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Anand Deshpande
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- Technology
- Industry
- Technology
- Residence
- Pune
- Education
- Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India (Bachelor of Technology)Indiana University - Bloomington (Ph.D)
- Marital Status
- Married
- Children
- 2
Assets
- Persistent Systems46,012,000 shares @ --533179-IN
Biography
Anand Deshpande is chairman and managing director of software firm Persistent Systems, headquartered in Pune.
He started the company in 1990 as a database firm, pooling $21,000 from his savings and borrowings from his father and some friends.
Persistent gets the bulk of its revenue from North America and the remaining from India; Europe and the rest of the world.
It provides digital engineering and data and artificial intelligence products to the software, banking, financial services and healthcare sectors.
About
He loves reading non-fiction books, mostly biographies and tech books.