Stats

• Age65
• Source of WealthIT consulting, Self Made
• Self-Made Score-8
• Residence-Fisher Island, Florida
• Citizenship-United States
• Marital Status-Married
• Children2-
• Education-Bachelor of Arts/Science, Indian Institute of Technology,
Bombay; Master of Business Administration, Stephen M. Ross School of
Business
ABOUT Bharat Desai
• Bharat Desai founded IT consulting and outsourcing company Syntel
with his wife Neerja Sethi from their apartment in Troy, Michigan.
• In July 2018, French IT firm Atos SE agreed to buy Syntel for $3.4
billion. The deal is expected to close by the end of 2018.
• In its first year, Syntel generated just $30,000 in sales; today the
company has more than $900 million in revenue.
• Desai, who is 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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Net worth over time
Early Life

• Bharat Desai was born in November 1952,in Kenya. He is of Gujarati

Indian origin. In his childhood, he lived in Mombasa and Ahmedabad.

Desai received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and an MBA in finance from

the Stephen M. Ross School of Business

CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS INDIAN ECONOMY

• Syntel co-founders, Bharat Desai and his wife Neerja Sethi, have seen their
rankings dive on the Forbes Richie Rich lists in the past few years.

• Desai, who was ranked the richest Indian-American in the World

Billionaires list in 2014, came in at No. 1999 in the 2018 rankings.

• Similarly, Sethi ranked 21st on the magazine's list of America's 60 self-

made richest women, down from rank 14 in 2015.