1.

SHANTANU NARAYEN
2. RAGHURAM RAJAN
3. VINOD KHOSLA
4. M. Night Shyamalan
5. Rajat Gupta
6. INDRA NOOYI
7. NEAL KATYAL
8. Dalip Singh Saund

9. Nikki Haley
10. Vivek Kundra
SHANTANU NARAYEN
Shantanu Narayen is the current CEO of Adobe Systems. Prior to this post, he
held the role as the President and Chief Operating Officer since 2005.

EARLY LIFE
He grew up in Hyderabad, India, the second son of a mother who
taught American literature and a father who ran a plastics company. He went
to Hyderabad Public School in Hyderabad. Narayen holds a bachelor’s degree in
electronics engineering from Osmania University in India, MBA from the Haas
School of Business of the University of California, Berkeley in 1993 and
hismaster's degree in Computer Science from Bowling Green State University in
Bowling Green, Ohio.

CAREER
He started his career at Apple. After Apple, Narayen served as director of
desktop and collaboration products for Silicon Graphics, then co-
founded Pictra Inc., a company that pioneered the concept of digital photo
sharing over the Internet.

Narayen joined Adobe in 1998 as a senior Vice-President of worldwide product

research, was later promoted to executive vice president of worldwide products,
and appointed to his current post in January 2005 at the age of 41.

PROMOTION TO CEO
On November 12, 2007, Adobe Systems announced in a press release
that Bruce Chizen would step down from his role as Chief Executive Officer
effective December 1, to be replaced by Shantanu Narayen.

Shantanu Narayen is paid an annual salary of $875,000 for his role as chief
executive.

In 2009, Mr. Narayen was considered one of "The TopGun CEOs" by Brendan
Wood International, an advisory agency.

In 2011, US President Barack Obama has appointed Shantanu Narayen,

President and CEO of Adobe Systems, as a member of his Management
Advisory Board. PMAB was established by an Executive Order in April 2010 to
advice on how to implement best business practices on matters related to
Federal Government management and operation focusing on productivity, the
application of technology and customer service. It is part of President Obama's
ongoing commitment to cut waste and get the most from taxpayer dollars.
SHANTANU NARAYEN

Raghuram Rajan
RAGHURAM RAJAN
Raghuram Govind Rajan (born 3 February 1963) is currently the Eric J. Gleacher
Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the Booth School of Business at
the University of Chicago. He is also an honorary economic adviser to Prime
Minister of India Manmohan Singh (appointed 2008.) He previously was the chief
economist of the International Monetary Fund and headed a committee
appointed by the Planning Commission on financial reforms in India.

Rajan is also a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's

Department of Economics and Sloan School of Management; at the Kellogg
School of Management atNorthwestern University and the Stockholm School of
Economics. He also has worked as a consultant for the Indian Finance Ministry,
World Bank, Federal Reserve Board and Swedish Parliamentary Commission.

Early life
Raghuram Rajan was born in Bhopal. In 1985, he graduated from the Indian
Institute of Technology, Delhi, with a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering;
he completed the Post-Graduate Programme in Management at the Indian
Institute of Management, Ahmedabad in 1987. He received
his PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in
1991 with a thesis entitled "Essays on Banking."

Career
After graduation, Rajan joined the Booth School of Business at the University of
Chicago. He was the "Economic Counselor and Director of Research" (Chief
Economist) at the International Monetary Fund from September 2003 until
January 2007. In 2003, he was also the inaugural recipient of the Fischer Black
Prize awarded by the American Finance Association for contributions to the
theory and practice of finance by an economist under age 40.

