10 Most Successful IITians in America

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Dipchand "Deep" Nishar

IIT-Kharagpur

Dipchand "Deep" Nishar, Senior Vice President of Products and User Experience at LinkedIn, was recently in news for emerging as one among the top paid managers at LinkedIn.

Deepak previously worked for Google, as the Senior Director of Product Management, handling product development in the Asia-Pacific region. He left the organization in the year 2008 and joined LinkedIn as the vice president of product strategy. On his appointment, Kay Luo, a spokesperson for the company said, “We wanted to find someone who knows how to build a large organization, but also has an entrepreneurial background,”

Nishar holds 3 patents and was also honoured with the Google Founders Award for his work on the Google Ads System Automation.