Romesh T. Wadhwani

Founder and Chairman, Symphony Technology Group
$4.99B
as of 10/04/24

About Romesh T. Wadhwani

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 early 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.

Personal stats

Citizenship

United States of America

Source of wealth

Software

Residence

Palo Alto, California

Marital status

Married

Birth date

08/25/47 (age 77)

Number of children

1

Education

Doctorate, Carnegie Mellon University; Master of Science, Carnegie Mellon University; Bachelor of Arts/Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Self-made

self-made

Romesh T. Wadhwani’s fortune is worth

83K

troy ounces of gold

77K

median U.S. household

50K

median U.S. income

0.1%

U.S. credit card volume

0.02%

GDP of the United States

0.015%

United States debt

Net worth history

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Did you know?

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.

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