Rajiv Kumar Bapna is the founder of Amkette, first-ever domestic manufacturer of floppy
diskettes
A floppy disk or floppy diskette (casually referred to as a floppy, a diskette, or a disk) is a type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of a magnetic storage medium in a square or nearly square plastic enclosure lined with a ...
in
India
India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...
. He completed his bachelor's degree in electronics engineering from the prestigious
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (BITS-Pilani). After his brief stint at the Department of Electronics, he moved to the Middle East where he headed the technology division of Citibank for West Asian markets as the Vice-President of Information Technology.
He returned to India in 1985 and started
Amkette in 1986.
Amkette later diversified into other hardware products including game controllers, EvoTV range, audio, wireless and other computer products.
References
External links
A tribute to the people who have helped turn the Indian IT dream into reality, Dec 2002
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani alumni
Businesspeople from Delhi