Portrait of Anand Deshpande

Rank #1686

Anand Deshpande

Net worth $2.5B

Technology · India

Born
May 01, 1962
Age
64
Source
Technology
Residence
Pune
Citizenship
India
Marital status
Married
Children
2
Education
Bachelor of Technology, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India; Ph.D, Indiana University - Bloomington

Net worth over time

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.
  • He loves reading non-fiction books, mostly biographies and tech books.

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