In 2005, at a celebration honoring Alan Greenspan, who was about to retire as

chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Rajan delivered a controversial paper that
was critical of the financial sector. In that paper, "Has Financial Development
Made the World Riskier?", Rajan "argued that disaster might loom." Rajan
argued that financial sector managers were encouraged to

(take) risks that generate severe adverse consequences with small probability
but, in return, offer generous compensation the rest of the time. These risks are
known as tail risks. But perhaps the most important concern is whether banks will
be able to provide liquidity to financial markets so that if the tail risk does
materialize, financial positions can be unwound and losses allocated so that the
consequences to the real economy are minimized.
Thus Rajan described the 2007-2008 collapse of the world's financial system.

The response to Rajan's paper at the time was negative. For example, former
U.S. Treasury Secretary and former Harvard President Lawrence
Summers called the warnings “misguided.”

In April 2009, Rajan penned a guest column for The Economist, in which he
proposed a regulatory system that might minimize boom-bust financial cycles.

In 2010, he was named by Foreign Policy magazine to its list of top global
thinkers. In an Economist poll, Rajan ranked first as the economist with the most
important ideas in the post-financial crisis world.
VINOD KHOSLA

Rajiv Shah
VINOD KHOSLA
Vinod Khosla is an Indian-born American venture capitalist and an influential
personality in Silicon Valley.
Khosla was one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems, where he would serve
as its first CEO & Chairman in the early 1980s. In 1986, he became a general
partner of the venture capital firmKleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, where he
would remain through the early 2000s.
In 2004 Khosla formed his own firm, Khosla Ventures, which focused on venture
investments in various technology sectors, most notably clean technology.
He is also known for his witty but controversial statements, for example: "If it
doesn't scale, it doesn't matter. Most of what we talk about today—hybrid,
biodiesel, ethanol, solar photovoltaics, geothermal—I believe are irrelevant to the
scale of the problem."

EDUCATION
Khosla went on to receive degrees from the IIT Delhi, India (Bachelor
of Technology in Electrical Engineering ), Carnegie Mellonr University (Masters in
Biomedical Engineering), and Stanford Graduate School of Business (MBA).

Career
After graduating from Stanford University in 1980, Khosla co-founded electronic
design automation company Daisy Systems. Then in 1982, Khosla co-
founded Sun Microsystems (SUN is the acronym for the Stanford University
Network), along with his Stanford classmates Scott McNealy, Andy
Bechtolsheim, and UC Berkeley computer science graduate student Bill Joy.
Khosla served as the first Chairman and CEO of Sun Microsystems from 1982 to
1984, when he left the company to become a venture capitalist.

In 1986, Khosla joined the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield &
Byers as a general partner. At Kleiner, Khosla became a recognized venture
capitalist, with several successful early stage investments. Khosla also played a
key role with several of the tech industry's most spectacular failures, including
Asera, Dyna book, and others.

He also invested in an Indian Microfinance NGO, SKS Microfinance, which lends

small loans to poor women in rural India. Khosla is also one of the founders
of TiE, The Indus Entrepreneurs, and has guest-edited a special issue of The
Economic Times(ET), a leading business newspaper in India.

Khosla was featured on Dateline NBC in May 2006 where he discussed the
practicality of ethanol as a gasoline substitute. He is known to have invested
heavily in ethanol companies, in hopes of widespread adoption. He
cites Brazil as an example of a country that has ended its dependence on foreign
oil.

Khosla was a major proponent of the "Yes on 87" campaign to pass California's
Proposition 87, The Clean Energy Initiative, which failed to pass in November,
2006. In 2006, Khosla's wife Neeru co-founded the CK-12 Foundation that aims
to develop open source textbooks and lower the cost of education in America
and the rest of the world. Khosla and his wife are also donors to the Wikimedia
Foundation, in the amount of $500,000.
M. Night Shyamalan

Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan is known professionally as M. Night Shyamalan, is

an Indian-born American film director, screenwriter, and producer known for
making movies with contemporary supernatural plots that climax with a twist
ending. He is also known for filming his movies (and staging his plots) in and
around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was raised. Shyamalan released
his first film, Praying with Anger, in 1992 while he was a New York
University student. His second movie, the major feature film Wide Awake, made
in 1995 but not released until three years later, did not succeed financially.
Shyamalan gained international recognition when he wrote and directed
1999's The Sixth Sense, which was a commercial success and nominated for
six Academy Awards, including: Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original
Screenplay. He followed The Sixth Sense by writing and directing Unbreakable,
released in 2000, which received positive reviews. His 2002 film Signs, where he
also played Ray Reddy, gained both critical and financial success. His next
movie The Village (2004) received mixed reviews from the critics, but turned out
to be a financial success. His later fantasy film Lady in the Water (2006)
performed worse critically and financially. The filmThe Happening (2008) was a
financial success but also received negative reviews. The Last Airbender (2010)
received extremely negative reviews in the United States and won 5 Razzie
Awards, but has gone on to make nearly $320 million internationally at the box
office. His latest film, Devil (2010), which he produced and wrote the story for, but
did not direct, was not screened by critics before its release but eventually
received mixed reviews. Devil was not a blockbuster hit but has become a
commercial success relative to its low budget and was named as one of the top 5
horror films of 2010 by ShockTillYouDrop.com.

Career
M. Night Shyamalan and Mark Wahlberg(right) at the presentation of the film The
Happening in Madrid.

Shyamalan made his first film, the semi-autobiographical drama Praying with
Anger, while still an NYU student, using money borrowed from family and
friends. It was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival on September
12, 1992, and played commercially at one theater for one week in
rural Woodstock, Illinois. When the film debuted at the Toronto Film Festival,
Shyamalan was introduced by David Overbey who predicted that the world would
see more of Shyamalan in the years to come. Praying with Anger has also been
shown on Canadian television. Filmed in Chennai, it is his only film to be shot
outside of Pennsylvania.
Shyamalan wrote and directed his second movie, Wide Awake, in 1995, though it
was not released until 1998. His parents were the film's associate producers. The
drama dealt with a ten-year-old Catholic schoolboy (Joseph Cross) who, after the
death of his grandfather (Robert Loggia), searches for God. The film's supporting
cast included Dana Delany and Denis Leary as the boy's parents, as well as Julia
Stiles, and Camryn Manheim. Wide Awake was filmed in a school Shyamalan
attended as a child and earned 1999 Young Artist Award nominations for Best
Drama, and, for Cross, Best Performance. Only in limited release, the film
grossed $305,704 in theaters.

That same year Shyamalan co-wrote the screenplay for Stuart Little with Greg
Brooker.
In 2008, Shyamalan was awarded the Padma Shri by the government of India.
In 2010, he directed The Last Airbender, based on the Nickelodeon TV
show Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Personal life
In 1993, Shyamalan married psychologist Bhavna Vaswani, a fellow student
whom he met at NYU and with whom he has two daughters. The family resides
on a sprawling estate in Willistown, Pennsylvania, near Shyamalan's usual
shooting site of Philadelphia. His production company, Blinding Edge Pictures is
located in Berwyn, PA.
Rajat Gupta

Rajat Kumar Gupta is a prominent Indian-American businessman who has been

a corporate officer, board director and strategic advisor to a variety of notable
public- and private-sector institutions (list). He is the co-founder of four
organizations: the Indian School of Business with Anil Kumar, the American India
Foundation with Victor Menezes and Lata Krishnan, New Silk Route with Parag
Saxena and Victor Menezes, and Scandent with Ramesh Vangal.
On March 1, 2011, the United States Securities and Exchange
Commission levied administrative civil insider trading charges against Gupta. He
is accused of passing material nonpublic information to friend and Galleon
Group founder Raj Rajaratnam, who in U.S. v Rajaratnam was found guilty on all
14 counts of insider trading and securities fraud. In the wake of the SEC
accusations, Gupta resigned from or did not stand for reelection to the boards
of Goldman Sachs, Procter and Gamble, AMR and its subsidiary, American
Airlines Inc., Harman International, and Genpact Ltd, among others. On March
18, 2011, he countersued the SEC.

