Rangarajan Mohan Kumaramangalam | |
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| President | All India Professionals Congress Tamil Nadu, Tamil Nadu Congress Committee |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 6 July 1978 |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Political party | Indian National Congress |
| Spouse(s) | Amrita Kumaramangalam |
| Relations | Mohan Kumaramangalam(Grand father), P. Subbarayan(Great Grand father), Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam, Parvathi Krishnan, Gopal Kumaramangalam |
| Children | 2 Sons |
| Parent(s) | Rangarajan Kumaramangalam(father), Kitty Kumaramangalam(mother) |
| Residence | Salem, District, Tamil Nadu |
| 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. 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 School in Egmore until age six, when he moved to Delhi when his father, Pharindranath Rangarajan Kumaramangalam, won the 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 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]
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 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]
Elections
| Elections | Constituency | Party | Result | Vote percentage | Opposition Candidate | Opposition Party | Opposition vote percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 Indian general election | Salem | INC | Lost | 4.04 | V. Panneerselvam | AIADMK | 48.36[8] |
Personal life
Rangarajan Mohan Kumaramangalam married Amrita Kumaramangalam. They have two children.[9]
References
- ↑ "Rangarajan Mohan Kumaramangalam(Indian National Congress(INC)):Constituency- SALEM(TAMIL NADU) - Affidavit Information of Candidate". myneta.info. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
- ↑ "Rangarajan Mohan Kumaramangalam(Indian National Congress(INC)):Constituency- SALEM(TAMIL NADU) - Affidavit Information of Candidate". myneta.info. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
- ↑ "Rangarajan Mohan Kumaramangalam Contestant for 2014 Loksabha of Salem Tamil Nadu contact address & email". nocorruption.in. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
- ↑ 100010509524078 (17 February 2019). "5 working presidents to oversee Congress functioning in State". dtNext.in. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
{{cite web}}:|last=has numeric name (help) - ↑ "Banking on Kumaramangalam family legacy".
- ↑ "I'm more than my surname: Mohan Kumaramangalam".
- ↑ "அடுத்த அதிரடி.. தமிழக காங்கிரஸ் கட்சிக்கு மேலும் ஒரு துணைத் தலைவர் நியமனம்!".
- ↑ http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/archiveofge2014/33%20-%20Constituency%20wise%20detailed%20result.pdf
- ↑ "'Bahurani' from Lucknow charms Tamil Nadu voters - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
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