Pittsburgh_Patrika_July_2018

The Pittsburgh Patrika, Vol, 23, No. 4, July 2018
The Wadhwani Institute of
Artificial Intelligence Inaugurated in Mumbai
Sunil Wadhwani and his wife Nita are well known in our region’s
city and county governments and civic institutions. He was the
founding CEO of i-Gate, a global software company, known in its previous
incarnation as Mastech, a company he co-founded with Ashok Trivedi.
At the peak of his career as the CEO of i-Gate, over 30,000 employees
were on its payroll in 70-plus offices worldwide with over $1 billion in
annual revenue.
In the middle of this, Sunil took great interest in promoting Pittsburgh,
a second-tier US City, as the destination of choice for national and international
businesses to relocate or open their offices. At the same time,
Sunil Wadhwani is extreme left and his elder brother Romesh Wadhwani is extreme right.
Maharashtra’s Governor Mr. C Vidyasagar Rao is third from left and Chief Minister Mr
Devendra Fadnavis is third from right, on the stage during the inaugural function. Prime
Minister Modi is in the middle.
Wadhwani also worked with city and county elected officials to diversify
the region’s population making it attractive for immigrants, a feature that
global businesses consider desirable in their decision to relocate or open a
new office in a new place. After all, our region has all the accoutrements
needed — affordable housing, good public and private schools, excellent
medical facilities, universities, sports teams, museums, and other entertainments...
In 2015, Capgemini, a French IT services company, acquired i-Gate
for over $4 billion. Now, Wadhwani is in semi-retirement, yet active in
running SWAT, a venture capital company based in Moon, as a managing
partner, along with Ashok Trivedi.
ost of us who grew up in India and moved to the US have been
extremely fortunate. We had parents who cared for us and
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