Career
Gupta joined McKinsey & Company in 1973 as one of the first Indian-
Americans at the consultancy. He was initially rejected because of inadequate
work experience, a decision that was overturned after his Harvard Business
School professor Walter J. Salmon called Ron Daniel, then head of the New York
office and later also the managing director of McKinsey, on Gupta's behalf. Gupta
began his career in New York before moving to became the head of the
Scandinavian offices in 1981. Elected senior partner in 1984, he became head of
the Chicago office in 1990. In 1994 he was elected the firm's first managing
director (chief executive) born outside of the US, and re-elected twice in 1997
and 2000. After completing three full terms (the maximum allowed, by a rule he
had initiated) and nearly a decade as head of the firm, Gupta became senior
partner in 2003 and retired from McKinsey as senior partner emeritus in
2007. Gupta is widely regarded as one of the first Indians to successfully break
through the glass ceiling, as the first Indian-born CEO of a multinational
corporation.

During Gupta's time as head of McKinsey, the firm opened offices in 23 new
countries and doubled its consultant base. His successor Ian Davis was elected
by "emphasizing the need for a return to the McKinsey heritage." It was also a
time of perceived shifting of standards. Enron, closely identified with McKinsey,
collapsed during Gupta's tenure. During the dot-com bubble he and Anil
Kumar created a program for McKinsey to accept payment from its clients in
stock. Gupta's accountability for the shifting of standards was weighed differently
by different observers.
Over a 34-year career at McKinsey, Gupta directed a number of projects aimed
at helping companies develop new product/market strategies and reorganize for
improved effectiveness and operations capabilities. He has a broad range of
consulting experience with a variety of industries, including telecommunications,
energy, and consumer goods.

While he was managing director Gupta co-founded the Indian School of

Business (ISB) with friend and fellow senior partner Anil Kumar. They have both
since resigned as chairman and executive board director, respectively.

Gupta is still sometimes listed as a senior partner emeritus at McKinsey and

maintained an office, executive assistant, email and phone at the consultancy
after retiring in 2007, though a McKinsey spokesperson was quoted as saying,
"Our firm no longer has a professional relationship with Rajat Gupta.".

Career progression
Year Event
1973 Joins McKinsey
1973-1981 Associate in the New York office
1980 Elected partner
1981-1986 Partner and Head of the Scandinavia office
1984 Elected senior partner
1986-1989 Senior partner in the Chicago office
1989-1994 Senior partner and Head of the Chicago office
1994 Elected managing director
1994-2003 Managing director worldwide
2003-2007 Senior partner
2007 Retires from Mckinsey
2007-present Senior partner emeritus
INDRA NOOYI
Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi is an Indian-born American executive and is
the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo Incorporated. On August
14, 2006, Nooyi was named the successor to Steven Reinemund as chief
executive officer of the company effective October 1, 2006. On February 5, 2007,
she was named chairman of the board, effective May 2, 2007.

She is a Successor Fellow of the Yale Corporation. She serves as a member of

the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum, International Rescue
Committee, Catalyst and the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. She is also a
member of the Board of Trustees of Eisenhower Fellowships, and has served as
Chairperson of the U.S.-India Business Council.

In 2009, Nooyi was considered one of "The TopGun CEOs" by Brendan Wood
International, an advisory agency. In 2010 she was named #1 on Fortune's list of
the "50 Most Powerful Women" and #6 on Forbes' list of the "World's 100 Most
Powerful Women".

EARLY LIFE AND CAREER

Indra Nooyi was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. She completed her
schooling from Holy Angels AIHSS, Chennai. She received a Bachelor's degree
in Physics,Chemistry and Maths from Madras Christian College in 1974 and
a Post Graduate Diploma in Management (MBA) fromIndian Institute of
Management Calcutta in 1976. Beginning her career in India, Nooyi held product
manager positions at Johnson & Johnson and textile firm Mettur Beardsell. She
was admitted toYale School of Management in 1978 and earned a Master's
degree in Public and Private Management. While at Yale, she completed her
summer internship with Booz & Company. Graduating in 1980, Nooyi joined
the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and then held strategy positions
at Motorola and Asea Brown Boveri.

