Bangalore, Apr 29 (PTI) After Satya Nadella, Manipal
University is celebrating another alumni's rise to the global
boardroom, Rajeev Suri, who has been appointed as the CEO of
Finnish firm Nokia.
Both Nadella and Suri are graduates in Electronics and
Communications at the Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT),
Manipal University.
Suri was tipped to take over as the CEO when Nokia
finalised sale of its mobile handset business to software
giant Microsoft.
"Satya is just a year senior to Suri at MIT. Both went
through the same grind and walked through the same corridors.
Today, both are heading top companies of the world clearly
indicating that MIT is as good an engineering institute as any
in the world," the institute said on its website.
In February, Microsoft had announced that Nadella will
become the third CEO (after founder Bill Gates and Steve
Ballmer) of the organisation that sells the world's most
popular computer operating system.
"Satya and Suri provide strong testimony to the fact that
at MIT the emphasis is on holistic development of students.
Students who leave the portals of this engineering institute
are quality products. Therefore, it is no coincidence or
accident that these two MITians have made it big," MIT
Director Vinod V Thomas said.
The overjoyed director quipped that two of the top
Fortune 500 companies being led by MIT alumni is indeed a
noteworthy achievement.
Simantika Mohapatra, a sixth semester student of E&C
said, "Year 2014 will, perhaps, be the most rewarding year
with two MITians reaching the zeniths of their career. He has
set a goal for all of us at MIT."
Another student at the institute, Shashank Sarbada, said
it was "most motivating" to know that the former students of
MIT are scaling such heights.
"It will make us strive to match, if not surpass, the
footprints of our seniors," he said.
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