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Academic Background
- Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering - Manipal, Karnataka
- Masters in Computer Science - Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
- Advanced Management Programme - Harvard University, Boston
· Intel : 1986- 1991
Rajeev Chandrasekhar was a Senior Technology professional in the Silicon Valley between 1985 and 1991 at the worlds leading Technology Company.
· Intel Inc – Senior Design Engineer of the team that designed and launched 32 bit 80486 microprocessor.
· Intel Inc – CPU architect in the Pentium team. He was a member of the team that 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 was one of pioneers to invest in and build the Indian Telecom sector. Over the last 12 years Rajeev has been a widely recognized and key active participant/contributor in the development of the Indian Telecom sector from a government monopoly dominated one to a vibrant success in the Indian infrastructure sector. The Indian Telecom sector is widely recognized as one of the successes of private entrepreneurship in Infrastructure sector.
BPL Mobile, the company and franchise he built was one of the pre-eminent Indian cellular franchises which were acquired in 2005 in what was then the largest domestic M&A transaction in India.
· 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 companies focusing on infrastructure and technology ventures, Media and Aviation, for the future.
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