PEPSICO EXECUTIVE
Nooyi joined PepsiCo in 1994 and was named president and CFO in 2001. Nooyi
has directed the company's global strategy for more than a decade and led
PepsiCo's restructuring, including the 1997 divestiture of its restaurants into
Tricon, now known as Yum! Brands. Nooyi also took the lead in the acquisition
of Tropicana in 1998, and merger with Quaker Oats Company, which also
brought Gatorade to PepsiCo. In 2007 she became the fifth CEO in PepsiCo's
44-year history.

According to Business Week, since she started as CFO in 2000, the company's
annual revenues have risen 72%, while net profit more than doubled, to $5.6
billion in 2006.
Nooyi was named on Wall Street Journal's list of 50 women to watch in 2007 and
2008, and was listed among Time's 100 Most Influential People in The World in
2007 and 2008. Forbes named her the #3 most powerful woman in
2008. Fortune ranked her the #1 most powerful woman in business in 2009 and
2010. On the 7th of October 2010 Forbes magazine ranked her the 6th most
powerful woman in the world.

Compensation
While CEO of PepsiCo in 2008, Indra Nooyi earned a total compensation of
$14,917,701, which included a base salary of $1,300,000, a cash bonus of
$2,600,000, stocks granted of $6,428,538, and options granted of $4,382,569.
NEAL KATYAL
Neal Kumar Katyal (born March 12, 1970) is the Acting Solicitor General of the
United States, having succeeded Elena Kagan, who was nominated by
President Barack Obama to replace the retiring Associate U.S. Supreme Court
Justice John Paul Stevens. Katyal was the Paul and Patricia Saunders Professor
of National Security Law at Georgetown University Law Center and the lead
counsel for the Guantanamo Bay detainees in the Supreme Court case Hamdan
v. Rumsfeld, which held that military commissions set up by the Bush
administration to try detainees at Guantanamo Bay "violate both the UCMJ and
the four Geneva Conventions." While serving at the Justice Department, he has
argued numerous Supreme Court cases, including his successful defense (by an
8-1 decision) of the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act of 1965in the
landmark case, Northwest Austin v. Holder.

Biography
Katyal is of Indian descent and was born in the United States to immigrant
parents. His mother is a pediatrician and his father, who died in 2005, was an
engineer. Katyal's sister, Sonia Katyal, is also an attorney; she teaches law
at Fordham University. He was born in a Hindu household and studied at Loyola
Academy, a Jesuit Catholic school in Wilmette, Illinois. He graduated in 1991
from Dartmouth College, where he was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity and
the Dartmouth Forensic Union. In 1991, while a member of the Dartmouth
Forensic Union, he reached the semi-final round of the National Debate
Tournament, college's national championship tournament. and from Yale Law
School in 1995. At Yale, Katyal studied under professor Akhil Amar and
Professor Bruce Ackerman, with whom he published articles in law review and
political opinion journals in 1995 and 1996. After graduating, Katyal clerked for
Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and
then Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.

Katyal served as National Security Adviser in the U.S. Justice Department in

1997-1999, and was commissioned by President Bill Clinton to write a report on
the need for more legal pro bono work. He also served as Vice-President Al
Gore's co-counsel in Bush v. Gore of 2000, and represented the deans of most
major private law schools in Grutter v. Bollinger, the University of
Michigan affirmative-action case that the Supreme Court decided in 2003.

