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Ashok Soota

India 83 years old Self-Made

Overview

Source of Wealth
software services
Industry
Technology
Residence
Bangalore
Education
Asian Institute of Management (Master of Business Administration)
IIT, Roorkee (Bachelor of Engineering)
Marital Status
Single

Assets

  • Happiest Minds Technologies Limited
    78,000,000 shares @ -
    -
    543227-IN

Biography

IT veteran Ashok Soota gets his wealth from a majority stake in Bangalore-based tech firm Happiest Minds Technologies.

Soota worked at fellow billionaire Azim Premji's software giant Wipro before striking out on his own with IT provider Mindtree.

Mindtree was acquired by engineering firm Larsen & Toubro in a hostile takeover in 2019.

Soota moved out of Mindtree in 2011 to set up Happiest Minds that same year, along with nine cofounders. He took it public in 2020.

In April 2021, he launched Scientific Knowledge for Ageing and Neurological Ailments (SKAN), a nonprofit organization focused on medical research related to aging and neurological disorders.

About

Soota is on the board of governors of his alma mater, the Asian Institute Management in the Philippines.

He loves yoga, taichi and trekking.