined...
endocrinologist and philanthropist Ahmed Dawood – Industrialist and philanthropist SamPitroda – Inventor, entrepreneur and policymaker Tulsi Tanti – Chairman and managing...
next ten years. Gandhi employed former Rockwell International executive SamPitroda as his adviser on public information infrastructure and innovation. During...
book by his father, Dr. S.B.Misra.(Roli Books, 2011,with a foreword by SamPitroda. ISBN 8174368191. Ram Nath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism...
the paper was being revived under journalist Suman Dubey, technocrat SamPitroda and the newly incorporated Young India Company headquartered at Herald...
Nehru. In 1992, P. V. Narasimha Rao, P. Chidambaram, V. Krishnamurthy, SamPitroda, Dr. Sekhar Raha, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Montek Singh Ahluwalia and R. P...
government under the prime-minister-ship of Rajiv Gandhi. He invited SamPitroda, a US-based Non-resident Indian (NRI) and a former Rockwell International...
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