He was named "Lawyer of the Year" by Lawyers USA for 2006, Runner Up for
"Lawyer of the Year" by National Law Journal, one of the top 50 Litigators in the
nation by the American Lawyer Magazine, one of the 30 best living Supreme
Court advocates by Washingtonian Magazine, one of the 90 Greatest Lawyers
over the Last 30 Years by Legal Times, and was awarded the 2004 Pro Bono
Award by the National Law Journal.
He appeared on The Colbert Report on July 26, 2006 and June 17, 2008.

His brother-in-law is Jeffrey Rosen, professor of law at George Washington

University and legal affairs editor of The New Republic.
Dalip Singh Saund

Dalip Singh Saund was a member of the United States House of

Representatives. He served the 29th District of California from January 3, 1957–
January 3, 1963. He was the first Asian American, Indian
American andSikh member of the United States Congress. He is to date the only
Sikh to have served in Congress, though Congressman Martin Hoke (R-OH)
lived as a Sikh for a period of time in the 1970s.

Born in Chhajulwadi, Punjab, India, to a Sikh family, he received his bachelor's

degree in mathematics from the University of Punjab in 1919.

He emigrated to the United States, (via Ellis Island) originally to

study agriculture at the University of California, Berkeley. While at the university,
he obtained a master's degree (1922) and a Ph.D. (1924), both in mathematics.
He thereafter remained in the United States, becoming a successful farmer.

Later, he campaigned to allow "Hindus," as all people of South Asian descent

were called at that time, to become naturalized citizens. After the Luce-Celler
Act was passed in 1946, he applied for naturalization and became an American
citizen in 1949. He ran for election in 1950 as a Justice of the Peace
for Westmoreland township, California, and won the election, but his election
was thrown out as he had been a citizen for less than a year. He later ran again
for the same post and won.

In November 1955, he announced his campaign to run for the House of

Representatives as a Democrat and won an election for an open seat against a
famous Republican aviator, Jacqueline Cochran. He was re-elected twice,
becoming the first Asian American, the first Indian Americanand first member of a
non-Abrahamic faith to be elected to Congress.

In 1960 he wrote an autobiography titled Congressman from India.

In May 1962, he suffered a severe stroke which left him unable to speak at all, or
walk without assistance, thus ending his congressional career.
Nikki Haley
Nimrata Nikki Randhawa Haley (born January 20, 1972) is the 116th and
current Governor of South Carolina. A member of the Republican Party, Haley
represented Lexington County in theSouth Carolina House of
Representatives from 2005 to 2010.
In the 2010 South Carolina gubernatorial election, Haley was endorsed for the
Republican nomination by former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney,
former South Carolina First Lady Jenny Sanford, and former Alaska
Governor Sarah Palin. On June 8, 2010, she finished first in the four-way
Republican primary election with 49% of the vote, but fell short of the 50%
required to avoid a runoff election. Haley won the runoff on June 22 with
65%, and proceeded to win the general election by a 51%-47% margin.
Haley is the first non-white and the first woman to serve as Governor of South
Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country,
after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, she also displaced Jindal as
the youngest current governor in the U.S.

State legislature
Elections
In 2004, she ran for the South Carolina House of Representatives in
the Republican primary against incumbent representative Larry Koon. Koon,
who had served since 1975, was the longest-serving member of the House. In
the primary election, Haley won 40% of the vote (2,247 votes) to Koon's 42%
(2,354 votes), thus forcing a runoff. Her platform was anti-tax and fiscally
conservative with an emphasis on education. In the runoff, Haley won with
54.7% (2,928 votes) of the total. She then ran unopposed for the House seat
as there was no Democratic opponent. She became the first Indian-American
to hold office in South Carolina.
She was reelected in 2006 and 2008.
Tenure
Haley served as secretary of the Medical, Military, Public and Municipal Affairs
committees. She also was elected chairman of the freshman caucus in 2005
and elected as majority whip in the South Carolina General Assembly. She
was the only freshman legislator named to a whip spot.
Awards
 2005 "Friend of the Taxpayer" - South Carolina Association of
Taxpayers
 2006
 "Palmetto Leadership Award" - South Carolina Policy Council (a
limited-government advocacy group)
 "Strom Thurmond Excellence in Public Service and Government
Award" - South Carolina federation of Republican Women
 2009 "Friend of the Taxpayer" - South Carolina Association of
Taxpayers
 2010 "Taxpayer Hero" - South Carolina Club for Growth

