Atul Chitnis

Current

Chief Products Officer and Senior Vice President at Geodesic Ltd.
Investor and Strategic Advisor at RadioVeRVe
Founder & Project Lead at FOSS.IN

Consulting Technologist at Atul Chitnis Associates

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Past

Member, Project Review and Steering Group at Department of Information Technology, Government of India
CTO at Exocore Consulting
Contributing Editor at PCQuest @ Cyber Media India Ltd.

Partner at C&B Consulting
CTO at ARB Constellation Pvt. Ltd.
Developer at Computact

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Education

Gogte Institute of Technology
GSS College, Belgaum
Belgaum Military School

Peter Witte Schule, Berlin, Germany

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Recommended

15 people have recommended Atul

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Atul Chitnis’s Summary

A serial entrepreneur and irrationally committed products guy since the mid 1980s, focused on Mobile Computing, Internet, Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), online communities and entertainment technologies, and likes to get the word out about them.

Single-minded objective - change the way people experience technology products.

To find out more, search the web for "Atul Chitnis".

Atul Chitnis’s Specialties:

Technology market enabling, product design, branding and positioning, technology identification and validation, crystal-ball gazing, public speaking and writing

Atul Chitnis’s Experience

Chief Products Officer and Senior Vice President

Geodesic Ltd.

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

2006 — Present (3 years)

Responsible for Geodesic's overall retail and enterprise products vision, design and management, working with all operational areas within the company to ensure that Geodesic's products continue to meet and exceed customer and industry expectations in quality, usability and innovation.

Successes include the conception and productization of several products, including the award winning Mundu Radio (a ground breaking Internet Radio client for mobile devices), Mundu IM (the world's leading mobile instand messaging client), and Mundu IM for the iPhone, among other ground-breaking products.

Geodesic is active in the Communication and Collaboration Technologies field, with focus on the mobile computing sector.

More information about Geodesic can be found at http://www.geodesic.com.
Investor and Strategic Advisor

RadioVeRVe

(Music industry)

2006 — Present (3 years)

RadioVeRVe is India's first true Internet Radio station dedicated to Independent Music from India. It's objective is to showcase artists from India whose music has not yet been published by any major publishing firm, making them visible to audiences and publishers world-wide.

More information can be found at http://radioverve.com
Founder & Project Lead

FOSS.IN

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2001 — Present (8 years)

FOSS.IN (previously known as "Linux Bangalore") is India's largest Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) conference and one of the largest in the world, bringing together thousands of participants from across India and the rest of the world. It expands on the scope of the previous Linux Bangalore events. The event is supported by industry, governments and academia.

Unlike similar conferences, FOSS.IN focuses on development, technology and contribution to FOSS, and not on advocacy.

More information can be found at http://foss.in
Consulting Technologist

Atul Chitnis Associates

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

1994 — Present (15 years)

Advise organisations and governments on technological matters, primarily in the field of mobile computing technologies, Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and technology communities. Also help technology companies position their products, provide evaluations of market perceptions and help seed new markets.
Member, Project Review and Steering Group

Department of Information Technology, Government of India

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2004 — 2008 (4 years)

Oversees several projects run by the Department of Information Technology, Government of India, including Free and Open Source Software and Intellectual Property related projects.
CTO

Exocore Consulting

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1999 — 2006 (7 years)

Exocore Consulting is active in the fields of networking, open source solutions, technology identification and adoption, mobile computing, etc.

Responsibilities included interaction with Exocore's clients in matters related to data networking, computing strategies, office automation and migration to Open Source technologies.

Successes included deployment of some of the earliest computing clusters in India, building national and international networks for clients, developing and deploying indigenous operational systems for ISPs, helping cellular telephony operators to streamline technology operations, and helping India's first commodity exchange bootstrap.
Contributing Editor

PCQuest @ Cyber Media India Ltd.

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

1995 — 2002 (7 years)

PC Quest is one of India's foremost technology magazines. Association with the magazine began in January 1993, writing the technology column COMversations for the publication. In 1995, was invited to be a contributing editor for the magazine.

While with PCQuest, conceived and kicked off the PCQuest Linux Initiative, and led the team that created the annual Linux cover CD for the publication, which exposed hundreds of thousands of budding engineers to Linux and Open Source. The team conceived, created and mastered the annual CD, wrote most supporting articles for these special issues and provided write-in support for thousands of readers.
Partner

C&B Consulting

(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

1994 — 1999 (5 years)

C&B Consulting provided consulting services in networking solutions.

Work involved understanding client requirements and recommending solutions, then overseeing their implementation.

C&B Consulting was incorporated in 1999 to form Exocore Consulting.
CTO

ARB Constellation Pvt. Ltd.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

1986 — 1994 (8 years)

ARB Constellation (formerly Constellation Software) pioneered data communication solutions in India, developed corporate datanetworking solutions, and ran India's first ever online service.

Responsibilities involved identifying datacommunication solutions for clients, as well as developing them.

ARB Constellation evolved out of Constellation Software, a company founded in 1986 to develop PC-based application software.

In 1989, conceived and developed the award-winning CyberNet, India's first datacommunication product, which was deployed extensively by companies such as Asea Brown Boveri (ABB), Associated Cement Companies (ACC), Indian Aluminium (Indal), etc.

Set up India's first ever online communication service called CiX, that became the starting point for thousands of Indians dipping their toes into the online world.
Developer

Computact

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

1985 — 1986 (1 year)

Computact developed database-oriented business applications for companies in the Gulf. Responsibilities included designing and developing enterprise applications, focusing on material management systems.

Atul Chitnis’s Education

Gogte Institute of Technology

BE , Mechanical Engineering , 1981 — 1985
GSS College, Belgaum

UnderGrad , June 1978 — March 1981
Belgaum Military School

Highschool , June 1972 — April 1978
Peter Witte Schule, Berlin, Germany

1969 — 1972

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Atul Chitnis’s Interests:

mobile computing, networking, open source, linux, entertainment technologies, education, egovernance, teamwork, digital photography, PDA, wireless, music, reading, science fiction, software, innovation, product design, user experience