Romesh Wadhwani

Romesh T. Wadhwani
Born 1947/1948 (age 70–71)[1]
India
Residence Palo Alto, California, US
Citizenship United States
Alma mater IIT Bombay
Carnegie Mellon University
Occupation Founder and chairman of Symphony Technology Group
Known for Internet companies, philanthropy
Net worth $3.1 billion (February 2018)[1]
Spouse(s) Kathleen "Kathy" Wadhwani
Children 1 daughter

Romesh T. Wadhwani (born 1947/48) is an Indian-born American billionaire businessman, the founder, chairman and CEO of Symphony Technology Group (STG), a private equity firm for software, Internet and technology services companies.

Early life

Romesh T. Wadhwani moved from Karachi to India during India's partition with his family at young age. He contracted polio at age of 2 and had difficulty getting admission in school. [2] He received a bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and master's and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.[1]

Career

For ten years, Wadhwani was founder, chairman and CEO of two companies, one specializing in software and solutions for computer-integrated manufacturing and the other in technology-enabled energy management.

Wadhwani was then founder, chairman and CEO of Aspect Development, Inc., from its startup in 1991 to its acquisition in 1999 by i2 Technologies for $9.3 billion in stock.[1]

Wadhwani is executive chairman of Symphony Teleca Corporation, MSC Software Inc, Symphony Health Solutions Inc and Shopzilla Inc, and is on the board of Information Resources Inc. Wadhwani is the largest limited partner in each of Symphony's private equity funds, the third of which closed at $870 million.

Philanthropy

Wadhwani is on the board of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Center for Strategic and International Studies, both in Washington, D.C.

He established the Wadhwani Foundation for economic development in emerging economies, with an initial focus on India. Initiatives in India include the National Entrepreneurship Network, which has established programs to enable growth-centric entrepreneurship at over 500 universities and colleges; a skills college network to help train and place large numbers of young adults in vocational jobs; an opportunities network for the disabled; and a research initiative in biosciences and biotechnology to help create jobs through innovation. The Foundation has launched a US-India policy initiative, with Rick Inderfurth, previously Assistant Secretary of State, as the Wadhwani Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a policy think tank in Washington D.C. and Hemant Singh, former Indian Ambassador to Japan, as the head of the Wadhwani program at ICRIER, a major policy institute in Delhi. Wadhwani won the India Abroad Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2013.

In 2012, he inaugurated a new research centre at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bangalore, named named after his late mother, Shanta Wadhwani.[3]

Personal life

He is married to Kathleen "Kathy" Wadhwani,[3][4] and they live in Palo Alto, California.[1]

They have one daughter, Melina, who married Patrick Carey in 2011.[5][6] Carey works as head of sales operations at Symphony Talent.[7]

Honours

Wadhwani was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in August 2018.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Forbes profile: Romesh T. Wadhwani". Forbes. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
  2. ↑ "Q&A With Immigrant Billionaire Romesh Wadhwani: America Needs Immigrants".
  3. 1 2 "Romesh Wadhwani: The Renaissance Man - Forbes India". Forbes India. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
  4. ↑ "Wadhwani". glasspockets.org. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
  5. ↑ "2011-08-31 Wadhwani - Carey Family Party - Singularity University". singularityu.org. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
  6. ↑ "Oceanfront Ceremony & Opulent Pink and Metallic Reception". insideweddings.com. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
  7. ↑ Gaenger, Sheridan. "Mastering Your Employer Brand to Fuel Talent Acquisition". symphonytalent.com. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
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