Rank #754
Romesh T. Wadhwani
Net worth $5.5B
Software · United States
- Born
- Aug 25, 1947
- Age
- 78
- Source
- Software
- Residence
- Palo Alto, California
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 1
- Education
- Doctorate, Carnegie Mellon University; Master of Science, Carnegie Mellon University; Bachelor of Arts/Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Net worth over time
Biography
- Romesh Wadhwani is chairman of Symphony AI, an enterprise AI firm with operations in retail, financial services and manufacturing that he founded in 2017.
- He stepped down as CEO of SymphonyAI at the start of 2022.
- He is also chairman of ConcertAI, an AI company focused on healthcare and life sciences that was valued at $1.9 billion by venture capital investors in 2022.
- Wadhwani first became a billionaire in 2000 after i2 Technologies acquired Aspect Development, a software firm he founded, for $9.3 billion in stock.
- Raised in India, Wadhwani first studied at the Indian Institute of Technology, then got a PhD in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1972.
- Born in present day Pakistan, Wadhwani was only a few days old when his parents fled to India as the British Indian Empire underwent partition.
- He and his brother, Sunil, founded the Wadhwani Institute of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Mumbai in 2018, committing over $30 million in support.