U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke announced members of the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Members of the council include serial entrepreneurs, university presidents, investors and non-profit leaders. Steve Case, Mary Sue Coleman, and Desh Deshpande (alumni of IITM) will serve as Co-Chairs.

This council of members will support President Obama's innovation strategy by helping to develop policies that foster entrepreneurship and identifying new ways to take great ideas from the lab to the marketplace to drive economic growth and create jobs.

Dr. Deshpande holds a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology - Madras, an M.E. in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Brunswick in Canada, and Ph.D. in Data Communications from Queens University in Canada.

Gururaj Deshpande is the Chairman of Sycamore Networks, Tejas Networks, A123 Systems, Sandstone Capital and HiveFire. He is a founding investor and Board member of Airvana.

He and his wife are involved in several non-profit initiatives that include support for MIT, IIT, TiE, Akshaya Patra Foundation, Public Health Foundation of India and the Social Entrepreneurship Sandbox in India.

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