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Name

Bharat Desai

Primary Residence

Fisher Island, Florida

Education

Bachelor of Arts/Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay | Master of Business Administration, University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business

Citizenship

United States

Affiliated Companies

Syntel Inc.

Forbes Self Made Score

Source Of Wealth

IT consulting, Self Made

Net Worth

$1,400,000,000

Forbes Profile

https://www.forbes.com/profile/bharat-desai

Forbes 2019 Billionaires List Rank:

1605

Forbes List Rank One: Title

#1605 Billionaires 2019

Forbes List Rank One: Link

https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/

Forbes List Rank Two: Title

#274 Forbes 400 2016

Forbes List Rank Two: Link

https://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/

Forbes List Rank Three: Link

https://www.forbes.com/richest-in-tech/

Summary

Bharat Desai founded IT consulting and outsourcing company Syntel with his wife Neerja Sethi from their apartment in Troy, Michigan. In July 2018, French IT firm Atos SE agreed to buy Syntel for $3.4 billion. The deal is expected to close by the end of 2018.In its first year, Syntel generated just $30,000 in sales; today the company has more than $900 million in revenue.Desai, who is Syntel's chairman, was born in Kenya, raised in India and came to the U.S. in 1976 as a programmer for Tata.

Did you know?

Desai and Sethi started the company with just $2,000. The couple met in the U.S. while working for pioneering IT firm, Tata Consulting Services, the company they went on to emulate.

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Number of Children

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharat_Desai