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He is also the founder and CEO of C-SAM, Inc , Inc, and serves as a director on the board of Jet Airways . He has served as an advisor to the United Nations and in 1992, his biography was published, which was a bestseller. EARLY LIFE Sam Pitroda was born in India in the town of Titlagarh, Orissa . After completing a Masters in Physics from Maharaja Sayajirao University in Vadodara he went to the US and did his Masters in Electrical Engineering from Illinois Institute Of Technology in Chicago. He went on to found Wescom Switching. When Wescom was acquired by Rockwell International , where Mr. Pitroda became a Vice President. In 1983, he also designed his own computer-themed card game called Compucards which used binary numbers (1, 2, 4, 8...) instead of decimal and had a computer bug as the joker. The equivalent of a king in a regular deck of cards was the 'Programmer' that bore an uncanny resemblance to Mr. Pitroda himself. In 1984, Mr. Pitroda returned to India and founded the Center for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) under the Indian government. In 1987, he became advisor to the then Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi and was responsible for shaping India's foreign and domestic telecommunications policies. He is largely considered responsible for the telecommunications revolution in India and specifically, the ubiquitous, yellow-signed Public Call Offices (PCO) that quickly brought cheap and easy domestic and international public telephones all over the country. Mr. Pitroda has lived in Chicago, Illinois since 1964, with his wife and two children. EXTERNAL LINKS
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