J A Chowdary

J A Chowdary is the founding director of STPIs at Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai.[1] He is the current IT Advisor and Special Chief Secretary to the Chief Minister, Government of Andhra Pradesh.[2][3][4]

J A Chowdary
Born (1955-02-18) 18 February 1955
Bathalapalle, Anantapur
NationalityIndian
Alma materIIT Madras
OccupationIT Advisor and Special Chief Secretary to Chief Minister, Government of Andhra Pradesh

Early life

Chowdary was born on 18 February 1955. He hails from Bathalapalle, a village in the Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh.

He started his career at ISRO as a scientist, where he was involved in designing telemetry subsystems for Bhaskara, Rohini and Aryabhata.

He has worked at BHEL, where he contributed towards developing mechanisms that would facilitate online monitoring of pollution levels, and process control instruments for BHEL power stations.

Chowdary is an M.Tech in Solid State Electronics from IIT Chennai and an M.Sc from SK University.

Roles in IT and business

In the 1990s. Chowdary was credited as 'one of the key architects' of the HITEC City and Cyberabad in Hyderabad and in founding IIIT at Hyderabad and IIDT at Tirupati.[5]

Chowdary is a co-founder of PortalPlayer which is acquired by Nvidia in 2007. He led the development of the chip that went into the first generation of iPod. He is also a co-founder and board member at Hyderabad Angels.[6]

Chowdary has been in the roles of Chairman, Industry Development Forum for AP; Co-Chairman, FICCI (Telangana and Andhra Pradesh); President, ADI Foundation (Anantapur Development Initiative) and President, Food 360 Foundation.

Awards and honours

Chowdary has won the "Meritorious Invention Award" from NRDC, Govt. of India, HMA Award of excellence "for promoting the Indian IT Industry", HYSEA Award of excellence "for promoting the IT industry in Andhra Pradesh" and Award of excellence from the Telugu Association of the state of Texas in the United States.[7][8]

See also

References
  1. "J A Chowdary - Partner @ StartupXseed Ventures". Crunchbase. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  2. Reddem, Appaji (29 December 2015). "Priority for creation of jobs for youth, says J.A. Chowdary". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  3. "Budget thrust can prove transformative for Andhra: J A Chowdary, Chief Secy, Govt of APVoice&Data". www.voicendata.com. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  4. writer, A staff (7 July 2017). "Andhra Pradesh has created an ecosystem for fintech success: J.A. Chowdary". livemint.com/. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  5. indiainfoline.com. "Mr. JA Chowdary, Managing Director, NVIDIA Graphics India & President, TiE, Hyderabad". Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  6. "J. A. Chowdary: Executive Profile & Biography - Bloomberg". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  7. "J. A. Chowdary (Past President) | HYSEA". hysea.in. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  8. "Mr JA Chowdary is being honoured with the "VISISHTA PURASKAARAM" Award by the Dr. Ramineni Foundation, for his outstanding contribution to the growth of IT industry in AP | TalentSprint". www.talentsprint.com. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
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