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IIT Delhi, one of the leading engineering institutions in India, has enjoyed the lime-light every now and then thanks to its notable alumni. Yet again IIT Delhi has made its way into the headlines, courtesy WhatsApp 's business head Neeraj Arora.
Neeraj Arora, a Mechanical Engineering graduate from IIT, started his career journey at Accellion Inc. as a Programme Manager. Before this journey brought him to WhatsApp in 2011, he had also enjoyed brief career stops at Google and Times Internet Limited.
Arora's position as the 'Business Guy' (as per his LinkedIn profile) at WhatsApp donned the center stage after the Facebook-WhatsApp $19 billion deal took over the news.
Names like Chetan Bhagat, Rajat Gupta and Vinod Khosla, who was one of the co-founder of Sun Microsystems, also feature among IIT-D's 'notable alumni' list.
Rajat Kumar Gupta, the first Indian-born CEO of a global corporation, served as the Managing Director of management consultancy firm McKinsey & Company and was also a board member of corporations including Goldman Sachs, Procter and Gamble and American Airlines. In addition to holding key positions in top global organizations, Rajat Kumar also enjoys the status of being the co-founder of the Indian School of Business, American India Foundation, New Silk Route and Scandent Solutions.
As for Chetan Bhagat, a personality who is widely known in India, worked as an investment banker in Hong Kong for 11 years before shifting to Mumbai to pursue his passion for writing. He is best known for his novels: Five Point Someone, One Night @ the Call Center and The 3 Mistakes of My Life. His books have gone on to become hot selling cakes and an inspiration to many Bollywood movies.
With such a diamond studded alumni list, IIT Delhi has become one of the coveted and sought after institutions for higher education.
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