
Anil Kshirsagar
Vice
President, Global Strategic Initiatives, TIBCO Software Inc.
Anil founded
TIBCO/India in 2004 in Pune. TIBCO/India, a branch of the publicly traded
company TIBCO Software, Inc (www.tibco.com)
in the US, founded in mid-'80s by Vivek Ranadive. Currently Anil works
with TIBCO's Top 50 customers from the Global 500 companies in the world.
During the almost 8 year tenure with TIBCO, Anil has held a variety of
customer facing roles, leading the best technical teams that not only made
strategic customers and partnerships successful but also provided an
innovation engine for new products for the company.
Prior to TIBCO,
Anil founded an internet based startup company to build ecommerce
marketplaces. Using these ideas, while working with TIBCO's products he
lead the development of SAP's first MarketPlace in 1999. Previously, during
his tenure of over 15 years with Ford Motor Company and subsidiaries, Anil
led several strategic IT initiatives for the company including state of the
art engineering applications; Unix based engineering workstations; data
center operations; conversion of legacy infrastructure to state of the art
networks, systems and enterprise applications.
Anil is the
founding President of IIT Bombay Alumni Association (IIT Bombay Heritage
Fund - www.iitbombay.org).
He co-founded the association in 1996 with the help of a dozen volunteers
who have created one of the most dynamic alumni organizations of all Indian
universities. He has been instrumental in the IIT alumni movement in the
US. The contributions of the alumni association include creation of 9
chapters in the US, web-based alumni services, sponsorship of 3 new schools
at IIT, creation of a Faculty Academic Network to assist IIT in building a
strong research orientation, and upgrading student hostels & gymkhana
facilities. Anil is one of the key officers that created the PanIIT
organization (www.iit.org)
to help the IIT system achieve world class status.
Anil holds a B.
Tech. from IIT Bombay, MS & MBA from State University of New York.