Rangarajan Mohan Kumaramangalam

In 1999, he returned to India to start his own venture, an early private internet service provider, Sampark Online. He received funding from angel investors in Santa Monica and India and corporate investors including telecom manufacturer Alcatel and France Telecom. Subsequent to this venture, he worked in startups before consulting with AT Kearney. He then joined a small group of technologists in ICICI Bank in 2002 where together they created the roadmap for ICICI Bank's technology adoption.

In 2004 he joined MIT Sloan School of Management to pursue an MBA in entrepreneurship and finance. He was among three awardees in his class of the Mckinsey Scholarship at Sloan School of Management. At Sloan, he chaired the India-China investment conference and led a small team of students to win the Regional Kauffman Venture Capital Investment Competition. He worked with Nokia Ventures to explore investments in new technologies and after graduating joined Microsoft as a product manager.

In his five years at Microsoft, Mohan had four jobs, working in product marketing, product planning and product implementation, all on the Windows Phone and IPhone platforms. He was judged in the top 1% of all employees in both technical and marketing roles.[1][2][3]

In 2011, Mohan returned to India to enter politics. He contested a youth Congress election in Salem and lost by a small margin to a local incumbent. He then worked as a youth Congress office bearer for five years, first in the district and then as a state general secretary. In 2014, he contested general election from the constituency of Salem on a Congress ticket and lost to the challenger from AIADMK. He began working in his constituency on youth sports, water conservation and education. He became President of the Salem District Athletics Association and In 2017 was appointed President of the Tamil Nadu Professionals Congress. He is serving as the working president of Tamil Nadu Pradesh Congress Committee.[4][5][6][7]