2010 campaign for Governor

On May 14, 2009, Haley announced that she would be running for
the Republican nomination for Governor of South Carolina in 2010. On
November 11, 2009, she was endorsed by Jenny Sanford, the incumbent first
lady of South Carolina, as well as former Massachusetts governor and GOP
presidential candidate Mitt Romney. However, she remained in last place
among primary candidates in the polls and also in fundraising until former
Alaska governor and GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin endorsed
her.(citation needed) The Republican gubernatorial primary took place on
June 8, 2010, and Haley captured 49% of the vote, necessitating a runoff
election on June 22. Haley won handily in the runoff vote.
VIVEK KUNDRA

Vivek Kundra (Hindi: िववेक कु ंदा; born October 9,

1974) is the first Chief Information Officer (CIO)
of the United States of America, appointed by
President Obama on March 5, 2009.
He served in Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian
Fenty's cabinet as the Chief Technology
Officer for the District and, before that, as Virginia's Assistant
Secretary of Commerce and Technology in Governor Tim
Kaine's cabinet.

Professional recognition
In May 2011, Kundra was selected by EMC Corporation for their
Data Hero Visionary Award for his pioneering work under the
Obama Administration to reform how the Federal government
manages and uses information technology. EMC states that,
"Kundra has led the nation to seek innovative solutions to lower
the cost of government operations, while exploring ways to
fundamentally change the way the public sector and the public
interact."
In March 2011, Kundra was selected by the World Economic
Forum as a Young Global Leader for his professional
accomplishments, commitment to society and potential to
contribute to shaping the future of the world.
Kundra was awarded the 2010 National Cyber Security
Leadership Award by the SANS Institute for uncovering more
than $300 million each year in wasted federal spending on
ineffective certification and accreditation reporting and
demonstrating an alternative approach called "continuous
monitoring" that provides more effective security for federal
systems at lower costs.
Kundra was named Chief of the Year on December 21, 2009,
by InformationWeek for driving unprecedented change in
federal IT.

IT DASHBOARD
On June 30, 2009 at the Personal Democracy Forum in New
York, Vivek Kundra, unveiled the IT Dashboard that tracks over
$76 billion in federal IT spending. The IT Dashboard is part
ofUSASpending.gov to track all government spending. The IT
Dashboard is designed to provide CIOs of individual
government agencies, the public and agency leaders
unprecedented visibility into the operations and performance of
Federal IT investments, and the ability to provide and receive
direct feedback to those directly accountable. In January 2010,
Kundra followed up the work on the IT Dashboard with TechStat
accountability sessions. These sessions are designed to
turnaround, halt or terminate at-risk and failing IT projects in the
federal government. It allows agency CIOs, CFOs, and other
key stakeholders to find solutions for IT projects that are over
budget, behind schedule, or under-performing.

CLOUD COMPUTING
Kundra launched the Federal Government strategy and
the cloud computing portal Apps.gov at NASA’s Ames
Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., on Sept. 15,
2009. Apps.gov is a new service provided by the GSA where
federal agencies can subscribe to IT services. Kundra saw the
cloud as an alternative to hardware investments, as means to
reduce IT costs, and to shift focus of federal IT from
infrastructure management to strategic projects. This initiative
aims to use commercially derived technologies in order to
promote software tools, vast data storage and data sharing, and
to foster collaboration across all federal agencies. Howard
Schmidt, White House cybersecurity coordinator, will work
closely with the Federal CIO and CTO with respect to cloud
initiatives and has the responsibility of orchestrating all
cybersecurity activities across the government.