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Dilip Ittyera

A die-hard Entrepreneur & Evangelist with hands-on involvement in many startups & a quarter century of experiences - dropouts, failures & a string of pioneering innovations. Specialties: Startups, Innovation, Evangelism

Headline: Entrepreneur
Work status: Living The Dream
Industries: Computing, Education, Entertainment, Financial, Gaming, Health, Information Technology, Internet, Lifestyle, Media, Real Estate, Retail, Sports, Travel
Skills: Business, Design, Engineering, English, Entrepreneurship, Languages, Leadership, Management, Negotiation, Recruitment, Software Engineering
Location: Pune
Groups: Entrepreneurship Cell at IIT Bombay
Interested in: Advising startups, Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding experts, Finding team mates, Getting press, Giving back, Growing my group, Helping friends, Helping members of my groups, Internships, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Partnering with other groups, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Providing services to startups, Raising money, Receiving feedback, Recruiting, Recruiting for my startup
Tags: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, product innovation network, startups

FEATURED STARTUP

Aikon Labs

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Aikon Labs helps Realize Ideas within Enterprise, Academic & Research communities through our Idea Management solution, built using Social Networking technologies and built-in BPM, DM etc and provisioned on a SaaS model.

  • Startup type: Company
  • Status: Active
  • Stage: Growth

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Hexaware and Aptech
Position: AVP - Head of BU / Country Operations
Description: Prior to Zensar, Dilip held key senior management positions at Hexaware and Aptech & setup their operations in the United Arab Emirates.

Employer: Calkey Technologies Inc.
Position: Head - Engineering
Description: He has been involved with various startups in his career including an assignment was with Calkey Technologies Inc., a Silicon Valley start-up, focused on software engineering products, where he led the Engineering group in Fremont and was also the Head of their India operations.

Employer: Zensar Technologies
Position: Vice President - CTO & Chief Innovation Evangelist
Time period: July 2001 - April 2007
Description: His responsibilities include leading & evangelizing all innovation initiatives at Zensar. This includes taking to market Zensar's Global Delivery Platform (GDP) & a new business model around it.
He joined Zensar around six years ago as the Chief Technology Officer & pioneered the development of Zensar’s Solution BluePrint (SBP) framework & methodology which is a key differentiator that has won marquee customers for Zensar. He was then mandated with the responsibility of building a business offering services using SBP and this led to the setting up of a new Strategic Business Unit (SBU) providing services in three key areas:
- Product Engineering Services to ISV & OEMs
- Application Modernization Services including Re-Engineering, Migration, Porting & EAI
- Embedded & Systems Software services including Mobile, Networking & Systems applications
The SBU grew to around USD14Million (17% of total revenues) in the very first year of operations & was around USD25Million the next year.

Employer: IT services startup
Position: Founding Director
Time period: December 1985

INFORMATION

Memberships: Dilip is a member of the IEEE

Dilip's Startups (2)

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  • Aikon Labs LLC

    Product Innovation Network

  • Aikon Labs

    Aikon Labs helps Realize Ideas within Enterprise, Academic & Research communities through our Idea Management solution, built using Social Networking technologies and built-in BPM, DM etc and provisioned on a SaaS model.

Dilip's Contacts (5)

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  • Rajesh Patil

    An inspiring technical leader and IT manager with extensive experience in software development, quality assurance and high-tech operations with more than 9 years of experience building state of art IT solutions facilitating corporate growth.

  • R R Dasgupta

    Inspired by people and technology I have spent the better part of 25 years of my professional life working in the ICT industry. With an entree of errors, a huge main course of significant and diverse experiences and some generous accolades as dessert

  • Prashant Garchar

    working with Bharti Airtel as a TM, MBA in Marketing & Information System, Interned at Tata Chemicals Ltd.

  • venkatesh ramamoorthy

    Indian, Entrepreneur Business Administration graduate - Passionate about Web Applications and portal development. Want to be an internet entrepreneur and make a portal pair with Google,yahoo kind of stuff. New passion agriculture entrepreneurship