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.