Technology >> CEO Interviews >> October 11, 2004
BHARAT DESAI is Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and co-founder of
Syntel, Inc., a worldwide provider of information technology solutions
to Global 2000 corporations. Under Mr. Desai's direction, Syntel has
grown over the past 24 years to become a leading global information
technology services company. Syntel now employs approximately 4,000
people in offices strategically located throughout North America,
Europe, and Asia, as well as seven fully-networked Global Development
Centers in the US and India. In addition to running a successful
corporation, the Governor of Michigan appointed Mr. Desai to serve on
the Board of Directors of Cyberstate.org, which is dedicated to
attracting high-tech businesses to the state. He has donated his time
and Syntel resources to various charitable organizations, including
Detroit's 'Paint the Town,' an effort that cleans troubled
neighborhoods, as well as several United Way projects and global relief
efforts (Sept. 11 Fund, Bosnia, and Bhuj, India). He is a member of the
Young Presidents' Organization of Detroit and sits on the Boards of
Students in Free Enterprise and St. John Health System. In 2004, Mr.
Desai received the award for IIT Alumnus of the Year from the
prestigious Indian Institute of Technology and was also recognized this
year by Crain's Detroit Business as a 'Minority Business All-star.' Mr.
Desai received the '1999 Michigan Entrepreneur Award' from the Harvard
Business School and was recognized as 'Entrepreneur of the Year' in 1996
by USA Today, NASDAQ, and Crain's Detroit Business. He holds an MBA in
Finance from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a Bachelor of
Technology degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of
Technology, Mumbai, India. Profile
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Mr. Desai: My wife and I founded Syntel 24 years ago in 1980 with a
