Mr. Rajeev Chandrasekhar
Member of Parliament & President

Date of Birth : May 31, 1964

Educational Qualification:

• Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering
  Manipal, Karnataka
• Masters in Computer Science
  Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
• Advanced Management Programme
  Harvard University, Boston

Work Experience and Background:

Intel : 1985- 1991

Rajeev Chandrasekhar was a Senior Technology professional in the Silicon Valley between 1985 and 1991.

• Intel Inc - Senior Design Engineer of the team that designed and launched 32 bit 80486 microprocessor.
  
• Intel Inc - CPU architect of the Pentium team. He was one of the three CPU architects who designed the architecture of the then path breaking Pentium microprocessor.

BPL Mobile : 1994 - 2005

In 1991, he returned to India and founded BPL Mobile in 1994. He was one of the earliest investors to spot the Indian Telecom opportunity and invest in it. He bid for and got the first cellular licenses in India. Over the last 12 years, Rajeev has been one of the principle participants/contributors in the development of the Indian Telecom sector - from a government monopoly dominated one to a vibrant private capital driven example of success in the Indian infrastructure sector.

BPL Mobile, the company and franchise he built was one of the pre-eminent Indian cellular franchises which was recently acquired in what was the largest domestic M&A transaction in India. At the time of its sale, BPL Mobile had 2.8 Million cellular subscribers and valuable licenses in West and Southern regions of India, served 2.8 Million subscribers and Revenues $250 Million and EBITDA of $110 Million.

Jupiter Capital : July 2005 - Present

Rajeev Chandrasekhar is presently the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Jupiter Capital. Jupiter Capital is a venture development, management and investment company focusing on infrastructure, Media and Technology ventures of the future. Jupiter capital 's investment philosophy is best summarized by its byline "…and in today walks tomorrow".

Rajeev Chandrasekhar / Jupiter Capital is evaluating and pursuing investments in the untapped infrastructure space in areas like Transportation, Utilities (like Water), Electricity transmission and Aviation infrastructure in India, where new opportunities for private capital are beginning to be thrown up. These opportunities are being pursued through a company called Hindustan Infrastructure Projects & Engineering Pvt. Ltd.

Mr.Rajeev Chandrasekhar / Jupiter Capital's Technology interests include Digital Signal Processing, Wireless Systems, Encryption and Decryption Technologies, C4I Systems, Networked Centric Warfare Systems. He is pursuing this through a company called Jupiter Strategic Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Rajeev Chandrasekhar / Jupiter Capital's media and entertainment interests are focused on regional language TV Broadcasting, Radio & Digital Media. Through acquisitions and organically, he is building two brands ie., Asianet for regional language television and Indigo for contemporary media and entertainment. Asianet is one of the strongest regional Television franchises which will cover the entire fast growing regions of South and West of India. The Media and entertainment investments are pursued through Jupiter Entertainment Ventures Pvt. Ltd.

• Mr.Rajeev Chandrasekhar is currently a Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha), representing Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Rajeev Chandrasekhar has been:

• Member of Prime Ministers Council on Trade & Industry - 1999-2003
• Member of Advisory Committee in the Ministry of Information
  Technology, Government of India - 1999-2002
• Chair Person of Government of Karnataka, Infrastructure Task Force 1999-2002
• Director, Karnataka Power Corporation Limited