Rangarajan Mohan Kumaramangalam

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{{short description|Indian politician (b. 1978)}}
{{Infobox Indian politician
| name = Rangarajan Mohan Kumaramangalam
| president =[[All India Professionals Congress]] Tamil Nadu, [[Tamil Nadu Congress Committee]]
| image = Mohan kumaramangalam3.jpg
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1978|07|06}}
| nationality =Indian
| residence =[[Salem district|Salem]], District, Tamil Nadu
| party =[[Indian National Congress]]
| parents =[[Rangarajan Kumaramangalam]](father), Kitty Kumaramangalam(mother)
| relations =[[Mohan Kumaramangalam]](Grand father),<br/>[[P. Subbarayan]](Great Grand father),<br/>[[Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam]],<br/>[[Parvathi Krishnan]],<br/>Gopal Kumaramangalam
| spouse = Amrita Kumaramangalam
| children = 2 Sons
| website = http://www.mohankumaramangalam.in
}}
'''Rangarajan Mohan Kumaramangalam''' (born 6 July 1978) is an Indian politician and businessman. He is one of the working presidents of [[Tamil Nadu Congress Committee|Tamil Nadu Congress Committee.]] He serves as President of All India Professionals' Congress-Tamilnadu and member of [[All India Congress Committee]].

==Early life==
Kumaramangalam was born in [[Kongu Vellalar]] Community, [[Chennai]] in 1978. He attended [[Don Bosco Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Chennai|Don Bosco School]] in [[Egmore]] until age six, when he moved to Delhi when his father, [[Rangarajan Kumaramangalam|Pharindranath Rangarajan Kumaramangalam]], won the [[Salem (Lok Sabha constituency)|Salem]] parliamentary seat. In Delhi, he attended [[Springdales School]] after which he moved to DPS R.K. Puram. On completion of his schooling, he attended [[Illinois Institute of Technology]] where he graduated with a Bachelors in Engineering in Computer Science.

== Career ==
=== Technology ===
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 Mobile|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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://myneta.info/ls2014/candidate.php?candidate_id=7184|title=Rangarajan Mohan Kumaramangalam(Indian National Congress(INC)):Constituency- SALEM(TAMIL NADU) - Affidavit Information of Candidate|website=myneta.info|access-date=2019-05-09}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://myneta.info/ls2014/candidate.php?candidate_id=7184&scan=original|title=Rangarajan Mohan Kumaramangalam(Indian National Congress(INC)):Constituency- SALEM(TAMIL NADU) - Affidavit Information of Candidate|website=myneta.info|access-date=2019-05-09}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nocorruption.in/politician/rangarajan-mohan-kumaramangalam/|title=Rangarajan Mohan Kumaramangalam Contestant for 2014 Loksabha of Salem Tamil Nadu contact address & email|website=nocorruption.in|language=en|access-date=2019-05-09}}</ref>
===Politics===
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 [[Indian National Congress|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 [[Tamilnadu Pradesh Congress Committee|Tamil Nadu Pradesh Congress Committee]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dtnext.in/News/TamilNadu/2019/02/17064607/1107126/5-working-presidents-to-oversee-Congress-functioning-.vpf|title=5 working presidents to oversee Congress functioning in State|last=100010509524078|date=2019-02-17|website=dtNext.in|language=en|access-date=2019-05-09}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/banking-on-kumaramangalam-family-legacy/article5816037.ece|title=Banking on Kumaramangalam family legacy}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/Im-more-than-my-surname-Mohan-Kumaramangalam/articleshow/33048604.cms|title=I'm more than my surname: Mohan Kumaramangalam}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://tamil.oneindia.com/news/chennai/mohan-kumaramangalam-becomes-congress-working-president-tamilnadu-340555.html|title=அடுத்த அதிரடி.. தமிழக காங்கிரஸ் கட்சிக்கு மேலும் ஒரு துணைத் தலைவர் நியமனம்!}}</ref>

== Elections ==
{|class="sortable wikitable"
|-
!width=150|Elections
!width=100|Constituency
!width=70|Party
!width=70|Result
!width=70|Vote percentage
!width=100|Opposition Candidate
!width=70|Opposition Party
!width=70|Opposition vote percentage
|- style="background:#ffc;"

|[[2014 Indian general election]]||[[Salem (Lok Sabha constituency)|Salem]]||[[Indian National Congress|INC]] ||Lost|| 4.04||[[V. Panneerselvam]]||[[AIADMK]]||48.36<ref name="eci.nic.in">http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/archiveofge2014/33%20-%20Constituency%20wise%20detailed%20result.pdf</ref>
|- style="background:#cfc;"
|}

==Personal life==
Rangarajan Mohan Kumaramangalam married Amrita Kumaramangalam. They have two children.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/Bahurani-from-Lucknow-charms-Tamil-Nadu-voters/articleshow/34024802.cms|title='Bahurani' from Lucknow charms Tamil Nadu voters - Times of India|website=The Times of India|access-date=2019-05-09}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
*{{official|http://mohankumaramangalam.in}}

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