Bharat Desai
Chairman and Co-founder, Syntel
$1.56B
as of 10/04/24
About Bharat Desai
Bharat Desai founded IT consulting and outsourcing company Syntel with his wife Neerja Sethi from their apartment in Troy, Michigan in 1980.
In 2018 French IT firm Atos SE acquired Syntel for $3.4 billion in cash.
Atos sued Desai, accusing him of hiding liabilities ahead of the merger; the case was dismissed in 2023.
In its first year, Syntel generated just $30,000 in sales; before it was acquired, annual revenue grew to more than $900 million.
Desai, who was Syntel's chairman, was born in Kenya, raised in India and came to the U.S. in 1976 as a programmer for Tata.
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United States of AmericaSource of wealth
IT consultingResidence
Fisher Island, FloridaMarital status
MarriedBirth date
11/20/52 (age 71)Number of children
2Education
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay; Master of Business Administration, University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of BusinessSelf-made
self-madeBharat Desai’s fortune is worth
26K
troy ounces of gold
24K
median U.S. household
16K
median U.S. income
0.031%
U.S. credit card volume
0.006%
GDP of the United States
0.005%
United States debt
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Desai and Sethi started the company with just $2,000.
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