Kumud Srinivasan named NIT-T chairperson
Kumud N. Srinivasan, president of Intel India, has been
appointed Chairperson of the Board of Governors of National Institute
of Technology-Tiruchi.
She is the first woman to
hold the post since the inception of the institute in 1964, which was
previously known as Regional Engineering College (REC). She will replace
Rajaram Nityananda, Senior Professor, Tata Institute of Fundamental
Research (TIFR), and hold the office for three years.
Her
appointment has been viewed as a major step by the National Democratic
Alliance (NDA) government as four more NITs have got women Chairpersons.
An order to that effect has been issued by President Pranab Mukherjee, a
few days ago.
Ms. Srinivasan has been with Intel
for over 25 years and has held several business and information systems
positions within Intel’s manufacturing and information technology
organisations. Prior to that, she was Vice-President and General Manager
of IT for Silicon, Software and Services, where she led the delivery of
IT solutions and service for Intel’s hardware and software engineers.
She
is a member of the Board of Advisors of the School of Information
Studies in Syracuse University and the member of the Governing Body of
International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore. She got her
bachelor’s degree in economics from Calcutta University in 1981 and
master’s degree in information and library studies from Syracuse
University in 1984.
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